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Doogie Horner

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Everything Explained Through Flowcharts: All of Life's Mysteries Unraveled, Including Tips for World Domination, Which Religion Offers the Best ... the Secret Recipe for Gettin' Laid Lemonade
 
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Kgarts | 1 andere bespreking | Sep 16, 2023 |
This is a delightful echo of the film, and one that confirms Die Hard as one of the greatest Christmas movies of all time! The book is a reworking of "Twas the night before Christmas . . .", and includes all the key pieces and quotes from Die Hard. Delightful, indeed - Yipee-kii-yay!
 
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PastorBob | 3 andere besprekingen | Dec 22, 2022 |
Oh my God, he is SO right. Here I was the other day reading:

"Hardly anybody watches beauty pageants any more, but everybody watches beauty pageant scandal coverage"

They DO? I thought? When have I ever done that?

But just now, dear reader, I found myself clicking on this:

Police investigate third beauty pageant brawl
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/04/27/3201042.htm

Shit. How did he know I'd -?

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I've been eating breakfast and giggling at this.

I'm not a flowchart sort of girl, so I find myself gravitating to the text more than the charts as I dip into it.

Doomsday Scenarios:


Nobody wants to spend their afterlife telling other spirits 'How did I die? Well, the earth's temperature climbed half a degree every year for twenty years, which doesn't seem like much, but that increase significantly increased the amount of algae in the oceans, which upset the foodchain and blabbity-blab blab boring scientific stuff.' The biggest reason to fight global warming is so we can obliterate ourselves in a flashier way, like by creating a minature black hole or zombie plague.


Dethroned or Disgraced Beauty Queens:

This is a bar chart in the book:



Figure 1: Why aren't We Watching Beauty Pageants?

A Not enough nudity 13%
B Jealous 25%
C Don't Like Beauty 2%
D Too busy working three jobs and raising five children alone since our husband left...because we weren't pretty enough 8%
E Shark Week 20%
F Don't like the 'Interview' part 30%
G Busy writing our doctoral thesis on women's studies 10%



Maybe one of those stars is for effort. A book like this can't make you snort your weeties every time you read it, but.

Okay, then, Zeppelin Warfare:



Zeppelins are massive, majestic flying machines, but they are also notoriously fragile: Strong winds cause considerable difficulties for zeppelins, landing is dangerous even in perfect weather and requires a large ground crew, and of course early zeppelins were filled with highly flammable hydrogen gas. Some zeppelins were known to burst into flames if a passenger ordered their Bloody Mary with extra tabasco, or said a word that sounded similar to 'fire.' During a routine flight to Switzerland, a young zeppelin intentionally smashed itself against a mountain peak because it was going through a difficult breakup.


I wish I could show the flowchart for Zeppelin Warfare, it's hilarious. There is a lot of schnapps drinking.
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bringbackbooks | 1 andere bespreking | Jun 16, 2020 |
I'm ranking this in accordance with how much joy it gave me, not necessarily for how good of a read it is! And I did enjoy it 5 stars worth! It's a re-telling of the movie "Die Hard" as a Christmas rhyme, in the style of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas"! With artwork that really gives the feel of the movie! But it isn't for children, as it does retain the gun violence and killings of the movie!
If you like the movie, I think you'll like this! And I think this puts the argument to rest as to whether or not "Die Hard" is a Christmas movie! This book proves that it is!

"So Merry Christmas to all,
be kind to one another,
And, most of all,
yippee-ki-yay motherfucker!"
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