Drop Us a Line... Sucker!: The Prank Letters of James and Stuart Wade - Softcover

Wade, James; Wade, Stuart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786702052 ISBN 13: 9780786702053

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, 1995

Synopsis

For five years, James Wade, an American businessman living in Switzerland, has been firing off preposterous letters to organizations all over the world, seeing whether he can elicit serious replies to bizarre inquiries that are worded to appear as if they just might be legitimate. For example:
Does the company that makes Listerine have a booklet of tasty recipes based on their famous mouthwash?
Would the Hertz lost-and-found department mind searching for a customer's elderly mother, left in the back seat of his rental car by mistake?
Would a Big Ten College offer Physical Education credit for a correspondence course in karate?
Does a carpet cleaner have the facilities to dry clean a whale skin?
How would the Swiss Cheese Union like to develop a cheeseless, non-dairy fondue for export to America, where people love all things artificial?

About this title

From the Author

Prank letters a-go-go!
We asked; they replied. For 18 months, we wrote legitimate-sounding letters with bizarre queries to organizations worldwide. We never "let on" that we were pulling legs. The resulting prank business correspondence is compiled within and reveals much about corporate machinations. This was book was great fun to write and made going to the mailbox extremely suspenseful.

Edition details

• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786702052
• ISBN 13: 9780786702053
• Binding: Paperback