Bathroom Humor at its Absolute Best!
Although breaking wind is a natural bodily function, talking about it is often considered to be in bad taste (not to mention bad smell). Nevertheless, breaking wind, whether referred to as ‘passing gas’, ‘cutting the cheese’, ‘letting one rip’, or whatever, does contain an element of humor – in addition to elements of ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, and mercaptan. With that element of humor in mind, The Book of Wind, a true work of fart (correction: work of art) was written by me, Jim Riva, at the height of my intestinal energy.
Yes, The Book of Wind is crude, but my goal was to make it cleverly crude: Aaron Sak, President of Phoenix Professional Packaging, Inc., called the book “a pure stroke of creative genius.”
I like to think that I took bathroom humor to a new high, with a touch of gas – I mean class. David Lieberman, head of the Division of Gastroenterology at OHSU (Oregon Health & Science University), said, “The book was a huge hit with my colleagues.”
All of the ‘victims’ have the names of flowers.
The Book of Wind is, of course, a guys’ book. After all, one of the big differences between ladies and guys is that ladies find bathroom humor to be disgusting, whereas guys find it to be disgustingly funny. Ralph Susmark, Regional Vice President of New Business Development for Venserv, had this to say about the book: “It’s sick. I loved it!”
I displayed The Book of Wind for the first time at a book fair in Seattle. I had a toilet seat on the table and a sign in the bowl that read BLOWOUT SALE.
This ‘smellbinding’ book has headings like Close Encounters of the Repugnant Kind, Wild-West Gas-slingers, Farts in the Anals of History, Fart-Ignition, Unleashments in Elevators, Airlines’ Frequent Farters, Trains, Planes, and Fartomobiles – and on and on and on.
This is definitely not a book that you’ll want to bury your nose in, but it is a gas. Paul Schlumpberger, General Manager of American Machine & Rollform Tech, Inc., said, “It killed me. I’d never read a book like that.” Jim Kelly, Vice President of Pacific Crest Securities, said, “Even weeks later, the guys in the office were still talking about parts of this book.”
No trees are cut down in the
production of audiobooks.
I now have a new-and-improved edition of The Book of Wind, but I’m making it available only as an audiobook because sound effects make the content funnier (and you know what kind of sound effects I’m talking about).
If you’d like to listen to me read some excerpts from the audiobook, I’ve got some for you in an MP3 file. Click HERE to listen to them.
Thanks for visiting my website. Best wishes to you for a whole lot of things to smile about and laugh about. I hope that The Book of Wind will be in the mix.
