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News & ArtsWednesday, November 25, 2009
Books Useless Books I Have Gotten in the Mail, Part 13
Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 4:45 PM
Why is it useless? It's a jokey book supposedly written by a Jewish mother who tells you what to do. For example: One page says "Do This: Make sure the kids take piano lessons," and the facing page reads "Not That: Let them learn anything that makes that rock and roll-type noise." Because Jewish mothers don't like rock and roll, get it?
Could anyone enjoy this book? I have no idea why anyone would want a book that poorly simulates a stereotypical Jewish mother experience. Unless it's one Jewish mother buying the book for another Jewish mother as a gag gift. In which case, the mother who receives the book as a gag gift will never read the book, because it is stupid. So, no. Nobody could enjoy this book.
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God forbid that your mother's friends should at least have the decency to buy her a gift with a little foresight and respect for her as a human with a real human sense of humor. Not like somebody who bought their own mother -- THEIR OWN MOTHER -- a already-unwrapped DVD boxset of Family Guy and a t-shirt with a comedic saying.
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It makes me want to google *jew* but I'm afraid I will be confronted with an uncanny photoshop of the First Lady as an ape.
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