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I Just Got The Alphabet of Manliness

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DTDominion
Profile Joined November 2005
United States2148 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-05-22 05:45:54
May 22 2006 05:44 GMT
#1
This book is an A to Z list of things that define being a man. So far I have read A and B and this is the single most hilarious thing I have ever read.

This thread is to discuss the awesomeness of the book. I will continue to update this thread as I finish chapters, the book is that fucking good.

Polls below, as always:

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Poll: Do You have the Alphabet of Manliness
(Vote): Yes!
(Vote): I pre-ordered it
(Vote): I'm going to get it, and should get it sooner if I know what's good for me
(Vote): I might get it, I have womanly indecision
(Vote): I don't think I'm going to get it, I'm too cheap to put down 10 USD for a hardcover Maddox book
(Vote): I'm not going to get it, my girlfriend/wife won't let me
(Vote): I think this book is Satanic, I also understand Ben Affleck being a spokesperson for L'Oreal

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Poll: What Do You Think of The Alphabet of Manliness?
(Vote): The Greatest Book Ever
(Vote): Fucking Incredible
(Vote): Awesome
(Vote): Pretty Damn Funny
(Vote): I like it
(Vote): The Wrong Answer

EDIT: New quality poll
Pseudo_Utopia
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
Canada827 Posts
May 22 2006 05:48 GMT
#2
Maddox is funny, but I feel sorry for all the people who take whatever he says at all seriously. I know for a fact that there are many, and that's really too bad. And I know what you're going to say: "they're retarded if they take it seriously" or something to that effect. But the fact is that it's as much Maddox's fault as theirs that those people are offended.

I myself find it hard to think he's always 100% kidding. It sounds too bitter to me.
Retired SchiSm[LighT]
Drowsy
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
United States4876 Posts
May 22 2006 06:16 GMT
#3
I never know when he's actually being sarcastic. If he's not serious about the beat your kids article, I will buy the alphabet of manliness.
Our Protoss, Who art in Aiur HongUn be Thy name; Thy stalker come, Thy will be blunk, on ladder as it is in Micro Tourny. Give us this win in our daily ladder, and forgive us our cheeses, As we forgive those who play zerg against us.
DTDominion
Profile Joined November 2005
United States2148 Posts
May 22 2006 06:17 GMT
#4
Dude obviously he doesn't think you should beat your kids with a PVC pipe. Jesus.
mel_ee
Profile Blog Joined August 2003
2448 Posts
May 22 2006 06:18 GMT
#5
wtf the book is out alreadY??!??!?!?!?!
Behold the bold soldier, control the globe slowly proceeds to blow swingin swords like Shinobi
lawl mart
Profile Joined April 2006
United States1289 Posts
May 22 2006 06:22 GMT
#6
I'm going to get it soon.
14cc... whats next? women voting?
Yogurt
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States4258 Posts
May 22 2006 06:32 GMT
#7
nope, won't get it, but some options on your poll confuse and bewilder.
ok dont not so good something is something ok ok ok gogogo
zrucrem
Profile Joined September 2005
Afghanistan425 Posts
May 22 2006 06:36 GMT
#8
link for book??
:D?!
VdP]DreaM
Profile Joined February 2004
720 Posts
May 22 2006 06:36 GMT
#9
I thought it wasn't out till June or something? I pre-ordered it though.
Klogon
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
MURICA15980 Posts
May 22 2006 06:40 GMT
#10
So it's good? I guess I'll have to go order a copy myself.
Luhh
Profile Joined October 2003
Sweden2974 Posts
May 22 2006 06:48 GMT
#11
I don't know what this book is about, but it sounds like yet another lame attempt at comedy on stereotypes. Educate me.
I wouldn´t call him stupid, but let´s just say he´s unlucky when thinking...
DTDominion
Profile Joined November 2005
United States2148 Posts
May 22 2006 06:52 GMT
#12
On May 22 2006 15:48 Luhh wrote:
I don't know what this book is about, but it sounds like yet another lame attempt at comedy on stereotypes. Educate me.


