{"product_id":"dear_mr_schmutter__theyre_asking_me","title":"Dear Mr. Schmutter - They're Asking Me?","description":"\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 0px; font-family: Roboto, Geneva, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cfont color=\"#006600\" style=\"\" size=\"2\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\"\u003eA Collection of Advice Columns by Comedian Mordechai Schmutter\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eNewspaper advice columns are a weird tradition: \"Let me ask a total stranger about my personal problems, so he can answer in front of thousands of other total strangers in nothing resembling a timely\u003cspan style=\"background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"\u003e\u003ca name=\"_GoBack\" target=\"_self\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background: 0px 0px;\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e manner.  And hope I don’t have to ask a follow-up question.\"\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 0px; font-family: Roboto, Geneva, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cfont color=\"#006600\" size=\"2\"\u003e \u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eIn a way, it's a cheaper version of therapy.  Like if you pay the going hourly rate, you get a whole 45 minutes, there are no spectators to your personal problems, and there are free tissues.  But for the cost of a newspaper subscription, this is what you get.  And you’re going to be happy with it.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 0px; font-family: Roboto, Geneva, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cfont color=\"#006600\" size=\"2\"\u003e \u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eUntil now.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 0px; font-family: Roboto, Geneva, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cfont color=\"#006600\" size=\"2\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 0px; font-family: Roboto, Geneva, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cfont color=\"#006600\" size=\"2\"\u003eEver since Mordechai Schmutter began writing humor columns, people have been coming up to him and asking him questions.  Most of them unprintable.  And that's weird, because, as he’s demonstrated in his columns, he is not an expert on \u003ci style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eanything\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 0px; font-family: Roboto, Geneva, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cfont color=\"#006600\" size=\"2\"\u003eBut some of the questions \u003ci style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eare\u003c\/i\u003e printable, to the point where he has selflessly decided to start a second column - a column dedicated to answering these questions - a column that puts the \"Um\" in Advice Column - a column that places a prime emphasis not on embarrassing the person asking the question, but on dwarfing it with the extent to which he embarrasses \u003ci style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003ehimself\u003c\/i\u003e.  And rather than give advice that is helpful only for that one person in one specific situation that may no longer be relevant, he heroically gives advice that’s not actually helpful at \u003ci style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eall\u003c\/i\u003e.  That way, \u003ci style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eeveryone\u003c\/i\u003e wins. \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 0px; font-family: Roboto, Geneva, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cfont color=\"#006600\" style=\"\" size=\"2\"\u003e \u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eThis is his first collection of this column - a column that, above all, proves that there is no such thing as a ridiculous question.  Just ridiculous answers.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eby Mordechai Schmutter\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Israel Book Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46714544062776,"sku":null,"price":33.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/mysefer.com\/products\/dear_mr_schmutter__theyre_asking_me","provider":"My Sefer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}