Dave Barry's Holiday Gift Guide includes a list of outrageous gifts that are sure to make someone never want to buy you a gift again. Barry even analyzes the gift giving techniques of men and women. Where a man will buy a gift because he has a specific occasion, a woman on the other hand will buy something because it's cute. Although I think Dave Barry's assumptions here are a little off I must agree with the another statement that he made: women start behaving in the Holiday mood early, like in July. Now, I didn't start that early, but by August (only a month later) I was already contemplating what I wanted to get people and scoping out the merchandise at stores. I can't help that I need the most time to get this kind of stuff done. I must admit though the gifts on this Holiday Gift Guide are not only sure to shock, but some would be quite humorous to give as gifts. Look at my personal favorites the talking fly swatter, the 'War Hammer' back razor, and the restroom baby-hanger. To think that all these products are actually sold.
I am a newbie to Dave Barry's blog and found it to be quite funny and interesting. This would probably explain why so many people read his blog on a daily basis. What I liked about his blog was not only the humorous quality to his prose but also the fact that I felt like I wasn't reading a blog. The blog post read more like a comical news story or column. I guess when you really think about how online journalism has made print journalism accessible on a computer I would argue that a blog really is just your ordinary news column in digital form. Bravo Dave Barry, you have forced me to learn something new today.
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