# Hilarious Amazon recommendation! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 27, 2004, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-amazon-recommendation/257070 "2004-07-27T09:51:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-amazon-recommendation/257070/1 "2004-07-27T09:51:03Z")
I looked up the movie [Sling Blade](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6304765223/qid=/sr=/ref=cm_lm_asin/002-6762661-1484859?v=glance) on Amazon and just about fell out of my seat when I saw what another person recommended. (For those too lazy to click a link:) 1 person recommended Black & Decker MB-850 Lawn Mower Replacement Blade in addition to Sling Blade ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-amazon-recommendation/257070/2 "2004-07-27T12:01:20Z")
I needed the title of Gerald Ford’s memoirs the other day, and the quickest way to find it was to enter “Gerald Ford” in an Amazon search. On preview, I find the link won’t work – but go check it out yourself, big yucks, I promise! ---
**Author:** ![Chairman\_Pow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-amazon-recommendation/257070/3 "2004-07-28T01:29:35Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > but go check it out yourself, big yucks, I promise! Perhaps you’ll have to explain the humor to me. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-amazon-recommendation/257070/4 "2004-07-28T01:50:58Z")
> [@](#): > > Time and Chance : Gerald Ford’s Appointment With History by James Cannon (Paperback) > > The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford (American Presidency Series) by John Robert Greene (Paperback) > > A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford by Gerald R. Ford > > Funny Girl DVD ~ Barbra Streisand (1968) The fourth item is _Funny Girl_. You don’t think that’s funny? I did. I’ll admit I have a weird sense of humor, though. ---
**Author:** ![Chairman\_Pow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-amazon-recommendation/257070/5 "2004-07-28T03:26:12Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > The fourth item is _Funny Girl_. You don’t think that’s funny? I did. I’ll admit I have a weird sense of humor, though. Oh, I honestly didn’t read that far down. So, it’s an not-particularly-relevant recommendation that Amazon threw in. I also have to admit that I don’t think it’s funny. ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-amazon-recommendation/257070/6 "2004-07-28T03:30:42Z")
[A crazy blast from the past!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=139518&highlight=scout) ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-amazon-recommendation/257070/7 "2004-07-28T04:49:45Z")
> [@Muad'Dib](#): > > [A crazy blast from the past!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=139518&highlight=scout) That thread confused me at first. Eventually I figured out that, back in 10/02, a search for “The Boy Scout Handbook” returned as the top result the book _[Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror](http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=6WSRPU4CJ4&isbn=0312224435)_. Weird, that. But now, the top result has changed to _[Scouting for Boys](http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=2T06IY4A7I&isbn=0192805479&itm=1)_. Which is even MORE creepy, in my opinion! :eek: 😉