Dude obviously stereotypes are made fun of. But it's not the core of his humor like other comedians (like Carlos Mencia, who admittedly can be funny)
DTDominion
Profile Joined November 2005
United States2148 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-05-22 06:57:11
May 22 2006 06:54 GMT
#13
Odin - The Patron Saint of Rearranging Your Face

Odin was the manliest of all mythological gods. Nobody even comes close to Odin. Thor? Please. Zeus? Get the fuck out of my office Zeus was possibly the biggest pussy in all of mythology. His specialty was to roll over and take it in the corn hole. Lesser gods such as Ares, Poseidon, and his bitch wife, Hera, were always pushing Zeus around and walking all over him. The only thing Zeus ever did was turn people into rocks or mountains, and he could hurl and occasional lightning bolt. Ooo, a lightning bolt! Oh no, not that, anything but a lightning bolt! Look out, Zeus the all powerful will smite you just as long as you aren't standing next to a long pole.

Unlike Zeus, Odin was a god who could get things done. Odin didn't fuck around with lightning bolts, he took care of the assailants by smothering them with his giant nuts. Odin was the Norse god of war, wisdom, magic, victory, hunting, and poetry. Yes, poetry. Although poetry is pretty much the unmanliest form of writing, Odin was man enough to make even this most effeminate of written forms rock tits. Here's a haiku written by Odin:

I murdered a man
He had a wife and two kids
I slept peacefully.


Here's a poem Odin wrote one day when he ordered a sandwich, and they were out of wheat (Odin eats a diet high in fiber because cholesterol kills):

Bitch, say what?

That's all he wrote before he stomped his foot up her ass and wore her colon around his ankle.
If there was one word to describe Odin, it would be cocksure. Odin had no character flaws, unless you consider an excessively violent response to minor annoyances a character flaw, and I don't. Case in point: One time some guy went to one of Odin's temples to sacrifice himself in an effort to spare his village from the famine that was scientifically proven to be caused by Odin.

The guy tried to impale himself on a large stake, but he lost his balance and fell awkwardly on the pole, causing him to bleed all over the place. When Odin came down to collect the man's soul, he saw the mess and became furious because Odin hates a sloppy sacrifice. Odin was so pissed that he resurrected the man, ate him, and then poked his own eye out and ate it so he could watch the body as he digested it and shit it out.


Seriously, don't fuck around, just buy it now:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080652720X/sr=8-1/qid=1148337123/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-6103613-0778545?_encoding=UTF8
mel_ee
Profile Blog Joined August 2003
2448 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-05-22 07:01:40
May 22 2006 07:00 GMT
#14
On May 22 2006 15:54 DTDominion wrote:
Show nested quote +
Odin - The Patron Saint of Rearranging Your Face

Odin was the manliest of all mythological gods. Nobody even comes close to Odin. Thor? Please. Zeus? Get the fuck out of my office Zeus was possibly the biggest pussy in all of mythology. His specialty was to roll over and take it in the corn hole. Lesser gods such as Ares, Poseidon, and his bitch wife, Hera, were always pushing Zeus around and walking all over him. The only thing Zeus ever did was turn people into rocks or mountains, and he could hurl and occasional lightning bolt. Ooo, a lightning bolt! Oh no, not that, anything but a lightning bolt! Look out, Zeus the all powerful will smite you just as long as you aren't standing next to a long pole.

Unlike Zeus, Odin was a god who could get things done. Odin didn't fuck around with lightning bolts, he took care of the assailants by smothering them with his giant nuts. Odin was the Norse god of war, wisdom, magic, victory, hunting, and poetry. Yes, poetry. Although poetry is pretty much the unmanliest form of writing, Odin was man enough to make even this most effeminate of written forms rock tits. Here's a haiku written by Odin:

I murdered a man
He had a wife and two kids
I slept peacefully.


