24 - Wednesday, October 30, 1991 — North Shore News

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Dave Barry Talks Back

By Dave Barry

Pub. Crown Publishers, Inc.
$24 hardcover

DAVE BARRY, to his many
followers, is an addictive
substance that is depended
upon to produce weekly
euphoric highs.

Fortunately, though, the books
containing the humorist’s col-
lected newspaper columns are
cheaper and healthier than illicit
drugs or alcohol, and even more

effective.
A syndicated journalist based in

Miami, Barry’s humor columns are .

carried each Thursday in the local
Province.

Once | had read two or three of
his columns, | was hooked — | not

A

only follow him religiously in the
paper, I’ve invested in bound
copies of his collected works, in-
cluding Dave Barry’s Greatest Hits
and Babies and the Other Hazards
of Sex,

Now available is Dave Barry
Talks Back, which includes many
columns that are based on bizarre
news stories and anecdotes sent in
by his legion of ‘‘Alert Readers.”

Says Barry on the book cover:
“t get a lot of suggestions from
my readers that | do not totally
understand, but that | am pres-
enting here as a reminder of the
importance of remembering to
take your prescription medica-
tion.”

Topics covered in the newest

Barry tome include:

Marriage: “Professional mar-
riage counsellors agree that the
most productive and mature way
to deal with marital anger is to
stomp dramatically from the room.
The key here is timing. You want
to make your move before your
opponent does, because the first
person to stomp from the room
receives valuable Argument Points
that can be redeemed for exciting
merchandise at the Maritial Prize
Redemption Centre.””

Boating: “Our immediate
problem was something much
worse, a daunting nautical
challenge that has tested the

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courage of mariners since ancient
times, namely: backing the boat
into the carport. The irick to
remember here is, if you turn your
car wheels to the right (‘star-
board’), the beat trailer will actual-
ly go to the LEFT (‘forecastle’) un-
til your wife (‘Beth’) announces
that you ran over a sprinkler
(‘$12.95’).
Halloween:

“Pranks — defin-

ed as ‘activities that struck you as
truly hilarious when you were a
teenager but, now that you are a
property owner, make you wish
you had a high-voltage fence’ —
are another ancient Hailoween
tradition. The first Halloween
prank ever, played by a group of
Druid teenagers, was Stonehenge
(HEY! You kids get those rocks
off my la-vnt’)"”

I've otten considered Dave Barry
the “Gary Larson of Literature”:
hiscolumn is a Far Side for those of
us who love words and laughing.

| recommend the book. ft’s great
for lending out and re-reading on
rainy days.

~— By Peggy Trendell-Whittaker, a
North Shore News writer.

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