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Title: National Lampoon Totally True Facts by Jason Ward, National Lampoon ISBN: 0-8092-3560-9 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Oops! Unintended Observations!!
Comment: National Lampoon Totally True Facts is a very funny collection of some of the best real life headlines, signs, advertisements, and personals you will ever see. The context is often off-color, so I cannot repeat most of the obvious double entendres here.
To give you a flavor of the items that I can repeat, here goes:
Headline: "Commissioner David to Head 'Assault on Literacy Month'";
Personal ad: "Person who's putting clawmarks on my husbands back, would you please doctor him or lay off one."
Advertising headline: "Get involved with drugs before your children do.";
Neon sign outside of bar: "Cocktails AA";
Sign on building: "No handguns or unsterilized bedding.";
Employment ad: "Pier 34 Is Not Hiring!" with details of when to apply;
Headline: "Brain bypass surgery ineffective.";
Sign: "No restroom privileges in phone booth.";
Sign: "Rare, Out-of-Print & Non-Existent Books";
Sign: "Broadmoor Apartments -- the brilliant alternative to living.";
Sign: "L.S.D. Kennels";
Sign: "Live Bait" with arrow pointing towards cemetery.
Most of the examples are produced one to a page with a brief caption to set up the joke. The book's main weaknesses are that the reproduction quality of the images is very low quality so they are often hard to examine, and some of the jokes are repeated a bit too often -- especially the ones about colloquial names for male sexual equipment. The book lacks any essay or other commentary to provide a perspective for what all of this means.
My interpretation is that many people imagine the message they are sending without fully capturing what the message actually says. This is a typical problem of human miscommunication. The malapropism and type tendencies are probably compounded by the fact that we often subtly associate one thing subconsciously with another. Finally, we have too much reverence for the printed word . . . rather than seeing it as a convenient way to express ideas and messages, many of which are faulty.
Be sure you read aloud whatever you write. You'll be surprised by what you have literally created . . . that didn't appear strange on the written page.
Rating: 5
Summary: HILARIOUS BOOK!
Comment: THIS BOOK IS VERY FUNNY, I OWN IT AND IT'S GREAT TO READ OVER AND OVER. JAM-PACKED WITH TONS OF HILARIOUS REAL-LIFE HUMOR. YOU WON'T BELIEVE SOME OF THE THINGS THEY FIND! IT'S ALSO A GREAT CONVERSATION PIECE TO SHOW COMPANY! A MUST BUY.
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Title: National Lampoon Presents True Facts: the Big Book by John Bendel, Jason Ward ISBN: 0809235595 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: That's Sick! by Editors National Lampoon, National Lampoon ISBN: 0809236958 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: National Lampoon's 1964 High School Yearbook : 39th Reunion Edition by P. J. O'Rourke ISBN: 1590710126 Publisher: Rugged Land Pub. Date: 06 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Truly Tasteless Cartoons by National Lampoon's Staff, Lapoon Magazine National, Sam Gross, P. C. Vey ISBN: 0809239132 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Pub. Date: 01 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: National Lampoon's Big Book of Love by Scott Rubin, Sean Crespo, Mason Brown, Steve Brykman ISBN: 1590710185 Publisher: Rugged Land Pub. Date: 07 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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