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This is True [v1]: Deputy Kills Man With Hammer: And 500 Other Bizarre-but-True Stories and Headlines from the World's Press
+ "Cassingham is a humorist for the Information Age, an Internet-savvy satirist and social commentator. The Jay Leno of Cyberspace." --Los Angeles Times
+ How did he get so popular so fast? Well, for one thing, he writes funny stuff." --New York Times
+ "Quirky stories... punctuated by Cassingham's humorous tag lines." --Editor & Publisher
This is True is one of the first Internet-based features, created by Randy Cassingham as an e-mail newsletter in early 1994. True's mission is to provoke thought through social commentary. But if readers aren't entertained by the stories, they won't read very many. Thus its vehicle, weird-but-true news from legitimate news sources from around the world. The result spans the gamut of the crazy things we humans think we can get away with: this collection of jaw-dropping examples of the human thought process, and the realization that we can do better — a lot better!
What sort of stories?
+ A jury in a murder trial deliberated with the help of a seance to ask the victim who had killed him.
+ A woman had to sue her ex-husband to regain custody ...of her breast implants.
+ A man legally changed his name to one with 291 letters in it, and then went home to tell his wife.
The weird-but-true stories come from all over the world, each one punctuated by Randy's wild commentary -- a tagline that is humorous, ironic, opinionated, or (with luck) some combination of the three. "Truth is stranger than fiction," Randy likes to say, "because fiction has to make sense."
This is Volume 1 of the series, collecting the first year of stories and headlines from mid-1994 to mid-1995. The title comes from an actual newspaper headline which is included in the book.
+ How did he get so popular so fast? Well, for one thing, he writes funny stuff." --New York Times
+ "Quirky stories... punctuated by Cassingham's humorous tag lines." --Editor & Publisher
This is True is one of the first Internet-based features, created by Randy Cassingham as an e-mail newsletter in early 1994. True's mission is to provoke thought through social commentary. But if readers aren't entertained by the stories, they won't read very many. Thus its vehicle, weird-but-true news from legitimate news sources from around the world. The result spans the gamut of the crazy things we humans think we can get away with: this collection of jaw-dropping examples of the human thought process, and the realization that we can do better — a lot better!
What sort of stories?
+ A jury in a murder trial deliberated with the help of a seance to ask the victim who had killed him.
+ A woman had to sue her ex-husband to regain custody ...of her breast implants.
+ A man legally changed his name to one with 291 letters in it, and then went home to tell his wife.
The weird-but-true stories come from all over the world, each one punctuated by Randy's wild commentary -- a tagline that is humorous, ironic, opinionated, or (with luck) some combination of the three. "Truth is stranger than fiction," Randy likes to say, "because fiction has to make sense."
This is Volume 1 of the series, collecting the first year of stories and headlines from mid-1994 to mid-1995. The title comes from an actual newspaper headline which is included in the book.
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152 pages, Paperback
First published September 24, 1995
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