DUH! : The Dumberst Things Ever Said or Done

Never kiss a rattlesnake. Put on the parachute before jumping from the plane. Don't bring your dog along if you're going to rob a bank. These seem like obvious enough strategies, but, unfortunately, we seem to be a race of rattlesnake kissers.

Duh! The Dumbest Things Ever Said Or Done is a hilarious collection of the stupid things that people do. Sit back, read this book, and enjoy discovering just how much smarter you are than the rest of the fools out there. Consider these examples:

- In the briefly lived sport of water baseball, regulations required that infielders stand in the water up to their necks, the pitcher up to his waist, and the batter up to his thighs.

- A Tampa, Florida man handed a bank teller a note demanding cash. The police had no trouble catching up to the bank robber because he wrote the stick-up note on his own paycheck stub, right below where his name and address were printed.

- When McDonald's opened its first franchise in Russia, the American bosses insisted that the Russian counter help smile at the customers. Russian customers were outraged at the McGreeting, insulted, and ready to fight -- because in Russia smiling at strangers means you are making fun of them. How did Mickey D solve the problem? They hired official Smile Explainers to shout into bullhorns at customers in line: "When you reach the counter, you will be smiled at. This does not mean we are making fun of you."