The funniest Amazon reviews I've ever read.

[Fender32]

I haven't posted in OT for over two years, but I just had to come and share this with you.

The following Amazon product reviews were written by one, Dr. M. Vogelhaus (from the UK), and are clearly the work of a very sharp mind ...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/cdp/membe...tReview&page=1

Hope you enjoy them as much as I did .

[FromBeyond]

Originally Posted by Fender32

I haven't posted in OT for over two years, but I just had to come and share this with you.

The following Amazon product reviews were written by one, Dr. M. Vogelhaus (from the UK), and are clearly the work of a very sharp mind ...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/cdp/membe...tReview&page=1

Hope you enjoy them as much as I did .

Oh boy, i've just finished reading the first one and i'm already stoked for the next 10 pages

[Fender32]

Originally Posted by FromBeyond

Oh boy, i've just finished reading the first one and i'm already stoked for the next 10 pages

Trust me, it's all good! And free too .

[jordie65]

just read the first page.. fantastic!

[Kwesi]

This is great! I'm sure this'll keep a smile on my face for days

[Jim Nazium]

This one is hilarious - read just the capital letters:

"tHis camEra is a reaL bargain. it's esPecIally good wHen tAking pictures, eVEn outdoors, BEcausE you caN changE the amouNt of zoom you uSe, or Light the scene with flAsh, then saVE the result to a memory carD. i'd BuY THIS CAMERA for Photography or simpLy to hElp protect against AmneSia. whEn tHE mind pLays tricks i can Peruse the Myriad of imagEs or Go to my computEr and prinT them OUT. if Only all oF my gadgets Had such Ease of use, REally i can't recommend THE IXUS enougH. its price is AS fair as one might have expecteD, All things consideRed, franKly, Particularly given the fLuctuAtioN of the money marketS. i recommend it to you as it has been super FOR ME."

[DaveLS]

Help have been enslaved by this camera please help me get out of here the ixus has dark plans for me.

[bongomania]

Awesome, very funny stuff! I wish I had that kind of free time though.

[bassteban]

*...a spectacularly ineffective Mp3 player...*

[IconBasser]

this one took me a while to figure out, but once I realized it was a cook book, it became my favorite one:

This is a fascinating and hard hitting account of Hugh F-W's plight. Trapped in a kind of gastro-groundhog day, he has for several decades been trying to escape from River Cottage. True, it made him famous, and when he moved there first I am sure he was happy. However, he discovered that no matter how he tried to leave - on foot, by land rover, or in his ottercar - he found himself drawn inexorably back to the cottage, which functioned like some culinary planet to Hugh's moon.

"River Cottage Everyday" is both the title of the book and an existential cry of despair. The building's dark power has him in its thrall, and he fights on resolutely, in the only way he can: by cooking. Every recipe is a blow struck in a brutal war between him and the cottage; every ingredient is a weapon. I was moved to song by this book - highly recommended.

here's one about a laptop that he bought:

If you are really hungry then this probably isn't for you. I would say that it is mainly aimed at the more sophisticated gourmets, wanting to try a more substantial snack, who would no doubt relish the chance to try such a delicacy. My favourite parts, in no particular order, were: the power lead (chewy but with a hint of liquorice), the screen (although it does need to be stewed to start bringing out the flavours) and of course the keys. All were fresh and well prepared, but my personal preference was for the f, s, i, r, x, f5, Del, and that old favourite Alt Gr. A surprise came from the memory boards; for the first time I ate these as sushi. Wasabi really makes them come alive. All in all, highly recommended.

[Fender32]

I posted this in the "Off Topic" of another (photography ) forum that I use and someone there knew actually the author. Apparently, he's a school teacher, who teaches languages (well, Spanish at least) and was well known for his curious and amusing way of explaining things .

I think that he should write (peculiar) childrens stories, myself, and narrate animated versions of them . They'd sell well on DVD, I'm sure!

[Simo98]

I have a feeling it may be David Thorne.

http://www.27bslash6.com/overdue.html

Reminds me a lot of his writing style, also he mentioned ready steady cook, which i don't think exists outside of australia (its a terrible show, but the only thing on tv at half past one)

[Happynoj]

Originally Posted by Simo98

I have a feeling it may be David Thorne.

http://www.27bslash6.com/overdue.html

Reminds me a lot of his writing style, also he mentioned ready steady cook, which i don't think exists outside of australia (its a terrible show, but the only thing on tv at half past one)

The British invented Ready Steady Cook....

[Fender32]

Originally Posted by Simo98

I have a feeling it may be David Thorne.

http://www.27bslash6.com/overdue.html

Reminds me a lot of his writing style, also he mentioned ready steady cook, which i don't think exists outside of australia (its a terrible show, but the only thing on tv at half past one)

I have it on good authority that this is the guy (a school teacher from the UK) ...

http://www.myspace.com/vogelhausen


Makes me proud to be British (am I allowed to even say that these days )?

[Simo98]

Originally Posted by Happynoj

The British invented Ready Steady Cook....

Did they?

Thank god for that... so its your fault! :P

[Simo98]

Originally Posted by Fender32

I have it on good authority that this is the guy (a school teacher from the UK) ...

http://www.myspace.com/vogelhausen


Makes me proud to be British (am I allowed to even say that these days )?

hehe, i was also thinking it might be another guy, but if you say you know who it is, ill believe you :P

ill link the image anyway, they are a good read.

http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/7929/timemachine.jpg

[Fender32]

Originally Posted by Simo98

hehe, i was also thinking it might be another guy, but if you say you know who it is, ill believe you :P

ill link the image anyway, they are a good read.

http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/7929/timemachine.jpg

Thanks for the link. Simo, but I couldn't get it to load .

I'll try again later.

[Number27]

in his first review of the iron, while describing it's other functions, he says "an enigmatic, glowering doomsday weapon"

... i wonder if that's a reference to FLCL?

[Simo98]

Try this link instead:

http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/3...memachineg.jpg

The old one isn't working for me either, strange since it was working earlier this morning.

[Fender32]

Originally Posted by Simo98

Try this link instead:

http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/3...memachineg.jpg

The old one isn't working for me either, strange since it was working earlier this morning.

Craig sounds like a laugh!

The guy who I posted a link to has actually admitted to being the same Dr. M. Vogelhausen responsible for the Amazon reviews, in his (highly amusing) Facebook profile (below):


"The first thing I remember is the creaking of the timbers all around me, and the lurching of the ship from side to side. I was dressed as a circus trainer, but this was the first of many false trails I would follow in vain. I was alone, bewildered and hungry, four miles off the coast of Buckinghamshire. Since then I have wandered the barren steppes between Aylesbury and Thame, scratching a living making scale models of mythical creatures and sports presenters out of wet sand and reviewing things on amazon, here http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/pdp/profile/A3B2IL2CP9GW2C more information about me can be found on my facebook page at www.facebook.com/vogelhausen"

His writing style seems pretty authentic, too .