Well, this just made me smile. From latimes.com:
SMART LIST: Pop culture talking points (week of Oct. 7, 2007)
By Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times Staff WriterYou should talk about:
“I Am America (And So Can You).” Stephen Colbert has written a book with the funniest title of all time. We suspect what’s inside is funny too, but we can’t promise because we haven’t read it yet (or even the excerpt that ran in GQ). Maybe he’ll host the Oscars in 2009. Watch out Jon Stewart. You are in danger of being eclipsed!
(Tuesday)
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To which I can only add: why, oh why isn’t it Tuesday yet?
I still can’t believe I have the book already. I’ve only gotten to Chapter 2 and am already quoting this thing like crazy!
My comment on an earlier entry, just in case people are confused as to why I have the book already:
“So I went into BEST BUY this morning around 11:40am, and THE BOOK WAS ALREADY FOR SALE!!! I just popped in to look around for the audiobook, which I found out was out by this wonderful website that I am addicted to! You guys rock.
Anyway, just as I was walking out, there it was! The real book, not the audiobook. And it was 25% off. I bought it immediately and am now flipping through it, it is amazing. There are hilarious little reader-interactive things to fill in like quizzes (for example, when it asks your religion the choices are either A: Catholic or B: Other)
So I am absolutely giddy looking at this book right now that I was desperately waiting until Tuesday to come out. But Best Buy has it for sale already!”
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I am so excited for my order to come in the mail from Amazon, it’s not even funny. I can’t wait!
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I wholeheartedly agree that IAA(ASCY!)is the funniest book title ever. (Protagoras’ ‘Truth’ doesn’t even come close). Evidently (as cited in a NFZ story a while back) linguists can actually explain its absurdity from a scientific point of view. I’m sure ‘Stephen’ would disapprove of their analysis, but I find it very sexy that real Stephen is able to reach inside our brains and tickle our Chomskian deep structure.
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@nousblet:
Brilliant!
I would only dispute that Stephen’s book has the funniest book title *ever* because, well, I’m quite partial to John Hodgman’s book title (ducks – sorry, Stephen!). Most people know it as The Areas of My Expertise, but when I saw Mr. Hodgman last Fall, he pointed out that that was the truncated title.
The actual title is An Almanac of Complete World Knowledge Compiled with Instructive Annotation and Arranged in Useful Order by Me, John Hodgman, a Professional Writer, in The Areas of My Expertise Which Include: Matters Historical, Matters Literary, Matters Cryptozoological, Hobo Matters, Food, Drink, & Cheese (a Kind of Food), Squirrels & Lobsters & Eels, Haircuts, Utopia, What Will Happen in the Future, and Most Other Subjects.
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@Ms Interpreted:
Okay, that’s pretty funny!! But Stephen wins the word-to-risibility index contest; and anything Stephen does is sexier than anything Hodgman does. :)
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