Showing results for "The Names" in Satire

The comedian and his gang of entertainers head toward the Fortress of Good in the hopes of finishing his mission. Of course, travel in the wasteland isn't as easy as it used to be, and they are waylaid in a mysterious town underneath the ruins of Salt Lake City. What will they find there? A gang of sickening weirdos? Strange culinary delights? Top hats? Or even worse... polite conversation? Certainly, it couldn't be all of those things. Could it?

President Andrew MacIntyre was having a pretty good first year in the Oval Office. Suddenly, during what should have been a peaceful Christmas season, he's facing one of the worst national security crises in American history. And, it's being masterminded out of a sleazy New Mexico strip joint? What the hell?

For years, millions of us have murmured under our collective breath about the descent of modern children's names into the depths of the ridiculous, and now those millions have a voice. Teachers, nurses, parents, students: If you've ever rolled your eyes at a child's name and fantasized about ridiculing his/her parents for their self-serving pretentiousness - or simply their ability to spell correctly - this is the audiobook for you.

Frazzled mom Molly Peterson is zapped by an "enhancement-ray" and recruited by a super-spy agency to infiltrate the PTA and save the world. Molly loves her new superpowers and is more than happy to save the world...It's the PTA she dreads.

Dr. Dongle, the indefatigable slayer of parents who give their children awful name, returns more vile and angry than ever in Volume 4. In the crosshairs this go-round are the mothers and fathers of Keightlynne, Equinox, Jaxton, Virva, Fhoenix, Rayge, Gusty, Jaykub, Infinity, Darlington and 90 more names that it's OK to openly despise. The usual warning: the language herein is among the most foul, vile and vulgar you'll ever read. The faint of heart and those with a weak sense of humor need not apply.

In Book 3, Johnny Dongle continues his full-frontal assault on the terrible names given to children by modern parents.

Johnny Dongle returns with more real-life, awful names given to children by even realer-life, awfuler parents. Tresco: Child or Discount Pharmacy Chain? Pacey: Child or Race Horse? Annora: Child or Medical Condition? You be the judge. Bascom: Child or Secretive Government Agency? You be the judge. Advisory: This audiobook is even more vile, vulgar, and hilarious than Volume I.

An independent research facility, with no particular disciplinary focus and no public sector grant money or foundation funding, is doing its best to "sound kosher", trying to keep the operations flowing. An overworked lab sciences foundation director has been working tirelessly to keep funding coming in for the aging, if not otherwise obsolete somewhat mediocre research facility, procuring the oddest of scientific studies.

In which our intrepid correspondent flies in the face of conventional wisdom and defends Illinois Governor Blagojevich.... Nah. Like everybody else, he beats him like a rental car going off road over coastal gulleys.