Oh, I bought my copy (and it IS the original) out of the "Humor" section of a bookstore just to keep it out of little hands. I'd trust my copy of "The Manual of Improvised Explosives" more -- it's a US military publication -- which I bought for the same reason. "The Poor Man's James Bond" (reason, ditto) is iffy at best. Now books like "Absinthe and Flamethrowers" describe stuff that would actually work ("Backyard Ballistics" is the first in the series) and also provide safety advice.

My problem is that having once been a paid, trained killer for the US Army I know too damned much.