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 enlarge | Authors: Robert Baedeker, Dan Klein, John Reichmuth, James Reichmuth
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 41274
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.3
ISBN: 0312357478
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.607
EAN: 9780312357474
ASIN: 0312357478
Publication Date: October 31, 2006
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 Hilarious gift December 1, 2007
This book is very clever and a cute little gift for the holidays. You can't help but laugh at the pictures
 Very funny, denser layout would be more realistic September 21, 2007
These guys are just plain funny. A few of the products in this catalog have entered my girlfriend's and my vernacular. It would be funny to leave this on a plane and watch some unsuspecting reader's reaction to it, but it would be hard to part with it, plus it's not free like the real ones on the plane. I wish the layout were a little denser to make it look even more like the real catalogs, but maybe that's just a subtle way of wishing there was even more funny stuff in here to read. This is a good thing to get if SkyMall catalogs have a special relevance for you, or if you are a die-hard fan of Roy & Gil and the other fellows that brought you the indie comedy classic Fishing With Gandhi.
Shave Me, I'm Drowning June 10, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The surrealist comedy troupe Kasper Hauser puts their unique spin on airborne shopping with this wonderful spoof of the utterly ludicrous offerings of SkyMall catalogs. I was especially entertained by the narrative of "A Message From SkyMaul's CEO..." extolling how shopping saved his life (in Las Vegas, of course) and kept his family ("lovely wife, Pfepfer," "two children, Horace and Candy," and "Labrador buddy, Melchus") together. With that premise firmly ingrained, the catalog moves from the twisted and bizarre, to the surreal and other-worldly.
It's impossible for me to pick my favorite product in the catalog, though I think the Llamacycle would be near the top of the list. I also loved the concept of the "'Cut Above' Electronic Hair-Salon-Naming Computer," ("Hairly Legal," "Shave Me, I'm Drowning," "Banged 'n' Feathered," "From Hair to Eternity," etc.), which with additional modules can also help name your scone cart, coffee shop, or crepe restaurant. The scientific part of my brain loved the "Air Straightener," while the animal lover in me liked the "'Moby Dick' Hamster Coffin." Perhaps my favorite concept in the book is the collection of "motivational posters" from "Probletunity Knocks." I utterly loathe motivational posters, so mocking them was a certain hit with me. For the extremely deranged there's the "Hitler-Turning-into-Werewolf Nightlight," sure to be useful because it's "new monitor function allows the wolf's eyes to follow you or your baby around the room and emits a 'safety growl' anytime someone moves toward it."
Although the type of humor in the catalog is occasionally a bit base, the book is funny across the board and is the definitive skewering of the excremental products in the actual SkyMall catalog.
 very disappointing June 5, 2007
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
The concept was excellent but the execution disappointing. A banal miscellany of unimpressive photo editing, mild vulgarisms, and shock words in place of inspiration. Doesn't even reach sophmoric. That it got published is a testament to P.T. Barnum's evaluation of American taste.
Laughed out loud and still do when I think about it April 20, 2007
This is not just dumb humor. It is hard to describe without it sounding dumb, though! The writeups are as funny as the pictures. This does contain some profanity so you might not want to get it for a younger kid.
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