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"Brilliant. A tech-Onion! I've soiled myself again and again with mirth -- and more! Hey, ham!!" -- -DICK Cheney; Bunker, USA

"I don't know what this is, but I think it's fabulous! Get it the %&#@ off my desk! Hey, is that ham?" -- -Krikus Reviews

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Granted, AcmeVaporware (AVW) is a revolutionary torpophysical cruisepacket powerhouse, providing uncompromising physical layer memetic transport, pseudo-lexiconographical logistics and incendiary torpovapor supply-chain data wake-up calls to anyone caught touching their monkey within the tri-state area, and SURE, all AVW cruise-packets are equipped with unique and deadly FLO-STOP devices, miasma return lines, conventional fulcrum mesh- and soft-network vapor escape topologies [Reference: "Technical Report on TIVRS Field Modificatiions of Torpomotor Assembly Resulting in Death and Dismemberment, But Not a General Loss of Wellbeing." Fielding, 1963], however -- and you knew this was coming -- like "Liberty," this unrelenting technical acumen comes at a price, not to mention BROBDINGNAGIAN run-on sentences that just won't stop EVER. Well, except that one time.

So, BEHOLD: Ten Years of AcmeVaporware MISCOMMUNICATIONS. Just when you thought it was safe to migrate to a new memetic platform, but this isn't a sentence. No, THIS is a sentence! A-AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!Wait, that wasn't funny. Crap, this is supposed to tease you in a furtive, subcutaneous sneaky-ass way, manipulating you into losing all will and BUYING THIS BOOK. Wow. How far we've sunk. We've clearly de-installed our own LRF support, shuffled off this "CUYAHOGA" SERIES coil and joined the TorpoChoir Invisible. If only the steam engine could come back and RUN, RUN LIKE THE WIND. Damn, these wires make it impossible to read, intercourse the penguin. So what, big deal.


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  • Paperback: 264 pages
  • Publisher: Xenochrony Books (June 1, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0978718801
  • ISBN-13: 978-0978718800
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,456,774 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Monty Python's IT dept. meets The Onion on PRNewsWire, May 7, 2007
By Athanasius Kircher (San Francisco & London) - See all my reviews
This book, like AcmeVaporware itself, is one of the most painfully hilarious non-sequitur doppelganger techno-apparitions to emerge from the Roaring Nineties. It's Monty Python's IT department meets The Onion on PRNewsWire in a fission/fusion reactor on meth on crack with a side of ham ("Hey, ham!"). Clemenceau continues to tear out corporate America's porcine, techno-black artificial heart and show the sputtering Jarvik kluge-networking-blob to its robotic victim -- um, in a really funny way. He even manages to lampoon the publishing industry's patented "logrolling" quote machine (see the riotously funny quotes on the back cover, along with the book's rule-breaking marketing blurb). Rampant sloth induction was never so much fun.
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5.0 out of 5 stars It impacted.com me with it's gravitas.com, both humor-wise and insightfulness-wise..., May 10, 2007
By Lou Ford (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews
Brilliant, bizarre, sardonic, hilarious. Imagine Mark Leyner, Thomas Pynchon, and Steve Martin forced to share a brain and work as copywriters and marketeers for an alternate-reality mid-century-retro IBM that somehow finds itself in the 90s.

If you are not dumb, and can read, this book is for you! Enjoy.
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