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Dave Barry
Personal blog · davebarry.comculturewriting
Dave Barry's personal blog at davebarry.com covers culture and writing. Since 2011, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dave Barry's site for his humorous newspaper columns, such as holiday shopping, party and gift-guide pieces, and for his books, which commenters describe as laugh-out-loud funny.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Dave Barry author of Insane City
What Hacker News says?
I have no insight but boy oh boy is this funny and well written. Like prime Dave Barry [0]. [0] https://www.davebarry.com/columns/how-to-make-board.php
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on “I tasted Honda’s spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)”Appropriate remark! (from https://davebarry.com/misccol/christmas.htm )
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on “Wish HN: Happy Holidays”Dave Barry is a great source of accurate information, e.g. on how to buy gifts for Christmas. This column [1] includes vital information about parking at a mall, children, etc. A must read for the upcoming season. [1] https://davebarry.com/misccol/christmas.htm
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on “Facts about throwing good parties”This book was suggested in Dave Barry's 2002 Holiday Gift Guide. It just keeps on giving. http://www.davebarry.com/gg/2002giftguide/4605133.htm
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on “NYT Review of ‘The 4-Hour Body’”Here's his Website: https://www.davebarry.com Has a delightful 90's flavor. He was a columnist for the Miami Herald, for many years, and has written a number of books. The site will let you read a number of his columns. His books read about the same, but longer. Absolute riot.
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on “Good Writing”I was introduced to Dave Barry through his 'Year in Review' parody of the year's events (back when it came in print in the 'Tropic' magazine included in the Sunday Miami Herald.) I laughed and laughed, the way a Bill Bryson book might make you laugh. He once borrowed the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile [1] to pick his son up from school. And my wife is so used to my using one of his tropes, 'That would make a great name fo…
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on “The Night Watch [pdf] (2013)”Here's the original article by Dave Barry from 2013 mentioned in the linked article. https://www.davebarry.com/misccol/poptarts.htm
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on “Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches (1994)”"Looking at Goble's video and photos, I became, as an American, all choked up with gratitude at the fact that I do not live anywhere near the engineers' picnic site." - http://www.davebarry.com/misccol/charcoal.htm Does my heart good to see there are still some hardcore tinkerers out there, though.
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on “Pulse jet tea kettle”This is pretty accurate (I used to travel to Tokyo regularly -for about 20 years). My favorite "Notes on Japan" was Dave Barry Does Japan [0]. [0] https://www.davebarry.com/book-page.php?isbn13=9780449908105
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on “Notes on Japan”People want a transit system that takes them where they want to go when they want to go, that is clean, that they don't have to share with strangers, that they won't have someone asking them for "spare" change [1], that has their personal accouterments available for them, that allows them to do other things with their time, that isn't terribly expensive, that doesn't smell like urine. [1] http://www.davebarry.com/gg…
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on “How driverless cars will affect our cities”Here is the Dave Barry column mentioned in the obituary about George’s barbecue lighting: https://www.davebarry.com/misccol/charcoal.htm
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on “George Goble died recently – known for first dual-CPU-Unix and fast BBQ lighting”From Dave Barry's Christmas Shopping: a Survivor's Guide ( https://davebarry.com/misccol/christmas.htm ) Gifts for Women Again, you should avoid buying clothes, but not because women don't like clothes. The problem is sizes. First of all, women's clothing sizes don't mean anything. Suppose you're looking at a dress, and the tag says it's a size 14. You could measure that dress with every known measuring instrument,…
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on “Womens Sizing”
