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From "A Scooter Dork on His Way to Nowhere" to "Female Football with Very Little Padding (Except Silicone)" I SEEM TO HAVE MISPLACED MY MARBLES is a fun, fearless and funky collection of the popular Saturday morning newspaper humor columns called "Hay's Daze". For author Harley Hay, no topic is taboo, no subject is without a smidgen of silly, and it's no time like the present for a nice nap. With an infectious joie de vivre, and a wordsmith savoir...
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In a world where eye cream is made from placenta, Gina Barreca is the lone voice calling out "But wait, whose placenta is it?" She asks the crucial questions: Why is there no King Charming? Why does no bra ever fit? Why are there no tutus in XL? Why do more intelligent women have trusted psychics than have trusted financial advisors? While she definitely wants everyone to know that she's not bitter, Gina does want to know why no one realizes that...
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Readers are invited to join a typical busy family for one year of hysterical and true-life interruptions. Their beloved pets create more havoc and chaos than deserved with harrowing trips to the veterinarian, injuries, and quirky personalities of their own. Add in the wildlife who regularly appear (pigs, skunks, muskrats, mice and occasional "two-legged" animal) and readers will be shaking their heads in incredulous disbelief, and snorting at the...
45) Mental
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Eddie Sarfaty's astute and acerbic stand-up effortlessly captures the everyday absurdities of life, blending self-deprecation and sarcasm with a razor-sharp instinct for the ridiculous. In Mental, he expands his hilarious insights into a collection of autobiographical essays that explore career lows, cheapskate exes, the wonder and hell of family, psychopathic felines, and so much more. . .
Whether recounting a family trip to Paris, where his ailing...
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Pandemic Pandemonium is funny, entertaining, and a little bit educational. A humorous memoir about the COVID-19 Pandemic from a retired comedienne's viewpoint. A non-fiction account meant to lift your spirits and give you a laugh. Just when you thought there wasn't anything left to laugh about.
A mixture of: Comedy, personal observations, related memories, and a few important facts.
Other books by Karen Robertson:
The Turnaround, a Christian suspense...
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Arthur Black's best lines are like a shot of whisky-sharp, invigorating and with a good kick. Following the success of his many previous titles, the multiple-award-winning humorist once again delivers black-to-black" laughs with his latest collection, Paint the Town Black. With his usual off-kilter perspective, Black tackles many of the pressing topics of the day, including some positive PR for the swastika, the sometimes fatal effects of poor penmanship...
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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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50) Meanderings
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Betty McKenzie-Tubb has been scribbling since youth, beginning with contributions to the Sydney Morning Herald and to the ABC radio programme The Argonauts. She was Ancona 49 and wrote regularly to 'Anthony Inkwell'. Degrees in Education and Arts have helped nourish her writing. She spent most of her working life as a teacher of the deaf, for whom the door to literacy is sometimes difficult to open. She is grateful to Montaigne, the father of the...
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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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Unparalleled tall tales and heroes wander freely through this collection of John Gould's "reminiscences" of life in Maine. Here you'll find stories of unlicensed Maine guide Flint Johnson and his group of Yankees and Red Sox ball players, the time L.L. Bean invited the whole town of Freeport to help him choose the best ax, and Gould's grandfather's claim to have fired the shot that started the Battle of Gettysburg.
Gould does not wish his memories...
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A dog's tail is incredibly versatile. They use them to communicate everything from the furious, full-body wiggling "I'm so happy to see you I could burst!" to the tucked-under-the-bum "N-O-O-O! Is that the vet's office we're pulling up to?" They also keep noses warm on cold nights and conveniently sweep food off coffee tables. Tails Don't Lie 2 is Adrian Raeside's hilarious follow-up to the bestselling Tails Don't Lie (Harbour, 2013), collecting...
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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...
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Mary Ann Hoyt's collection of humorous essays are tongue-in-cheek views of her everyday observations and quirky experiences. The pages are filled with anecdotes about her fear of hummingbirds, the burial of the family cat in a cardboard box decorated with her son's Grateful Dead pencil drawings, and her concern that, because of her unphotogenic smile, she won't have enough decent photos for the obligatory collage at her funeral. Surviving an interstate...
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D'étranges évènements viennent bouleverser la quiétude de la ville d'Arlon, au coeur de la province de Luxembourg : des morceaux de corps humains sont retrouvés, sanguinolant dans divers endroits de la ville. Que signifient ces crimes ? Pourquoi cette une mise en scène si sordide ? Un sérial killer rode dans la bourgade luxembourgeoise et terrorise ses habitants ! Sous l'oeil avisé – mais légèrement imbibé de maitrank - de Jean-Luc Fonck,...
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America's favorite Southern-fried, stand-up comedian and TV sitcom star Jeff Foxworthy brings his humor to the page in this riotous laugh-out-loud book. In No Shirt. No Shoes. . . . No Problem!, Foxworthy examines the hilarity of growing up, love, sex, crazy families, roommates, friendship, mooning, having a crush on your cousin, and the real stories behind many of his favorite Redneck jokes. So get ready: You're in for a helluva good time! More than...
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Wickedly deliciously humorous. Have you ever wondered why your boss is strange, weird, vicious, demented, and just downright hateful? Have you ever wondered how one single human being could be so corrupted? Well, come along with Mynerd and find out. Boy will you be surprised!
Delightfully humorous, Twilight Zonish SCIENCE FICTION by Norman E. Morrison with a quirky twist. One in the Cowchip Alabama series of fine stories and books.
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Es un fenómeno que se ha extendido por cafés, pequeños clubs y teatros. Conocido como Stand-Up Comedy, tiene cada vez más y más público. Y es que el monólogo cómico solo precisa de un micrófono, un guion sólido y una cierta base técnica. Que el público ría y pase un buen rato, de eso se trata. Los ejemplos profesionales en los que apoyarse son muchos: Leo Harlem, Goyo Jiménez, Dani Rovira, Jimmy Fallon, Ellen Degeneres, Chris Rock, y...
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