Re: A publisher for "The Lost in the Woods Diet"!

George Cherry wrote:

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"George Cherry" wrote
There often seems to be more diet books than
people on the planet. Every celebrity has a diet
book. As a joke I came up with my own diet: "The
Lost in the Woods Diet"! Almost no one got the
joke, and it "backfired"! I received an email from
a publisher's agent who said they liked the title
and the idea. I figured a joker was trying to play a
joke on me, the original joker. But the agent was
authentic. I told the agent that I posted my idea/
title as a spoof. The agent replied that the best
books sometimes start that way, and that the
publisher would like to get serious about the idea,
and would help me write the book by providing a
nutrititionist to consult on it. The agent had done
her homework and discovered that I had written
five technical books and had scientific credentials.

Okay, so I'm going to go ahead with the venture.
I can push my vegetarian agenda from a new
angle. (The agent wants to keep the bugs part
in the book because bugs add "panache"!)
Congratulations.

Jonathan
Thanks, Jonathan. I've got a long way to go. In
the supermarket today, we limited ourselves to
buying only food you MIGHT find in some woods
somewhere. Maybe the main audience for this
book will be deer and moose. Seriously, I'm
going to find out what they eat and see whether
it's safe for human beings to eat these plants.

Remember that true story about the soccer team
that crashed in some South American mountains.
They survived for months until they were found--by
eating their deceased companions. I have no
problem with eating meat from an animal (or human
being) who wasn't killed for me. : o )
"How to Survive by Hanging Around Hospitals
and Funeral Homes" - "The Corpse's Cookbook"

Chapter 1 - Making Lampshades
Chapter 2 - Making Candles
Chapter 3 - Making Soap
Chapter 4 - Pot Roast Recipes
Chapter 5 - Long Pig Roast
Chapter 6 - Chopped Liver
...

LOL! (Now I know why Stumper called me a Nazi.)
The last one still living gets to eat the other ones.





To protect your fragile ego in your temper tantrum episodes,
you have been resorting to denial of humanity to some people
who are reminding you of your insecurity.

That's exactly the way Nazis acted in a grand scale.

Be careful.
You can actually hurt someone you love.

--
~Stumper
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