American Cornball

Christopher Miller's new book is a must-have for any WU-vie, detailing with comprehensive wit all the old humor tropes that once delighted millions, but are now just plain weird, but with a residual underlying universality.

Read a sample here.

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Alex Boese Alex is the creator and curator of the Museum of Hoaxes. He's also the author of various weird, non-fiction, science-themed books such as Elephants on Acid and Psychedelic Apes. Paul Di Filippo Paul has been paid to put weird ideas into fictional form for over forty years, in his career as a noted science fiction writer. Contact Us

Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 05, 2014
Category: Humor | Stereotypes and Cliches | Books | Nineteenth Century | Twentieth Century

Comments

Misogynist humor from the good old days.

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 10/05/14 at 10:56 AM

I wouldn't call it mysogynist. I think it's pretty factual that after marriage, women put on a few pounds and men grow a beard (or slack off in some other area of hygine). It just seems mysogynist because there isn't a book with the beard joke. Women just weren't allowed to write books back then.

Posted by BHicks on 10/12/14 at 07:18 AM

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