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Model Number: 0316018422
Brand: Little Brown And Company
Online Retailer ID: 0316018422
Located in: BOOK, Humor, Topic / Political
Every week three million readers turn to the worlds most popular news organisation for a much-needed dose of Onion news and entertainment coverage. Our Dumb World: The OnioNs Atlas of THe Planet Earth, 73rd Edition features incorrect statistics on all of the Earths 168, 182, or 196 independent nations. It also features maps, including a fold-out world map at actual size. Readers will learn about every country from Afghanistan , Allahs Cat Box, to the Ukraine , The Bridebasket of Europe. Todays news-parody consumer cannot possibly understand made-up current events without the context of fake world history and geography. That is why The Onion is publishing a world atlas: to help us. Our Dumb WORLD is an invaluable tool for any reader interested in overthrowing a weakened government in East Asia, exploiting a developing nation in Africa, or for directions to tonights party at Ericas. It is a reference guide to 250,000 of the worlds most important places, such as North Korea s Trench of Victory, the Great Human Pyramid of Egypt, and Saudi Arabia s superhighway, the Mohammedobahn. Every week three million readers turn to the worlds most popular news organisation for a much-needed dose of Onion news and entertainment coverage.
Our Dumb World - 'The Onion'
By CB
from D.C. on 1/2/2008
from D.C. on 1/2/2008
Pros:
Conversation Starter
Best Uses:
Gift, Older Readers, Travel Reading, Younger Readers
Describe Yourself:
Everyday Reader
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
I gave this as a secret Santa gift and people wanted to trade for it. I actually ended up buying one for myself and it has a home on my coffee table. If you're not familiar with The Onion, it's fake "news" that you cannot help to laugh at. [@]