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Baa Baa Black Sheep: Deals With Another "Routine" Stop
Paperback
Series: Rejected Children's Books (Funny Books for Adults), Book 28
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 1 2020
Pages: 28
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.07 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Baa Baa Black Sheep has wool. Three bags full. He also has a broken taillight, a registration issue nobody warned him about, and the particular misfortune of existing in a jurisdiction where driving while ovine is apparently all the probable cause you need for a seventeen-minute roadside conversation. This is his story. It is not the first time this has happened. The paperwork alone tells you that much.
This illustrated adult parody book takes a nursery rhyme you memorized at age four and asks the question the original authors were too comfortable to consider. The answer is uncomfortable. The cartoon artwork is charming. That specific tension between cheerful visuals and deeply inconvenient subject matter is where all the humor lives, and this book knows exactly how to work that real estate.
This Book IS For:- People who noticed the subtext in nursery rhymes at a disturbingly early age and have been waiting for this book ever since
- Anyone who has sat through a traffic stop that felt longer than the actual crime rate in that area warranted
- Fans of satire that makes its point without ever quite saying the point out loud
- Gift-givers who want their gift to generate a conversation that lasts well past the unwrapping
- People who believe nursery rhymes are sacred cultural texts that exist above reproach or reinterpretation
- Anyone whose first response to discomfort is to write a formal letter to someone in a position of authority
- Readers who require all stories to end with a lesson, a reconciliation, and possibly a rainbow
- Book club members who describe content they personally dislike as objectively harmful to society
- White elephant exchanges where you want to cause a fifteen-minute discussion about whether this is okay
- Gag gifts for the friend who has strong opinions about things they read in the news and shares them constantly
- Bachelorette parties, office parties, any party where at least one person will read it aloud to the group
- Anyone who asks for a funny book and actually means it rather than wanting something merely pleasant
You could buy a novelty mug. You could buy one of those small succulent plants in a slightly amusing pot. You could spend the same amount on something that sits on a shelf for three weeks before silently entering a donation bag. Or you could buy a book that makes someone stop mid-page and say wait, is this actually about what I think it's about? That pause... that moment of recognition... is worth considerably more than any mug on the market.
This is a gag gift that has a second layer, and that second layer is rarer than it sounds in the genre. Most funny gifts land one joke and then retire. This one gets funnier the longer you think about it, which puts it in a much smaller and more valuable category. Buy it for someone who thinks. Buy it for someone who laughs at things they probably shouldn't. Buy it for yourself and tell people you received it as a gift. No one will believe you, but that's fine too.
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