Jokes and boneheads aside
347357
This is a great knife. I have several SOG knives and this is the one I carry every day. Razor sharp and the serration near the base of the blade is great for cutting rope, etc. The deployment mechanism is as close to a switch that you'll find. A slight thumb pressure in an opening direction and it "flashes" open. I've NEVER had it open accidentally. And if you are paranoid, there is a small flip lock for that as well. The clip is extended and hides the knife just under your pocket rim but places it in optimum position for quick access. Light, strong and SOG quality. By the way, if you are thinking the Flash I is just a little smaller, it's not. It is a lot smaller, almost a toy compared to this medium sized all around all purpose utility/defense blade. Buy it! You won't be sorry.
3535713
Some of the stories are very good ,others....not so much. Much like reading "Readers Digest's Humor in uniform". Save your money.
1846447
Mostly sexist, unfunny and not intelligent jokes...plus, could have used a better proofreader/editor.
7460
A comedian once made a joke about God creating a walrus. After all animals were created, there were some extra parts. So God took them, an elephant sized body of a seal, tusks, and a Burt Reynolds mustache, threw them all together, and created the walrus.

There are passages in this book whose quality rival anything I've read; and yes, 3/4 of a page about war that is probably as good as Steinbeck. Then there are places where he goes off for pages into some limp wristed left leaning societal commentary: guns bad. White men bad. Female elected officials good. (Written pre-Trump election). Then he writes about a fishing trip that is The Old Man and the Sea "light." It really seems as if he had a bunch of leftover stuff from other books that he threw together...like the walrus.
3880113
A mildly amusing movie that tries too hard to be funny.  Another movie where gun play and drug abuse are trivialized.
3189605
Sorry, but I was expecting so much, I guess  A few laughs, but I don't think this one is my kind of humor, referring to his own kids in negative manner, and wives that tricked him into having them...from the first pages about how awful is father treated him, which I found painful, not funny; I tried to read more but the cynical nature of his humor did not create a 'pleasant and funny read,' which was what I was after...a gifted writer, surely, but I think you have to be in a certain frame of mind to really enjoy, and I was not.....PS  from what I read, there is not actual "physical" violence, but the first stories about his father raised an element of abusive behavior that I found a violence in and of its own concerning the acts themselves... example - making the neighbor boy eat rotten ice cream after choking him in front of his family was just not funny at all...
3743702
Seemed funnier years ago.  However there are some good 'one liners' in this one.
1386185
Not enough funny quotes.

I was hoping for some out-of-the-ordinary and funny quotes.. these were just 'ok'.  Keep looking for better
4573984
If the mention of suicide tickles your funny bone - this book may be a good fit for you. Having some personal experience with the topic, I didn't find it so amusing and felt a chapter devoted to how other artists offed themselves (with reasons you shouldn't use their particular method as part of the "joke") should at least have been accompanied by a note encouraging readers who are seriously considering ending their lives to call a prevention hotline. Making light of suicide and depression aside, some substance (not just substance abuse references) or a bit of context with all the artist trivia would have been nice and all the pages of DIY & crafts were not funny enough to justify making it past an editor of a print publication.
777203
As a collector of metaphors, similes, analogies -- as well as other clever adages and sayings, I was disappointed in this collection.

While admittedly there is some historical value in knowing where many of our common metaphorical clichs have come from, one hardly thinks that history alone should be the final arbiter or criterion for inclusion - even if they have been penned by some of our most famous authors. And even though the author took the pain to carefully explain the difference between these and clichs. Yet, how could he fail to filter the latter from this collection?

Plus, times and the rules of cleverness do change. They are both contextual as well as evolutionary. This book is a lot like watching an old movie before acting moved into the modern era. The old movies still may have great nostalgic value, but the art and craft of acting has long since moved on ...

The same goes for metaphors, similes and analogies: Arguably the final criterion for inclusion should be creativity and cleverness, not history or nostalgia. And in the view of this reader, the items in this collection, rather surprisingly, too often fall short of that test.

Also, is it not a bit counterintuitive (not to mention disconcerting) to spend pages discussing a single pithy sentence, when both its beauty and meaning lies in the subtlety of the surprise of the discovery itself?

Most of this book is inelegant in the same way that explaining the historical importance and cleverness of the punch line of a joke might be?  Two stars
2475642
This book is just an unstructured collection of not always interesting US centric anecdtotes. I imagine that the author's obsession with facial hair is an attempt at humor.
144557
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.
666820
Starting with the three stars I give it, add a star if you like the Three Stooges.  Then, if you hate Dave Sim text, subtract a star, if you love Dave Sim text, add a star, and if you say "ah, I just skip that stuff," add 0 stars (or subtract 0 stars, as the whim suits you.)  Me, I'm sticking with three stars.

After the events of the previous volume, Cerebus just wants to die.  Instead of dying, we get two humorous issues where he becomes a shephard and a player of "five-bar gate," the tennis/hockey game Dave invented.  Then, with the help (?) of the Three Stooges and Todd McSpahn [McFarlane] he finally overthrows the Cirinists, and there is much bloodshed and mayhem.  After ruling for 70 years or so, Woody Allen (why not?) shows up and gives him a copy of the Torah.  The rest of the book (pages 288-511) consists primarily of Cerebus analyzing Genesis, interspersed with "diary entries" and biographical information on Woody Allen, some knocks against Freud and Jung, and the final final pages (463-511) spent on notes on everything you just read (or skimmed over, or skipped).  Whew!  Oh wait, he also meets the woman who will [spoiler deleted].

This is a seriously mixed bag.  If you like Cerebus for the humor, there is much humor to be found here.  I have a weird sense of humor, so I even find the Woody Allen diary entries funny.  If you've been skipping all the text so far in previous volumes, I advise you to keep on skipping.  I'll shift my comments on the text pages to the comments section.
4183469
Ok, the truth be told there are about 80 corny or annoying jokes and 21 decent ones.  If you want to think to your self "I could do better than that" then purchase this book.  If not then don't.
317603
This one cracked me up by trying to be politically correct. The drawings were so-so but the humor made up for it.
423498
OK, I confess, I only got a hundred pages into this.  It seems to consist primarily of "Rush Limbaugh is fat."

Not an especially interesting comment or argument.  Nor particularly amusing.  "Hey, Rush Limbaugh is fat, he he he."

Gee, thanks for the piquant humor Al.

Franken was horrible on Saturday Night Live too, so I guess his inability to be humorous is why he segued  into politics, where a lack of humor is not as much of a drawback.

Boring book totally lacking in humor or merit.
2845909
Let's be honest: Lederer is the man when it comes to wordplay jokes, has been for years. That said, I'm not sure why this book caught me by surprise -- after all, dirty puns are puns too, however awful they are.

I'd be willing to wager at least half of the items in this book have passed through your email inbox at one time or another. The book is sillier than it is sexy, and that's just fine.