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Villard Books (1992), Edition: First Edition, 216 pages
Description
What kid of any age can resist a book guaranteed to make fellow diners blanch at restaurants or at the family dinner table? Mean, disgusting, vile, hilarious. The book that makes CRUEL TRICKS look like an etiquette guide. 35 black-and-white photos.
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Typical Penn and Teller, i.e., interesting, irreverent, and hilarious. The reader gets a basic list of interesting things to do with food, including how to make Jesus appear on a tortilla when you heat it up, how to eat tref, and the classic
The original issue of this work came with several props including an "untearable" sugar packet made of kevlar. You're supposed to surreptitiously put it in a bowl of such packets at a restaurant and wait for the unsuspecting victim to encounter the "untearable" packet. I put "untearable" in "quotes" because it turned out that particularly stubborn people could actually tear the packet open! To make matters worse, in the initial printing the overseas publisher had filled the packet with some caustic agent instead of sugar (or sugar substitute) which could have caused some non-humorous poisoning. The same year on an NPR interview, Penn and Teller mentioned this, and gave out a toll-free number to call for a replacement kevlar packet that did not use poison.
My favorite? A tie between the electric pickle and the experiment with the high powered rifle and watermelon (with a gruesome tie in to the assassination of JFK).
Bon appetit!
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poke-your-eye-out-at-the-restaurant-table-and-have-white-goo-squirt-all-over-while-you-scream-in-agony trick.The original issue of this work came with several props including an "untearable" sugar packet made of kevlar. You're supposed to surreptitiously put it in a bowl of such packets at a restaurant and wait for the unsuspecting victim to encounter the "untearable" packet. I put "untearable" in "quotes" because it turned out that particularly stubborn people could actually tear the packet open! To make matters worse, in the initial printing the overseas publisher had filled the packet with some caustic agent instead of sugar (or sugar substitute) which could have caused some non-humorous poisoning. The same year on an NPR interview, Penn and Teller mentioned this, and gave out a toll-free number to call for a replacement kevlar packet that did not use poison.
My favorite? A tie between the electric pickle and the experiment with the high powered rifle and watermelon (with a gruesome tie in to the assassination of JFK).
Bon appetit!
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Language
Original language
English
Physical description
216 p.; 10 inches
ISBN
0679743111 / 9780679743118
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