Zobmondo!! The Outrageous Book of Bizarre Choices (Workman Publishing)
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Workman Publishing, a well known and respected NY publisher, released the Zobmondo humor book in December 2001. Since then the book has a staggering 132,000 copies in print on six printings and sales continue to be brisk to say the least. A 12 city book tour and a radio satellite tour highlighted the early marketing and PR push sponsored by Workman Publishing.
ZOBMONDO!! takes the idea of parlor game questions to a new level of debate and lunacy. Based on the hot party game of the same name, it's a chunky book of 400 questions that range from the heinous to the nauseating to the downright disturbing, each a field-tested conversation starter-because no matter how strange or far-fetched, ZOBMONDO!! knows that choice provokes thinking, and thinking is fun. Some questions, like a Rorschach test, reveal values: Would you rather . . . Age only from the neck up-OR-age only from the neck down? Be stupid and rich-OR-smart and poor? Some delight in their own grossness: Eat three earthworms-OR-wear a necklace made of them on your wedding day? Be trapped in an elevator with wet dogs-OR-three fat men with bad breath? Some churn up prejudices: Lose your mate to the same sex as yourself-OR-the opposite sex? Some create that squirming sensation: Get a bad case of poison ivy way up inside your nose-OR-inside your inner ear? Or ethical dilemmas: Be president of a firm that poaches endangered species-OR-work for a corrupt politician? And some are just deliciously absurd: Catch a porcupine thrown from a second-story window-OR-a skunk thrown from the same window? Each question is followed up with related, often off-the-wall information, from odd trivia to dumb jokes to the occasional practical advice (go for the skunk-the porcupine's got 30,000 quills, while tomato juice will take away the skunk smell).
