The Internet is a Playground: Irreverent Correspondences of by David Thorne

By David Thorne

From the infamous web troublemaker who introduced the realm the explosively well known Next Time I'll Spend the money on medicines Instead, during which he tried to pay his chiropractor with an image he drew of a spider; "Please layout an emblem for Me. With Pie Charts. For Free," which has been defined as probably the most passed-on viral e-mails of all time; and, so much lately, the staggeringly well known "Missing Missy", which has seemed in all places from The Guardian to Jezebel to Andrew Sullivan's The day-by-day Dish, comes this profoundly humorous choice of irreverent net mischief and comedy.

that includes all of Thorne's viral good fortune, together with "Missing Missy", The web Is a Playground culls jointly each article and e- mail from Thorne's wildly well known site 27bslash6.com, in addition to adequate new fabric, on hand purely in those pages, to maintain you laughing-and, certainly, crying-until Thorne's subsequent stroke-of-genius prank. Or hilarious hoax. Or well-publicized almost-stint in penal complex (really).

"There generally is a nice line among genius and madness, yet during this case it has develop into very blurred. a number of the funniest and such a lot smart writing i've got learn in years."--Terrance Fielding, WIRED magazine

"I laughed so challenging and uncontrollably i may infrequently breathe. analyzing this on public shipping isn't a superb idea."--Penthouse magazine

"Brilliantly funny."--Jezebel.com

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