The Big Book of Duh: A Bathroom Book

by Bob Fenster

Overview

If you are stupid, then you're too dumb to know it. If you're smart, then you are no doubt smart enough to doubt yourself. --Bob Fenster

The Big Book of Duh! is the perfect read regardless of where you happen to be sitting--think Uncle John's Bathroom Reader meets The Darwin Awards (without any of the dreary dead stuff).

Proving there is a lot of reading going on in suburbia's smallest room, more than 1.5 million copies of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader have been sold since its first publication in 1988. As the new water-closet contender, Bob Fenster continues his romp into areas of idiot intrigue by chronicling the folly and reckless abandon of the human race.

* Covering such topics as My Favorite Morons, It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time, The Surprising Things People Don't Know, and Dumb Plays in the Face of Fate, this compendium chronicles the densely inept and decidedly ignorant.

* Featuring outrageous new stories plus the best material from the previous Duh! books, this compilation is the ultimate collection of human stupidity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780740788901
Publisher:	Andrews McMeel Publishing
Publication date:	01/01/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Bob Fenster is the author of Duh! The Stupid History of the Human Race, Twisted, Laugh Off, and They Did What!? as well as three novels, two puzzle books, and one play. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Reader's Digest, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He lives with his wife and three sons in Santa Cruz, Calif., when he's not touring his one-man show, The Stupid History of the Human Race.

Table of Contents

Introduction     vii
All-Skate at the Fool-o-Drome     1
My Favorite Morons: They Challenge Fish, They Mail Themselves     3
The Society for Creative Stupidity: Let's Fly Naked and Polish Our Shoes with Champagne     15
It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: Stab Me, Stab Me Here     28
It's Not My Fault: They Wouldn't Have Been Beautiful Anyway     43
Those Happy Fools! Anyone Want to Push a Wheelbarrow Over the Rockies?     57
Playing with Fire: I'm Not Living Unless I'm Killing Myself     71
The Dumb IQ Test: How Well Do You Want to Know Your Government?     86
The House of No: If You're So Great, How Come They Haven't Rejected You Yet?     94
Offbeat Paths to Success: Don't Just Do Something, Stand There     105
I'd Like a Few Words with You: _ _ _ _ erman and the All-Mundus Girl Next Door     122
Who Will Your Llama Spit on Next? The Crisis of Power     135
On the Job: Moving at the Speed of the Slowest Mind in the Office     151
Men vs. Women: Someone Had to Fall for Them; Just Be Glad It Wasn't You     165
Outfoxing the Semi-Smart: Put Down That Cat, We Surrender!     179
Those Arrogant Fools! Nothing Could Be That Funny     191
She was No Raccoon: The Surprising Things People Don't Know     205
I Just Made One Little Mistake: Rock Raines and the Utopian Turtletop     219
The Department of Misclarification: If I Was a Giraffe and Somebody Said I Was a Snake     230
America's Most Catchable: The Fainting Bank Robber and Other Volunteers at the Iron Hotel     245
Dumb Plays in the Face of Fate: This Coffee Doesn't Taste Quite Right     257
Golden Oldies: When Trees Gave Birth to Birds     270
Nutty Ideas and the Nutty Nuts Who Listened to Them     281
The smart Idiots: When Brains Go Bad     291
Everyday Stupidity: Tall Structures Calculated to Frighten Timid People     304
They Said What?! Signs of Life in the Intelligent Search     318
Loose Ands     327