{"id":1407,"date":"2011-11-16T12:54:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T20:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2011-11-16T13:08:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T21:08:32","slug":"toilet-humour-reigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2011\/11\/16\/toilet-humour-reigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Toilet humour reigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading <em>CollegeHumor: The Website, The Book<\/em> (Da Capo) feels suspiciously like browsing websites while at work: the reader is acutely aware that they\u2019re just wasting time. Which makes a lot of sense, because if you were on a computer instead of sitting with a book, <a href=\"http:\/\/collegehumor.com\" target=\"_blank\">collegehumor.com<\/a> is the kind of website you\u2019d be browsing while procrastinating.<\/p>\n<p>The book itself is funny\u2014but it\u2019s internet funny.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/college-humor-book-cover1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1447\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/college-humor-book-cover1-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/college-humor-book-cover1-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/college-humor-book-cover1-300x360.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/college-humor-book-cover1-180x216.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/college-humor-book-cover1.jpg 583w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not everything translates into hilarity when going from the screen to the page, and if someone tried to read <em>CollegeHumor: The Website, The Book<\/em> without having any knowledge of things like Facebook or general pop culture, they\u2019d put the book down and get on with whatever other mundane tasks they spend their life doing. However, if someone is intimately familiar with memes and derives enjoyment by sending amusing links to their friends, it\u2019s probably right up their alley.<\/p>\n<p>The best place for this book is beside your toilet. It\u2019s too crude for a coffee table and has no place on your desk at work, and if you were to devote an evening or afternoon to reading, this wouldn\u2019t be the book you\u2019d want to be reading. But if you\u2019ve got a few minutes to relax and conduct business in a ventilated, private stall, <em>CollegeHumor: The Website, The Book<\/em> hits the spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading CollegeHumor: The Website, The Book (Da Capo) feels suspiciously like browsing websites while at work: the reader is acutely aware that they\u2019re just wasting time. Which makes a lot of sense, because if you were on a computer instead of sitting with a book, collegehumor.com is the kind of website you\u2019d be browsing while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-november-16-2011"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1458,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions\/1458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}