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Mikwright Family Style
Flagrant exaggerations and distorted facts begin to unfold as members of Tim's, Phyllis's, and Bob's families are exposed for a greeting card venture gone mad!
MikWright . . . Family Style seeks to follow in the footsteps of the overwhelming success achieved by its four predecessors by being bigger and better. In a style that remains unmatched, the MikWright group attaches irreverent prose with an in-your-face attitude to traditional family photos (which are quite entertaining themselves).
This time around, MikWright . . . Family Style highlights some of the people in the photographs through stories and quips penned with the biting wit that has given this series of books its own distinctive brand of humor.
MikWright . . . Family Style seeks to follow in the footsteps of the overwhelming success achieved by its four predecessors by being bigger and better. In a style that remains unmatched, the MikWright group attaches irreverent prose with an in-your-face attitude to traditional family photos (which are quite entertaining themselves).
This time around, MikWright . . . Family Style highlights some of the people in the photographs through stories and quips penned with the biting wit that has given this series of books its own distinctive brand of humor.
176 pages, Paperback
First published October 3, 2001
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April 23, 2018
I love greeting cards and can stand at the card aisle reading cards for ages. This was a fun little book.
August 16, 2019
This collection of images and associated snippets of text will generate a minimum of chuckles in nearly everyone. There are a few jokes that contain sexual innuendo, but very few that reach the level of crude or obscene. At least to modern readers. To appreciate the joke, one must be able to comprehend the combination of text and sight gag.
For example, there is the image of the man on a ski life with the caption, “when Emmett reached the peak, he got off.” There is another with woman on a statue of a bucking horse with the caption, “you should see the stud that bucked me Saturday night!”
This is one of those books you read through quickly for the first time, set it aside for some time and then read it again, often in snippets. It is a great toilet read when you need to get your mind off the immediate need to do some business.
For example, there is the image of the man on a ski life with the caption, “when Emmett reached the peak, he got off.” There is another with woman on a statue of a bucking horse with the caption, “you should see the stud that bucked me Saturday night!”
This is one of those books you read through quickly for the first time, set it aside for some time and then read it again, often in snippets. It is a great toilet read when you need to get your mind off the immediate need to do some business.
August 28, 2013
This is a humorous collection of old black and white photos (they look to be mostly from the 50's and 60's) that have captions that are totally hilarious. Some have a few lines of further 'explanations' that are funny as well.
These evidently are based on a collection of cards (motto: "when you've got $3.25 to blow on a greeting card") and this is the family edition.
There's the photo of the plane on the tarmac with the caption "ladies and gentlemen...we'd like to welcome you to alabama. please set your watches back six years." This one talks about tim (yes, there are no caps anywhere in this book - so all you English teachers and proofreaders please uncross your eyes) and his first flight. This ends with the observation that "he recently spent fifteen years in the airline industry but now prefers to take his punishment with a yearly colon exam". (SNORT!)
And there are plenty of snort-worthy photos and captions: "while danny went on to become an eagle scout, timmy went on to date one" or "...in your wildest dreams!" (guy sitting astride a tank gun) or "you may see a man with two mules, i see three jackasses."
Short enough to read in one sitting - but can be savored whenever you need a pick-me-up.
These evidently are based on a collection of cards (motto: "when you've got $3.25 to blow on a greeting card") and this is the family edition.
There's the photo of the plane on the tarmac with the caption "ladies and gentlemen...we'd like to welcome you to alabama. please set your watches back six years." This one talks about tim (yes, there are no caps anywhere in this book - so all you English teachers and proofreaders please uncross your eyes) and his first flight. This ends with the observation that "he recently spent fifteen years in the airline industry but now prefers to take his punishment with a yearly colon exam". (SNORT!)
And there are plenty of snort-worthy photos and captions: "while danny went on to become an eagle scout, timmy went on to date one" or "...in your wildest dreams!" (guy sitting astride a tank gun) or "you may see a man with two mules, i see three jackasses."
Short enough to read in one sitting - but can be savored whenever you need a pick-me-up.
June 30, 2015
This was a really weird book. From what I gathered reading it, the authors use photos of their families to make snarky greeting cards. This book was a collection of the photos and texts of said cards. Some of the photos were retro cool/neat/funny, but a lot of the text was just mean.
I don't really know hos this book got published. It didn't have an ISBN., I've never seen a modern book without an ISBN. Don't even self-published books get an ISBN?
The real mystery is who originally bought this book and why. I paid 10 cents for it at a thrift store, and that was probably more than it was actually worth to me. I just didn't really get it.
I don't really know hos this book got published. It didn't have an ISBN., I've never seen a modern book without an ISBN. Don't even self-published books get an ISBN?
The real mystery is who originally bought this book and why. I paid 10 cents for it at a thrift store, and that was probably more than it was actually worth to me. I just didn't really get it.
April 16, 2008
My allergies are whuppin' my ass right now and I woke up around 2 am this morning coughing. I had a copy of MikWright... Family Style and burned through it in the time it took me to cough up a lung. This is funny stuff, pretty twisted at times. I got a few good chuckles, a few belly laughs then I went back to sleep.
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