From the genius of funnyman Bob Fenster, who brought you Duh!, They Did What!?, and Well, Duh!, comes another in real-life idiocy. The Duh Awards honors the intellectually challenged and utterly inept. From historical explorers to politicians to celebrities to everyday people, no one is spared from lampoon. Ever notice there seems to be an award show for just about everything? And that everyone who wins is rich, beautiful, and brilliant? Good-looking, intelligent winners are everywhere. The Duh Awards is for the rest of us. These awards are handed out to the not-so-smart, the underworked, the overpaid, the wacky, the weird, and the downright stupid. And it's about time! Chapters include such ridiculousness as: Boss of the Year and Other Slave Driver Awards; Champion Scoffers, Scorners, Insulters, and Other All-Star Wise Guys; and Only in Hollywood-The Anti-Oscars. Here are just a excerpts from this hilarious book: The Know-a-Little, Talk-a-Lot Society presents the Anti-Expert Awards: In 1931 President Herbert Hoover somehow missed the impact of the Great Depression when he offered this solution: "If someone could get off a good joke every ten days, I think our troubles would be over." Winning Mind Games: All-Star Shockers, Psych-Outs, and Gross Champs: During the halftime show of the 2004 Super Bowl, singer Justin Timberlake removed part of singer Janet Jackson's shirt to reveal one of her star breasts on national TV. This upset viewers who had tuned in to watch rapper Nelly grab his crotch. The Spin Awards for Fooling Most of the People Enough of the Time: In 2003 Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told the press: "As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns--the ones we don't know we don't know." The Duh Awards celebrates the moments that some would rather we forget.
The DUH! Marketing Awards e-newsletter was launched. In February 2001, the first newsletter went out as a cut and pasted Word document to all 300 members of my database. We hit the jackpot! Brandweek was interested in reprinting the ...
Other Books by Bob Fenster Duh!: The Stupid History ofthe Human Race Well, Duh!: Our Stupid World, and Welcome to It The Duh Awards: In This Stupid World, We Take the Prize They Did What!?: The Funny, Weird, Wonderful, Outrageous, ...
Bob Fenster is the author of a dozen books , including Duh !: The Stupid History of the Human Race and The Duh Awards . His writing has appeared in the Washington Post , the Wall Street Journal , Reader's Digest , the San Francisco ...
In 1960, Alfred Kazin did so in an essay in the New York Times Book Review titled “The Function of Criticism Today,” and in 2010, the Review asked six “accomplished critics” to examine current criticism by reflecting on Kazin's essay.
DUH. AWARDS. “I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever.
TheDepartDBnlolMisclariflcatioii (, « ) Maybe instead of writing about Alice's adventures in wonderland, Lewis Carroll should have been in charge of corporate communications. "Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it ...
(DUH) awards cities and municipali- ties for their special commitment to the protection and promotion of local, municipal biodiversity. The “Lebendige Stadt” Foundation, as the sponsor of the “Federal Capital of Biodiversity” ...
No one likes living in overcrowded cities , yet millions do it in the world's densest : Manila , Shanghai , Cairo , Paris , Bombay . Why aren't they smart enough to move ? They're waiting for everyone else to smarten up and move out .
Preh-duh-tuh.” I look to Adam. “You say it,” I tell him. “Predator,” he says with a shrug. The t has become a second d and the r rolls long at the end of the word. Prehdehdorrr. “Yeah, okay, that's pretty good,” I concede.
Five original romance stories--by Linda Howard, Geralyn Dawson, Jillian Hunter, Mariah Stewart, and Miranda Jarrett--journey to the beach for a summertime of love and passion under the sun. Original.