General & Miscellaneous Humor

Sorry, We Can't Use Funny

Name: Sorry, We Can't Use Funny
Author: Parham, Barry
ISBN: 9781453786185

by Parham, Barry

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Overview

Following the success of his first book, the 2009 sleeper, "Why I Hate Straws," online humor columnist Barry Parham delivers again. Satire at its best! Includes the award-winning stories "Actuarial Family Theater" and "Perfect!" on Fads & Fashion... In the interest of full disclosure, I admit there's an extant 1970's photo of me and a date, posing for the obligatory parental pre-prom photo. My date was gorgeous, and sane. I, on the other hand, showed up with the hair of a medieval barber. I looked like an electrocuted yak. on St. Valentine's Day... Somehow, February got this reputation as a month of romance, maybe because it's cold. Plus, football's gone and we're stuck with the wildly popular sport of bowling, where you almost never get to see any serious violence. St. Valentine's Day contains vestiges of both early Christian and ancient Roman traditions, alongside other time-honored traditions, like hot-dish picnics and mass public executions. Holiday Factoid: "vestiges" is the classical Greek plural of "vest." on Typos... A local TV station was updating the community on snowstorm-based church closings. According to the typists at the station, there was a church somewhere called St. Martyer. Imagine - an entire religious sect dedicated to turning people into Ernest Borgnine.

About the Author, Parham, Barry

Barry Parham relentlessly documents the humorous facets and foibles of our shared human condition, and has been sharing his irreverent observations for some time, through humor columns, essays and short stories.

Parham's first book, the 2009 sleeper "Why I Hate Straws," has received numerous awards and critical acclaim.

Parham is an honors graduate of the University of Georgia, a music fanatic and a self-described eco-narcissist.

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Foreword Clarion Book Reviews - Site Reviewer

In his second collection, Parham is at his best ... he writes about his own experiences ... his experiences will resonate and amuse ... great image(s), written with dry humor, in the author's own voice.