I'll give you five dollars if you buy this book

[Redstone]

and can honestly tell me it isn't the funniest book you're read in a long time: "The Clumsiest People in Europe," by Todd Pruzan.

I can't tell you what it's about because it would take too long and I'd have to type some quotes from it, which wouldn't be near as funny out of context as they are when you read the whole book.

But it's genuinely hilarous. I borrowed it from the library this morning, and spent the day devouring it during my breaks from work, at lunchtime, and after dinner, and cackling like a lunatic all the while.

Trust me on this one. Buy this book, or get it from your library if you can.

Redstone

[Dave Reynolds]

1. Okay, I read it 300 times,

and it was not the funniest book I have ever read.

Honest.

Cashier's check or money order, please.

:7

[Redstone]

2. I'll mail you a fin.

Redstone

[LynzM]

3. cool....

Book recs are always welcome, especially ones that will make me laugh... :)

[Redstone]

6. Glad to be of service. And it's good to see you around the Funny Farm

for the first time in a while.

I'll drop you a note tomorrow; I'm going to turn the lights out for the night in a couple of minutes. Enough is indeed sometimes enough.

Give the munchkin a belly buzz from Crazy Uncle Redstone.

Redstone

[LynzM]

12. Good to be here, too

Things are a little bit super-busy at the moment. I should be reading about art of India since 1400, but I needed a break. In unrelated stuff, you guys should come up for dinner up here sometime, now that there's a 'here' to invite you to :)

[uppityperson]

4. how about this one?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595094724/qid%3D1008538815/sr%3D2-1/ref%3Dsr%5F2%5F11%5F1/104-3694842-2827104

[Redstone]

5. Good God! How did you ever find THAT?

Is there a special search button on Amazon, or what?

That's really, REALLY funny.

Redstone

[uppityperson]

8. Think it'd work? (see, I'm not totally boring, squinch squinch squinch sq)

"Book Description

I think constricting anus 100 times and denting navel 100 times in succession everyday is effective to good-bye depression and take back youth. You can do so at a boring meeting or in a subway. I have known 70-year-old man who has practiced it for 20 years. As a result, he has good complexion and has grown 20 years younger. His eyes sparkle. He is full of vigor, happiness and joy. He has neither complained nor born a grudge under any circumstance. Furthermore, he can make love three times in succession without drawing out.

In addition, he also can have burned a strong beautiful fire within his abdomen. It can burn out the dirty stickiness of his body, release his immaterial fiber or third attention which has been confined to his stickiness. Then, he can shoot out his immaterial fiber or third attention to an object, concentrate on it and attain happy lucky feeling through the success of concentration.

If you don't know concentration which gives you peculiar pleasure, your life looks like a hell. "

[Redstone]

10. Engrish! I love Engrish! But all that stuff about "stickiness" and

"shooting out" makes me wonder if this isn't some kind of code for, well, you know...

I'm going to HAVE to buy that book now.

so how come my book about how anyone can be not only not depressed, but actually extremely happy, through the simple expedient of sending twenty dollars every day to The R.T. Redstone Guaranteed Happiness Plan (secret address on page 3 of the book) isn't on Amazon, and this one is?

Redstone

[Elidor]

11. *falls to the floor*

:rofl:

Omigod, I can't breathe for laughing! Engrish! Engrish! Fucking priceless!

I don't know which concentration gives me peculiar pleasure. My life looks like a hell.

[MissB]

14. And customers that bought that book also bought

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0963209159/104-3883497-3065507?v=glance&n=283155&%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance

:rofl:

[uppityperson]

15. not my cup of tea, so to say nt

[kittykatkoffeekup]

7. Looks interesting, I'll read it

NPR review, if anybody's interested.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4698196

[Redstone]

17. Hey, thanks for posting that link.

Redstone

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. Damn, that sounds funny....

I'll have to check it out. Thanks.

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. Is it a novel, or a sociology kind of book?

[hickman1937]

16. Sounds like one of them novel sociology books I heard tell of.

But I don't get out much. The devil's in it fer sure.