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The Lexicon of Stupidity
The Lexicon of Stupidity
Author: Ross Petras, Kathryn Petras
Look up Religion, and discover this from Paris Hilton: [The Kaballah] helps you confront your fears. Like, if a girl borrowed my clothes and never gave them back and I saw her wearing them months later, I would confront her. — Or Anatomy, and find sportscaster Jerry Coleman: Winfield goes back to th...  more »

Or Truth in Government—here’s Senator Alan Simpson: There are a lot of things that we do that are irrelevant, but that’s what the Senate is for.

Arranged alphabetically, from Accident, Traffic to Zoology, Game Show Contestants’ Knowledge of (and you wouldn’t believe how distorted that knowledge sometimes is), The Lexicon of Stupidity is an overstuffed dictionary of quotes, banalities, actual book titles, holdup notes, menu items, TV listings, and more, each meeting one exacting criterion: they’re so jaw-droppingly dumb you can’t help but laugh. It’s the wit of the witless. The comedy of the clueless. The giggly fun of celebrities, athletes, politicians, newscasters, and other pompous types planting a foot (or two) firmly in mouth. And no authors could be more qualified to pull it together than Ross and Kathryn Petras, whose calendar celebrating stupidity—The 365 Stupidest Things Ever Said—is a perennial knock-out, with millions of copies sold since its debut in 1995.

It even includes real courtroom testimony:

Q. Are you sexually active?

A. No, I just lie there.
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ISBN-13: 9780761137917
ISBN-10: 0761137912
Publication Date: 5/23/2005
Pages: 400
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Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Book Type: Paperback
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Reporter: Is it going to rain today?
Coach: What do I look like--a geologist?

"Are Young Americans Be Getting Stupider?" --Headline from the Corvallis (Oregon) _Gazette-Times_

Excerpts from celebrity interviews, news stories, court transcripts, résumés, advertisements, and elsewhere. I laughed out loud several times.
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A witty and, at times, bewildering collection of humorous quotes by people who should know better.


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