Not just stupidity, but obsessive stupidity! Not just random stupidity, but organized stupidity! Here, from the celebrated collectors of the stupidest things ever said, it’s the cre`me de la cre`me of stupidities, made even funnier and more compelling in an irresistible top 10 list format. Try one:

The Top 10 Stupidest Actual Book Titles:

1. A Toddler’s Guide to the Rubber Industry


2. Constipation and our Civilization


3. Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers 4. The Secret of Sphincters


4. A Pictorial Book of Tongue Coating


5. Life and Laughter ’midst the Cannibals


6. Be Bold With Bananas


7. Hand-Grenade Throwing as a College Sport


8. Collect Fungi on Stamps


9. A Study of Hospital Waiting Lists in Cardiff, 1953–1954

Plus lost-in-translation moments. Doubles entendres. Political speeches, foreign menus, traffic signs. Celebrities on literature, on homelessness, on revealing too much about themselves. Mangled cliche´s and bizarre analogies, the wit of the witless and comedy of the clueless—never before have so many said something so dumb, now in one book.