America - The User's Guide

[Mangrove]

Long story short - I couldn't sleep, had an idea.

Basically, compilation of Cartoons, rants, pics, WOMPs, 'American Moments' etc basically anything that would explain America to others and be a handy manual of instruction. Perhaps this could be cobbled together into some kind of publication, maybe it's an Intermittens....

1st submission from The Scrid

[Sir Fronkensteen, The Hawk]

 

I could not make heads or tails of this

[Mangrove]

I could not make heads or tails of this

1. Average dude
2. Threat! 
3. Realization that the threat was exaggerated
4. Self-medication with fast food, pharmaceuticals, religion and inefficient cars.

[Sir Fronkensteen, The Hawk]

GENIUS

[Doktor Howl]

Long story short - I couldn't sleep, had an idea.

Basically, compilation of Cartoons, rants, pics, WOMPs, 'American Moments' etc basically anything that would explain America to others and be a handy manual of instruction. Perhaps this could be cobbled together into some kind of publication, maybe it's an Intermittens....

1st submission from The Scrid

Oh, I am ON that.

[Mangrove]

Long story short - I couldn't sleep, had an idea.

Basically, compilation of Cartoons, rants, pics, WOMPs, 'American Moments' etc basically anything that would explain America to others and be a handy manual of instruction. Perhaps this could be cobbled together into some kind of publication, maybe it's an Intermittens....

1st submission from The Scrid

Oh, I am ON that.

Welcome aboard, Dok! I'm looking forward to your input.   

[Doktor Howl]

Long story short - I couldn't sleep, had an idea.

Basically, compilation of Cartoons, rants, pics, WOMPs, 'American Moments' etc basically anything that would explain America to others and be a handy manual of instruction. Perhaps this could be cobbled together into some kind of publication, maybe it's an Intermittens....

1st submission from The Scrid

Oh, I am ON that.

Welcome aboard, Dok! I'm looking forward to your input.   

I'll put something together while I'm traveling.

[Jenne]

So is it...100% VISUAL?  I'm sorta still not getting it...though I like what I see...and why are you sleeping in the afternoon?

[Mangrove]

So is it...100% VISUAL?  I'm sorta still not getting it...though I like what I see...and why are you sleeping in the afternoon?

No, it doesn't have to be visual. It can obviously be text...which is visual also, unless you've discovered some form of online braille.

(I wasn't sleeping in the afternoon...well...I didn't today. Yesterday was a different story.)

The concept is this: Distill your opinions of America in a way that explains it to other people. If you had to give a new immigrant or visitor an operation manual for their edification and survival.

Essays, rants, poems, art, photography etc is all fair play. Hell, even video or musical presentations if people are so inclined. Obviously, if this is something that is worthy of being put into a print medium like Intermittens, then video & music is not going to work.

Anyway, this is just a basic 'theme' for people to riff off of. I couldn't sleep well the other night and whenever I'm like that, my brain churns over at an alarming rate but in doing so I came up with the 'America - A User's Guide Concept', the above cartoon, an essay idea about socialism and one (maybe two) more installments of my 'letters from the afterlife' series.

[Jenne]

Oh...GOT IT!  Ok, I'm so in...  In fact, I should make a parody of this "field manual" my husband mistakenly bought me thinking it would help me understand Afghans better...it's given out to the US military, I guess?  Or maybe it's just marketed like that?  Because it's really hilarious.  Accent on Afghanistan: Dari. http://www.amazon.com/Accent-Afghanistan-Dari-Language-Culture/dp/1591257344/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1280462028&sr=1-2  ...but of course about the USandA.

Ok...I'll be thinking about this some.

[Mangrove]

Oh...GOT IT!  Ok, I'm so in...  In fact, I should make a parody of this "field manual" my husband mistakenly bought me thinking it would help me understand Afghans better...it's given out to the US military, I guess?  Or maybe it's just marketed like that?  Because it's really hilarious.  Accent on Afghanistan: Dari. http://www.amazon.com/Accent-Afghanistan-Dari-Language-Culture/dp/1591257344/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1280462028&sr=1-2  ...but of course about the USandA.

Ok...I'll be thinking about this some.

I was looking for a guide to Dari for someone with some Persian experience. That's not what I found here. Instead I found a good basic introduction to Dari with an extremely heavy military orientation. I have students who immigrated to the United States from Afghanistan. I'd like to speak with them and their parents in Dari. But I have no desire to say, "Do you have any unauthorized weapons?" or "Hands behind your back."

(From Amazon review) 


PS Jenne, I welcome your input. I think the Afghan manual has great potential for parody.

[Aucoq]

I was looking for a guide to Dari for someone with some Persian experience. That's not what I found here. Instead I found a good basic introduction to Dari with an extremely heavy military orientation. I have students who immigrated to the United States from Afghanistan. I'd like to speak with them and their parents in Dari. But I have no desire to say, "Do you have any unauthorized weapons?" or "Hands behind your back."

(From Amazon review) 

[Juana]

^ There's a general sense of mistrust towards Europe where I live. :P

[Jenne]

Oh...GOT IT!  Ok, I'm so in...  In fact, I should make a parody of this "field manual" my husband mistakenly bought me thinking it would help me understand Afghans better...it's given out to the US military, I guess?  Or maybe it's just marketed like that?  Because it's really hilarious.  Accent on Afghanistan: Dari. http://www.amazon.com/Accent-Afghanistan-Dari-Language-Culture/dp/1591257344/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1280462028&sr=1-2  ...but of course about the USandA.

Ok...I'll be thinking about this some.

I was looking for a guide to Dari for someone with some Persian experience. That's not what I found here. Instead I found a good basic introduction to Dari with an extremely heavy military orientation. I have students who immigrated to the United States from Afghanistan. I'd like to speak with them and their parents in Dari. But I have no desire to say, "Do you have any unauthorized weapons?" or "Hands behind your back."

(From Amazon review) 


PS Jenne, I welcome your input. I think the Afghan manual has great potential for parody.

Thanks.  Yeah, I mean, H bought it as a means to help me relate to his mom.  And the advice they tell people in that book is hilarious--like "don't call everyone 'Haji'--they don't like that."  I started whipping it out as a joke book for people who came to see us at the house.  It got much lulz.

[Aucoq]

Thanks.  Yeah, I mean, H bought it as a means to help me relate to his mom.  And the advice they tell people in that book is hilarious--like "don't call everyone 'Haji'--they don't like that."  I started whipping it out as a joke book for people who came to see us at the house.  It got much lulz.

LOL!