Our Dumb World, The Onion
Our Dumb World, The Onion
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Our Dumb World
The Onion's Atlas of The Planet Earth, 73rd Edition

Author: The Onion

Narrator: Full Cast

Abridged: 3 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/30/2007


Synopsis

Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of The Planet Earth, 73rd Edition features incorrect statistics on all of the Earth's 168, 182, or 196 independent nations.

It also features maps, including a fold-out world map at actual size. Readers will learn about every country from Afghanistan, "Allah's Cat Box," to the Ukraine, "The Bridebasket of Europe."

Today's news-parody consumer cannot possibly understand made-up current events without the context of fake world history and geography. That is why The Onion is publishing a world atlas: to help us.

Our Dumb World is an invaluable tool for any reader interested in overthrowing a weakened government in East Asia, exploiting a developing nation in Africa, or for directions to tonight's party at Erica's. It is a reference guide to 250,000 of the world's most important places, such as North Korea's Trench of Victory, the Great Human Pyramid of Egypt, and Saudi Arabia's superhighway, the Mohammedobahn.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Thomas on February 22, 2008

My ... God. Quite simply one of the funniest, smartest, and most irreverent books I have read in some time! Though, the term "read" would be a misnomer. You don't "read" Our Dumb World. Rather, you browse it in small doses and enjoy just how much work and care went into the creation of this masterpi......more

Goodreads review by Joe on July 20, 2019

If you could rate a book by it's cover, Our Dumb World would earn 5-stars. Advertised features for this geography lampoon include 'Free GLOBE Inside' and 'Better-Veiled Xenophobia.' The book's presentation delivered enough belly laughs to fuel a small country and sent my expectations soaring before......more

Goodreads review by Alan on August 08, 2011

I have an alternate answer to the question the Ms. Teen USA Pagent judges asked to Ms. South Carolina. Americans aren' t familiar with geography because,unlike this book ,it's usually boring to learn. Very funny, and with entries on nearly every country you will actually learn something. But it is no......more

Goodreads review by Nick on August 27, 2017

The format of this book is clearly designed to allow as much information to be crammed into as little space as possible. If that sounds like a bad thing, it's definitely not - the jokes come so thick and fast here that it's like you're being attacked. There's barely a square inch of any page that do......more

Goodreads review by Leah on June 11, 2015

Probably the best book I have ever read for learning basic geography, random country facts, and what flags look like. While naturally this is not a serious atlas, it is pretty informative and totally hilarious.......more