Oh, Dave Barry. You may not be the height of sophisticated humor, but you crack me up every time. My city has an annual book sale to raise money for the library — it’s basically my Christmas (mass market paperbacks for a quarter!) and I always managed to find at least one Dave Barry collection every year.
The basic “theme” of this one is Dave Barry reacting and responding to various weird ass stuff that readers have sent to him over the years. For example, news articles about whales exploding. It’s a collection of funny articles, many of which are illustrated by Jeff MacNelly (the guy responsible for Shoe, which always seem to exist in my house growing up). One of the great things about Dave Barry is his humor is pretty ageless. This collection was published in 1992, and other than a few out of date electronic references, you could easily believe it’s from last year. Weird people sending in funny news articles about other weird people never gets old. Neither do Donald Trump jokes, which make multiple appearances here.
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