Drop Us a Line... Sucker!: The Prank Letters of James and Stuart Wade

by James C. Wade, Stuart Wade

For five years, James Wade, an American businessman living in Switzerland, has been firing off preposterous letters to organizations all over the world, seeing whether he can elicit serious replies to bizarre inquiries that are worded to appear as if they just might be legitimate. For
Does the company that makes Listerine have a booklet of tasty recipes based on their famous mouthwash?
Would the Hertz lost-and-found department mind searching for a customer's elderly mother, left in the back seat of his rental car by mistake?
Would a Big Ten College offer Physical Education credit for a correspondence course in karate?
Does a carpet cleaner have the facilities to dry clean a whale skin?
How would the Swiss Cheese Union like to develop a cheeseless, non-dairy fondue for export to America, where people love all things artificial?

Genres: Humor, Nonfiction

165 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1995

Reviews

[Lisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a suprisingly good book. I was just looking for something light to read, and came upon this in my college bookstore. I thought it would be something that would be a good way to waste time on, but it was actually really funny. It even inspired my room mate and I to write a prank letter of our own!

[Cade · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting book just from the technological viewpoint. The book is about prank letters sent to companies via US Mail. In the world of e-Mail, this seems like a long drawn out way to derive a joke. In the world of e-Mail it also seems like an improbable thing to happen.