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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.5402
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Label: Harper Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: October 01, 2008
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Release Date: October 07, 2008
Studio: Harper Paperbacks
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Product Description:
Bro-cab-u-lary (n.): A revolutionary new lexicon for bonding with your bros
Put down your BlackBerry, you PDA-hole, and cancel that masturdate it's time for Brocabulary: a bawdy new dicktionary. This crucial addition to your guybrary will put you in the testosterzone, whether you're being fandiloquent at the game or barticulating during a fargone-versation. Find out how to:
- Define your stripping point (the precise number of Jäger shots that make a woman want to get naked with you).
- Elect yourself the next Abraham Drinkin' and make an Inebriation Proclamation ("Four whores and seven beers ago . . .").
Stop brocrastinating! It's time to become everyone's guydol by leaving your mark on dudescussions for generations to come.
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
This is exactly how me and my bros talk when we're hanging out! Daniel Mauer has captured what being a man is all about. Don't brocrastinate any longer - buy this book now!
Rating:  -
Daniel Maurer's book Brocabulary: The New Man-i-festo of Dude Talk is a handbook of terms, charts, and drawn pictures and diagrams for increasing a man's 'brocabulary.' This book is chock full of sexual innuendos and cheesy coined terms that edge the line between offensive and explicit.
For what it's worth, though, this book is marginally clever, reasonably well-written, and contains good illustrations. If you are a woman, you will likely find this book rather offensive, but if you are a guy who enjoys raunchy sexual humor than this book may be for you...just don't expect anything too intellectual.
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While this is intended as a tongue-in-cheek dictionary of Dude-Speak, it also functions well as training manual for the college bound high-school student; who could be a more popular frat brother with a couple of dozen of these terms added to his vocabulary. It also works well a sociological study of the language of young men. I grew up in California in the 70's and 80's where these type of colloquialisms were born, yet I recognized only a few of these terms; indicating the author did a great job of researching and collecting these terms from far and wide. I would caution that there are many sexually derogatory terms within this text, so parents may want to keep this off their teenage children's reading list.
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I wasn't really expecting much (one never does from a book in this genre) but once I got it, I loved it. One thing that struck me was that the author really put some work into it - it's not particularly thick, but it's an endless stream of creative plays on words.
Now, not to build it up too much, I have to admit some of it just doesn't work...but the ones that do had me laughing out loud. You have to be careful if you try to speak them - without a good delivery, you'll look like an idiot...but if you are a writer in any way connected to pop culture, gen-ex or general humor then you'll find hundreds of springboards. And some of them do work spoken out loud...
All things considered, good to draw on (not too heavily) if you are a guy in need of a personality transfusion, great reading for the bathroom or long plain flight and an absolute must if you write for Maxim.
Rating:  -
This book looked like it would be a funny and interesting read. I did a quick skim the first day I had it. All I found was 230 pages of made up "bro" words with their lame definition. There are some funny parts, but it isn't worth going through the rest of the garbage to find them. I've already thrown this book away.
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