Sex as a Heap of Malfunctioning Rubble: More of the Best of the Journal of Irreproducible Results

by Marc Abrahams

A proposal to save the Grand Canyon by filling it with styrofoam piffles. The role Jell-O played in the mass extinction of dinosaurs. Why men's beards trigger hysteria and antipathy in cats. JIR is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563053128
• ISBN13: 9781563053122
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Length: 181 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.3" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Very funny, but only for the scientifically inclined...

This book is largely a collection of silly experiments--likethe testing of bricks for infectious diseases, or the reactions ofcats to photographs of men with various styles of beards--written up in the style of a scientific research paper, complete with footnotes. Most of the material is written in a very dry, technical style, which is exactly what makes it so funny--_if_ you're a scientist, or if you've at least been exposed to scientific journals in the past. If you do not fall into this category, you'll be left wondering what could possibly be the least bit funny about this nonsense; so if you're buying this as a gift, choose your recipient very carefully. If you're interested in this book, you should also have a good look at The Best of Annals of Irreproducible Research; it's a collection of the same sort of material, and I found it to be a bit funnier than this collection. Both are very worthwhile to the right audience.