With scores of color photos of funny
signs from all over the place, this book is
great for random-page enjoyment. Better yet, there's
more! Just about every page also has a weird-but-true
news item, a funny headline ("County Wants
Money for Taking Dump"), a strange magazine
ad, or a bizarre postcard. Scattered through the
book are "Ripley's Believe It Or Not"-style
cartoon revelations about famous people including
Charles deGaulle, Sigmund Freud, and Charlie Chaplin.
Did you know that Albert Einstein once walked straight
into an open manhole, or that John D. Rockefeller
hired young mothers to breastfeed him? And those
two can't hold a candle to Groucho Marx.
Among a variety of other bizarre
collections of facts, there's a page dedicated
to the "maximum allowable defects in food."
It's entertainingly disgusting to learn just how
many rodent "excreta pellets" popcorn
can have, and that the average mold count in frozen
strawberries can be as much as 45 percent. Newspaper
reports of apt marriage partners (Good-Loser, Mustard-Pickels,
Beaver-Trimmer) are guaranteed chuckle inducers,
and a page of excerpts from uncolicited manuscripts
sent to an unnamed editor is, too. ("He peeled
his eyes from the boy's face.")...[More]
