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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first parody book, Bored of the Rings, dates back to 1969, so we're not sure why it took this long to produce a follow-up that's 16 pages shorter, nor what the criteria were for choosing the new target. Still, we're curious to see how the pamphlet does. The official press release, book blurb, and excerpt all emphasize Edwart’s “zero interest in girls." (The insinuation, we think, is that he may be a homosexual...

Author: By Luis Urbina | Title: EXCERPT: Lampoon's New Book | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...mosque”) that was built when Cordoba was part of the Muslim-ruled kingdom of al-Andalus. Although it is widely considered to be one of the finest achievements of the Western Islamic Empire, you wouldn’t know it from reading the information pamphlet provided at the entrance...

Author: By Adrienne Y. Lee | Title: Show Some Respect | 7/23/2009 | See Source »

Apart from its thinly veiled disdain for the Mezquita’s creators, what makes the pamphlet even more of a curiosity is the incongruity between its overtly religious slant and current Spanish attitudes...

Author: By Adrienne Y. Lee | Title: Show Some Respect | 7/23/2009 | See Source »

...most Spaniards still identify themselves as culturally Catholic, religion seems to be of little real importance in people’s daily lives here. Church attendance is at an all-time low and the only people I have ever seen attend Mass are elderly individuals. The tone of the pamphlet suggests a level of religious dogmatism that is clearly out of touch with the reality of modern Spain...

Author: By Adrienne Y. Lee | Title: Show Some Respect | 7/23/2009 | See Source »

orgasms • pamphlet by Britain's National Health Service redundantly advises teens of the enjoyability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 7/17/2009 | See Source »

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