You Know Who's Awesome?: (Not You.)
By Ted Fox and Ryan Hannus
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Didn't think so.
It's just a fact--most people aren't. But that doesn't stop them from thinking that they are. And that shouldn't stop you from mocking them. In fact, it should just encourage you.
Here's your thumbs up to giving the thumbs down to everyone and everything that's far from awesome and, really, just plain awful.
Ted Fox
Ted Fox is the author of the jokebook You Know Who’s Awesome? (Not You.) and once solved the New York Times crossword puzzle forty-six days in a row (not a joke). He lives in Indiana with his wife, their two kids, and two German short-haired pointers who are frankly baffled there aren’t more dogs in his books. The recipient of a prestigious “No. 1 Dad” keychain, Fox was widely recognized as having the best swaddling technique of anyone in the family when his kids were babies. And not just the immediate family—grandparents, aunts, uncles, everybody. Anyway, Schooled is his first novel.
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You Know Who's Awesome? - Ted Fox
You Know Who’s
Awesome?
TED FOX, illustrations by Ryan Hannus
Introduction
Do you ever stop and think: Everyone is just so awesome
?
Me neither.
In fact, if you’re like me, you’re constantly amazed at how un-awesome people can be. I’m talking about all people, myself included. The girl I asked out via an eight-page letter back in college can vouch for that. (I swear it seemed like a good idea at the time.)
Of course, it’s not as if the grown man riding a skateboard down the sidewalk or the coworker reeking of tuna yet offering unsolicited fashion advice are the only ones reminding us something in this great experiment called life
has gone terribly awry.
There are famous people, who by definition have to be at least a little crazy.
There are businesses that make us wish we could go back to an economy based on barter.
And there are cats.
Now unlike my better judgment, the obnoxious prove hard to ignore. That’s why I decided to fall back on the best weapon I have: irony. It’s less sad when you don’t think about it too hard.
Not just any kind of irony would do. No, if I planned on getting way too emotionally invested in things of little to no consequence, I wanted to do it big, taking a ubiquitous word typically reserved for exclamations of joy and turning it on its pretty little head. And so I asked, gazing off into nowhere:
"You know who’s awesome?"
I’ll let you know when I run out of answers.
The author of Grieving for Dummies. At a loss for words? Give the gift that says ‘I’m so sorry you’re too stupid to appreciate your loss.’
Restaurant claiming something on its menu is famous.
First clue you might be lying: I walked here from a Days Inn.
Cadillac stopping traffic to wait for a parking spot. Have these people honking gone mad? It’s not your fault the mall didn’t build a wider aisle.
Wine snobs. 10 bucks says you’d pick the box of Franzia in a blind taste test.
Wearers of camouflage-themed sports gear. Afraid things are going to get a little dicey between the couch and the bathroom?
Grooms who don’t get it. Piece of advice: Find that sweet spot between He’s not helping,
and He’s insisting we get married at Buffalo Wild Wings.
The Big 10 and the Big 12. Counting your teams is harder than it looks.
People who wait in line for 10 minutes at McDonald’s only to agonize over their order when they get to