{"product_id":"delightful-reflections-lars-perner-ph-d-9780615561981","title":"Delightful Reflections: : Quips, Conjectures, and Pontifications","description":"This book features a number of ironic observations on life by an eccentric, absent-minded professor who exhibits an extreme fondness of alliteration and paradoxes. Many of the observations involve diatribes against offenses that few people could even have imagined, let alone committed. A rather \"dry\" sense of humor pervades this work, which is generously sprinkled with plays on words and what might most charitably be described as a \"novel\" way of looking at the world. One might reasonably conclude that the author harbors obsessions with ducks, Dachshunds, and doughnut eating police officers. If you enjoy irreverence and a novel perspective, you should keep in mind the old adage, \"Be careful what you wish for!\" A few samplers: - Any residents of Washington, B.C. were most likely Native Americans. - Proof found outside the pudding is likely to be much less messy. - A minister suffering from laryngitis is in a poor condition to preach to the choir. - The right to use bullet points may be guaranteed by both the First and Second amendments. - Someone singing \"Do Cry for Me, Argentina\" is likely rather self-centered. - Granting a child's Christmas wish for a hippopotamus would, under most circumstances, be somewhat unkind to his or her parents. - Morally marginal individuals ought to be aware that what happens in Vegas may stay on Facebook and Youtube for a long time! - One would hope that a piece of textile with the message that \"Dog food is delicious\" is a dog coat. - It is mean for parents not to allow their children to clean their rooms. - It is really sad to hear one elementary school student bragging to another that \"My funeral is going to be bigger than your funeral!\" - Authors who are afraid of the dark should refrain from hiring ghostwriters. - One rarely ever hears any objection being expressed to the comparison of pears and grapefruits. - If Lynn Anderson suddenly has a memory of this, the decent thing to do is to record \"I DID Promise You a Rose Garden.\" - If it does not look like a Dachshund, does not walk like a Dachshund, and does not bark like a Dachshund, it might be considered deceptive to list it on Craigslist as a Dachshund without disclosing these material facts. - A nun who wakes up the whole neighborhood while beating up a fellow nun for disturbing the peace needs a serious talk by the mother superior about goal displacement and constructive ways to deal with problem co-workers. - There does not appear to be any support in respected, peer reviewed journals for the hypothesis that a pear a day keeps the dentist away. - Cain may have been the first communist. - To minimize the risk of injury, it might be helpful to move one's tongue before turning the other cheek. - When in Rome, one should try to make a profit on the Romans. - It would have been nice if Carly could have clarified whether, if attending a party on a yacht, one should walk aboard as if walking into a party or as if walking onto a yacht. - Few people seen to question the authenticity of Bruce Springsteen's birth certificate. - If it quacks, but not like a duck, one might well be confused.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lars Perner Ph. D.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0615561985\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780615561981\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Eccenterrific Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/08\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 138\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.30d","brand":"Lars Perner Ph. D.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48441141461247,"sku":"9780615561981","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_389c13a5-de20-4e4c-b430-ed15fd0288f0.jpg?v=1777188970","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/delightful-reflections-lars-perner-ph-d-9780615561981","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}