Our Dumb Century from the ONION
   Edited by Scott Dikkers
  1999 Three Rivers Press NY USA
   ISBN: 0609804618


100 Years of satirical headlines from America's finest news-paper, misinforming half a million English-speaking readers, both in print & online. The 20th century like you've never seen it before!

It's the little ones that'll get you: Foreign Child Labor a 'Great Threat' to American Child Labor, say Captains of Industry; Rowdy Teens Staying Up Until 9 O'clock Reading All Manner of Ribald Books or Fall Fashions for Women Hint at Existence of Hips...May Also Have Differently Shaped Chests.

"It all began in 1756, Friedrich Siegfried Zweibel, an immigrant tuber-farmer from Prussia, shrewdly bartered a sack of yams for a second-hand printing press and, according to legend, named his fledgling news-paper The Mercantile-Onion after the only words of English that he knew."

And so it goes, pulling of the leg is The Onion's only premise & every intention: A New Century Dawns!...Death-By-Corset Rates Stabilize At One In Six...Will the Agitating Clothes-Washing Tub Ruin Our Women's Character with Idleness?

This is a book you amble your way through, probably the perfect Throne Room tome, to have a quiet giggle or chortle while taking care of the most important busyness in life.

I've heard the word brilliant bandied about in reference to the whiteness of the pages, as too the utterance: "Rarely a dull word!" Some do, admittedly, cause the funny-bone to wince the way a truly lame pun screeches across the blankboard of the mind!

Do not sue The Onion to recover your chiropractic costs from dislocated humorous bones or over-worked ribs.
Amusing stuff!
(05/23/99)

Rebecca