<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER  • You can&apos;t make this stuff up. Dave Barry wouldn&apos;t lie—and here are the real life, laugh-out-loud stories from across America to prove it.</b><br /><br />Get up-close with Dave as he examines UFO thrillseekers and Elvis-worshippers, plays lead guitar with a horrifying rock band that includes Stephen King, and swears to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth in stories like these:<br /><br />• a U.S. Supreme Court justice shares his remedy for preventing gas ("I had not realized that this was a matter of concern in the highest levels of government")<br /><br />• a newspaper headline in Ohio announces the combustibility of strawberry Pop-Tarts ("A story that can really help you gain a better understanding of how you can be killed by breakfast snack food")<br /><br />• a frightening fact that snakes have mastered the pipelines leading directly to your toilet—and they&apos;re not shy ("Many women might view this as a fair punishment for all the billions of times that guys have left the seat up").<br /><br />"Barry is at his best."<br /><i><b>—The Baltimore Sun</b></i><br /><br />"He zaps the funny bone."<br /><i><b>—The Cincinnati Post</b></i>