Not real Mexican jokes; more like perverted gringo in Mexico jokes.
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Unfortunately, these are not real Mexican jokes. More like perverted gringo in Mexico jokes translated to Spanish. There are quite a few grammar errors and odd choices of words in Espaol like saying "sexisima chica" .  Mexicans don't say that. Lets say that his choice of words in Spanish is not the ideal. It's as if he's translating on the go. And like others said the humor is not for everybody. It seems like many gringos think being dirty and inappropriate is all good in Mexico. Maybe if you are with your buddies but not everybody likes it. Women expect respect. Sounds like the author hangs out with prostitutes. Mexico is mainly a catholic country we are not as liberal as you think!

Many jokes in Mexico simply are about the language and you have to have a certain mastery of it to get it, which the author clearly does not have.  I recommend you listen to polo polo for a real great dirty Mexican comedian and watch "el chavo" for real Mexican comedy without all the dirty.

I disagree that these are good for education. There are way better and cleaner choices. Take it from a Mexican who grew up in Mexico, and lived, and studied English in California for 15 years.
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UNCUT .....AH BALONEY!!
This is nothing like the orignal episodes. Scenes cropped then cut and left laying on some editors floor somewhere.

Once more its closed captioned (I'm deaf) nobody close captions DVD anymore due to the popularity of SUBTITLES. Subtitles are easier and cheaper to produce on a CD rather than CC encoding. So lame. But then again seeing as the product is made in mexico this doesn't surprize me. 99% of all the DVD I see come out of mexico are of such sub standard quality that you'd think they made DVD's out of old garbage can lids down there.

In as much as I really like thr antics of Ren and Stimpy I just cannot justify paying for the LIE that this product is. UNCUT? HARDLY!

THEY DID MAJOR SURGERY ON REN AND STIMPY.

DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON SUB STANDARD PRODUCT

Powdered Toast Man will have his revenge on the twerps who produced this DVD collection
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Advertencia: Este libro es una psima traduccin del Ingls al Espaol, no es una edicin profesional de los cuentos de Sherlock Holmes, mas bien, es el producto de un inepto ladrn sin escrpulos que se quiere aprovechar de los hispanos que han comprado un Kindle. Eviten esta versin en particular de Sherlock Holmes a toda costa. El traductor solo ofrece un insulto a nuestra cultura y a nuestra lengua con esta basura de traduccin hecha probablemente por una computadora.

Someone took the English version of this book and translated it using a computer, it is pretty awful right from the first sentence. Nothing makes sense. This is clearly an attempt by a foreigner to make a buck from the Latino and Hispanic community, in other words, a rip-off. If you don't believe me click on the picture of the cover to "Look Inside" at some samples, if you speak any Spanish at all you will be shocked that Amazon allowed this garbage to be published.
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... that appear at the ends of tunnels."  "... literature, which is a surreptitious form of violence ..."  "... a fable suggesting that life on Earth is the result of a disastrous intergalactic television game show..."

Don't be misled by its title: Nazi Literature in the Americas is not an academic essay in historical or literary criticism. It's a gigantic spoof, at the most obvious level a satire of encyclopedic scholarship, a collection of capsule biographies of 31 fictitious 'authors' from the Americas, including the USA, their imaginary careers stretching from the late 19th to the mid 21st Centuries. The bios, all but the last one, are ludicrously dry and dispassionate -- mostly accounts of bizarre personalities achieving absurd failures. Bolao's first target is the pompous self-importance of the literary intelligentsia, and as always in his work, it seems that every third fool in Latin America is a poet, closeted or published. I suspect this aspect of Bolao's satire will appeal more to those of us fools who are amused at having our vanity ridiculed. Readers who are familiar with the actual biographies of real 'avant-garde' writers of Chile, Mexico, Argentina, etc. will have an unfair advantage, of course, over innocent anglophones in apprehending Bolao's most sardonic slurs.

But Bolao has also a larger target for his barbs. His satirical sketches are meant to add up to a psychosocial analysis of the Right Wing mentality. As a Chilean, Bolao is sharpest in his dissection of his countrymen, those evil geniuses who sprang up like weeds with the fascist regime of Augusto Pinochet. What Bolao depicts - and I have many reasons to think his depiction is strenuously accurate - is a culture of repressed perversion, where the surest outlet from repression is sadism and violence. It's a culture of hierarchies based on wealth, sources of wealth, and 'connection', but complicated by incompatible hierarchies of complexion and glamour. Bolao's imaginary nazi-sympathizers add up to a profile of the mind of the rightwing ideologue, who may be the heir of a landed fortune or the prison-educated son of a swarthy sharecropper. Certain unifying characteristics are predictable, including an automatic anti-semitism and a predisposition toward sexual decadence, but many other signs of latent insanity are subtler in Bolao's representations. But the overall conclusion is forthright: Nazism is a pervasive mental illness; right wing extremism under any name is a deep-set character defect.

