# ID this book, from a pitifully sparse memory.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 22, 2007, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-book-from-a-pitifully-sparse-memory/405125 "2007-05-22T19:58:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-book-from-a-pitifully-sparse-memory/405125/1 "2007-05-22T19:58:50Z")

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It was some kind of piecemeal parody book. It was hysterical.

How much of it do I remember? Two bits.  
One was (I believe) a stand-up nightclub comedy bit as performed by the Green Knight (of “Sir Gawain and the…” fame).

The other was a series of parodies of “Trees” that ran through the book (“I think that I shall never see/A poem lovely as a tree” etc.)  
Given these two, very vaguely remembered fragments, does this ring any bells with anybody? You will be my hero for the day, particularly if I can find it on Amazon.

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-book-from-a-pitifully-sparse-memory/405125/2 "2007-05-22T20:01:00Z")

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Could it possibly be some MAD Magazine offering?

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**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-book-from-a-pitifully-sparse-memory/405125/3 "2007-05-22T20:12:43Z")

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I don’t think so. It was a book, for sure. I thought for a while it was “The Stinky Cheese Man” but that seems to be a different book.

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**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-book-from-a-pitifully-sparse-memory/405125/4 "2007-05-23T01:07:02Z")

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The Book Of Sequels?

OTTOMH it contains Sir Gawain And A Night At The Opera

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**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-book-from-a-pitifully-sparse-memory/405125/5 "2007-05-29T16:35:04Z")

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Damn, Doc, you have done the nigh-impossible. That’s the one. Thank you! You are my hero for the day!