On a road trip today my wife and I heard about a third or so of Bill Nye's Funniest Thoughts by Bill Nye. Not to be confused with The Science Guy, this Bill Nye was the pen name of Edgar Wilson Nye (1850 – 1896), nineteenth century American journalist turned humorist. I was hoping the book would be better, but I guess the humor just doesn't hold up well. I'll finish it sometime when I'm alone, but I won't subject my wife to any more of it. Still, I got a kick out of it when he mentioned that another author was "a good writer. His penmanship was excellent."
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