The Big Book of Duh: A Bathroom BookIf 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. |
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... President Rutherford Hayes was given an advance demonstra- tion of Alexander Graham Bell's new invention , the telephone . " That's an amazing invention , " the president said . " But who would ever want to use one of them ? " Hayes ...
... president of England's Royal Society , the national academy of science , in 1895 : " Heavier - than - air flying machines are impossible . " 3 ) Nobel Prize - winning physicist Robert Millikan in 1923 : " There is no likelihood man can ...
... president of Brazil in 1979 , showed a flair for power politics . " I intend to open this country up to democ- racy , " he happily proclaimed , " and anyone who is against that , I will jail , I will crush . " More than 46,000 voters ...
... President Clarence Campbell defended his sport against critics who pointed out that hockey had degraded into a riot on ice . " There has never been any violence in the NHL , " Campbell claimed with a straight face . German composer ...
... detective who said he'd seen a lot of people so confused that they'd stolen things , but never one so confused that they'd paid twice . " When John Adams became the second president of the United 48 All - Skate at the Fool - o - Drome.