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The trivia line about giving his goldfish an "coffee enema" is someone's failure to read subtext. From the article in question, where he's talking about guests: "Someone updates your wikipedia page - with photos - and you're dead forever. So you really clean. The goldfish gets a coffee enema, that's how much you clean."

Removing. --64.24.181.150 06:42, 25 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Notability

How does someone figure he's not notable? Regular columnist, noted humorist (by Dave Barry, of all people) and five of his books are published by Crown, which, according to Wikipedia is: "The Crown Publishing Group is a subsidiary of Random House, the world's largest book publisher." There seem to be enough citations to meet any reasonable baseline, though of course, more is always better.Mzmadmike (talk) 11:40, 14 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Good point. I've removed that tag. Cheers, CWC 15:58, 14 March 2010 (UTC) who thinks Better to Beg Forgiveness is superb[reply]

There are plenty of people who blog and have had a few published books. So what? This guy is not notable, and there's no reason for him to have a page. Just another example of Wikipedia failing at its basic purpose, unless that purpose is celebrating nobodies, and you didn't tell us.108.52.66.178 (talk) 22:15, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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