A friend reports getting the following e-mail from Amazon:
We’ve noticed that customers who have purchased The Government Manual for New Superheroes by Matthew David Brozik also purchased books by Christopher Behrens. For this reason, you might like to know that Christopher Behrens’s Penis Pokey is now available . You can order your copy by following the link below.
Penis Pokey
Christopher Behrens
Price: $9.95
(June 1, 2006)Book Description
This book contains no nudity. No profanity. No sexual material of any kind. And yet it just might be the most obscene thing we’ve ever published! Penis Pokey is an illustrated board book with a large die-cut hole in its center. Every spread features a dazzling full-color illustration with one thing missing–a banana, perhaps, or a fire hose, or a sea serpent. Male readers can complete the illustrations using the talents God has given them. Are we serious? Yes! Is this funny? Absolutely! Will this be a terrific hit with college students, bachelorette parties, and exhibitionists of all… Read more
I was kind of hoping they’d cross-market us with The Da Vinci Code, but you take what you can get.
Is this just a clever ploy to put Penis Pokey in my Amazon browsing history? Well, it’s there now and who knows what I’ll be recommended next. I also noticed that by rating “Office Space – Special edition with flair”, I set myself up to be recommended the two-disc set of Disney’s Cinderella.