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A Dictionary of Uncomfortable Words: What to Avoid Saying in Polite (or Any) Conversation

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I have been racking my brain to try and come up with a book that is funnier than The Dictionary of Uncomfortable Words, but I think that this one may take the Grand Prize for Comedy. I have NEVER read a book that made me laugh out loud on every single page, but this book actually managed to pull it off.

The only reason I picked this thing up in the bookstore is because of the neon green Sour Apple Jolly Rancher color of the cover, but once I opened it up, I was hooked. My friends and I have always joked about words like "clean-and-jerk" or "kumquat" or "masticate" but these guys managed to put in just about every word that ever made us laugh. The words are hilarious, the art is great (it all looks like some kind of 1950's dictionary) and the definitions are just about the funniest thing I have ever read. If you have a sense of humor, this one is for you.

As far as I'm concerned, The Dictionary of Uncomfortable Words is destined to become the next Worst-Case Scenario Handbook, and I hope that these guys not only make bank on this book, but get enough suggestions for new words on their website to publish a second one soon.

Grade: A+

From "Homo Erectus" to "Poop Deck", and "Penal" to "Uranus", this book pretty much covers the entire vocabulary of comedy, and is almost a primer for the budding comedian. Slip one or two of these words into a conversation, and you're funny no matter who's in the room. This book is like humor in a bottle, and the authors should be commended for putting together a lexicon of comedy that should have been done a long time ago.

Grade: A+ (Agreed!)

As if the English language needed any assistance in moving toward simplicity, this book had to be published. This book contains, short, tripe, irrelevant definitions to words considered by Witham and Snyder as being vaguely humorous. I am confident pre-pubescent boys will find the contents will provide hours of laughter. Forget the book; ignore the sample. Reading should expand the mind, not contract it.