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Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by James Finn Garner

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on January 17, 2008
Posted in Books Read 2008FictionFunJames Garner  | 8 Comments

Laugh Out Loud Funny
This little book is the retelling of classic bedtime stories with modern day political correctness. It retells stories including Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Little Pigs, and Cinderella, to name a few.
Garner uses political correctness in the extreme! For example, here is an excerpt from Little Red Riding Hood:
The wolf said, “You know, my dear, it isn’t safe for a little girl to walk through these woods alone.”
Red Riding Hood said, “I find your sexist remark offensive in the extreme, but I will ignore it because of your traditional status as an outcast from society, the stress of which has caused you to develop your own, entirely valid, worldview. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I must be on my way.”
This book had me laughing out loud, sometimes with tears in my eyes. The only negative thing is that the stories do get a bit repetitive, like the original stories themselves. Therefore, it is best to savour them one at a time with space in between.
I really had a lot of fun reading these silly PC stories.
4/5
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Test and Expand Your Vocabulary and Help End World Hunger

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on November 7, 2007
Posted in Feed the WorldFun 

Juliette added a cool website to her Live Journal, “Thinking…” and when I saw and experienced it, I had to add it here.

The site is called Free Rice. It’s a site where you can test your vocabulary and for every word you get right, they donate 10 grains of rice. Today, I made it up to level 35 and donated 300 grains of rice.

Give it a try, it’s fun and a good cause.

Here’s the link:

http://www.freerice.com/index.php

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