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Joke Reviews
Posted by Carl Purkins on 9 January 2010 - 1:30pm.
The recent entertaining post on "Titular.." (http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/titular-and-other-words-you-cant-u...) got me thinking about joke reviews.
These are customer reviews of genuine products on amazon and the like, but where not one of the reviewers are taking the product seriously.
I knew of two but the rude one has strangely disappeared (it was "Overcoming Obstacles With Spunk by L. Diane Wolfe...)
ORIGINAL THREE WOLF T-SHIRT
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Three-Adult-T-Shirt-Medium/dp/B002DGLCJ...
Does anyone know of anymore?
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There have been at least a
There have been at least a couple flagged up on the Word blogs before:
Paul Ross photo poster - absolute comic genius by whatever the equivalent of The Massive is on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B001N6W8U0/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_...
Not quite the same thing, but a top ten ladders list:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/My-fave-ladders/lm/26AAVCRXC56FI/ref=cm_srch_res...
I was going to say Paul Ross!
Makes me cry with laughter. Wonderful.
Check out
David Hasselhoff's Greatest Hits
(The track Hot Shot City is particularly good)
Round up
I did a little round up of my favourites (including the Original Three Wolf Shirt) on me blog not that long ago. The Katie Price/Peter Andre reviews are something else...
http://eguinan.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/was-this-review-helpful-to-you-r...
Tuscan Whole Milk is another legendary one
http://www.amazon.com/Tuscan-Whole-Milk-Gallon-128/dp/B00032G1S0/ref=sr_...
Fantastic!
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
It came with child, November 23, 2009
By Mie Ishii "Russian Doll" - See all my reviews
To my great surprise, inside my gallon of Tuscan milk was a small orphan boy. Thank you so much! WILL BUY AGAIN!
Currently laughing like a loon
Love it. Cheers for sharing!
Up the Oxo Tower
These were originally on the Oxo Tower website reviews section but they caught on eventually - thanks to the internet they live on...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/24/oxo_tower/
Deleted duplicate!
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It makes your eys water
Obviously there's not much serious stuff in The Onion at all but I particularly like this review of the Beatles Box Set "a 1960s band so obscure that their music is not even available on iTunes"!
http://www.avclub.com/articles/chuck-klosterman-repeats-the-beatles,3256...
Jordan And Peter - A whole New World
I have mentioned this on the site before, but some of the comments on here literally have me laughing aloud every time I read them:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B000JU8FXK/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_help...
Ping
It's the only non-serious review amongst many serious ones, but it's still my favourite review ever. I'm afraid it's a bit computer-geeky though ...
http://www.amazon.com/review/R2VDKZ4X1F992Q/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#R2VDKZ4...