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Why Do Men Have Nipples? by Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg

Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini
by Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg M.D.
Three Rivers Press, 2005


 

 

Ten Feet Per Second!

Not since the tribute to George Stimpson's 1946 A Book About A Thousand Things has a trivia tome appeared on criticalmick.com.... let me spend a short break (the time required to thumb through and forget) reviewing Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini by Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg M.D..

This short collection is good fun, two pervy yet well-informed party animals elucidating on the subjects of kryptonite and the show ER.

Geri Haliwell, who does not at all enter at all into the book Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini by Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg M.D. I recycled this picture from my DFA Guide to Dublin article on nightclubs.
  • Why is poo brown when the stuff you eat was not brown?
  • What really would have happened if a piece of candy had fallen inside a body during a surgical procedure, ala that episode of Seinfeld?
  • Can people in wheelchairs still have sex?
  • Why are old people bad drivers?
  • What happens to the gas of a fart when you don't let it out?

    • There are dozens of other interesting questions which made me laugh at the time. Can't remember what they are now. This is an ideal bathroom book. And the authors appended their acknowledgement that they had written a bathroom book with the warning that sitting on the toilet too long does lead to haemorrhoids.

    Critical Mick says: Am I glad that I have read this book? Sure. Will it change my life? Unless I am quizzed by Geri Halliwell at a swanky booze-up- an easily amused Geri who is oh so curious to know why poo floats- the answer is a big bobbing No.

    It's because all fetuses start off as female.
    And now for an important disclaimer from Critical Mick

    Yo! This review and all content on the DFA Guide site are copyright 2007 Mick Halpin. All links to other sites and documents are copyright to whatever source wrote something cool enough for Mick to give it a referral. Try to claim them as your own work and bad karma will catch up with you, baby. Believe it.

    Irate, huh? Managed to piss off another one? Direct your hatemail to mick @ mickhalpin dot com.

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