Gary Dale Gets Offensive!: Lurid Scenes from Bawdville (Paperback)

~ Gary Dale Cearley (Author)

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Author Gary Dale Cearley sounds off in a big way with his unique takes on bawdy Southern humor with scores of jokes and stories meant to offend as well as to entertain, all told with a touch of Southern barbecue. First Gary Dale lets us know what he really thinks about Jeff Foxworthy and his red neck jokes then he hits us with one bawdy joke after another. This book promises to be among the humor classics for years to come and will redefine how we look at Southern humor. Besides all that this book is funny as hell!

Product Details

• Paperback: 203 pages
• Publisher: Lulu.com (August 5, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 143031172X
• ISBN-13: 978-1430311720
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,431,179 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars You'll Cry Your Eyes out... from Laughing so Hard!!!, November 17, 2008

By	Frayed Edges - See all my reviews

This is among one of the best joke and gag books that I've ever read. The author has created two main characters, Gervis Fife and his wife Fannie, in which all the humor centers around their day-to-day lives. Then, the author throws in a supporting cast such as Gervis' friend, Doc Jessup, Dusty Rhoades the barkeeper, cousin Cyrus Estus, and to round out this cast of hilarious characters, none other than Charlotte the harlot, the local prostitute.

This cast of characters serves as a highly effective convention to establish a whacky Mayberry style community of dysfunctional boobs that blunder from one scene to another, which holds the reader's interest wanting to see what will happen next. This far exceeds typical southern humor of noteworthies like Jeff Foxworthy (no pun intended) and Larry the cable guy who create mere caricatures and not characters as Gary Dale Cearly has done in his book.

One warning: This is definitely adult humor and in a few places can get quite repulsive. But that's the fun of it, isn't it? After all, Cearly aptly names his book "Gary Dale Gets Offensive! Lurid Scenes from Bawdville." Yet, most of the book is big-hearted, downright, gut-splitting funny!

My only problem with the book is that the author could have exercised more diligence when editing the book as typos are scattered throughout, which creates a minor distraction to an otherwise professionaly presented book. And this flaw certainly will not stop you from laughing your head off.