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Why Do Men Have Nipples?: Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini
Is There a Doctor in the House?
Say you’re at a party. You’ve had a martini or three, and you mingle through the crowd, wondering how long you need to stay before going out for pizza. Suddenly you’re introduced to someone new, Dr. Nice Tomeetya. You forget the pizza. Now is the perfect time to bring up all those strange questions you’d like to ask during an office visit wit...more
Say you’re at a party. You’ve had a martini or three, and you mingle through the crowd, wondering how long you need to stay before going out for pizza. Suddenly you’re introduced to someone new, Dr. Nice Tomeetya. You forget the pizza. Now is the perfect time to bring up all those strange questions you’d like to ask during an office visit wit...more
Paperback, 224 pages
Published
July 26th 2005
by Three Rivers Press
(first published 1995)
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Sep 01, 2008
Julie (jjmachshev)
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I picked this book up a couple of years ago because the title was just too good to pass up. "Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini" was a quick and hilarious read. Fascinating questions like "Why does sweat stink and stain?" and "Why do people seem more attractive to you when you are drunk?" are just two of the burning questions presented. Surprisingly enough, the answers (OK MOST of the answers) are truly given from the medical point of...more
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May 09, 2008
Ryan
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1 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
people who want to stop the expression of brilliance in exchange for quenching a thirst for trivia
You know, this book is funny. Leyner is writing it. Therefore it is funny. It is really a 3 star book. But I'm punishing it with one star. Why?
Leyner is a modern genius. Tetherballs at Bougainville is a masterpiece. My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist is also a masterpiece. I waited SEVEN long years for him to write something else. Seven long years of silence. But market forces or focus groups or the Devil himself or Americans with hunger for medical trivia have responsibility for this book where a...more
Leyner is a modern genius. Tetherballs at Bougainville is a masterpiece. My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist is also a masterpiece. I waited SEVEN long years for him to write something else. Seven long years of silence. But market forces or focus groups or the Devil himself or Americans with hunger for medical trivia have responsibility for this book where a...more
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Did I miss something here? I read the whole book (okay, ALMOST the whole book -- I admit I skipped over the nonsensical instant messaging transcipts that seem to make up the bulk of the text, as well as the silly chapter intros) and I wasn't floored. Or even wowed. Or even that impressed.
There's nothing in this book that you can't find out on your own with an Internet hookup and a brain cell or two to rub together. Most of it is rehashed medical journal articles, and the rest is puffery. And a...more
There's nothing in this book that you can't find out on your own with an Internet hookup and a brain cell or two to rub together. Most of it is rehashed medical journal articles, and the rest is puffery. And a...more
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Mar 13, 2012
Mary JL
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2 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
trivia fans
Recommended to Mary JL by:
I was curious about the title
Shelves:
non-fiction
A trivia book with facts mostly relating to medical matters. Some questions are interesting---It is bad to crack your knuckesl? Are yawns contagious? Does marijuana really help glaucoma---and some are less so. Of course, each reader may find their own likes and dislkies among the questions.
You can skip the parts where the two authors are talking to each other--it is supposed to be funny and is not.
A mildly interesting, odd book--worth skimming through once.. Might make a cute gag gift for any fr...more
You can skip the parts where the two authors are talking to each other--it is supposed to be funny and is not.
A mildly interesting, odd book--worth skimming through once.. Might make a cute gag gift for any fr...more
Mar 15, 2008
Shannon
rated it
1 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
unclever fratboys
Recommended to Shannon by:
not my mom and sis, who both told me it sucked
Shelves:
festival-of-suck
Totally lame. I thought it would be interesting. But mostly they just ask a bunch of interesting questions.. and manage to make the answers boring. Probably because a lot of the time the answer is like "we aren't sure" and then they make some smarmy dick jokes about it. They are like... unclever fratboys (is this redundant?). And they are adults (one is a doctor, allegedly), so it's even more unnaceptable. I'm not even giving this non-fiction shelving because, it was mostly just smarm-tastic co...more
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طبيب وكاتب يجيبون عن ١٠٠ سؤال من الاسئلة التي ...... لا ادري ما اوصفها لكن تقع في مثل عنوان الكتاب او مثل هذه:
- لماذا البصل يدمع العيون؟
- هل الشوكلاته تسبب حب الشباب؟
- هل فرقعة الاصابع مؤذية وتسبب الامراض؟
باختصار تستطيع القول انها مقولات واسئلة متفرقة مجتمعة في كتاب بطريقة عفوية ومضحكة وقصصية
لكتاب لطيف للترفيه عن النفس واخذ بعض المعلومات التي قد لا تضطر للبحث عنها، لكن دام انها موجودة فما المانع ^^_
سعر الكتاب غالي بالنسبة لمحتواه ... دمتم
- لماذا البصل يدمع العيون؟
- هل الشوكلاته تسبب حب الشباب؟
- هل فرقعة الاصابع مؤذية وتسبب الامراض؟
باختصار تستطيع القول انها مقولات واسئلة متفرقة مجتمعة في كتاب بطريقة عفوية ومضحكة وقصصية
لكتاب لطيف للترفيه عن النفس واخذ بعض المعلومات التي قد لا تضطر للبحث عنها، لكن دام انها موجودة فما المانع ^^_
سعر الكتاب غالي بالنسبة لمحتواه ... دمتم
I was disappointed with this book. I'd heard it was so funny, and had some sort of wisdom or at least interesting information. NPR adored it, of course.
