This is True: Platform Shoes Claim Another Life (And 500 Other Bizarre-but-True Stories and Headlines from the World's Press) [v6] (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

+ "Best in Net Entertainment." --Internet World+ "'True' is a great place to read about Fabio getting smacked in the face by a bird, French conservative Jean-Marie Le Pen defending male nudity, and a woman who created a ceremony so she could marry herself." --Playboy+ "And now for something completely different." --CNN Morning News"This is True" is the first entertainment newsletter on the Internet, created by Randy Cassingham as an e-mail newsletter in early 1994. TRUE's mission is to provoke thought through social commentary. But if readers aren't entertained by the stories, they won't read very many. Thus its vehicle, weird-but-true news from legitimate news sources from around the world. The result spans the gamut of the crazy things we humans think we can get away with: this collection of jaw-dropping examples of the human thought process, and the realization that we can do better — a LOT better!What sort of stories?+ Bank approves credit card for 3-year-old, even though her application notes "Mommy says no."+ When man on trial for robbery sees the evidence against him, he grabs the money from the courtroom table and runs.+ Elvis Presley's old TV antenna accidentally sent to auction house, and someone pays $1,725 for it.The weird-but-true stories come from all over the world, each one punctuated by Randy's wild commentary — a tagline that is humorous, ironic, opinionated, or (with luck) some combination of the three. "Truth is stranger than fiction," Randy likes to say, "because fiction has to make sense."This is Volume 6 of the series, collecting the sixth year of stories and headlines from mid-1999 to mid-2000. The newsletter is still active, too: see www.ThisIsTrue.com for details.