Such a book would be hard to end effectively. Bolao clearly found it so. The last chapter is perhaps a mistake, to my mind, though hardly one that spoils the rest of the book. In that last chapter, Bolao suddenly switches to a 'first-person' narrative, identifying himself by name. It's a capsule summary of his very dark and insightful novel "Distant Star", recounting the career of a Chilean death-squad sadist qua avant-garde artist/poet qua military pilot. Bolao's point is clear enough, but the abrupt change of tone is jarring, and I'm not convinced that the 'chapter' would be intelligible for anyone who had not read "Distant Star".

Bolao is one of the great, painful writers of the 20th C, the most horrific era in the history of civilization. His short novels "Distant Star" and "By Night in Chile" are nightmarish masterpieces. This book, "Nazi Literature in the Americas", is a sort of demoniac appendix to his novellas. Don't make it your first experience of Bolao; it wouldn't make much sense as such! Once you've read the others, however, I'm certain you'll find it meaningful.
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I had to turn this off about 12 minutes into it. I had not laughed once and just could not be bothered to see if the rest was any better. I did not think it was racist. Lopez made fun of Latinos as much as he did white America (in the first 12 minutes, anyway.) There was a couple of times when I thought "I could've written a better punch line than that."
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Not funny. Racist, sexist, bigoted jokes. Would have to be an idiot frat boy at your local almost failed out of high school community college.
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Phooey.  From the cover, I thought it'd be a whole year's worth of funny office comics for some some levity each morning when I got to work.  Instead, there are a whole bunch of other comics in there, like rude and demeaning comics about dating. I would not recommend this for an office gift.

UPDATED EDIT:  There are also racist jokes in here.  There's plenty of good humor out there that doesn't need to resort to blatant racist jokes to be funny. Caveat emptor.
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this is not funny to me...I find the humor very inappropriate at any age.
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Bought this as a joke gift, but it just was NOT funny.  Not what we were expecting.  WAAAY too specific with the scenarios to be amusing.  Couldn't bring myself to give it to my Dad.  Going to be donated... maybe someone else will enjoy.
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A simplistic pamphlet with no real connection to Mexico, its people or it's magic.  Review of local expats is silly, and seems like author is the odd guy out and bitter about it.  Do not make judgments about moving to Mexico based on this book.  This guy is no expert on Mexico or the Yucatn. Save your .99.
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Ese libro nos muestra las cuantiosas maneras en que lo norteamericano diferencia con lo mexicano.  Siendo norteamericano, me identifico con Ambrose Bierce y Harriet que llevan sus costumbres y modales en todo momento.  "La bsqueda" que efecta el Gringo Viejo es algo que va en contra de las normas de la sociedad y me parece un poco tab.  La forma en que Fuentes escribe no aade nada al contenido ya que sus historias no parecen autnticas.  Realmente no recomiendo el libro a los que buscan una diversin; pero sera aconsejable leer el libro si sea un estudiante de la revolucin mexicana.
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Con un lenguaje sencillo y el humorismo caracterstico de Chespirito, toca temas muy variados desde ftbol hasta poltica. Un libro de esparcimiento y sin pretensions ambiciosas, el cual vale la pena leer y conservar como legado de uno de los ms grandes comediantes que han nacido en Latinoamrica.
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Spanish speakers: Be aware, I bought this spanish edition and downloaded in English. Looks like a joke, cheap one, fortunately.
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Not for us!  Americans, MAYBE if you are into English, Chinese HUMOR.
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That's the original title of this novella in Spanish, meaning "There'll be no more pain or forgetting." The word 'olvido' might alternately be translated as "inattention." In either case, the English title is wretchedly off the mark, leading one to expect a satire. Though there is gruesome humor in the slaughter that occurs one night in a small Argentine town -- with a crop duster dropping a load of pig excrement on the gunmen in the plaza -- Osvaldo Soriano takes his material far too seriously to be a mere satirist. He is a prophet, and his pointless bloodbath is a forecast of worse to come. Except for the title, by the way, translator Nick caistor has done an excellent job of catching the acrid flames and fumes of Soriano's idiomatic Spanish.