I don't think the two authors are funny at all, especially the "gross" stuff (see the recipe for snot); a lot of the questions were idiotic (Can you die from chasing pop rocks with coke) or not compelling (who, when they have a doctor all to themselves at a party for a half hour or so, would really choose to ask Should you starve a fever and fee...more
I don't think the two authors are funny at all, especially the "gross" stuff (see the recipe for snot); a lot of the questions were idiotic (Can you die from chasing pop rocks with coke) or not compelling (who, when they have a doctor all to themselves at a party for a half hour or so, would really choose to ask Should you starve a fever and fee...more
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Very much along the lines of Father Knows Less, which I read earlier this year, Mark Leyner who is a writer and Billy Goldberg, a doctor, set forth to answer everyone's weirdest medical questions, things that it would seem doctors get asked by really drunk party guests. The book is a lot more humor than it is too factual, but you do learn a lot about the human body and why men have nipples :^) The photographer was quizzing me last night while we were taking the pictures, and I felt pretty darned...more
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Can you sawllow your tongue?
Will using a cell phone give you brain tumor?
Should you stave a fever and feed a cold?
Why do you see stars when you are hit in the head?
Where does gas go when you can't fart?
Would you die if you ate your own feaces?
Why can you ignite a fart?
Can you get high from licking a toad?
Why do you throw up when you drink too much?
Do men need sex more often than women?
Why do nipples become erect?
Is it true you can break you penis?
Is sperm nutritious or fattening?
Why do you laugh...more
Will using a cell phone give you brain tumor?
Should you stave a fever and feed a cold?
Why do you see stars when you are hit in the head?
Where does gas go when you can't fart?
Would you die if you ate your own feaces?
Why can you ignite a fart?
Can you get high from licking a toad?
Why do you throw up when you drink too much?
Do men need sex more often than women?
Why do nipples become erect?
Is it true you can break you penis?
Is sperm nutritious or fattening?
Why do you laugh...more
Note subtitle: questions you'd only ask your doctor after your third martini
The first time I saw this book, I was legitimately curious about the answers. After finally getting around to reading it, I am sad to say I was disappointed on many levels:
- the questions asked were kind of lame, and most of them (including the title question) have already been answered by the most wonderful source of knowledge, howstuffworks' podcasts. I did however get a few things cleared up, like what foods cause wha...more
The first time I saw this book, I was legitimately curious about the answers. After finally getting around to reading it, I am sad to say I was disappointed on many levels:
- the questions asked were kind of lame, and most of them (including the title question) have already been answered by the most wonderful source of knowledge, howstuffworks' podcasts. I did however get a few things cleared up, like what foods cause wha...more
I saw this in the Medicine Book Box and couldn't remember if I had read it or not. I read lots of books of this type whenever I come across them. As I started reading it though, I realized that I had read it several years ago when it came out when I was in naturopathic medical school. I did give it another read because it was quick and I find this type of info really interesting. Like Hyphen, I found the chatter mostly annoying and extraneous. Some of the questions and answers were quite informa...more
Because basically, we all start out as girls and half of us turn in to males. Simple as that. I don't know why I thought that I could read this in a day/night, but I did and now I am super tired and probably won't remember anything that I just learned. Its one of those books that is handy to have around for random times when you are curious about something, then you could just look it up. There's conversations throughout by the two authors IMing each other that got kind of boring, so that could...more
I hadn’t realised it when I started reading this, but I know Mark Leyner. He is the guy who wrote The Tetherballs of Bougainville, a book that is quite unlike any other. I have never written a review of it, I think I would need to read it again to do that. The problem is that I doubt I could ever do it justice. It is very funny, even if it is a deeply strange book.
