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The Manly Handbook

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Good book...well written with illustrations and examples of manly comportment. References to men of our past to emulate. This will offend certain "guys", particularily men who dance and sing while wearing lavander colors and/or eating designer pastries! Readers of this book often stockpile guns and ammo, just in case!

I read this book in the mid-80's, and it changed my life. Gave a copy to a friend of mine what was in the hospital for lung surgery, and a coupla weeks later got a thank-you card. Said that without reading The Manly Handbook, he never would have had the courage to have the surgery without anesthesia.

This book should be a must-read for every male in America - before it's too late. There aren't many manly men around these days, and I think there's a direct correlation to the fact that the book has been out of print for a few years.

This is a humorous look at life from a testosterone-laden point of view. A turbocharged "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche". Includes several tests to check your own manliness and that of your friends. Includes appropriate tribute to John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, and the United States Armed Forces.

This book should be required reading for all american males. Everything in this book is right on. The reason I'm so manly is because is started living this book at a very young age. I eat stuff that'll make a billy goat puke

After a dozen or so readings, I still get a laugh out of this handy reference to manhood. I lost my first copy to one of my drinking buddies, so it was in good hands (or so I thought). My second copy has been closely guarded for several years in case I have to review manly conduct...like sleeping on my back, with one eye opened or face down in a drunken sprawl, hang gliding in enemy territory or white water canoeing and being attacked by depraved hillbillies. If you have had it with feminist attitudes, commie propaganda and Richard Simmons, well, then partner, you need to grab yourself a copy of The Manly Handbook. I mean drop that quiche, bean sprouts and daytime television, like now, soldier. Any meal not spent eating red meat with red dye, pork rinds and scrambled eggs is just plain weak. Any time not spent on your car, bending elbows at the bar or watching a Sam Peckinpah movie is a man's life wasted. So, catch up on the good stuff and read this book.

Doug Setter, B.Sc. author of Stomach Flattening

We've followed this bible since college in '82, through 10 yrs of military service, and continue to place it on the pedestal it deserves today. So simple, so obvious, and yet so needed in this fairy age we live in. I now have this propped up in my H2, what better vehicle for MEN? Excuse me now, I need to hang glide through enemy airspace.....

This book is not for the soft and weak.If you truly wish to become manly and stand proud.This book is a must read.No wimps are allowed to get near this book or they will be in a world of hurt.

Manly reading!!!! Great service, great product. A timely book for these sissified times. This is the book the Duke would want you to buy.

Subject: Re: What's "manly"

Hello

My love turns 35 tomorrow and will be getting summary of responses to this thread, "The manly handbook" and its reviews on amazon.com as a gift ...

:) Thanks again guys

BTW, I *love* the self-help book above

At 11:10 AM 10/21/2004 -0700, you wrote:
Just a suggestion: Maybe he can play with your two-year old while hunting, which would certainly upgrade that activity to manliness? Also, you may want to let him know that any man (husband) who would even broach the subject, 'why do you like me?' is inherently not manly. In fact, I'm tempted to report him, based solely on this account.

Spend the $35 on this book [ "The Manly Handbook" ] and you can bring both of you up to speed on what is manly and what isn't. Basically, anything that is illogical, uncalled for, obnoxious or dangerous (or some combination thereof) is, by definition, manly. It will also help you get over your astonishment and move on to contempt for the male psyche.

Please don't anyone forward this to my wife -- she'd kill me if she knew I was saying this stuff...

At 10:12 AM 10/21/2004, you wrote:
Hey

Question to all of you guys there - is being a good husband a "macho" thing to do? Because my love does not seem to think so.

Here I am, happily finishing up evening chores while my hubby lovingly pats me on - ahem - the back and asks me "So, why do you like me?". I tell him "Hmmmm... let's see - you're a wonderful dad, you spend lots of time with Andrew and me, you really like me and you help around the house a lot".

I see him beaming with pride for a while and then he goes "Just don't tell any of my friends about it".
I'm really puzzled and ask why and he answers, very seriously, "Because it's not a 'manly' thing to do" and then he goes on elaborating a bit on it. Apparently it's a huge dishonor to a man to hug, kiss, tickle and play with his 2yo son, to like spending time with his wife and to do dishes/take trash out etc every evening and to openly admit it to his computer game playing buddies (as if they don't know it already - or maybe they don't? Man's psyche never fails to astonish me ...).

Guys?

Thank you