If you must dedicate this vile knock-off to me, please spell my name correctly:

RUDOLF HESS

Stellvertreter des Fuehrers
Reichsminister a.D.
somewhere in Argentina

Rudolf,

My apologies; now corrected.

Good luck with your secret mission to England!

I thought Mein Kampf was pretty funny, so I'll try Our Kampf.
If you can, please have it signed by Ahmadinejad! Vielen Dank.

I thought Rudolf was the reindeer.

Only by PayPal?

Only by PayPal?

From now through Christmas, yes (though remember you don't need a Paypal account to use it -- just a major credit card).

Soon after Christmas it will be available via Amazon.

Of course, your book will be competing with
MEIN KRAMPF
by former speaker Hastert, the heartwarming story of one man's battle against and victory over acid reflux and bloating. The bloating has not been fully conquered. It's a professional affliction, dontcha know.

Surely that's dedicated to Rudolf Hess, not 'dictated' to him?

No, Mein Kampf was actually dictated to Hess. (And some other guy.) I guess Hitler just talked and talked and talked and then they tried to turn it into something reasonably coherent.

Hitler dictated the first half of "Mein Kampf" to fellow prisoners Rudolf Hess and Emile Maurice in Landesberg prison in 1924. He wrote the second half, after his release, in 1925.
Now, the original title was supposed to be : "Viereinhalb Jahre (des Kampfes) gegen Luege, Dummheit und Feigheit."
("Four-and-a-half years (of struggle) against lies, stupidity and cowardice.")

Woulda been read by as many people as read a dissertation on the early unpublished poetry of Emily Dickinson.
What a difference a title makes.

What a difference a title makes.

Or a name, as others have previously observed.

Heil Schickelgruber!

Yeah, coulda been:
-Hiedler--what his father (Alois Hitler) thought he was changing his name to in 1876/77--some clerk along the way spelled it Hitler.
-Coulda been Nepomuk, my favorite, but a long and convoluted story. But a funny (by German standards) name.

Do our leaders have funny names? Well, Tricky Dick is funny, but that was just a nic.
Funnier names might make some Americans laugh more at their leaders. I wish.

Do our leaders have funny names?...
Funnier names might make some Americans laugh more at their leaders.

Surely you jest. John Boehner (R-Dumbass). Best name ever. Oh, wait. You said "leaders". Actually, there aren't too many of those around anymore. I got some "feeders", and over there's some "greeters"... Nope, no more "leaders".

Jon -
Do you do personalized greetings -- like love letters, long-overdue apologies, etc? Sort of like personalized singing telegrams, but funny.

Yes, Vasonyacky (by the way, what kind of name is that?) we have no leaders today. Despite all those books on "leadership," from Drucker to Dreck.
Then again, the great leaders of the 20th century were Hitler, Stalin and Mao. Maybe we need humble managers with salary caps. But it's five days to Weihnachten and I'm dreaming already.
Cheers.

When I first heard your book's name is Our Kampf at Dennis Perrin's Site I thought you have poked fun at that lunatic who is obsessed with Noam Chomsky, Oliver Kampf. Anyway the book must be very funny. Best of luck for the book.

Sehr Geheertes Herr Tiny!

Often I am seeing that the books with the humor which are being made, but always with the taste.
And now comes this which is some of a parodie of the book from the old days. However you are making the title wrong you know. But good luck.

Mit Freundlichen Greussen u. The Other Thing also,

A. Bewartung
(Retired)

Funny names, you say? Do de name Barak Obama ring a bell?

Which means his run for the presidency is probably hopeless. The last president we've had with a funy name was Dwight Eisenhower. Before that you have to go back to Calvin Coolidge, though Roosevelt would probably count as a funny name if we weren't so used to it.

Jana C.H.
Seattle
Saith Floss Forbes: If you don't know the tune, sing tenor.

The name of the town wher Hitler did time is Landsberg am Lech. Whereas the 'Landsberg' is a 'fortress' and lies at the river Lech. It was a strategic spot to collect customs and taxes.

I usually don't buy nagware, but in this case...maybe.

And why doesn't your paypal button prefill the amounts?

I usually don't buy nagware

Thank you for introducing me to that term, which for some reason I'd never encountered before.

And why doesn't your paypal button prefill the amounts?

Well...I didn't set it to do so. The cold hard truth is I was worried someone might want to donate more than $19.95 because they love the site so much, and would then be dissuaded from doing so because the form was pre-set at $19.95. In other words, it's just brazen greed.

In the spirit of pervasive paranoia that your readers enjoy, I thought you were just phishing me with the empty PayPal boxes...

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Can you set up an open post where we (the Tiny people), can compete for your affections by kissing up your unabashed desire to recycle old crap into new green? Certainly, you can use some trite and unsolicited quotes from obsequious internet nobodies, praising your greed as virtuous.

Sample: This is a monumentally epic and important collection...I'd gladly sacrifice massive areas of the Amazon to deforestation, if only to keep copies in perpetual print. Accelerated global warming is a small price to pay to keep this book in a 2nd and 3rd printing...if only to keep the necessary paper stock out of Thomas Friedman's hands.

I don't actually need to read it to have a fawning opinion. Just have a inner need to counterbalance Gandhi's infuriating smugness on the left sidebar there.

There's something off about that guy.