Well, Duh!: Our Stupid World, and Welcome to It

by Bob Fenster

Overview

In a world of bumbling idiots, stupidity is a growth industry. One smart strategy is to laugh at it all with this outrageous collection of hilarious tales about the stupid things people do in every field of human activity.

Bob Fenster has combed the world of the intellectually challenged searching for more tales of stupidity to entertain us with.........and he's hit the jackpot! After the success of his first two books, Duh! and They Did What!?, Fenster has struck again with Well, Duh! Our Stupid World, and Welcome to It. More tales of the dim-witted and simpleminded are incorporated in chapters such as:

* Food for Thoughtlessness: The All-Turnip Diet and Other Loony Meals at the Mindless Cafe

* Hollyweird: Bird Brains in Tinsel Town

* Dumb Ways to Die: Buried Alive but Not for Long

* Government by the Idiots: How to Get Elected to Anything

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780740789151
Publisher:	Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	01/01/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Bob Fenster is a freelance writer and the author of Duh! The Stupid History of the Human Race and They Did What!? The Funny, Weird, Wonderful, Outrageous, and Stupid Things Famous People Have Done, as well as three novels, two puzzle books, and one play. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Reader's Digest, the San Francisco Chronicle, Games, and Playbill. He lives with his wife and three sons in Santa Cruz, Calif., when he's not touring with his one-man show, "The Stupid History of the Human Race."

Table of Contents

	Introduction	ix
Part 1	23-6: Round-the-Clock Stupidity from People Who Have Trouble Keeping Count	1
Chapter 1	Egos of the Knuckleheaded: Disinfecting the Common People	3
Chapter 2	Resurrecting the Furniture and Other Dumb Moves in the Face of Fate	12
Chapter 3	Food for Thoughtlessness: The All-Turnip Diet and Other Loony Meals at the Mindless Cafe	23
Chapter 4	Finding Enough Flashlights for the Turtles: The Flamboyant Numskullery of Artists and Writers	32
Chapter 5	Thirteen-Cent Bail and the Missing Sponge: The Surprising Numskullery of Doctors and Lawyers	41
Chapter 6	Hollyweird: Birdbrains in Tinseltown	50
Chapter 7	On the Home Front: Faint-Not Jones and the Family That Never Said No	59
Chapter 8	Dumb in School: Vertical Thinking and the Aboriginal IQ Test	67
Chapter 9	Felonious Hats, Killer Makeup, and Other Fashion Trends	73
Chapter 10	The Business of Stupidity and Vice Versa	84
Chapter 11	Dumb Crooks: Quick, Let's Hop on the Motorized Bar Stool and Make Our Getaway	101
Chapter 12	Dumb Ways to Die: Buried Alive but Not for Long	111
Chapter 13	Oofty Goofty, Screaming Meemies, and Other Amazing Acts of Popped Culture	119
Chapter 14	Anthro-dimology: The Study of How Stupid Ancient People Were Before They Became Us	128
Chapter 15	Riding the Bull, Mourning the Cowwws: The Wonderful World of Stupid Eccentricities	137
Chapter 16	Fools for Love: Tom Cruise Mows the Lawn; Ivan the Terrible Solves Virginity	144
Chapter 17	Rich but Stupid: The Barefoot Explorer and the Witch of Wall Street	154
Chapter 18	Government by the Idiots: How to Get Elected to Anything	161
Chapter 19	Stupid Science: Catapulting to the Moon and Beyond	176
Chapter 20	Dumb Predictions: The End of Poverty, War, and Chickens, as Predicted by People Who Got It All Wrong	184
Chapter 21	Dumb Sports: Flying Pitchers and Concrete Linebackers	191
Chapter 22	The Power of Stupidity: You Only Break the Leg of the One You Love	206
Chapter 23	Military Stupidity: Why Generals Aren't in Jail	214
Chapter 24	The Beached Whale at the Dumb-Off and Other Random Acts of Idiocy	223
Chapter 25	Smart Thoughts About Stupidity	231
Part 2	Where Did All This Stupid Stuff Come From?	237
Chapter 26	Ask Forty-five Stupid Questions, Get Forty-four Stupid Answers	239
Chapter 27	Twenty-one Stupid Solutions to Problems You Didn't Even Know We Had	263
Chapter 28	Stupidity by the Numbers	280
Chapter 29	What's the Dumbest Thing You've Ever Done? Eighteen True Stupid Stories from Real People Just Like You, Except They're in the Book and You're Not	303
Part 3	Looks Like We're De-stupifying Again	315
Chapter 30	How to Get Smart by Cribbing from Actual Smart People	317