Students would submit jokes in a cardboard box, appropriately named the "dry box."Lanehart would choose five jokes from the box to read to his students. They would then judge them on a scale of 1-10, according to the dryness of the joke. The winner of the best joke won a brown paper towel. Lanehart saved nearly all of the jokes, and these have been the source of his books. This is the last of the four book series. Lanehart has previously written The Dry Off Book 1: The Mysteriously Silly Solo Edition, The Dry Off Book 2: The Dynamically Dumb Duo Edition, and The Dry Off Book 3.0 for Smarties. This final book, The Not So Dry Off Book 4: the Critically Ashamed Insensitive Edition is a slight departure from the others. Most of the jokes are similar to those in the other three books. In this book, every joke is illustrated with clip art, and contains some jokes that were never read to students in a middle school classroom. There are long jokes, short jokes, and some that might be offensive to a sensitive reader. Thus the name of the book. The cover resembles the brown paper towels the joke winners would receive So, enjoy the humor, do not take them seriously, and have some fun with the final book of the series. Lanehart has left his computer and gone fishing

Students would submit jokes in a cardboard box, appropriately named the "dry box."Lanehart would choose five jokes from the box to read to his students. They would then judge them on a scale of 1-10, according to the dryness of the joke. The winner of the best joke won a brown paper towel. Lanehart saved nearly all of the jokes, and these have been the source of his books. This is the last of the four book series. Lanehart has previously written The Dry Off Book 1: The Mysteriously Silly Solo Edition, The Dry Off Book 2: The Dynamically Dumb Duo Edition, and The Dry Off Book 3.0 for Smarties. This final book, The Not So Dry Off Book 4: the Critically Ashamed Insensitive Edition is a slight departure from the others. Most of the jokes are similar to those in the other three books. In this book, every joke is illustrated with clip art, and contains some jokes that were never read to students in a middle school classroom. There are long jokes, short jokes, and some that might be offensive to a sensitive reader. Thus the name of the book. The cover resembles the brown paper towels the joke winners would receive So, enjoy the humor, do not take them seriously, and have some fun with the final book of the series. Lanehart has left his computer and gone fishing

The idea of the Dryoff Book Series came from a joke contest he held in his classroom on Monday mornings. Students would submit jokes in a cardboard box placed in the classroom, appropriately named the "dry box." Lanehart would choose five jokes from the box to read to the class, who would then grade them on a scale of 1-10, according to the dryness of the joke. The student whose joke received the highest number at the end of the day would receive a new, straight from the custodian's office, never been used, brown paper towel, autographed with their name and the words "Dry Off." The idea behind the paper towel was that you never knew when you might have to dry off. Lanehart has written The Dryoff Book 1: The Mysteriously Silly Solo Edition, The Dryoff Book 2: The Dynamically Dumb Duo Edition, and now The Dryoff Book 3.0 for Smarties. These books consist of a compilation of all of the jokes that have been submitted. He has tried to engage his readers young and old, to enjoy the refreshing and innocent feeling dry humor can bestow. He has meticulously illustrated many of the jokes with clipart to give the jokes more of a "dry feeling." This is the third of four books, with The Not So Dryoff Book 4: The Critically Ashamed Insensitive Edition as the last in the series.