# This Book Will Change Your Life?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-book-will-change-your-life/246816
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 24, 2004, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-book-will-change-your-life/246816 "2004-05-24T16:25:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Lockseer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockseer)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2004, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-book-will-change-your-life/246816/1 "2004-05-24T16:25:18Z")
Hey, all…
Was just wondering if any of my fellow Dopers have been doing the tasks in the book, “This Book Will Change Your Life,” by Benrik.
For those of you who haven’t heard of it, the authors basically lay out a task for you to do every day of the year. This past week was quite a doozy, including:
- Eating 100oz. of cheese before going to bed, and recording what kind of dreams you have
- Crank calling the national headquarters of the KKK in Arkansas
- Learning a new knot
Part of the fun of the book for has been sharing in exploits with others doing the tasks, and thought I’d see if anyone on here has also been attempting to write letters to convicted serial killers and other nonsense.
Curt
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### Author:  [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2004, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-book-will-change-your-life/246816/2 "2004-05-24T17:23:25Z")
> [@Lockseer](#):
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> - Eating 100oz. of cheese before going to bed, and recording what kind of dreams you have
I don’t think I’d be so concerned about the dreams…
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### Author:  [@Lockseer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockseer)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2004, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-book-will-change-your-life/246816/3 "2004-05-24T17:41:27Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#):
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> I don’t think I’d be so concerned about the dreams…
Well, I haven’t been following the book to the _letter._
On that night, I ended up eating 7 slices of Colby-Jack cheese, and washing it down with half a bottle of Riesling. Strangely, slept like a baby… 😃
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### Author:  [@look\_hergo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_hergo)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2004, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-book-will-change-your-life/246816/4 "2004-05-24T23:32:21Z")
Bought the book, forgot I have it! Getting off the boards now to go find it… ooh! Oooh! Adventure!
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### Author:  [@Lockseer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockseer)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2004, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-book-will-change-your-life/246816/5 "2004-05-25T00:44:46Z")
Well, on Day 145 (Tuesday, May 25th), I’m apparently supposed to start an urban myth. The authors recommend it involve two or more of the following elements: imaginative revenge by a jilter lover, a pet’s life ending in gruesome circumstances (preferably sexual), or a hidden deadly flaw in a consumer product.
And the wheels start to turn…
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2004, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-book-will-change-your-life/246816/6 "2004-05-25T06:46:45Z")
> [@](#):
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> Crank calling the national headquarters of the KKK in Arkansas
If anyone does try this, we MUST have the results.
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### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2004, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-book-will-change-your-life/246816/7 "2004-05-25T07:01:48Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#):
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> If anyone does try this, we MUST have the results.
How would one get the phone number?
Operator? Hi, ummm…[sub]kkkheadquartersplease[/sub]
What?!!
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### Author:  [@Lockseer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockseer)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2004, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-book-will-change-your-life/246816/8 "2004-05-25T12:10:08Z")
> [@Cisco](#):
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> How would one get the phone number?
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> Operator? Hi, ummm…[sub]kkkheadquartersplease[/sub]
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> What?!!
The authors had a simpler solution: they listed the phone number in The Book.
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2004, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-book-will-change-your-life/246816/9 "2004-05-25T17:14:08Z")
Ok, just ordered the book via Amazon. Hopefully I’ll maintain a promise to myself to complete every challenge to the letter (100 oz. of cheese, huh\*? \*That’s \* gonna be tricky…). I think a weekly update thread on my progress should be manageable. Please feel free to post libelous things about me if I don’t keep up my end of the bargain.
\*[homer]Mmmmm…64 slices of american cheese.[/homer]
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### Author:  [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2004, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-book-will-change-your-life/246816/10 "2004-05-25T19:33:15Z")
[QUOTE]
or a hidden deadly flaw in a consumer product.
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You mean something like “Coke trucks are required to have hazardous placards on them when they transport coke concentrate?”
oh, [nevermind](http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/w/watervscoke.htm)…
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### Author:  [@Lockseer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockseer)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2004, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-book-will-change-your-life/246816/11 "2004-05-26T21:32:58Z")
Kinda fell a little flat on starting an Urban Myth. The closest I got was telling my students that the market is excellent for people with Advertising degrees right now. Heh, heh…of course, that could be true one day an false the next.
Today’s, though…I can do this…
**DAY 146 - Famous last words: Prepare yours ahead of time**
Okay…have to think about this one for a bit…
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2004, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-book-will-change-your-life/246816/12 "2004-05-27T14:34:50Z")
Saw the book in Urban Outfitters (which automatically makes the book more trendy than myself). The one page I opened to, there was a circle. Your task was to wait for a fly to land in the circle, then slam the book closed so its death is immortalized in the pages.
I knew the only way to really own this book was to be fully commited to the tasks, and the thought of having this dead fly in there for all these months was enough for me. I passed.
Looked like fun, though.