Patently Christmas: Inflatable Snowmen, Singing Elves, Collapsible Trees, and Other Patented Flashes of Holiday Genius | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard Ross
Publisher: Plume
Category: Book
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Pages: 160
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.5
ISBN: 0452286808
Dewey Decimal Number: 608.773
EAN: 9780452286801
Publication Date: October 25, 2005
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Christmas lovers have a new reason to rejoice! Building on the exhaustive U.S. Patent Office research that spawned the cult classics Patently Ridiculous and Patently Erotic, Richard Ross presents a collection of yuletide patent applications some puzzling, some insane, all hilarious. Like its predecessors, Patently Christmas provides a fascinating glimpse into what happens when creativity, capitalism (and perhaps a small dose of delusion) collide. Extensively illustrated with the inventors own diagrams, Patently Christmas is the perfect stocking stuffer, filled with new and wacky takes on time-honored Christmas traditions.
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YULE LIKE THIS HOLIDAZE TREAT October 31, 2005
Alan W. Petrucelli (THE ENTERTAINMENT REPORT (ALAN W. PETRUCELLI))
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
It's beginning to read a lot like Christmas. The publishers spew out the Yuletide titles, and we read them. And sometimes we weep. In the case of Richard Ross' latest, we laughed. Often. This collection of patent applications --- think Santa Claus detectors, singing elves, inflatable snow people and collapsible, pine-scented fake evergreens, smoke alarms in the shape of haloed angels --- proves what happens when the creativity, curiosity, capitalism of idle wanna inventors collide ... perhaps sparked by a generous helping of spiked eggnog. Santa, baby, all we want for Christmas is the tree that sticks out his tongue, patent #US6.053.790.
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