Comments on: Do Unto Others: 1000 Hilarious Ways to Screw with People’s Heads http://www.viraleruption.com/do-unto-others-1000-hilarious-ways-to-screw-with-peoples-heads-2/ An Eruption Of Virality Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:20:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joss http://www.viraleruption.com/do-unto-others-1000-hilarious-ways-to-screw-with-peoples-heads-2/comment-page-1/#comment-390 Joss Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:34:23 +0000 http://www.viraleruption.com/do-unto-others-1000-hilarious-ways-to-screw-with-peoples-heads-2/#comment-390 </div> Nonsense, though usually an annoyance, has proven itself to be quite useful. Nonsense breaks the monotony and stale routine of day to day life. It makes things interesting. It's only an annoyance when you are on the receiving end. When delivering, nonsense is a powerful tool for humor, manipulation, and self-entertainment. And that's where this book finds its place in the world. <br/>Everyday (and not-so-everyday) situations can be turned into memorble events with a little help from this book. Learn the most innapropriate yet humorous gobbledygook to spout when things take a turn into Dullsville. For example- Things to Do to Annoy Alex Trebek if You're on Jeopardy: 1.)Phrase answers in unconventional question forms: "Is it..."; "Would it happen to be..."; "Do you suppose maybe it is..."; "What in the Sam Hill is..." 3.) Call Alex "Wink." 6.) Answer, "What is a pompous Canadian who over-articulates?" <br/>An excellent springboard for wacky ideas, this book should leave you with a general appreciation for amphigory and knowledge of how to apply it into your life. Nonsense, though usually an annoyance, has proven itself to be quite useful. Nonsense breaks the monotony and stale routine of day to day life. It makes things interesting. It’s only an annoyance when you are on the receiving end. When delivering, nonsense is a powerful tool for humor, manipulation, and self-entertainment. And that’s where this book finds its place in the world.
Everyday (and not-so-everyday) situations can be turned into memorble events with a little help from this book. Learn the most innapropriate yet humorous gobbledygook to spout when things take a turn into Dullsville. For example- Things to Do to Annoy Alex Trebek if You’re on Jeopardy: 1.)Phrase answers in unconventional question forms: “Is it…”; “Would it happen to be…”; “Do you suppose maybe it is…”; “What in the Sam Hill is…” 3.) Call Alex “Wink.” 6.) Answer, “What is a pompous Canadian who over-articulates?”
An excellent springboard for wacky ideas, this book should leave you with a general appreciation for amphigory and knowledge of how to apply it into your life.

]]> By: Zahrah http://www.viraleruption.com/do-unto-others-1000-hilarious-ways-to-screw-with-peoples-heads-2/comment-page-1/#comment-389 Zahrah Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:10:11 +0000 http://www.viraleruption.com/do-unto-others-1000-hilarious-ways-to-screw-with-peoples-heads-2/#comment-389 </div> From the other reviews I pretty much expected a bunch of things that you could literally carry out with a little planning, kind of like Penn & Teller's book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0394753518/ref=cm_cr_asin_lnk">Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends</a>. As near as I can figure, those reviews were written by the authors' entire circle of friends. <br/><br/>What you get instead is a barely-sorted list of surrealist nonsense that tries way, WAY too hard to be funny and fails nearly every time. I have to confess that I smiled at a couple of the entries, but this is not the laugh-out-loud book that I thought it would be. From the other reviews I pretty much expected a bunch of things that you could literally carry out with a little planning, kind of like Penn & Teller’s book Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends. As near as I can figure, those reviews were written by the authors’ entire circle of friends.

What you get instead is a barely-sorted list of surrealist nonsense that tries way, WAY too hard to be funny and fails nearly every time. I have to confess that I smiled at a couple of the entries, but this is not the laugh-out-loud book that I thought it would be.

]]> By: Umika http://www.viraleruption.com/do-unto-others-1000-hilarious-ways-to-screw-with-peoples-heads-2/comment-page-1/#comment-388 Umika Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:05:02 +0000 http://www.viraleruption.com/do-unto-others-1000-hilarious-ways-to-screw-with-peoples-heads-2/#comment-388 </div> This is a pretty small unassuming book-shaped-object (about the size of a cd case and only about 100 pages long) but it certainly packs a wallop. <br/><br/>It's basically a collection of lists of asinine things you can do to make certain situations a tab bit more interesting for you and loads more uncomfortable for others. <br/><br/>Very funny. Even if you decided you don't want to be exiled from polite society and thereby refrain from doing any suggested activity in the book, it's lots of fun to *imagine* yourself doing them. This is a pretty small unassuming book-shaped-object (about the size of a cd case and only about 100 pages long) but it certainly packs a wallop.

It’s basically a collection of lists of asinine things you can do to make certain situations a tab bit more interesting for you and loads more uncomfortable for others.

Very funny. Even if you decided you don’t want to be exiled from polite society and thereby refrain from doing any suggested activity in the book, it’s lots of fun to *imagine* yourself doing them.

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