Stoned Like a Statue a Complete Survey of Drinking Cliches: Primitive, Classical and Modern

by Howard Kandel, Don Safran, Dean Martin (Introduction)

ASIN: B000K9K4YI
Edition Number: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Kandrom

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1961

Reviews

[Charles Jr. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute for its type, a novelty paperback that has statues from ancient to modern art with funny cartoon captions, usually referencing typical bar-room banter and argumentative drunkenness. For you Millennials, it's kinda like I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? only with famous statues instead of cat pictures, 'kayyyy? Some of the barfly talk is amusingly well-matched to the facial expressions. If my memory is clear, author "Dean Martin" only contributed a one-page intro; rest of the book was done by hired-gun gagwriters. I also thought binding and printing was pretty solid, for joke-book ephemera. Mr. Martin should have been proud.

[Tom Schulte · Rating 2 out of 5]

I think the authors were stoned when they came up with this idea, and carried it out. The slim paperback is B&W images of statues and statuettes, often pornographic with cartoon balloons holding weak comical observations on imbibing and cocktail parties, often with a snide attitude.