This book is a collaboration between Leyner and a doctor called Billy Goldberg. The impression given (and I guess the running joke)...more
This book is a collaboration between Leyner and a doctor called Billy Goldberg. The impression given (and I guess the running joke)...more
This book, Why do Men Have Nipples written by Mark Leyner, has a title that begs you to pick it up and skim through it just out of curiosity. So, let me warn you now, if you sample this book or thumb through it, you will want to buy it. Just doing a basic Q & A would have been dry, boring reading so our author and his source- Billy Goldberg, M. D. added a generous helping of humor and included a few of their conversations during and after each chapter. The topics covered include burning ques...more
As a physician, I read this book because I have to agree with much of what the authors suggest - folks tend to ask doctors very strange questions when they are intoxicated, especially when they are not actually in the doctor's office or at the hospital but instead at a party. I personally have been asked many of the questions put forth in this book so it was amusing to see other similar inquiries. Most of the time the answers brought back hazy memories of first and second years of medical school...more
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Say you’re at a party. You’ve had a martini or three, and you mingle through the crowd, wondering how long you need to stay before going out for pizza. Suddenly you’re introduced to someone new, Dr. Nice Tomeetya. You forget the pizza. Now is the perfect time to bring up all those strange questions you’d like to ask during an office visit with your own doctor but haven’t had the guts (or more likely the time) to do so. You’re filled with liquid courage . . . now is your chance! If you’ve ever wa...more
This book took all of about 4 hours to read, and I'm going to be sending the authors a bill for four wasted hours of my life. If I were the editor of this waste of a perfectly good tree, I'd make sure my name appeared nowhere even remotely associated with it. Well, that is assuming that this even HAD an editor; it looks more like a webpage reminiscent of the golden days of GeoCities. There is absolutely nothing substantive in this, and five minutes with Google for ANY of these questions would be...more
Save your money and skip this title. There are some interesting questions here that you might have wanted to know the answers to – and a lot of debunking of popular health myths is in order. If the book were only just queries and answers it would have been fine, but the authors also thought they had to be funny. And so, as filler, there are all of these conversations – loosely related and totally unrelated to the subject matter, that appear in between the Q&A. Skip them all. They aren’t very...more
Hilarious!
While reading this book I found my self thinking about the most ridiculous things (mostly about how funny it would be if farting was contagious) and laughing out loud all alone like a crazy person. To explain the contagious fart fantasy (fantasy is totally the wrong word here!) hahaha.. but anyway a section was trying to explain why yawns were contagious and then listed several things that we should be very happy are NOT contagious.. and farts was the one that stood out to me.. haha. T...more
While reading this book I found my self thinking about the most ridiculous things (mostly about how funny it would be if farting was contagious) and laughing out loud all alone like a crazy person. To explain the contagious fart fantasy (fantasy is totally the wrong word here!) hahaha.. but anyway a section was trying to explain why yawns were contagious and then listed several things that we should be very happy are NOT contagious.. and farts was the one that stood out to me.. haha. T...more
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This is quite an amusing book, although I had expected it to be more factual and formally written. I guess it's meant to be a light read, hence more jokes and less scientific explanation for the answers.
The thing I can't quite get over was how they put in the dialogues the writers had when they were (supposedly) writing the book. I found the dialogues to be jarring somewhat derailing, and to me it made it feel like the book hadn't gone through proper editing.
There are *lots* of unusual questions...more
The thing I can't quite get over was how they put in the dialogues the writers had when they were (supposedly) writing the book. I found the dialogues to be jarring somewhat derailing, and to me it made it feel like the book hadn't gone through proper editing.
There are *lots* of unusual questions...more
Buku ini bermaksud lucu tapi aku jarang ketawa hu hu.Informasi yang ada sering kali kuanggap ga penting banget walaupun ada beberapa yang ku-bookmark. Mungkin mitos-mitos yang 'dijawab' di buku ini kebanyakan hanya populer di negeri asalnya atau memang aku yang kurang gaul saja. Alhasil buku yang tidak tebal ini kuselesaikan dalam waktu 3 minggu.
Satu hal yang cukup aneh. Aku baca buku ini paralel dengan Audition - Barbara Walters. Dan di saat yang bersamaan aku membaca soal prime minister India...more
Satu hal yang cukup aneh. Aku baca buku ini paralel dengan Audition - Barbara Walters. Dan di saat yang bersamaan aku membaca soal prime minister India...more
Meh. I like the title and love the idea of the book, but it was kind of all over the place. Some of the questions were generic and some weren't even answered. He didn't really answer any questions in detail about "women's" problems or some of the old wives tales. Instead it seemed to be more of an excuse for these two guys to share their inside jokes with each other, which are probably hilarious to them, and some maybe somewhat funny for us. Most of the book revolved around poo and alcohol. For...more
I'm resigned to the fact that I'll go to my grave not knowing the answers to certain mysteries of life, e.g., how did GW get elected the second time, what kind of childhood trauma leads to one enjoying foie gras ice cream, and so on. Add to this list the fact that there are 200+ people on goodreads who gave this book 5 stars, i.e., they thought this book was "amazing." Well, I found this book amazingly bad. The most interesting aspect of the book: the questions. The answers are so-so. But the mo...more
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Lordy Lord! The doubts that people get! The way to read this book is: first recollect all those little wisdoms your parents or grandparents imparted, and you believed to be true even though somewhere inside you a little voice reasoned otherwise “Don’t swallow the seeds or your stomach will grow trees” etc. Look them up in the index to see if they are listed and go directly to that page, You have waited this long..you shouldn't wait another second to see whose side Mark Leyner and Dr.Billy Goldbe...more
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I swear to God I reviewed this before... buuuut.. No seriously, I swear to God I reviewed this book before! As in, typed it down. Maybe I was dictating it to my Mum.. who knows...
