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61) 101 Funny Facts
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101 Funny Facts is a humours parody book - a lot of the facts are 100% genuine but some other "facts" are for comedic effect.But either way they will make you smile and laugh in equal measure.Facts like:FACT: Will Smith, Nicolas Cage, Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp, and Leonardo DiCaprio were all offered the part of Neo in The Matrix before Keanu Reeves took the role.COMMENT: The next option after Keanu was a lump of 2 by 4!#FACT: Dogs experience a chemical...
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The stories in my book describe inner feelings that I have experienced and deeply contemplated. Through this creative expression, my stories reveal compassion and insight.
I am honored to share my thoughts with anyone who is interested in a new prospective.
You should also know that I come from a long line of "pasta gathers" who have their weekly seances around and over a bowl of angel hair pasta, tomato sauce, meatballs, and sausage.
So leave...
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For anyone who's wondered, "Why have kids when I could have fun instead?" here's a warm and hilarious welcome to the wonderful world of unparenting! The childfree life is growing in popularity, and finally here is a book that celebrates the wisdom and wonder of that choice. For those who cherish their white shag carpet and glass coffee table, this highly interactive book with quizzes, sidebars, and handy checklists offers a range of helpful, unparenting...
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A British journalist's "fast and funny" account of hedonism and conspicuous consumption in Los Angeles-and his attempt to get in on the fun (The New York Times).
From the author of War Reporting for Cowards, Death by Leisure is the incisive, irreverent, and savagely funny story of British journalist Chris Ayres's attempt to infiltrate the American leisure class (and find true love) in the credit-fueled years before the 2008 economic collapse. When...
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The origins of 'How to Make a Garden Grow' lie in an article in 'The Strand' Magazine called 'A Highly Complicated Science'. The science referred to was that of gardening and the article by K. R. G. Browne was accompanied by nine of Heath Robinson's drawings, all of which were subsequently used in their book for the How To... series. Much of the subject matter for this book was drawn from Heath Robinson's earlier cartoons. For example, among his earliest...
67) Crash Those Cymbals in Hell, Lorraine Grisky: Mining My Childhood for Truth, Freedom and Laughter
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Colleen Miller grew up in her parents' motel in Durango, Colorado, during the 1950's and 1960's. A tourist town in the southwestern corner of the state, alive with people from all over the world during the summer, it became an isolated, typical small western town the rest of the year. These are stories from her childhood, filled with the hilarious, larger-than-life characters that populated her family and the town they lived in. Told in the words...
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HOLD ONTO YOUR PANTS!Your time on the toilet will never be the same when the colorful facts and stomachchurning trivia in this illustrated bathroom reader begin to scare the crap right out of you, including:• The uniquely powerful diarrhea of Minnesota• How a common STD can turn you into a disfigured walking tree• The brain-eating amoeba that could be swimming in your pool• How much mucus your body produces• An untreatable disease that creates...
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This book is a parody of different types of things and various types of people you will find in your local gym everyday. If you have ever worked out at any gym you have seen one or all of these things and people at one point and time. Get ready for a good laugh. This illustrated guide will touch on everything from A to Z.
70) Not Daffodils
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The first poem I remember writing was school work at the age of ten, about King Canute. The teacher, I think, felt like the King, unable to hold back the tide. The stanzas, like waves, kept coming. Later, English was my main subject in which I got a Degree. However, I chose to teach juniors rather than English at a higher level, perhaps fearing frustration? If anyone asked me the question they asked Mr. Chipping, I would have answered as he did Hundreds...
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Nobody wants to be a loser. With this revolutionary new handbook, readers will learn how to win at literally everything*-even things that aren't contests, and that you can't or shouldn't try to win at, such as dreaming, apologizing, and talking on the phone with your mom. Crucial illustrated advice and instruction guides would-be winners through activities including bird-watching (start by spotting common species like pigeons, or dogs), job interviews...
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In this wonderful parody from 1940, W.C. Fields announces his candidacy for America's highest office. He offers sound advice on a number of topics in classic Fields-style humor in his attempt to win votes. "Campaign resolutions are no better than New Year's resolutions," he writes. "They are thrown together hastily at the last minute, with never a thought as to how they may be gracefully broken. Now, I am a candidate with years of experience breaking...
73) Imponderables
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Why does an "X" stand for a kiss?
Which fruits are in Juicy Fruit® gum?
Why do people cry at happy endings?
Why do you never see baby pigeons?
Pop-culture guru David Feldman demystifies these topics and so much more in Why Don't Cats Like to Swim? the unchallenged source of answers to civilization's most perplexing questions. Part of the Imponderables® series, Feldman's book arms readers with information about everyday life from science, history,...
74) Pure Derry
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It's the biggest thing to hit Ulster since the recession, and now the Facebook sensation is in print for the first time. Pure Derry brings you local and world satire from Derry – the self-appointed centre of the universe. Featuring the best bits from the Facebook page in one hilarious collection – the jokes, stories and features that you've laughed at, objected to, commented on and shared over the past ten years. Featuring stories covering Derry...
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As the book title infers, Sex Drugs and Rock Throwing, my compilation employs humor and social satire in a fun light hearted format on some subjects that affect society as a totality. There is an intelligent comedic view on politics, media, racial interactions, LGBTQ+, and demographic stigmas. Also there is a strong emphasis on pop culture and its horizontal contribution to our daily lives and motivational philosophies. All of this is accomplished...
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'What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow... All I can suggest is that, when you get tired of reading "the best hundred books", you may take this up for half an hour. It will be a change.'
A book of essays and observations by one of the finest humorists of all time, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow has remained a classic since it was first, published in the late nineteenth...
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You Don't Say!
Discover the mother lode of trivia with this quirky collection of crap! Trivia for the Toilet: Double Duty offers up more than 250 odd-but-true facts and strange happenings, including:
• The Green Bay Packers' season ticket waiting list is so long that if you joined today, it would take you 955 years to make it to the top.
• Polar bears' hair is not actually white; it's transparent.
• One in every five people has dropped...
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Humorist and wordsmith extraordinaire Matthew Goldberg shares over two hundred and fifty fake words for others to learn and use as they attempt to heal themselves from carpool tunnel syndrome, battle strange hankerings for good old-fashioned Talibanjo music, and watch helplessly as their dogs conk out from barkolepsy.Goldberg was unintentionally born into a family that has always used words creatively and he relies on his internal artistic fire to...
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From the creators of the eponymous viral Tumblr comes a single day with your favorite authors in one Twilight-Zone-esque Starbucks...
Ever wonder which intricate, elaborately-named drinks might be consumed if your favorite authors and characters wandered into a Starbucks? How many pumpkin lattes J.K. Rowling would drink? Or, if Cormac McCarthy needed caffeine, which latte would be laconic enough? Look no further; LITERARY STARBUCKS explores such...
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As its cover suggests, The A to Z of Being British is an acerbic take on the state of modern Britain.
Funny, insightful and ever so slightly non-PC, the book is split into 70 alphabetic sections. It covers a range of topics from the generic (e.g. democracy) to the specific (e.g. Jeremy Clarkson) and from the perennial (e.g. Wimbledon) to the very topical (e.g. banks). I'm very fair in my criticism, being equally disgusted with everyone and everything...
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