The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins

My greatest fear has come true: Richard Dawkins has stolen the title to my first book, The Greatest Show on Earth. He has stolen it and mangled it at the same time, adding the subtitle: The Evidence for Evolution. Anyone familiar with my agenda knows that I now believe chimps evolved from the human race. Before that, I was a staunch advocate for the theory of Devolution. But my theory had a few problems. I could not explain the superior abstract reasoning, language, introspection, and problem solving skills of chimpanzees, and why they are cuter than the rest of us.

It appears that Mr. Dawkins has beat me to the punch. This is my fault. I was slow to get the 2nd Edition of my book into circulation, where I planned to include pictures (ex-girlfriends, former bosses) and additional documents (illiterate emails and drunken text messages from a real-life alcoholic/Wellbutrin-addict psychotherapist) to support my thesis. I suspect this material will be cleverly presented in Mr. Dawkins’ book. If I see one picture of an ape I’m calling the police. And I should note here that the evolutionary chart I made of certain celebrities, journalists, politicians, and former-coworkers is copyrighted material.

[posted by daniel scott buck]

 

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