Stooples: Office Tools for Hopeless Fools.Stooples: Office Tools for Hopeless Fools. By Kevin Reifler, Nick Vacca and Adam Najberg. St. Martins Griffin, 128 pages. $12.95 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Brazen, often tasteless and silly, but clever and frequently laugh-out-loud funny. That's Stooples, a newly published parody of a well-known office superstore catalog. Clearly believers that good taste is something for other people and that the business world needs more humor, authors Kevin Reifler, Nick Vacca and Adam Najberg--two creative directors and an editor for Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance , respectively--cooked up this parody. Office workers "worry so much about every little thing that they forget to laugh," says Reifler in an interview. "We hope Stooples will remind them to laugh and not take everything in the office so seriously." There are actual disclaimers at the front, to be sure: that any resemblance to real people or companies is coincidental, that owners of trademarks have not endorsed the book and that the people photographed in the catalog are models. Indeed, the copyright holder is "Universal Spoofs LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control ." Part of the parody's charm is its attention to detail and polish; it looks real, with high production values Production values is a media term for "production cost." It refers to the professional look, or "polish," of a production. Factors that affect perceived production value may include video and audio quality, lighting, number of errors, and amount and quality of special effects. and bright colors. But any "catalog" offering a shareholder muzzle muzzle 1. the part of the face supported by the maxillae and nasal bones; the part of a dog's head anterior to the stop and cheeks, containing the nasal passages and bearing the nosepad. Longer in dolichocephalics and practically nonexistent in brachycephalics. , paper-cut leeches Leeches Definition Leeches are bloodsucking worms with segmented bodies. They belong to the same large classification of worms as earthworms and certain oceanic worms. Leeches can primarily be found in freshwater lakes, ponds, or rivers. , an "attrition helper" and a coal-burning computer (for just $1,899) is good for more than just a few laughs. |
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