Your Disgusting Head: The Darkest, Most Offensive-And Moist-Secrets of Your Ears, Mouth, and Nose [With Poster]

by Doris Haggis-on-Whey, Benny Haggis-on-Whey, Bennie Haggis-on-Whey

For many years the scientific and educational community has wondered and worried about the possibility that semi-sane scholar-pretenders would find the means to put out a series of reference books,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743267257
• ISBN13: 9780743267250
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 61 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.2" x 12.3"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Dark Secrets Of The Uvula!

This is an utterly brilliant book that is suitable for all ages, but will make anyone interested in the horrible and offensive secrets of your ears, nose, and mouth laugh out loud with repulsion. This is Volume 2, No. 241 of 307 in the "Haggis-On-Whey World of Unbelievable Brilliance" series of educational books written by Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey. The book contains a great deal of interesting information about heads that I had not been previously aware of, as well as a lot of useful, day-to-day tips. Examples include a chart explaining "Shapes of brain, including the possum, and colors of earwax," "The roof or your mouth through history" (although it only dates to 5800 BC, when the mouth changed from its prehistoric periwinkle color to the pink-red-brown hue we are now used to), "Political affiliations within the body" (it's no surprise that elbows are Republicans, while tonsils are staunchly Democratic), and a list of the four Presidents who didn't have ears (Taft, Cleveland, McKinley, and Coolidge, of course.) This is a hysterically funny and lushly bound volume, which is extremely entertaining, mildly educational, somewhat thought-provoking, and should be one everyone's bookshelf. I also recommend Volume 1, No. 120 of 307 "Giraffes? Giraffes!" which will fill your head full of non sequitur mammology in the same way as this volume explains cranium functionality. This is a truly brilliant book.

whoa.

i had no idea that my head was so disgusting. after reading this book, i've decided that i'm only keeping my head around until i find a suitable cover for the top of my neck, something not unlike a chimney topper that makes it nearly impossible for squirrels to crawl down and die (the chimney, not my neck). ten pages into this book, i bought a few as presents. you're welcome, present-recipients. highly recommended and quite enlightening. you'll like.

Great, Funny Book

I am wrapping gifts for my grandchildren. I purchased this book and Giraffes, Giraffes for two sets of them. I laughed out loud at the clever and so very funny text. I don't want to part with them but will make sure I check them out every time I visit with the grandkids.

A collation of remarkable facts

A gorgeously illustrated book. Many pages are suitable for color xeroxing and framing. If you have a stack of old National Geographics or social studies textbooks that you're keeping around for the pictures, this book will make your stack neatly obsolete. Dr. H.-O.-W. has a breezy, wry writing style that makes the sometimes-startling science within go down very smoothly indeed. Anyone with a head must -- nay, MUST -- read this book, at least parts of it. Highlights include knitting a tongue cozy; aminals of Madagascar; significant stories and charts; games and educational fun; and other highlights. There is a dangerously widening gulf between those who have read this book and those who haven't, and reading it is the only way to truly know which side you want to be on.

Finally, an explanation for the human ear (and more).

Why are ears so freakish and weird, even more alien than the roofs of our mouths or the gnarled depths of our bellybuttons? If you think all that showy cauliflowery serves a purpose, you're wrong. Thanks to the exhaustive research of Dr. Doris Haggis-on-Whey (and her eversmiling sidekick, Benny), we now know who to blame: Fernando de la Mancini-Goldfarb, the infamous procrastinator and inventor who designed the ear in a rush of poor-planning one night in 1911. It all makes sense now, no? "Your Disgusting Head" is packed with similarly illuminating facts, drawings, and diagrams, each specially designed to edify and entertain -- the perfect panacea for all the gift-buying challenges in your life, from the littlest child to the tallest adult.