Look out, public relations; take cover, customer service -- Paul Rosa's letter is in the mail and his inventively imbecilic queries about consumer products have a way of eliciting equally idiotic and even more unlikely answers from some of America's biggest companies.
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Look out, public relations; take cover, customer service -- Paul Rosa's letter is in the mail and his inventively imbecilic queries about consumer products have a way of eliciting equally idiotic and even more unlikely answers from some of America's biggest companies.
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By Aaron
Format:Paperback
This book is very funny -- sledgehammer premises ("I glued my hand to a vase, etc); but with perfectly precise wording.
Rosa writes from the perspective of a naive someone who is amazingly! as enthusiastic about consumer products and their advertising as Corporations pretend to be. This must lead the Corporate letter readers to wonder "is this person really stupid enough to believe our hype? Hmmmm." Brilliant premise played out with sledgehammer and razor wit. If you like "is this guy serious???" humor, you'll love this.
Rosa writes from the perspective of a naive someone who is amazingly! as enthusiastic about consumer products and their advertising as Corporations pretend to be. This must lead the Corporate letter readers to wonder "is this person really stupid enough to believe our hype? Hmmmm." Brilliant premise played out with sledgehammer and razor wit. If you like "is this guy serious???" humor, you'll love this.
Format:Paperback
Exactly the same thing has been done more than 20 years ago much more efficiently by the British Henry Root ("The Henry Root Letters").
I expected to find some reference in the "Idiot Letters", but found none...
As to the book in hand, it has a couple of funny ideas, but not a lot of imagination. The writer ought to have elaborated on some of the most stupid and/or humorous answers, which would have added another dimension to the joke. As it is, it lacks a lot.
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
Most prank letter books are written by a fictitious person. This greatly reduces the humor and purpose of the prank. So far I've only come across two prank letter books written without the cowardly use of a pseudonym. Idiot Letters and Hire Me Dumbass (by Joe Mozian) are both written by real people. Their authors are gifted in the odd art of prank letter writing and accept full responsibility for their actions. While Idiot Letters does get a bit far-fetched on occasion, it is funny. Hire Me Dumbass however is honest from cover to cover, and hysterical to boot. If you are a first timer to prank letter books, both Idiot letters and Hire Me Dumbass are the best places to start.
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He's no Lazlo!
While this collection of letters has some amusing moments, anyone who knows and loves Lazlo will be hard pressed not to compare the two, and Rosa comes up the paler of the... Read more
Published on Sep 9 2002 by Trish
5.0 out of 5 stars
So many complaints, so little time...
I picked this book up just yesterday in the Humor section of a local bookstore while reading some Far Side comics. I didn't expect to read Paul C. Read more
Published on Sep 14 2001 by tom r
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Get this book if you want to laugh!!
This is one of the funniest books I've ever had the fortune to stubmble upon, it had me laughing out loud, which is quite rare. Read more
Published on Feb 23 2001 by Kaspy
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Hail Paul Rosa!
I found Idiot Letters when I worked at a bookstore (I'm not saying which). I first picked up the book thinking it was the latest in the Where's Waldo series. Read more
Published on Jan 10 2001 by David S. Merrill
5.0 out of 5 stars
By far the best book in our bathroom
Forget the small versions of Life's Little Instruction books that we all find in our friends bathrooms. This book will keep your guests in the powder room for hours! Read more
Published on April 8 2000 by Dan Craddock
5.0 out of 5 stars
Not a Dillweed! This book is the best!
What a book! I could hardly put it down long enough to eat! I can't even think of any other books! Buy this one, and another for your mother. Paul will appreciate it.
Published on Feb 22 2000 by Richard D. Cone
1.0 out of 5 stars
Mildly amusing but hardly worth the purchase
This book is cute but goes on far too long. The author succeeds in showing how you can twit officials in businesses and corporations without their (or their surrogates) catching on... Read more
Published on July 24 1999
5.0 out of 5 stars
Universal hilariousness!
Since I've been living in the U.S. just for 3 yrs or so from a different cultural background, I could hardly adapt for American jokes, but today I found the missing piece of my... Read more
Published on Mar 20 1999 by misao@sirius.com
4.0 out of 5 stars
Dear Mr book Reader
I found this book "by accident" I am glad I did. Acctually after reading I realized I could name my first born after Kitty Litter, why not Paul wrote "cats... Read more
Published on Oct 6 1998
5.0 out of 5 stars
Not for those with a weak bladder!
I picked this up off a friends coffee table at a party and began laughing so hard that the flood of tears of comic euphoria began to drench the pages of the book. Read more
Published on July 28 1998
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