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by: Daniel Maurer

: Brocabulary: The New Man-i-festo of Dude Talk

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.5402
EAN: 9780061547560
ISBN: 0061547565
Label: Collins Living
Manufacturer: Collins Living
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: October 01, 2008
Publisher: Collins Living
Release Date: October 07, 2008
Sales Rank: 18339
Studio: Collins Living



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Bro-cab-u-lary (n.): A revolutionary new lexicon for bonding with your bros



Put down your BlackBerry, you PDA-hole, and cancel that masturdate it's time for Brocabulary: a bawdy new dicktionary. This crucial addition to your guybrary will put you in the testosterzone, whether you're being fandiloquent at the game or barticulating during a fargone-versation. Find out how to:



Stop brocrastinating! It's time to become everyone's guydol by leaving your mark on dudescussions for generations to come.





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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Everything you ever wanted to know about how Bro-Speak
While this is intended as a tongue-in-cheek dictionary of Dude-Speak, it also functions well as training manual for the college bound high-school student; who could be a more popular frat brother with a couple of dozen of these terms added to his vocabulary. It also works well a sociological study of the language of young men. I grew up in California in the 70's and 80's where these type of colloquialisms were born, yet I recognized only a few of these terms; indicating the author did a great job of researching and collecting these terms from far and wide. I would caution that there are many sexually derogatory terms within this text, so parents may want to keep this off their teenage children's reading list.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Hysterical Lowbrow Wordplay
I wasn't really expecting much (one never does from a book in this genre) but once I got it, I loved it. One thing that struck me was that the author really put some work into it - it's not particularly thick, but it's an endless stream of creative plays on words.

Now, not to build it up too much, I have to admit some of it just doesn't work...but the ones that do had me laughing out loud. You have to be careful if you try to speak them - without a good delivery, you'll look like an idiot...but if you are a writer in any way connected to pop culture, gen-ex or general humor then you'll find hundreds of springboards. And some of them do work spoken out loud...

All things considered, good to draw on (not too heavily) if you are a guy in need of a personality transfusion, great reading for the bathroom or long plain flight and an absolute must if you write for Maxim.


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - I thought this would be funny. . . my bad
This book looked like it would be a funny and interesting read. I did a quick skim the first day I had it. All I found was 230 pages of made up "bro" words with their lame definition. There are some funny parts, but it isn't worth going through the rest of the garbage to find them. I've already thrown this book away.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - it ain't no Hipster Handbook
I did want to do bodily harm to the writers of Hipster Handbook. "DECK"!?!?! They tried to say people actually used that word for something being cool? It wasn't clever, it was annoying and I effing HATED IT. That said, Brocab is no Hipster Handbook. It may not be your cup of tea, but it's at least EXTREMELY CLEVER with its made up lexicon. It's staggering how Maurer kept it up throughout the book. It was like he was taking some sort of verbal viagara. Though maybe he should have created a term for the emotion that's a mix of disgust and finding something funny. I bet others have had a similar appalled guffaw while reading it. And that's not a bad thing.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Hilarious--If you have a sense of humor
Brocabulary is a hilarious piece of satire and readers should go into it expecting to laugh, to be a bit grossed out, and to be entertained. For those who think that the book's offensive, I'm a girl and I liked it. So much so that I just bought another copy to give as a gift to my brother. (Isn't it sexist to think that only men can enjoy this humor?) The book does an excellent job at poking fun at the beer-chugging, frat boy culture that's sprung up thanks to all the lad mags and what have you. Nothing in it is any more offensive than what you'd read in those mags. But it sure is a hell of a lot funnier and better written. And frankly, we could all use a good poop joke or two these days.

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