Review of
Hateful Thoughts for Happy Occasions: A
Collection of Sick Greetings for Healthy People,
by Herman Klopfinger III
Four out of five stars
The entries in
this collection bear a close resemblance to some of the content of “Mad
Magazine.” Each one is constructed of two pages, the first has a nice saying
and the second has an image with a negative textual caption. While they are
amusing, none of them will put you into hysterics.
For example, for one the first page has the caption, “You’ve
got everything a man wants …” and the following page has an image of a scantily
clad woman with the caption “A moustache, a beard, and MUSCLES!” Another has
the initial caption, “I’d like to keep in touch with you…” where the second page
has the image of a fireman landing on the floor and the caption, “ But I’ve
misplaced my 10-foot pole!”
A fun book to
read, we all have experienced occasions when there is the strong urge to make a
statement similar to those that appear here.
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