[1945] in Humor
HUMOR: For Dummies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Mon Mar 10 12:53:05 1997
From: <abennett@MIT.EDU>
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 12:38:28 EST
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 02:35:55 EST
From: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
"For Dummies" books that should never ever be made:
1. Buying Insulting Gift Books for Dummies
2. Mensa for Dummies
3. Writing "For Dummies" Books for Dummies
4. Airline Piloting for Dummies
5. Scholarship Applications for Dummies
6. Reading for Dummies
7. Crash Testing for Dummies
8. Developing Safety Critical Systems for Dummies
9. Military Intelligence for Dummies
10. Parenting for Dummies (the sequel to _Sex_for_Dummies_)
11. Self-Inflation for Dummies
"For Dummies" books already exist on topics ranging
from ISDN to customer support to taxes to
golf to sex to fishing to beer making to white wine buying...
After writing this list, it was discovered that some of the above
exist. :-/ See www.dummies.com for a very disturbing list of titles
including "Computer Security for Dummies".
