24—The Daily Collegian Friday, Sept. 24, 1982 College to sex to taxes: Parody is in vogue By SCOTT KRAFT Associated Press Writer NEW YORK First there was Mummy, Muffy and the absolutely to-die crew that made "The Preppy Handbook" a nationwide success. Now the joke's on everything from college life to macho men to sex manuals and tax guides. Parody is in vogue. Publishers who say "the best humor is what is true" are finding success in books that poke fun at the familiar. You might call it 101 uses for a paperback book. Examples abound. For the home handyman, there's "Do-It-Yourself Brain Surgery & Other Home Skills." The "other skills" include inventing a ST. PAUL'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 250 E. College Ave. Sunday Worship 9:15 & 10:45 am Students/Young Adults Class 10:30 am Robert M. Vowler, Minister September 26 Sermon: "The Church is of God" miracle drug, building an ocean liner, crocheting your own suspension bridge and cloning yourself. Before you start home cloning, the guide advises, "Wash your hands and put out your cigarette." For brain surgery, you need a sharp knife, a hand drill and boiling water. • To crochet your own bridge, you need 1,622 tons of 20-ply synthetic yarn and 980,000 large buttons. To invent a miracle drug, you need a Swiss bank account ("to make provi sions for your staggering profits"), a pill-making machine and a gross of white mice. Parody's resurgence began with "The Preppy Handbook," which has sold 1.3 million copies at $3.95 each and is in its 24th printing. Several new help. It has a chapter on "learning to parodies 'already have risen to the top kiss right," "fumble-free undres of the trade paperback sales lists and sing" and "it payi to advertise." The more than a dozen others are due out intimate details are illustrated with this fall. teddy bears. Two of Preppy's co-authors have "The Original Up Your Ineome written "Welcome to Mount Merry Tax" advises taxpayers with four College," a college catalog that offers spouses to "declare yourself a reli courses in small talk, applied sexuali- gious institution" and claim non-prof ty and Yiddish for gentiles. ,There's it status. also Physics for Dilettantes, Laundry "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche," a Problems and Remedial Television. spoof of the macho image; is No. 2on The entire description of one English The New York Times list of trade course reads: "f ucn red ths sntnce y paperbacks. In a similar vein is "The en tak ths cors." Manly Handbook," with a cover For those who have trouble recog- showing a muscular, tatooed arm nizing members of the opposite sex, crushing a beer can. Rule No. 1 for an illustrated sex manual called being a manly man is: "Don't wear "How To Do Sex Properly" might designer jeans." Sunday, Sept. 26 11:00 am Sigma Chi sponsors The Sigma Chi Derby Dash K (6.2 mile) Run 2 niile Fun Run in cooperation with Tuborg Beer G. Heileman Brewing Co. La Crosse, Wisconsin Registration Thurs. and Fri. Ground Floor HUB 8:00 am-5:00 pm OR on Race Day 9:00 am-10:00 am at Sigma Chi Fraternity _ 400 E. Prospect Ave. , entry fee $5.00 includes T-shirt BENEFITS Big Broth'er, Big Sister of Centre County AKL's, We're blasting off for the Balloon Derby! Get PSYCHED! Love, The Kappas Freedom of Choice SAW - SUBARU® Denny Behrer New & used foreign and domestic cars Nino, Sports 322 E._& Main St., Boalsburg 466-6266 WORSHIP SUNDAY 10 a.m., Eisenhower Chapel 1 1 :45 a.m., Grace Lutheran Church (corner, Beaver & Garner) 5:30 p.m., Eisenhower Chapel Sponsored by The Lutheran Student Parish • J 4 A 4 A - . . 34144121 4474, , 14rJ il 1 - • -.I: . 4 1 / ' ai r .•. 4 . V 7 Very Conducive to friendliness GI mashing a ct 0?? Y 110015 00 PH 6.000 se. EVERY FRIDAY JUNCTION of COLLEGE . 4 GARPER STATE COLLIGE. Plenty of parking behind the Station 11 am -2 pm daily
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