Bob observed:
> pennyaline wrote:
>
> > Okey doke, nominate me, too. I'm fairly bright and have a good sense of
> > humor, and didn't see anything funny in this at all. Pathetic, yes, but
> > ha-ha funny? Nope.
>
> I found it funny in a Catch-22 way: The book is intended to teach you how
> to read, but you already have to know how to read in order to use the
book.
>
> (Of course, maybe you didn't get the humor in Catch-22 either.)

Or of course it may all be only another manifestation of the pervasive
self-help mindset, in which no help is really needed but the individual
believes that it is despite all evidence.

As I said, I am fairly bright. I got Catch-22. I got the cartoon, as well.
It wasn't even wry, just pathetic.