ANYWAYS!!
At first I thought this book was good... But then I realized it wasn't.
Why?
Because in the middle of everything the author would stop and interject with some manuscript-styled ramblings with his partner-in-crime about some random shit that I don't give a FUCK ABOUT. Seriously. It didn't even make sense. Not even...more
ANYWAYS!!
At first I thought this book was good... But then I realized it wasn't.
Why?
Because in the middle of everything the author would stop and interject with some manuscript-styled ramblings with his partner-in-crime about some random shit that I don't give a FUCK ABOUT. Seriously. It didn't even make sense. Not even...more
Told by way of a narrative during which one of the authors is asked medical questions while making observations about the other authors debauchery during a cocktail party, the mediocre tidbits of medical information in this book are more than outweighed by the poor attempts at humor. These poor attempts include random insertions of what appear to be IM communications between the authors chock full of inside jokes and random observations that have nothing to do with the subject of their book. The...more
this book came about because a doctor noticed that everytime he went to a party and people found out he was a physician, they would ask very embarrassing or intimate questions that they were affraid to ask their own doctor. so, he teamed up with a writer and answered all of the crazy questions people wanted to know but were too affraid to ask until a few martinis later.
why do old people grow hair in their ears?
how do poeple in wheelchairs have sex?
why does asparagus make my pee smell?
is sperm nu...more
why do old people grow hair in their ears?
how do poeple in wheelchairs have sex?
why does asparagus make my pee smell?
is sperm nu...more
This is the kind of book I love. Short and pithy tidbits of arcane and esoteric knowledge. Except I didn't.
This book repeatedly brought to mind Woody Allen's disparaging line about a restaurant, "The food stinks and the portions are small." The content wasn't very good, and I can't say I wish there had been more, but wow, were there very few words on these very small pages, and even then, those words were just not very interesting. Smarmy, condescending, dull, irritating, and utterly pointless,...more
This book repeatedly brought to mind Woody Allen's disparaging line about a restaurant, "The food stinks and the portions are small." The content wasn't very good, and I can't say I wish there had been more, but wow, were there very few words on these very small pages, and even then, those words were just not very interesting. Smarmy, condescending, dull, irritating, and utterly pointless,...more
This was HORRIBLE! Perhaps the worst book I have ever read! I would have stopped at the beginning if it wasn't for book club. I kept hoping it would get better but it was just thoroughly awful through & through!
Yes, I read this and thought it was so funny and educational. Just so you know, there is a fair amount of it that is truly off-color. There. You've been warned!
Of course I love all things medicine. These two guys, one an er doc and the other a tv writer, answer tons of questions that we are all very curious about such as "Is it really dangerous to crack you knuckles?" or "Does it really take seven years to digest chewing gum?" or Is the old adage "Beer before liquor..." really true? And the most...more
Of course I love all things medicine. These two guys, one an er doc and the other a tv writer, answer tons of questions that we are all very curious about such as "Is it really dangerous to crack you knuckles?" or "Does it really take seven years to digest chewing gum?" or Is the old adage "Beer before liquor..." really true? And the most...more
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Mark Leyner is an American postmodernist author.
Leyner employs an intense and unconventional style in his works of fiction. His stories are generally humorous and absurd: In The Tetherballs of Bougainville, Mark's father survives a lethal injection at the hands of the New Jersey penal system, and so is freed but must live the remainder of his life in fear of being executed, at New Jersey's discret...more
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Leyner employs an intense and unconventional style in his works of fiction. His stories are generally humorous and absurd: In The Tetherballs of Bougainville, Mark's father survives a lethal injection at the hands of the New Jersey penal system, and so is freed but must live the remainder of his life in fear of being executed, at New Jersey's discret...more
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“...Someone can intentionally fake blindness for some secondary gain (malingering)--a prisoner who says he can't see in order to try to avoid going directly to jail. It is not difficult to figure out when patients say they are blind but can actually see. We have a simple test that lets us determine whether the eyes are functioning. Using a rotating striped drum, we test for something called optokinetic nystagmus. as the drum spins, normal eyes will be seen moving back and forth.
If a striped rotating drum is not available, you can always use a picture of J. Lo's rear. Move it back and forth, and any normal eyes will follow.”
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If a striped rotating drum is not available, you can always use a picture of J. Lo's rear. Move it back and forth, and any normal eyes will follow.”
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