Customer Reviews

Our Dumb Century Day by Day Calendar: 2000

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This collection of pseudo-front pages from the last 100 years is amazing. It manages to be both subtle (at times) and screamingly funny (most of the time). Every detail of, say, a 1916 front page is lovingly reproduced, from the typeface to the logo to the ads to the florid journalism style. But the stories are typically outrageous spoofs on the mores of the times. Every page is loaded with good stuff. It's reminiscent of National Lampoon's classic High School Yearbook, only better. Highly recommended.

The Onion guys make every journalist's heart soar with their uncanny knack of capturing and skewering every newspaper cliche and trope in the book. Their work is among the funniest political/historical humor I've ever seen (and I've seen a bit!).

In a book this size, not everything can be perfect, and there is the occasional clunker. There are also times when the authors (in my humble opinion) cross the line into bad taste, but pushing the boundaries is what jesters are supposed to do, and I'm glad they do that rather than play it safe.

Parents should be advised, however, that there's lots of swear words and some material that ain't appropriate for younger tykes.

If you don't laugh at this book, you're dead. Check out the true story of Neil Armstrong landing on the moon. The best book out there for anyone with a twisted sense of humor.

This book is hilarious. Occasionally I even have to think. Then I get numb.

This may make you smirk or possibly let out a small chuckle, but it is definitely not laugh-out-loud funny. It is not as crude as the online version, it seems as though the onion folks cannot be funny 366 times a year.

Nobody is safe, no subject taboo in this book satirizing the 20th century in the form of front page news. People will look at you funny as you laugh out loud while reading (unless they know what you are reading). Great light reading, you can read it for hours, or a few minutes at time. If you can't laugh while reading this book, there is something wrong with you. I am not an actor or paid spokesman--you MUST buy this book.

all though ther have bin many funny bouks publishd threw out histery, this is the onlee one i have red. i likked et two, so you all shood get ot. i mean i doan't now aneething abot reading but you doan't neied two four thies biok