How To Get A Book About How To Get Along With Girls

Want to know how to not only tolerate women but actually get along with them? Then you'll need this book almost mockingly titled, How To Get Along With Girls. The book premiered in the mid-1940's as an attempt to turn the baby boom into a nuclear explosion and ran an ad in various comics, usually teenage humor titles like Wilbur or of the romantic genre like Darling Love. In fact, the ad ran in comics well into the 1950's despite of the fact that some of the data in it was a decade out of date. Nevertheless, this book is still in print today through several independent publishers as a nostalgia novelty like old girly magazines. The ad promotes the book as a know-it-all to the "ABC to XYZ of successful stragedy" when it comes to laying claim to a lady's attention. It declares that any novice young bachelor can use psychology to attract them all the way from first dates to proposing. The 80-page book could be yours for 98 cents back in the good old days which is a pittance to avoid disappointing heartbreak. Don't be a "faux pas", or as they call it nowadays as being "socially challenged". It's not really a guide on how to pick up the dames but improving basic interaction with average fellow human beings. Stravon Publishers offered this dating dictionary for free during a 5-day period which would've been long enough to plow through anything in it for any unfortunate underachiever, so just think of it as a return deposit on an impractical anthology that will help you crack the female genome.

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