Gawd, not another children's book reducing complicated adult lifestyle choices into propagandistic pabulum. Where will it end?
Copyright © 2009 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2009 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. All rights reserved.
This has to be satire, right?
If you look closely at the text of the book, you'll see it's a joke. Tom O'Connor, the inside flap reveals, is not a real person. This is meant to be a clever ad for Microsoft.
I think "When Mommy and Daddy love each other very much, Daddy wants to give Mommy a special gift," is a satire giveaway.
"Offices are why big people get grumpy, and say bad words."
"The office is a boring place where big people go and do boring things..."
It's amazingly hard to explain to children why you have to do that every day, even when you throw in the bit about how you can't feed them without going there... after all we don't want to beat them down with the adulthood they will inhabit for 60 years, do we? ;)
Funny satire, but as an ad for microshaft? give me a break, guys, you ARE the boring office...
Geez Meg,
Way to harsh on a valid lifestyle choice.
Does the part about installation ("Daddy can do it himself") remind you all of those "some assembly required" Christmas presents? Except that there was a much better chance of Daddy owning the tools needed and being able to figure out the Chinese assembly instructions...
Then there was something like, "you can keep your files on the server so they don't get lost." Rather, so everyone's files all get lost at once - a good server backup system tends to cost more than the server itself...
markm, should have settled for "Heather Has 2 Flash Drives"