If It's a Jungle Out There, Why Do I Have to Mow the Lawn?

Andrea Geary is an agricultural reporter for The Manitoba Co-operator.

This book takes irreverent aim at a variety of issues that confront
Canadians today. Winnie the Pooh puzzles over literary references to
sex. Joey dreams of a great invention—microwave fridges—but later
finds his idea won’t change the world or make him a millionaire. A
help-wanted poster in a Toronto health-food store makes him wonder if
the guarantee of equal rights extends to those who enjoy the occasional
serving of Harvey’s onion rings. He debates the merits of jockey
versus boxer shorts. He lists the annual pre-winter tasks such as
putting the lawnmower away and preparing the furnace, along with his
excuses for not completing any of the items on his list.

If It’s a Jungle is a follow-up to Slinger’s No Axe Too Small to
Grind, which won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour in 1986. The
author writes a humor column for The Toronto Star. All of the columns
assembled here are just a few pages long, so the reader is lured into
the next one without realizing it.