Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Funnily enough, not really that funny at all

Let me start by saying I am a great fan of satirewire.com, which is where the material from this book first appeared. The website is very quick to produce hysterically funny material, focussing on the events of the day and skewering the rogues who need to be skewered. And that is part of the problem with this book -- much of the material is pretty old and refers back to events that no one really remembers that well and therefore do not resonate. The jokes have no immediacy. I read much of the book and thought "This I'm sure was funny then, but it sure falls flat now". The buzzwords and fads of the boom-times in the 1990s are just vague memories now and have very much lost their bite. So while I'll continue to log on to the website, I'm going to give away this book.