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Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini By Mark LeynerBilly Goldberg ( Three Rivers Press )
Release Date: 2005-07-26
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Product Description
Is There a Doctor in the House?
Say you’re at a party. You’ve had a martini or three, and you mingle through the crowd, wondering how long you need to stay before going out for pizza. Suddenly you’re introduced to someone new, Dr. Nice Tomeetya. You forget the pizza. Now is the perfect time to bring up all those strange questions you’d like to ask during an office visit with your own doctor but haven’t had the guts (or more likely the time) to do so. You’re filled with liquid courage . . . now is your chance! If you’ve ever wanted to ask a doctor . . .
•How do people in wheelchairs have sex?
•Why do I get a killer headache when I suck down my milkshake too fast?
•Can I lose my contact lens inside my head forever?
•Why does asparagus make my pee smell?
•Why do old people grow hair on their ears?
•Is the old adage “beer before liquor, never sicker, liquor before beer . . .” really true?
. . . then Why Do Men Have Nipples? is the book for you.
Compiled by Billy Goldberg, an emergency medicine physician, and Mark Leyner, bestselling author and well-known satirist, Why Do Men Have Nipples? offers real factual and really funny answers to some of the big questions about the oddities of our bodies.
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 Great Title...So-So Book ( jeremynamy )
You know...I got this book because I saw more than a few rave reviews of it on the 50 Book Challenge community...and boy am I glad that I got this from the library and didn't pay for it or use up a book credit on PBS. For the most part, I knew the answers to the questions already. For the ones I would have been interested in knowing more about, the answers were of the "no one really knows" variety and the remaining few were just not really answered, the question was avoided totally with some humor and they moved on quite quickly.
It has a few laugh out loud moments, but mostly it wasn't at all what the title promises it to be. The questions and answers, while humorously asked and answered are not REALLY answered in most cases or the answers are extremely vague to the point of being inane and useless. It wasn't an awful read...but if it had taken more than a couple of hours to read this, I'd be pissed...it's shallow, vague and utterly obvious that the editor/publisher did a pretty slick job with the title and cover, because those are about the most enticing things about Why do Men Have Nipples? I wouldn't recommend it, except maybe as a quick, slightly amusing read...it's not REALLY going to answer any of those questions that you've got wandering around in the back of your head...and the one's it does, you probably already know the answer to or there is no answer. This book is annoying in the way that those Discover Channel specials that claim to tell you the secret of the Bog People or some other such unknowable thing...when all they are really doing is presenting all the evidence and then telling you no on REALLY knows...I hate that. The title of the book (like the title of these types of programs) promise one thing, but deliver something significantly different...interesting and informative (or entertaining...and sometimes all three), but not really delivering what was promised. C-
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 entertaining fluff
Fluffily entertaining. Best to read waiting in line to buy a book with more meat on it.
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 men have nipples because... ( pigelet_inc )
I had high expectations for this book. They weren't met. The two authors had a great ideas but thye couldn't pull it together. It was average. They pick some question which frankly a whole bunch of us have often wondered but simply from embarrassment could never quite muster the guts to ask. But in most of the answers that they provide, they weren't filling or for the most part funny. ANd author (the tv writer/producer) is funny.
The book had a few moments where their sens of humor peeks out and in those places, I would laugh and think is that really their hostess' name and did she kreally look and say those things?
Cheers,
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Bathroom book/Conversation piece
This book is chalked full of interesting answers to many funny questions, if you need a bathroom book or conversation peice for your coffee table, this is the book for you!
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Entertaining ( number4940 )
This book is interesting and entertaining. It's a good book that you can read for five minutes, let it go, then pick up over and over again. You might even want to put it on your coffee table for friends to check out. It might spark up some conversation.
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