Joke of the Week Extra: Snailed It! :-D

A special Joke of the Week in honor of the release of the movie Turbo.

 

 

Three snails, two large and one small, are wandering along one day, when they decide to stop and get a soda. It starts to rain, so the big snails ask the little snail if to go home and get an umbrella, since he's the fastest.

 

The little snail objects; he's concerned that the big snails will drink his soda while he's away. Once the big snails are able to reassure him that they'll leave his soda alone, he sets out to get the umbrella.

 

A month passes; one of the big snails says, "I'm thirsy. Why don't we drink that little guy's soda?"

 

"Yeah," the other big snail replies. "He'll never know."

 

From across the room, they hear, "Oh no you don't! I'm not going home to get the umbrella if you do!" 

 

 

From Nickelodeon Magazine.



Book Review: Looking for Bobowicz by Daniel Pinkwater

 

A recent offering from the one of the world's wackiest authors!

 

 

In this follow-up to Pinkwater's famous book The Hoboken Chicken Emergency, Nick(Whose real name, which he prefers not to reveal for obious reasons, is Ivan Itch) moves to the city of Hoboken with his eccentric parents. Nick quickly befriends two other kids named Loretta Fischetti and Bruno Ugg, and spends time hanging out with them, reading Classics Comics and drinking Dr. Pedwee's soda**.

 

 

While looking through the basement of Nick's new house one day, the three of them come across an old newspaper article telling about the time a giant chicken terrorized the city several years ago. On top of that, there have been several incidents of a mysterious "Phantom" stealing people's stuff...including Nick's own bike! Can Nick and his new friends, with the help of a series of eccentric adults, get to the bottom of this?

 

 

My thoughts: This is a very funny, intriguing book, written in Pinkwater's signature madcap style. The illustrations(Drawn by Daniel's wife Jill) are excellent, and the character's wacky names(Starr Lackawanna, Meehan the Bum et al.) are a lot of fun. Both this and The Hoboken Chicken Emergency are definite must-reads for Pinkwater fans.

 

 

Buy it on Amazon!



 

 

*Sounds yummy! :-9