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Probably because you and I bought the only two copies sold.
*While most countries have a national flag and anthem, only four retain a national hat size.
Rufus W. Ortfundler developed paper bags which opened at the opposing end, and thus were deemed useless.
Possibly the worst snackfood idea ever was for a product called “RAT LUNGS.”
In an old custom of the Solomon Islands, visitors’ shoes are filled with broken Artie Shaw records.
The Rosetta Stone was discovered in 1267, 1482, 1593, and 1617, but they kept throwing it back.*
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Beware of Doug: I absolutely LOVE you (in an entirely appropriate way, of course)!
[My brother has the only other copy that I know of.]
Is that the funniest book ever, or what? I kept waiting for a daily calendar from these guys (since Dilbert, The Far Side, and Dave Barry are pretty much played out).
A few of my other favorites:
*In mute testimony to the theories of gravity which it conceived, Sir Isaac Newton’s brain is being currently used as a paperweight.
Anandas “Pig Lips” Wallaby was the only man ever to eat toast through a hubcap.
Not only did Nostradamus forget about the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, he misspelled “Edsel.”
Pavlov had little success until he replaced cocoanuts with dogs.
Upon viewing the Pacific Ocean for the first time, Vasco Nunez De Balboa is reputed to have muttered, “Dammit, we’ve walked in a circle.”
Because dentists often used patients’ teeth as Christmas tree ornaments, surgeons were not allowed to decorate their offices at all.
Just as Blake called our eyes “The windows of the soul,” he referred to our ears as “The ventilator shafts of the liver.”*
I’m going to violate fair use laws if I keep going. God, I wish they’d do a sequel.
