Uncle Bob: Can't Wait To Show Me His Knob (Rejected Children's Books (Funny Books For Adults)) - Softcover

Gosse, Brad

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798786556767

Publisher: Independently published, 2021

Synopsis

Uncle Bob Can't Wait To Show Me His Knob... A Dedicated Hobbyist Who Won't Stop Bringing It Up At Dinner

Uncle Bob is so excited. Uncle Bob has been working on something. Uncle Bob's knob... the one he's been crafting in his workshop, with the specific pride of a man who has developed a woodworking hobby late in life and has found in knob-making a late-arriving passion that he discusses at every family gathering with the enthusiasm of someone who has finally found their thing. Uncle Bob made a knob. Uncle Bob made several knobs. Uncle Bob cannot wait to show you his knob. The dinner table has been informed of the knob. The knob is in the workshop. Uncle Bob is going to get it.

This adult parody book is a celebration of the hobbyist uncle archetype... the man who found a late-life passion that takes up all available conversational space... and the specific woodworking hobby that allows every sentence about it to contain the word "knob" without any of those sentences technically being about anything other than woodworking. Uncle Bob is a woodworker. The book is about woodworking. The knob is a woodworking product. Everything is very clearly about woodworking.

This Book IS For:

• Adults who have an uncle equivalent whose hobby has produced a vocabulary that requires careful management at family events
• Fans of double-meaning humor that commits completely to the innocent reading while making the second reading inescapable
• Anyone who has had a conversation about woodworking that kept landing somewhere the conversation wasn't supposed to go
• Gift-givers who want to give a book about a hobby uncle that earns its laugh from the first sentence of the description

This Book Is NOT For:

• Actual woodworking enthusiasts who feel their craft is being used as a vehicle for humor they didn't consent to represent
• Uncles named Bob who are not woodworkers and feel this is unfair attribution
• Readers who need hobbyist content to remain in a register where "knob" means only one thing throughout
• Family gatherings where this book would end up in Uncle Bob's hands before the humor has been adequately explained

Appropriate For:

• Family holiday exchanges among adults who are all aware of Uncle Bob's hobby and have been at the dinner table for the knob conversation
• White elephant exchanges where reading the title aloud is the most efficient possible gift-giving strategy
• Gag gifts for the woodworker in your life who has enough self-awareness to appreciate the phonetic situation they're in
• Anyone who has an uncle with a hobby that generates vocabulary that requires in-room management

Why Buy This

Uncle Bob's knob is exceptional. Uncle Bob made it himself. Uncle Bob would like you to see it, hold it, and understand the craftsmanship that went into it. The grain is good. The finish is smooth. Uncle Bob's knob is everything he hoped it would be when he started the woodworking hobby that has made knob-making the center of his creative life. The book documents all of this with the enthusiasm that Uncle Bob deserves and the phonetic situation that Uncle Bob is not aware of.

Buy it for the family member who will understand immediately. Buy it for someone who has been at the dinner table when Uncle Bob discussed his knob. Buy it for a woodworker who has noticed that their hobby generates this specific conversational dynamic and has decided to lean into it. The knob is in the workshop. Uncle Bob is going to get it. He cannot wait to show you. That's the whole thing. The book is ready. The knob is ready. Uncle Bob has been ready since Tuesday.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798786556767
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 25