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Probably the funniest technical book ever written was a critique of the OSI, Michael Padlipsky's Elements of Networking Style. Several chapters are available as RFCs 871 to 875:

• RFC 871 A PERSPECTIVE ON THE ARPANET REFERENCE MODEL
• RFC 872 TCP-ON-A-LAN
• RFC 873 THE ILLUSION OF VENDOR SUPPORT
• RFC 874 Low standards: a critique of X.25
• RFC 875 Gateways, Architectures, and Heffalumps

For a different, but no less undignified, view of OSI layers, see Internet Protocol Suite/Signed articles.