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Since he has noticed that I am fairly interested in comedy, Spouse recently bought me a book that deadpan Brit Jimmy Carr and his friend Lucy Greeves wrote called The Naked Jape. It was funny, mildly educational, and featured 400 of Jimmy and Lucy's favorite jokes, and its title punned on the title of a Desmond Morris book. Amazon suggested to spouse that there was another book that Carr wrote called Only Joking, which I looked forward to reading. When I went on a roadtrip recently, I brought it along.
It’s the same dang book, retitled and freshly pressed for the US market. They took out a dozen jokes that they felt Americans were too stupid to get, with high-falutin' references to Polos and Boots Chemists. The sadness I feel that he thought Americans were so stupid that we could not understand what a book called The Naked Jape was about outweighed my annoyance of having a duplicate book.