Here's a poem Odin wrote one day when he ordered a sandwich, and they were out of wheat (Odin eats a diet high in fiber because cholesterol kills):

Bitch, say what?

That's all he wrote before he stomped his foot up her ass and wore her colon around his ankle.
If there was one word to describe Odin, it would be cocksure. Odin had no character flaws, unless you consider an excessively violent response to minor annoyances a character flaw, and I don't. Case in point: One time some guy went to one of Odin's temples to sacrifice himself in an effort to spare his village from the famine that was scientifically proven to be caused by Odin.

The guy tried to impale himself on a large stake, but he lost his balance and fell awkwardly on the pole, causing him to bleed all over the place. When Odin came down to collect the man's soul, he saw the mess and became furious because Odin hates a sloppy sacrifice. Odin was so pissed that he resurrected the man, ate him, and then poked his own eye out and ate it so he could watch the body as he digested it and shit it out.


Seriously, don't fuck around, just buy it now:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080652720X/sr=8-1/qid=1148337123/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-6103613-0778545?_encoding=UTF8


did they make a mistake and released it early or what? im about to order this but my dorm adress will change soon as its the end of the year. i would order it for sure if i knew it would come this week, but if i order and it comes june.. GG
Behold the bold soldier, control the globe slowly proceeds to blow swingin swords like Shinobi
DaN[SES]
Profile Joined April 2003
United States167 Posts
May 22 2006 07:02 GMT
#15
On May 22 2006 14:48 Pseudo_Utopia wrote:
I myself find it hard to think he's always 100% kidding. It sounds too bitter to me.


I agree. He is a legitimately funny dude, and he pulls off the "I Hate Everyone" humor better than anyone I've ever heard/read. That being said, it does wear on me after awhile. In other words, he's not exactly someone I would want to go bar hopping with.
Energies
Profile Blog Joined September 2003
Australia3225 Posts
May 22 2006 07:02 GMT
#16
Going to order it soon, it will take like 2-3 weeks to get it shiped from the US and probebly another week to get to my house, I should have pre-ordered >_<.
"Everybody wanna be a bodybuilder but dont nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weight" - Ronnie Coleman.
Pika Chu
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
Romania2510 Posts
May 22 2006 07:03 GMT
#17
i don't get it
that is suposed to be comedy?
They first ignore you. After they laugh at you. Next they will fight you. In the end you will win.
ZaplinG
Profile Blog Joined February 2005
United States3818 Posts
May 22 2006 07:33 GMT
#18
"Here's a poem Odin wrote one day when he ordered a sandwich, and they were out of wheat (Odin eats a diet high in fiber because cholesterol kills):

Bitch, say what?"


thats funny stuff
Don't believe the florist when he tells you that the roses are free
DTDominion
Profile Joined November 2005
United States2148 Posts
May 22 2006 07:44 GMT
#19
On May 22 2006 16:03 Pika Chu wrote:
i don't get it
that is suposed to be comedy?


You suck.
collegeBored
Profile Joined November 2002
United States1524 Posts
May 22 2006 07:54 GMT
#20
On May 22 2006 14:48 Pseudo_Utopia wrote:
Maddox is funny, but I feel sorry for all the people who take whatever he says at all seriously. I know for a fact that there are many, and that's really too bad. And I know what you're going to say: "they're retarded if they take it seriously" or something to that effect. But the fact is that it's as much Maddox's fault as theirs that those people are offended.

I myself find it hard to think he's always 100% kidding. It sounds too bitter to me.


its satire, its neither 100% serious nor 100% a joke. its mostly exagerated reality. those who can laugh at themselves and their life will enjoy it for the most part. those who dont enjoy it.. well... they're retarded. one thing i disagree completely on, is that its as much maddox's fault as theirs. he can write watever the fuck he wants, if a person gets offended or doesnt like it, they dont have to read it. noone is forcing the words down their throats....
The stupid neither forgive nor forget, the naive forgive and forget, the wise forgive but never forget.
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