*Too lazy to drive to his girlfriend's house, a man ties helium balloons to a lawn chair--and ends up at 15,000 feet, closing the L. A. airport. *A Chinese contraception program causes the birth rate to rise when men are discovered taking birth control pills and unrolling condoms over their fingers--exactly as shown in the training film. *A gang of Norwegian thieves carefully uses explosives to open a safe--only to find the safe is filled with dynamite. . . In the national bestseller The 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said--over 200,000 copies in print--Ross and Kathryn Petras immortalized idiotic utterances by public figures and average citizens alike. But what about the doers out there, the people who didn't stop at speaking, but went right out and did something stupid instead? It's time to give credit where credit is due. The 176 Stupidest Things Ever Done is a hilarious collection of inane incidents, senseless stunts, farcical feats, and utterly asinine activities from throughout history, and around the globe. From Sam Goldwyn to Walter Mondale, Albert Einstein to Fabio, the board of General Motors to British Parliament, this comic compendium chronicles the stupidest acts, ideas, decisions, inventions, songs, and ad campaigns that the mind of modern man has been able to devise. The 176 Stupidest Things Ever Done is a non-stop barrage of belly laughs, conclusive proof that actions speak louder--and funnier--than words.
A mother, answering her phone, hears her daughter shrieking and screaming. Terrified, she calls the police who arrive at the daughter's house, batter down the door--and find the daughter, nude,...
Filled with jaw-dropping anecdotes, quirky quotes, and special stupid-celebrity awards, Unusually Stupid Celebrities provides a red-faced glimpse of the red carpet.
Why donate when you can just keep the cash? This seems to be the credo of Trump, whose level of charitable contributions isn't quite in line with his wealth—at least according to what the Donald I. Trump ...
Cranston, Rhode Island, mayor (until 2007) and Republican primary candidate for the U.S. Senate penned some humor columns back in his days at Bowdoin College in Maine. In a campus Republican publication, Laffey wrote, "I have never once ...
Takes a hilarious look at the challenges confronting English-speaking travelers around the world, from less-than-coherent road signs, to odd sounding food and drink, to impossible-to-follow directions, to other lighthearted examples of ...
Other literary excursions into the land of the cerebrally challenged include two books by Kathryn and Ross Petras, “The 176 Stupidest Things Ever Done” and “Stupid Sex: The Most Idiotic and Embarrassing Intimate Encounters of All Time.
The 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said. New York: Doubleday, 1993. Petras, Ross, and Kathryn Petras. The 176 Stupidest Things Ever Done. New York: Doubleday, 1996. . The 776 Even Stupider Things Ever Said. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
The creme de la crud of screen history "War! War! That's all you think of, Dick Plantagenet! You burner! You pillager!" --Virginia Mayo as Lady Edith to George Sanders in...
A few standouts from these 460 pages: * The first computer programmers * Weird medical conditions * Brits Vs. Americans: a word quiz * Strange tourist attractions * The origin of the White House * The world’s second-dumbest outlaw * The ...
HE LOST THE WAR , BUT WON THE HEARTS - 223 touched by the general.55 Once , for example , Lee was presiding over commencement at Washington College . A small lad wandered onto the platform , settled down at his feet , and rested his ...