Two factions of small-time politicos, both claiming to be loyal disciples of Peron, square off in a tussle for power that escalates into mayhem, with most of the leaders of both factions ending up dead. Latin American writers, I'll have to take the risk of saying, set the bar high for descriptions of violence; in this case, people are killed by gunshots, run over by various sizes of vehicles, beaten to death, tortured and blinded, blown to gobbets with dynamite, burned, knifed, crushed under rubble, all in graphic detail and all in 108 pages. There is nothing worth such destruction, of course, and there are no winners. The book ends with no indication that Juan Peron will even need to take notice of such hapless provincial rivalry. Argentine readers, nonetheless, and educated anglophones will be aware that Peron himself will soon perish in a macrocosmic version of the village shootout, with the onset of military rule -- CIA certified, Milton Friedman's free market economics the governing principle, thousands of young Argentines 'disappeared' by right-wing paramilitary death squads. This one-night dirty little war is a dress rehearsal for the tragedy of Argentina's descent into class-warfare, economic collapse, and fascism.

The book is hardly longer than a long short story, and some readers may feel distressed at paying a 'novel' price for it. But it's only available used, for pennies, anyway. Of the two previous reviews here on amazon, "Penumbra" gets the historical background right, but Mr. Newman strangely and seriously misinterprets the stakes in the butchery.
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This is not a regular date movie. It has a lot of bathroom humor, making it very inappropriate for younger children to view.
The 3 women play the roles of frisky women in their late 20's, but they act like silly 15 year-old girls. They too often get themselves in outrageous sexually situations. Certain scenes will make you cover your eyes and say, "Did they really have to put that in the movie". Like a scene where a man flasher his thing in front of Carmen Diaz's face.
When people in other countries see this movie, I hope they don't make the assumption that ALL women in America behave as the ones in this movie.
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The author is a paid propagandist for Mexico..what more needs to be said about his credibility.  He has several objectives. One is that Latinos who become US citizens will think of themselves as Mexicans first...as he does.  His second goal, is to reclaim the lands transferred via the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Gadsden Purchase because by today's standards, the price to was too low.  Russians say the same thing about Catherine's sale of Alaska.  The difference is the the Mexican Congress ratified both transactions.  The Russians did not.  Yet there is no movement in Russia comparable to the Reconquista or Astlan movement that many, no most Mexicans subscribe to.  "We didn't cross the border, the border crossed us." is the war cry these enemies of America chant.

Mr Hernandez is dishonest. He quotes statistics showing that foreign-born residents are less likely to commit crime. True! But as Hernandez knows, that statistic in only true because legal immigrants are screened before they enter so those will criminal backgrounds are barred. But Hernandez puts illegal aliens in the same category as those fine people who proudly call themselves immigrants. He, for good reason, borrows the good reputation of legal immigrants to hide the high rate of criminal activity of illegal aliens..especially those from Latin America. Let's remember that an true immigrant moves to another country in accordance with that country's laws.  Anyone else cannot lay claim to the title.  One who enters a country wihout consent breaks the law.  If they try to get a job, that's also against the law and if they present false documents to defraud an employer that is a serious crime and it is repeated each day that the person works.  Anyone who, as Hernandez does, put such bad actors in the category of immigrant is dishonest and propagandist.  Besides the race card (is there any more racist group than "El Conciio de la Raza") Hernandez also plays the guilt/sympathy card..referring often to the poverty in Latin American and these miserable conditions of it's inhabitants (owing to the corruption of the goverment who pays his salary).

Don't be deceived by Hernandez's phoney sob story. Try living in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ukraine, China, North Korea, Moldova, Belarus...(I could go on)...most of the world's countries are much poorer than Mexico.

The backstory about Hernandez is political power for himself and his cronies in the DF.. He dreams of the day Mexicans will be the majority in the United States and when that day comes, the rest of us will find that our sympathies for poor Latinos and our accomodation of their refusal to assimilate, have only sowed the seeds of another Hugo Chavez style take-over on American soil.

Hernandez cannot accomplish his mission without pacifying non-latinos lest we oppose the invasion. And, he cannot pacify us unless he puts on his pattented smile and lies about the facts and true Mexican intentions.  Therefore, he writes this piece of rubbish.  Don't buy it...neither the book nor the smile.