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Our Dumb World
To understand the news, the context of world geography and history is essential. That is why
The Onion
is publishing an audio world atlas: to help us. News that now makes no sense will now make sense; thus a new age of enlightenment.
Our Dumb World
contains news and historic facts from other nations, historic timelines for countries, and the earth broken down and described (from its molten core to the outermost sphere and the location of heaven), as well as demographic, economic, and other data about each country's people, industries, and habits.
Every country is categorized in a number of ways, including ethnic cleanliness, level of Bono activity, prop comedians per 1,000 live birds, yearly income in wide-screen televisions, the monkeys they got, where it sees itself in five years, average skin color, benefits of invading said country, and most annoying handicrafts. Framed with informative essays and written by the full
Onion
staff,
Our Dumb World
is the first original Onion audiobook in eight years: a gut-busting send-up in which no nation escapes unscathed.
©2007 The Onion, Inc (P)2007 Hachette Audio
Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth
August 27, 2017
The format of this book is clearly designed to allow as much information to be crammed into as little space as possible. If that sounds like a bad thing, it's definitely not - the jokes come so thick and fast here that it's like you're being attacked. There's barely a square inch of any page that doesn't have something at least a little bit funny in it, whether it's in the points of interest that are labelled up on the map, or the brief historical timelines, or the main tagline, or the full description, or any of the pictures (such as the brutally dark picture of an Etheopian wearing a T-shirt saying 'no fat chicks').
That's one of the things about
Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition
that's so impressive. The other is how diverse the humour is. Anybody who reads the site will know that they're as capable of bitterness as sillyness and as happy to employ highbrow irony as they are to indulge themselves in gutter humour, but that range of approaches is taken to new heights here. Observe how viciously certain US states are attacked, and then compare it with how Jordan's p
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419 Scam: The first page of Nigeria.
All Germans Are Nazis: Germany is portrayed as a nation struggling with an addiction to mass-murdering Jews, though it doesn't remember anything that happened between the years 1939 and 1946 for some suspicious reason.
Argentina Is Nazi-Land: Argentina's entry describes it as this.
Asian Hooker Stereotype: (Underage) prostitution is portrayed as Thailand's sole industry.
Length Of Time Love You: Long
Bait-and-Switch: The entry for Idaho seems like it's going to talk about the state's potatoes, but instead it talks about the "famous Idaho iron ore":
When it's suppertime and Americans sit down to enjoy a hearty meal, all look to the state of Idaho for one key ingredient: the steel girders and metal studs that help to hold together their dining room table and chairs.
Bestiality Is Depraved: Oh Wales...
The people of Wales deny the stereotype that they are "sheep-fuckers," maintaining that they rarely even get to third base with their livestock.
Black Comedy: Found throughout the entire book, but most prominent in entries regarding poor or war-stricken countries.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. If you really want to know about the world and understand how the planet works, look no further than Our Dumb World, the atlas that reveals the real truth about each country. 'Located direcctly at the centre of the universe, around which everything else revolves, the nation of xxxxxx is the sole beacon of life and civilisation in an otherwise empty void' - who else could it be but France? Meanwhile, we get to understand why Iraq was invaded by the USA, not only were they guilty over 9/11, 'the worst attack on US soil since Iraqi pilots bombed Pearl Harbor' but Saddam Hussein also assassinated JFK. So if you want to know which is the sleepiest country in Europe, which nation has the hottest queen, or where the rubble from previous conflicts is now buried under the debris of today's wars, Our Dumb World will provide the answers. Every country's pretensions are skewered, their hope