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Book of fools : an intelligent person's guide to fops, jackasses, morons, dolts, dunces, halfwits and blockheads / Terry Reed.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Reed, Terry.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Stupidity--Humor.
Stupidity.
American wit and humor.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (363 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
New York : Algora Pub., c2013.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
This book presents a provocatively, outrageously assertive exposure of fools in their not infrequently bizarre manifestations, the object being to leave no halfwits behind. Abundantly documented, endlessly subtle, hopelessly eccentric, deadly funny.
Contents:
Bibliography; Chapter I. Leaving No Fool Behind; Chapter 2. Engines of Limited Cognition: Dumb Bells, Dumb Clucks and Dumb Waiters; Chapter 3. Imprudence and Its Imbecilic Implications; Chapter 4. Fools, Eccentrics & the Sons of Momus; Chapter 5. Idiotic Opportunities: Putting Fools to Work; Index
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
1-62894-035-2
OCLC:
856929749

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