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The United States of Absurdity
The United States of Absurdity: Untold Stories from American History | Dave Anthony, Gareth Reynolds
17 posts | 11 read | 1 reading | 7 to read
The creators of the podcast The Dollop present illustrated profiles of the weird, outrageous, NSFW, and downright absurd tales from American history that you weren't taught in school. The United States of Absurdity presents short, informative, and hilarious stories of the most outlandish (but true) people, events, and more from United States history. Comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds cover the weird stories you didn't learn in history class, such as 10-Cent Beer Night, the Jackson Cheese, and the Kentucky Meat Shower, accompanied by full-page illustrations that bring each historical "milestone" to life in full-color.
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BookishMadHatter
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Honey badger in a bag of cocaine... I'd pay to see that

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Pickpick

An interesting and humorous collection of crazy things that have happened in US History that Americans have either forgotten about or never knew about in the first place.

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BeckiC
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Mehso-so

I will start this by saying I LOVE this podcast and I‘m currently almost finished marathoning it.
However apart from or two stories, it‘s pretty much the stories they‘ve already done just cut down and no where near as funny as listening to them over an hour. Considering the audience is their listeners, I was hoping for stories that are too small to turn into a dollop! However it was a good easy read for bedtime.

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keithmalek
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NCNY Do you listen to the author‘s podcast? The Dollop. It‘s really funny and a lot of the quotes you‘re posting are the subject of entire episodes. There‘s an amazing episode about competitive tickling. 6y
keithmalek @NCNY No, I haven't. They mention their podcast in the book. 6y
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The citizens of Lajitas, a border town in Texas, elected three successive generations of goats as their mayors, beginning in the 1980s.

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keithmalek
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What occurred on June 4, 1974 when the Cleveland Indians foolishly decided to have ten-cent beer night.

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Kboltz I feel that way when I see a Kardashian 6y
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Jen2
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Pickpick

A great book for a long Sunday morning walk!!!

avalinah Wow, sounds awesome 😊 7y
Zelma Big Block of Cheese Day were some of my favorite West Wing episodes. 😂👍 7y
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TheNextBook
Pickpick

If you are in the mood for something light, comedic and full of events that you make you want to either scratch your head, laugh out loud or bang your head against the wall then look no further. This book has all those things and I love that it doesnt take itself seriously at all...

NCNY The Dollop podcast is hilarious. 7y
TheNextBook @NCNY I feel like I need to start listening because their humor was on pointe. Great comedic timing. 7y
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TheNextBook
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That moment when you have a minor (read as major damn meltdown of uncontrollable proportions) because your adobe digital editions stopped working and you have books you need to finish and reviews you need to post and you bug your husband incessantly to fix it gottdammit so you can read! Yeah that moment just happened... he fixed it. And things are better in the world...

#bookvent #ineedtoread #adultingishard

mjdowens And that's why husbands adore us🤗🤗 7y
TheNextBook @mjdowens right?! Thank God because my patience was gone. I was so frustrated! 7y
Suet624 Isn't it annoying it has to come to that??? Grrrr.... 7y
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HotMessJess Me today! I had the worst day at work and just came home and lost it on my hubs and then went running and read. Blahhhhh 7y
Hobbinol @HotMessJess Same here! Must be something in the stars! 7y
HotMessJess @Hobbinol ISNT MERCURY RETROGRADE OVER?! lol I'm kidding, it was just ALL over some of the things I follow on FB 7y
BookishFeminist You're a mess 😂😂 7y
BookishFeminist (I would have done this too) 7y
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TheNextBook

Reading this ARC because when I think about the reality of the US I can either laugh or cry!

MrBook Eh, just laugh 😉👍🏻😎🙌🏻. 7y
BookishFeminist @MrBook Nah, fuck that. 7y
TheNextBook @MrBook yeah I'm with @BookishFeminist I'm good. 7y
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Matilda
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Love this kind of stuff! #bookmail

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