Comments on: FlapArt

FlapArt

Gator — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 13:54:00 -0800

Must-haves for your coffee table, lavatory reading, or just killing time on the subway: The Nutritional Benefits of Nose Picking; Perfecting the Art of Fart Projection (NEVER be blamed again!); How to Murder a Complete Stranger (and get away with it) [paging scarabic]. These and other eyebrow-raising books can be yours, assuming you already have a book that you can put these dustjackets on. FlapArt: The Alternative Book Cover.

By: LordSludge

LordSludge — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:02:50 -0800

Glad to see I'm not the only one who has bookmarked scarabic's AskMe post...

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:08:11 -0800

My dad used to make his own book covers when he was attending college. I was maybe six or seven, but I remember "Basic Embezzlement: Juggling The Books For Fun And Profit" by Prisoner #123234, which I think was covering his Economics text.

By: L. Fitzgerald Sjoberg

L. Fitzgerald Sjoberg — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:17:50 -0800

And of course, How to Explain to a Jumpy Security Officer on the Subway That It's All Just a Joke, No Need for Handcuffs My Dear Sir.

By: SmileyChewtrain

SmileyChewtrain — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:21:17 -0800

It's too bad the Murder one doesn't look like a real cover... ...It looks like a joke book flap... sigh... I'll never convince anyone I'm going to murder them.

By: troybob

troybob — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:21:20 -0800

these are much better than the 'living with herpes' pamphlets i carry on the public bus system...

By: brain_drain

brain_drain — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:33:08 -0800

So, um, where can I find a real book on fart projection?

By: troybob

troybob — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:35:40 -0800

you may have to wait til karl rove gets out of office to write that one, b_d

By: sonofsamiam

sonofsamiam — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:36:06 -0800

*silently indicates where to find the real book*

By: arcticwoman

arcticwoman — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:40:45 -0800

That's great. I love the "Do-it-yourself Laser Eye Surgery" one. SmileyChewtrain is right about the Murder one looking like a joke book though, too bad.

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:27:44 -0800

So no "How to Hijack an Airplane" or "Homemade bombs: how to connect them to altitude triggers"? I'd like to see a "Reading is for Losers" myself.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:32:08 -0800

I wish she had come up with fictional authors instead of plastering her own name on all of them. Fun idea, though.

By: shnoz-gobblin

shnoz-gobblin — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 16:08:32 -0800

The Pros and Cons of bringing Snakes on Airplanes.

By: AwkwardPause

AwkwardPause — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 16:11:23 -0800

"This is not a book."

By: nickp

nickp — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 17:02:54 -0800

I was hoping this was a link to a site that let you type in your own titles and generated a PDF that you could then print (yes I know you'd have to tape two pieces of paper together.) I suspect many people could come up with funnier titles than these -- allthough the illustration for nose picking was genius.

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:19:15 -0800

Crazy Canucks!

By: kozad

kozad — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 19:01:46 -0800

I covered a copy of The Upanishads with a genuine porn paperback cover -- Lust at First Site -- back when I was a kid. It's on the shelves in my classroom...kids still get suckered by that one.

By: cenoxo

cenoxo — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 13:13:07 -0800

brain-drain asked: ...where can I find a real book on fart projection? You could start with Le Petomane, the true story of Joseph Pujol. His contemporary successor is Mr. Methane.