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| Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition | 
 enlarge | Author: The Onion
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: Book
List Price: $27.99
Buy New: $10.25
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (106 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1168
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 73
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.6 x 0.8
ISBN: 0316018422
Dewey Decimal Number: 081
EAN: 9780316018425
ASIN: 0316018422
Publication Date: October 30, 2007
Release Date: October 30, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
Funny but not for the faint of heart March 19, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found this book to be laugh-out-loud funny. But since I was giving it as a gift (yeah, ok, I read it first) I was a little concerned about some of the jokes and gags being built around the misfortunes of some countries and peoples. If that won't bother you, then enjoy!
 Hilarious!! March 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Our Dumb World is to be savored! Each page contains humorous renditions of the selected country, some of which we've never heard of-as the writers will remind us!
Very non-politically correct, Our Dumb World is a refreshing slice of sometimes unfortunate truth.
theonion.com is my Home Page, so each day I enjoy the wit and wisdom of these extraordinary writers. Sometimes the real world is hard to separate from The Onion's world!
Our Dumb World is highly recommended!!
 Hilarious for the truly dead inside... March 10, 2008
6 out of 27 found this review helpful
The amount of time and energy to gather info for this book is impressive. This creation took many great minds to put together. What an achievement! It is targeted to folks that enjoy poor tasteless jokes with some grotesques pictures. Rehashed stereotypes are carefully and painfully arranged in an atlas format. You can laugh at the entire planet and the bigotry is evenly spread -because then it is acceptable. The readers can hide behind this thin curtain and laugh out loud. This book is meaningless and it adds nothing. I will hope that the most people (truly) see this as fictional. However with all the unhappy people out there- the market for this type of book is alive and well.
AMAZING!, not if youu have a conscience March 4, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
PROS: packed fool of jokes. I mean, everywhere!
Basicly every country is made fun of
worth the money, it's so densely packed
has lots of countries' histories, but with joke twists
SO FUNNY
cons: they pick one flaw, laugh at it for pages sometimes. should be varied
the map jokes are kinda unfunny sometimes. But my favorite:
'entire family feeding on placenta' HAHHAHA
BUY IT
One of the best coffee table books ever!! February 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is really funny and I have kept it on my coffee table since the day it arrived. It is perfect to pick up and read a few pages here and there. Everybody that comes to my house grabs it and can't put it down.
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