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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This book is so funny I forgot to _____________., June 12, 2007
If you have a pulse and a sense of humor these clever fill-in-the-blank stickies are just the way to get your message across. Too passive to confront Mr. Stinky-feet in the next cubicle over? Leave an insult sticky on his monitor! Some jerk took your parking spot? Stick one of these to his windshield! Perfect for rude clerks, dorm life, little brothers and menaces of all kinds! You WILL laugh or I'll come to your house, tie up your ___________ and roll you around in a pile of __________ until you do!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
"It's a sticky notepad! It's an insult joke book!" Hey, its BOTH!, July 8, 2007
Each Fourth of July I watch the movie "1776," which contains a scene in which Stephen Hopkins, delegate of Rhode Island, shows Benjamin Franklin some cards he has had printed up that "Oughta save everybody here a lot of time and effort considering the epidemic of bad disposition" that has been afflicting the Continental Congress as they debate Independency. The cards read: "Dear sir, you are, without any doubt, a rogue, a rascal, a villain, a thief, a scoundrel and a mean, dirty, stinking, sniveling, sneaking, pimping, pocket-picking, thrice double-damned no-good son-of-a-bitch." Hopkins explains you sign your name and Franklin says, "I'll take a dozen right now."
"Insult Stickies: 100 Funny Insults to Write & Leave Behind" are in that same spirit on Hopkins cards. The difference is that you have to come up with the insults to fill in the blanks. For example, the first sticky in Erik Johnson's collection says: "You're generally __________, __________, and __________. You __________ while you __________. That's all I have to say about that." Already your mind should be bursting at the myriad possibilities as to what could go in those blanks and that is not even including the clean ones. Remember you can insult people about their intelligence, their education, their morals, their behavior, their relatives, their appearance, their hair color, and all sort of others things that would be wrong to do. Below the part with the fill in the blanks is a place that is colored a lighter shade of purple where you can write a note or even sign your name (assuming that might be a good thing and not an unwarranted confession). By filling in the blanks you can finish the insult any way that you want (there is even a reminder that the goal is to be creative and get a good laugh rather than "crushing someone like a bug."
An "insult" is statement (or action) that affronts or demeans somebody. As a high art form is has been practiced by the likes of Oscar Wilde and Groucho Marx. Don Rickles has been making a living off of insults for longer than I have been alive, but he would represent the quantity versus the quality approach of those others. These purple stickies are 3 3/8 inches wide and 4 inches long, so they are a little bit larger than your standard post-it note. The good news is that the stickum on the back of these stickies goes extends more than a half-inch down from the top, but the bad news is that you cannot really flip through your 100 insults to pick the most appropriate one. But generally speaking the insults are general rather than specific, so that is not really a problem. Of course, if you see one that would just be perfect for a certain someone then strike while the iron is hot and use it right away. Besides, I would hate to think that you have over a hundred people that you need to insult in the near future.
A yellow drawer beneath the stickies includes a yellow pencil with an eraser and a yellow pencil sharpener. You can think of this as being a sign that Johnson thinks you are an amateur and not capable of writing insults in pen, but remember that the pencil is the same writing instrument the Russians have been using to write in space (actually Americans used pencils too before the Fisher Space Pens were sold to NASA for $2.95 each, but you know how people hate to have urban legends debunked). Any way, you do want to refrain from erasing and rewriting your insults over and over again because as it says on the back you want to "Show off your incredible wit every time you leave a note for someone," and not second-guess yourself to death.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This book was so twisted, I ________________ myself., June 30, 2007
What kind of maniacal genius came up with this idea? It is definitely what the world needs now! I sense more than a bit of Sweeney in his work. Bravo!
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