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Summary: To me the closest to perfection
Review: ...I have to say that this book is as close as I've ever come to perfection in humour. It completely matches my sense of the absurd and has such historical accuracy. The bloke really is a genius. My copy has long since fallen to pieces and I spend my life trying to buy back the copies that I gave away. Interestingly enough, many people just don't get it. You need to have a sense of what he is mocking I guess. The funniest thing that I have ever read and looked at, this is after reading and looking at it for 20 years!! Most highly recommended of all.
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Summary: To me the closest to perfection
Review: ...I have to say that this book is as close as I've ever come to perfection in humour. It completely matches my sense of the absurd and has such historical accuracy. The bloke really is a genius. My copy has long since fallen to pieces and I spend my life trying to buy back the copies that I gave away. Interestingly enough, many people just don't get it. You need to have a sense of what he is mocking I guess. The funniest thing that I have ever read and looked at, this is after reading and looking at it for 20 years!! Most highly recommended of all.
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Summary: How almost satisfying... How very nearly inspired!
Review: A very good friend and I serendipitously ran across the last two copies of Zany Afternoons one hot afternoon in the Georgia Tech bookstore some twelve or thirteen years ago. We promptly spent the next hour chuckling rambunctiously in the aisles, much to the amusement of other shoppers. Of course, we had to buy them on the spot... "Mayhem achieved, boredom relieved!"
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Summary: An Eye-patch with a twist
Review: As the odiferous prose of Monsieur McCall slides over your cerebellum, the effect on sanity is rather similar to the effect of hot water on snow. A melting and dissipation takes precedence, rendering the subject either harmless or dangerously psychotic. All in all, hooray for everything - especially this book.
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Summary: An Eye-patch with a twist
Review: As the odiferous prose of Monsieur McCall slides over your cerebellum, the effect on sanity is rather similar to the effect of hot water on snow. A melting and dissipation takes precedence, rendering the subject either harmless or dangerously psychotic. All in all, hooray for everything - especially this book.
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Summary: the most fun ever!!!!!
Review: I love this book! My friend Steve lent it to me when I had the flu and was suffering from lost love. My friends and I quote from it constantly. The fabulous illistrations and ridiculous, yet plausable copy is like finding an old magazine or travel brochure catering to another time and place
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Summary: HAPPY MEDICNE
Review: I've had this book since 1978 and still take a look at it now and then. It's a happy pill for folks who might be feeling low. I always show zany to friends who might be depressed. Usually works. If you really look at it, you could believe that some of the things in this book were fantastic,failed inventions! Has Bruce McCall written more books like this? A few people I know want to get a copy of "Zany" "Humour makes the world go round" I think my favorite from this book is " the desiel typewriter" but there's many greats in here.
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Summary: "Boredom is the one thing our kind can't afford"
Review: If F. Scott Fitzgerald had been a satirical cartoonist, half of this book would be the result. The real author used to be an automobile advertisement illustrator in the '50s, which accounts for the other half of the book. See, what the other reviewers were laughing too hard to explain, is that this is a book of spoof illustrations, taken from various publications. Blueblood nostalgia for the Jazz Age is sent up in gags on conspicuous consumption like "Indoor Golf", "Autogiro Jousting" and such. The clever, name-dropping text of those pieces is very funny, also. The auto ad gags feature parodies of 1950s layouts, featuring vehicles that look like they came off the proverbial wedding cake, and double-talking sales copy, like "...with twin-lock dual-fade brakes!" Anyone who's read old copies of Popular Science will scream at the parody of the articles (the automatic nose-blowing device) and the ads (I quit, boss! There's plenty more money in ACCORDION REPAIR these days!) included here. It's hard to believe that the author of this, well, zany book is the same as the author of the painful memoir _Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada._ Get this book by hook or by crook!
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Summary: "Boredom is the one thing our kind can't afford"
Review: If F. Scott Fitzgerald had been a satirical cartoonist, half of this book would be the result. The real author used to be an automobile advertisement illustrator in the '50s, which accounts for the other half of the book. See, what the other reviewers were laughing too hard to explain, is that this is a book of spoof illustrations, taken from various publications. Blueblood nostalgia for the Jazz Age is sent up in gags on conspicuous consumption like "Indoor Golf", "Autogiro Jousting" and such. The clever, name-dropping text of those pieces is very funny, also. The auto ad gags feature parodies of 1950s layouts, featuring vehicles that look like they came off the proverbial wedding cake, and double-talking sales copy, like "...with twin-lock dual-fade brakes!" Anyone who's read old copies of Popular Science will scream at the parody of the articles (the automatic nose-blowing device) and the ads (I quit, boss! There's plenty more money in ACCORDION REPAIR these days!) included here. It's hard to believe that the author of this, well, zany book is the same as the author of the painful memoir _Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada._ Get this book by hook or by crook!
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Summary: If You're Looking This Up And Don't Have It, Buy It NOW
Review: If you are visiting this item in the Amazon.com online catalogue, then something special brought you here. You already know of the book, perhaps already own it, and you want to see what other say about it -- or you know nothing about it. If the latter is the case, something lucky and/or magic brought you here, and you owe it to yourself to BUY THIS BOOK NOW. Maybe you heard some snippet about it, or glanced at a copy while visiting a friend. Whatever the case, SOMETHING in your psyche drew you to this fantastic volume of fantasy and art, and you absolutely need to have a copy in your home. People drawn to Zany Afternoons, regardless of the reason, have bigger, funnier, more open and creative minds than everyone else in the world, and the common bond we all share is the book itself. Detachable pants cuffs, five-in-one food paste, tank polo -- these are the creative/artistic concepts embraced by those of us who have been chosen by nature to live on Earth and put the "life" in "lifetime." If you're here, buy it now. You'll know why, after it arrives.
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