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Irked by Kirk: Nutty Prank Letters from Japan (Sexy Vampire - Free Beer edition) Kindle Edition

by Owen Wade (Author), Scott Linyard (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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"Irked by Kirk is very funny, in fact so funny at first glance I wondered if this can all be true." –The Kindle Book Review

Kirk Dunkirk is the master of insane correspondence. He gets answers to the questions you didn’t even know needed asking!
Can my dog get a sex change? Will Prince Charles spank Japanese university girls for charity? How can I ship mummies?

“Irked by Kirk” is a collection of zany and sophisticated but TRUE prank letters between Kirk and bigwig CEOs, hypnotists, and politicians. Ted L. Nancy's "Letters from a Nut" fans will enjoy this hilarious addition to the genre. With haiku, diagrams and puzzles.

Please note there are currently three editions of this book. The Sexy Vampire edition (110 pages), the complete Kindle edition (300+ full color pages) and the complete print edition (300+ full-size pages, like a phone book.) See links above to make sure you get the version you want.

Find out if:

• Fascists get discounts at Nissan

• Japanese honey gives people hives

• Sword-wielding Ninja bodyguards are allowed at professional basketball events

• Naked runners can get donuts at the Toronto Marathon

• The CEO of Honda really does hate human cannonballs

…and more!

And speaking of appreciation:

• "We'd like to highly appreciate your advice of new scent 'Recycled Lard' or 'Dank Hairy Floor.' It's nice and interesting for us to hear such kind of scents." -The Makers of Unicharm Air Fresheners

• "There is no eel to water ratio specifications... however [that] would be of minimal concern when compared to the health and safety of [restaurant] customers from spear gun shots." -Portland, Oregon Health Department

• "I don't believe it would be appropriate for anybody to run the course naked. Yes, our event passes by a few Tim Horton’s donut shops." -Toronto Marathon Officials

All of the letters are actual correspondence. Even postmarked envelopes are included.

(Please keep in mind that, depending on the device and application you choose to read ebooks with, some scanned letters might be hard to read due to potentially small font size. While most customers have had no trouble with this, the authors are aware of the issue and trying to fix it when they get breaks of free time away from their day jobs. In the meantime we appreciate your understanding.)

Go ahead, “look inside” the book, see some examples for yourself. But but be prepared to laugh so hard and suddenly you’ll spray coffee out your nose!

A huge 8.5 x 11” print edition is available too. It’s the size of the Baltimore phone book.

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About the Author

Kirk Dunkirk is lead singer in a Kochi, Japan based prog-rock band called Shaman You. He can use chopsticks well.

Scott Linyard is an actor and independent director whose films include "Imo Omiai" and "Homer's Aquarius." He was born on Noman, a small island in the Notar Republic.

Owen Wade is a tough guy from New Jersey who is pretty good at dominoes.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00E9AAQTM
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Banquished Books (December 16, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 16, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 7220 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 335 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #4,053,244 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2,510 in Parodies
- #6,441 in Parody

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Lucky Linda

Filled this rainy day with laughter

Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2012

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I love Irked by Kirk!!! It's pouring down rain today (all over Japan) and, feeling a little glum, I downloaded Kindle, started looking for comedy, and ran across this book. It has totally brightened my day--giving me one laugh after another. The time and effort you put into writing all those prank letters boggles my mind. Who would do something like that?! And the fact that those big companies, and even Prince Charles, actually wrote back is amazing. Their replies are hilarious. Thanks for the laughs, Kirk, Owen, and Scott! Ok, now back to the book....

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drmom2

Juvenile humor

Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2013

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I've read other humerous books with prank letters, so I expected this to be similar. But the so-called "prank" letters in this one are very immature jokes and really not that funny. So the author wrote a fake letter to a business and they replied... big deal. Some of the things he wrote about *could* have been a real question from someone - they weren't that extreme or ridiculous. I only made it through a few of them before giving up on the book & deleting it.

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Rob Natiuk

Pranky letters--some funny perhaps are--laughing if convenient! (Japanese-English mimicry).

Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2015

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I enjoyed the first half of the book more than the remainder. The joke letters seemed to be getting repetitious. Still, it's worth the read, even if you skim some letters with their answers. Something might catch your funny bone and you just might wind up laughing here and there!

As I was reading, I remembered a book from the mid-1990s that seemed similar. Sure enough, it was LETTERS FROM A NUT by Ted. L. Nancy and Jerry Seinfeld. After reading that one back then, I was tempted to write such a book myself. Well, now, after almost 20 years someone has done my job for me! Thanks to this author for that!

I'm not sure about the Japanese "mangled English" pretense in some of these "Letters from Japan." I don't find "English as a second language" twisted sentences that funny.

Overall, I liked this book because it wasn't serious and in places it was funny or satirical. Sorry I couldn't love it as I did Nancy's and Seinfeld's.

Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2013

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I didn't get far into this novel before becoming too frustrated to continue. I found much of the correspondence unreadable on my kindle so downloaded the book to my computer. Unfortunately, while it did improve the legibility a bit I found some parts so difficult to read that I gave up. The legibility issue may not occur in the print edition but it is totally unsuitable for eBook format.

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bastcrystal

I was prepared for something silly and not funny

Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2016

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Luckily I was pleasantly surprised to find that this book was so funny that I am going to buy the expanded version as well. The thing that made me laugh the most were the letters written so politely and seriously! My #1 favorite was the hotel that had NO reservations. I won't say why they said no because that would give away the joke.

Altogether a great way to chase away boredom and depression.

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ACCER

Really cute!

Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2013

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This is a funny look at letters and the nut that sent them. Worth a read especially when it's free!

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C. Brown

Amazingly Funny!!!!

Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2014

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Could not stop laughing. Great for reading in the bathroom and also the cubicle. Totally think it is worthy of 5 stars!!!!!

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Daniel B. Ribble

Zany letters from a 21st century prankster

Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2012

What if you want to ship a mummy overseas, or find out if your favorite mustard or mayonnaise is effective at keeping centipedes out of your sleeping bag, want to know what risk a Coleman lantern has of exploding in your tent, or hold a swinging singles convention in a Kyoto hotel? What better reason to send off a letter to the appropriate company or government agency or other authority to find out? Writing letters to Prince Charles to sponsor a Spank-a-Thon at a Japanese women's university, a sports club to allow him to swim with his wooden leg while dressed as a pirate, or trying to cajole JTB tourist agency to give him a job as a tour conductor so that he can a play a film role posing as a spy to help stop a communist revolution in Guam... From McDonalds to Pokka Pokka Coffee, no corporation or august personage is spared by Kochi's own Kirk Dunkirk in his complaints about products or attempts to get permission for insane schemes worthy of the Pink Panther or Monty Python. In his exploration of new worlds of bad taste, Kirk Dunkirk does a lot of irking while keeping his mojo working, and this reader laughing.

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