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The Bro Code Description:

Everyone’s life is governed by an internal code of conduct. Some call it morality. Others call it religion. But Bros in the know call this holy grail the Bro Code.

Historically a spoken tradition passed from one generation to the next, the official code of conduct for Bros appears here in its published form for the first time ever. By upholding the tenets of this sacred and legendary document, any dude can learn to achieve Bro-dom.

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1297 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781439110003
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Customer Reviews:

Priceless humor for any fan of the show
This book isn’t some quick, half-hearted cash-in for How I Met Your Mother Fans, it’s basically Barney Stinson in paperback form. The Bro Code is hilarious. If you’re a fan of the show you’ll likely hear Neil Patrick Harris’ voice in your head as you read the book cover-to-cover. With diagrams, footnotes, and over 150 “codes” written by the show’s writers, this is a can’t miss book.

A good time, but less of a payoff in the eBook version
I was looking for something that was low on think and high on laugh. This definitely fit the bill! You are most likely going to rip through this pretty quickly. Think of it as a collection of one liners that are likely to at least get you grinning and in some cases laughing out loud.

While the eBook/Kindle version gives you all the words, after looking at the print version, it definitely does not give you the full experience. Some of the great gags in here are tied to pictures and images in the book. While an attempt is made to include these in the eBook version, it really does not cut it. They are hard to make out and end up contributing far less to the fun than they do in the print version.

Clearly, this is one of those examples of what we sometimes lose in the translation from print copy to eBook.

A work to be honored and revered
This is the first, and to my knowledge, only, reference guide to conduct that applies exclusively to bros and their conduct with each other.

It is being hailed as a “wonderful work of satire”, and “great for fans of the show.” I am glad that the curators of this tome have found success for connoisseurs of parody and situational comedy. While this may be valid, this work is, in fact, a definitive source of guidance on how one interacts and behaves with, in regards to, and around, his bros. As such, it should be treated with reverence and honor. Any humor to be found within is usually found from situational references, either from this “How I Met Your Mother” series (I may have to watch it, someday…), but more likely from one’s own history with his (or her) bros.

I have used this guide as a reference to dictate actions in no less than two critical bro-related situations, and it has helped me to maintain my bro-status among my bros. While there is nothing saying I would not have made the same decision without The Bro Code, it provides me a set of rules to reference in times of doubt, or at least to help justify my position.

While not discussed directly in The Bro Code, I believe that bro-type behavior should not be used exclusively with one’s bros. Rather, brohavior should be practiced in most areas of life and relationships. To that end, I have provided copies to all my bros, to help guide them in their decision making. I even provided copies to my supervisor and my brother-in-law, even though I would not technically call them bros.

In truth, this work applies to all walks of life. While it is geared specifically for bros and bro culture, it centers around the theory of “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” That philosophy could serve to be explored in a more expansive work, possibly using stories and a mythology to help provide examples of how one should live their life according to a code of morals and ethics. Such a work could be religious in its impact…

But I digress. I can say this without hesitation: This guide has merit. I recommend it for anyone who wants to be a better friend, a better person, and, naturally, a better bro.

About the Author
Barney Stinson works at a corporation, and regularly ?suits up? to help his lovelorn and altogether pathetic bro Ted Mosby. Basically the coolest dude ever, Barney Stinson has been compared to the Fonz—but Barney is much, much more awesome. Stinson lives in New York, New York—and appears weekly on the hit CBS show ?How I Met Your Mother? with his friends Ted, Robin, Lily and Marshall.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
INTRODUCTION

Whether we know it or not, each of us lives a life governed by an internalized code of conduct. Some call it morality. Others call it religion. I call it “the Bro Code.”

For centuries men have attempted to follow this code with no universal understanding of what such an arrangement meant: Is it okay to hug a Bro?* If I’m invited to a Bro’s wedding, do I really have to bring a gift?? Can I sleep with a Bro’s sister or mother or both?

Now, for the first time on paper, I have recorded the rules of social decorum that Bros have practiced since the dawn of man…if not before. The Bro Code previously existed only as an oral tradition (heh), so I have journeyed the globe to piece together and transcribe the scattered fragments of the Bro Code, pausing only to flesh it out myself (double heh). While not intending to write a “Guide to Being a Bro,” if men should treat it as such and pass this compendium of knowledge from one generation to the next, I have little doubt it would bring a tear to my eye. But not out of it. That would be a violation of Article 41: A Bro never cries.

It is my hope that, with a better understanding of the Bro Code, Bros the world over can put aside their differences and strengthen the bonds of brotherhood. It is then, and only then, that we might work together as one to accomplish perhaps the most important challenge society faces — getting laid. Before dismissing this pursuit as crass and ignoble, consider this postulate: without the sport inherent in trying to bang chicks, would men willingly have sex for the sole purpose of producing smelly, screaming babies?

Centuries from now, when a Bro applies the rudiments of the Bro Code to score a three-boobed future chick, the only thanks I’ll need is the knowledge that I — in whatever small capacity — Bro’d him out…though if he could figure out how to bring me back to life, that would be pretty awesome, too. — Barney Stinson ™ & © 2008 by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.