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Kinky Friedman, who would be our contemporary Will Rogers if Will Rogers had been Jewish, smoked cigars, and foolish enough to believe he could govern the great state of Texas, returns with this collection of hilariously raunchy, sometimes poignant, and always insightful essays. With fearless wit and wisdom born from many a late night's experience, Kinky offers both pearls and cowpats that touch on life, death, and everything in between.
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43) Thought Nuggets
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Thinking about cannibalism? Want to kick a pigeon? Fed up with open-mouthed yawns? Wheelie bags? One-named celebrities? And what, exactly, are your 3rd amendment rights? For less than a grande latte at Starbucks, you can find answers to those and many more questions in "Thought Nuggets," a collection of humorous essays and funny observations about the world around us filtered through the brain of Walter Michka.
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There are hundreds of online companies that will do your homework for you at a price. But will they write ANY essay you request? Only the WORST of these horrible companies were employed in the composition of Mindsploitation. A GREAT DEAL of money was wasted ACROSS THE GLOBE to commission what may be the dumbest collection of ridiculous assignments in HUMAN HISTORY. What does it say about our society that we can buy a quick custom eulogy for our...
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When nature calls, disaster sometimes answers. Flush This Book: True Tales of Bodily Malfunctions is a collection of funny, gross and totally true stories about poop mishaps and messes. A portion of the proceeds from sales of this ebook benefit the World Toilet Organization. Find out about their important work improving sanitation in some of the world's most impoverished nations at www.worldtoilet.org This is a book for the non-squeamish among us...
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Filipino humorist RJ Ledesma shares the five universal steps of flirting that women use to ensnare clueless men; he raises male literacy levels by educating men in the finer points of female body language; and reveals the secrets of professional pick-up artists that make women do things that they will regret in the morning.
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"Read this book for advice you'll probably never need -- about how to scare a big bearded guy out of your house with four simple words or how to derail a North Slope natural gas deal using two pounds of lean hamburger. Or simply enjoy a rural Alaska perspective on a wide range of early 21st century topics. In these pages you'll find bite-sized takes on restless teenagers, twisted nature movies, Haiti's tragic earthquake, big box stores, civics, cell...
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When The Atlantic Monthly celebrated its 150th anniversary by publishing excerpts from the best writing ever to appear in the magazine, in the category of the humorous essay it chose only four pieces-one by Mark Twain, one by James Thurber, one by Kurt Vonnegut, and Ian Frazier's 1997 essay "Lamentations of the Father." The title piece of this new collection has had an ongoing life in anthologies, in radio performances, in audio recordings, on the...
49) Me Funny
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Humor has always been an essential part of North American aboriginal culture. This fact remained unnoticed by most settlers, however, since non-aboriginals just didn't get the joke. For most of written history, a stern, unyielding profile of the Indian" dominated the popular mainstream imagination. Indians, it was believed, never laughed. But Indians themselves always knew better. As an award-winning playwright, columnist, and comedy-sketch creator,...
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Life at Death Cabin: a deadly comedy.
It is 1977, and a 60's pop idol, Loretta Traveler, rents her estate in a small, conservative town to a group of ex-hippies. Her tenants are exactly the type of people the townsfolk wish to avoid, and before long they became mired in accusations of littering, overcrowding, and murder.
Loretta might still harbor some empathy for a last-gasp effort at communal living by some aging children of Woodstock Nation. In...
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"Who Cut The Cheese?" is the updated 2011 edition of the razor-sharp parody dedicated to the millions of readers who either enjoyed or suffered through the motivational bestseller "Who Moved My Cheese?(tm)" "Who Cut the Cheese?" is a parable in which four characters must find a way through a maze in their hunt for "Cheese." But this cheese is actually symbolic of the things that we all want out of life: success and self-confidence, a nice house, a...
52) Postmodern Pooh
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Thirty-seven years ago, a slim parody of academic literary criticism called The Pooh Perplex became a surprise bestseller. Now Frederick Crews has written a hilarious new satire in the same vein. Purporting to be the proceedings of a forum on Pooh convened at the Modern Language Association's annual convention, Postmodern Pooh brilliantly parodies the academic fads and figures that hold sway at the millennium.
Deconstruction, poststructuralist Marxism,...
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"The Jake Chronicles" is a mother's retelling of her charismatic toddler's many escapades. This story will resonate with anyone who loves children and who can appreciate the sarcasm. Self-deprecating humor accompanies the hilarity of a young boy, reminiscent of Judy Blume's Fudge, Hank Ketchum's Dennis the Menace, and Bill Watterson's Calvin of Calvin and Hobbs.
After losing her high-powered, six-figure dream of a career in the 2008 recession, first...
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A collection of newspaper columns and editorials by Glenn Alan Cheney published between January 2020 and August 2021. In a warm, human, often humorous style he discusses such topics as penmanship, couches, covid, a Model T, a hermit, golf, statues, mascots, elections, history, litter, skunks, dogs, the Mayflower, and much more.
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Pourquoi tant de Français mettent-ils aujourd'hui le cap sur la Belgique ? D'autres ont-ils intérêt à les rejoindre au plus vite ? La Belgique est-elle la nouvelle terre promise de tous les délaissés de France ? Posté en embuscade derrière la frontière belge, Dominique Watrin fait l'inventaire des principaux mécontents de l'Hexagone qui peuplent l'actualité, comparant ce qu'ils vivent chez eux et ce qu'ils peuvent espérer connaître en...
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Is Wilber Winkle a consumer advocate extraordinaire or just a nut with too much time on his hands? Whatever the verdict, this hilarious collection of complaint letters to American corporations and their responses are a laugh-aloud page-turner. Readers everywhere will recognize the beefs that Wilber strives to get to the bottom of: Denny's waitresses disturbing the delicate balance of cream and sugar in their coffee, the disappearance of the almond...
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Humorist and poet Michael Pollick grew up in the small Midwestern city of Stow, Ohio during the 60s, 70s and 80s. The Stowbilly Chronicles is a collection of humor essays covering everything from the mind-altering 2-2-2 school system to the amazingly loud Fourth of July parade. Pollick also looks at favorite Stowbilly foods, like chipped chopped ham, Spin Blend salad dressing and Lawson's Chip Dip. There are also stories about Hoolihan and Big Chuck,...
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Comedian-author Charlie Demers, whose brain-bending brand of black humour will be familiar to followers of CBC Radio's The Debaters, offers his madcap perspective in a new collection of essays highlighting a wide range of topics under the heading of Bad Things. The Horrors is presented abecedarian-style, despoiling a beloved children's book tradition in order to explore personal hangups that range from the slightly awkward to the down-right terrible....
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Vintage humor from a master of the tongue-in-cheek comment. 42 delightful pieces display Sullivan's gentle touch in "The Passing of the Old Front Porch," "A Bachelor Looks at Breakfast," "An Innocent in Texas," "How to Change a Typewriter Ribbon" and scores of other amusing selections.
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First published in 1937, 'How to be a Perfect Husband' is the second book in the 'How to... ' series. From finding a wife to growing old together, Heath Robinson and K.R.G. Browne explore many aspects of married life with witty and insightful text and illustrations. Heath Robinson received much teasing from his family about this choice of subject. However, looking back over his cartoons one finds that romance and courtship had been among his most...
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