101 Damnations: The Humorists' Tour of Personal Hells
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Dear flappable reader:
Do you bristle at a handshake that resembles a limp fish? Do oblivious pedestrians bring you to the brink? What about museum gift shops, superfluous courtesy (do we need a gas pump to show us gratitude?), behemoth SUVS, or inexplicable operating manuals? Have you had it with screeching leaf blowers, beseeching telemarketers, escalating movie-ticket prices, or proliferating celebrity magazines? Is it children's choirs or karaoke singers, waiters bearing pepper grinders or dinner guests blathering on about salt, that drives you to distraction?
For anyone who has recognized that this peaceful kingdom of ours has more than a few potholes, 101 Damnations is the perfect companion. It's your ticket to the nine circles of personal hell.
Armed with wit, bewilderment, and words to the wise ass, today's leading humorists conduct a brief tour of the trivial and often universal exasperations we all must endure. Among the damning, Henry Alford reveals our wanton desire to affect Britishisms. Sandra Tsing Loh has it in for people who forward "funny" e-mails. Once and for all, Merrill Markoe sets forth cell phone etiquette. And there are many, many others. Ninety-eight to be exact. Make yourself comfortable. Misery loves company.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This was given to me by an ex-friend who could quite possibly be evil..so the book fits :)Was quite funny in places and was sent along to a requestor from BookCrossing.
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101 Damnations - Michael J. Rosen
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A Damnation, Directed Toward Telemarketers
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Let us imagine a domestic scene. A husband—whom we shall refer to, for purposes of speed and dramatic clarity, as Husband—is addressing his wife, Wife. I’ve been thinking,
he says, and I feel like we really ought to switch our long-distance service. I’m certain that there must be a cheaper alternative out there.
Yes,
Wife replies. "If only we knew where to find one! If only there were some way for us to learn about the range of long-distance providers, and their charges for various