Customer Reviews
Curate's onion - By: Sarcosuchus, 03 Jul 2008 
I groaned inwardly on first picking this up - the section on England could have been written any timein the last fifty years, relying as it does on gags about how polite we all are (Has anyone on the Onion staff BEEN here recently?). Given that the Onion's standards of quality are usually exceptional, this worried me, & looking at further entries on Europe didn't allay those fears as page after page of predictable stereotypes are revisited.
However, the sections on South America, Africa & the Middle East more than make up for this, being both darkly hilarious & brutally honest. Afghanistan is a country that was "bombed forward into the Stone Age". Iraq "had it coming". The national slogan for Jamaica is "True Rasta no develop country". You get the idea. By the end & Australia ("as seen on Animal Planet"), I was completely won over. Some of the jokes may be tired, but there are so many of them that there are way more hits than misses.
It's also worth mentioning that this is a proper, meticulous country-by-country guide to every nation on Earth (including, hilariously, San Marino) so it's the ideal gift for the geographically-challenged slackerin your life.
No punches pulled and no quarter given - By: Lobster Liberation, 13 Nov 2007 
From the 'Bulls*t States' of Alaska ( 'needlessly unspoiled' ) through France ( 'One Nation above God' ) & Vatican City ( 'The Catholic Disneyland' ) to New Zealand ( 'The Maori Wars - originally conceived as a trilogy but ends after the 1st installmentin which the Maori resist British colonial rule' ) we turn page after page of razor-sharp wit & acerbic commentary on the motley collection of natione states that constitute our Dumb World.
If you loved 'Our Dumb Century' & wonder where all the major writing effort has gone from the Onion website then this book is the answer to a gapin your life. No stone is left unturned & no national custom, foible or skeleton is sacred from the Onion's historians.
