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WHERE WOULD YOU WANT TO GO TODAY -- IF YOU HAD 50 BILLION DOLLARS? Find out on Bill Gates' Personal Super Secret Private Laptop: A Microspoof. Due to a miraculous twist of fate, the laptop you hold in your hand came into the possession of Henry Beard, John Boswell, and Ron Barrett, a trio of concerned, if computer-illiterate, citizens and authors of such bestselling humor books as O.J.'s Legal Pad and French for Cats. Now that these three have hired precocious preteens to hock into Gates' secret notes, plans, e-mails, and to-do lists, we can all be privy to the intellectual property of the richest man in the world. Fabulously fabricated in two-color throughout, Bill Gates' Personal Super Secret Private Laptop exhaustively captures the mind, spirit, and nerdiness of Bill Gates -- the guy who owns you, or soon will.
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I found Bill Gates' Personal Super Secret Private Laptop on Amazon when I was browsing for books by Henry Beard, not for computer books. Imagine my surprise..."A very funny send-up from a very funny guy about a not-so-funny billionaire."
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If you haven't read anything by Henry Beard, you may not have had a good laugh in a while. Henry's writing reminds me of the classic Mad Magazine satires of the 1960s and 1970s, back when the magazine was funny and biting. Here, along with John Boswell, Henry does a send-up on what might be on Bill Gates' laptop computer.
The book is set up like a laptop. The left page contains a "screen", the right a "keyboard". Both sides are funny. The screen shows activities you might typically find on Bill Gates' laptop, though I doubt the Janet Reno in a bikini image would be there (unless you read the previous page's screen). The keyboard side is the most amusing to me, with certain keys subtly changing names on each page.
Like other books by Beard this one has a special place in my office, right there by the most important seat I occupy. I believe you will enjoy it as well. --Dan Gookin
Henry Beard was a founder of National Lampoon and is the author or coauthor of many popular humor books, including Miss Piggy's Guide to Life, Sailing: A Sailor's Dictionary, and The Official Politically Correct and Sexually Correct dictionaries.
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- PublisherSimon & Schuster UK
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0684854643
- ISBN 13 9780684854649
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages96
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BILL GATE'S PERSONAL, SUPER SECRET, PRIVATE LAPTOP : A Microspoof
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. First Edition, 2nd Printing. BRAND NEW copy. Text: Laptop format. Boards/Fine: Padded, faux-laptop cover. DJ/None as Issued. All in laptop format (unpaginated as laptop screens are). As you & I have laptops in hand, how do they differ from Bill Gate's secret lap-top computer in hand? A witty, fictional spoof, "Obviously Faked By Henry Beard & John Boswell; skillfully Forged By Ron Barrett". Padded cover is stamped with "don'tell what's inside" (variant of Intel logo). A totally unenforceable license binds the reader to periodic chuckles, chortles & knee-slaps. Great fun from Henry Beard (founder of National Lampoon), John Boswell (New York book packager), and Ron Barrett (author-artist). Seller Inventory # 000744
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