Sneak peeks at Paul and Shawn's upcoming book

For the occassion, I just now wrote the following which I intend to put into the FAQ for the kickstarter.  

Q:  What will the “language rating” be?

A:  The language rating will be:  Perfect!  We even made up some new words!   Like “VORP!”   Vorpitty vorp vorp.

One of our reviewers was contemplating giving the book to people that choose to fear and hate  certain words.   He counted every spec of potential hate fuel in the book.  

To gauge how we did, we looked to the IMDB parental guide stuff for the top 10 (in monies) movies of 2018.  It looks like we would be rated “mild” - same as the Disney cartoon “Incredibles 2”.  “Deadpool 2” was rated “severe.”

The reviewer’s report points out that we say “own your own shit” twice, “damn” four times and we quote an older document that says “The second observation is that most people find folks one level back to be ignorant and people two levels back seem like assholes.“   That’s it.  That’s everything.  Apparently, “shit”, “damn” and “assholes” don’t have the punch they had 40 years ago.  Since there are about 20 times more total words in our book than the disney movie, I wonder if we score “milder” than the Disney movie.  Which is the mildest of the top ten movies of 2018.  So we would probably be rated “too mild.”  If we want to reach a wider audience, I suppose we should bump the spice and excitement up a few notches just to get to “popular Disney movie level” (or to prove that this book is not under the thumb of some hate group), but I choose to focus on this kickstarter instead.  

Of course, if you ask me to come speak to your group, I promise I will use the FULL beauty of the English language.  Word police be damned!

I need feedback on this image. In the book, the accompanying text says:

"And most importantly, I have a parade of people that want a picture of themselves in my armpit - those people have told me that I don’t stink! "

Paul is a giant. And I am taller.

But focusing on this image... There's the part about "put your face here." Is it fun? Is it weird? Is it witty? Is it annoying? Is it some other word? For whatever reason, I can't figure out my feelings about it. But I feel like I need to. A little help?

Side note: I think the drawing of Paul is excellent!

Hehe! I think it is kind of funny and weird! I wasn't quite sure what to make of the expression on Paul's face, but after thinking a bit, I think I would describe the expression as well-intentioned deviousness.

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