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From the diet you're going to start tomorrow to that call you were about to make when something (anything) else came up-life is full of little lies that get us through the day. With Daily Dishonesty, designer and blogger Lauren Hom pays homage to the (mostly) innocent foibles that make us human. With 150+ hilariously common lies, beautifully illustrated by Hom, Daily Dishonesty touches on topics from breakups, friendship, and growing up to slacking...
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McSweeney's columnist Kent Woodyard brings new life to the mnemonic memory devices of a bygone era, from creative reinterpretations of classic mnemonics to original creations of dubious usage. Paired with whimsical illustrations, this book is the perfect gift for the word wizards of the world, as well as collectors of useless pop-culture trivia.
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“A string of cheap lights can turn the ordinary into something shimmering and magical, the drab into the dazzling. Christmas lights remind us that the ordinary is extraordinary if viewed in the right light."
Funny and poignant, Santa's Little Helper Wants To Eat Your Children & Other Holiday Musings is a collection of holiday-themed essays and recollections from award-winning writer Rob Errera that looks at the family, friends, feasts, fantasy,...
1464) Flip It Like This!
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From the cartoonist who points his pen straight at today's pressing issues of inclusion, faith, spiritual abuse, and justice comes Flip It Like This!
Aggravated women disciples, Jesus hugging rainbow sheep, a man praying "WTF?": the cartoons of David Hayward, the artist behind @NakedPastor, are graffiti on the walls of the contemporary church. He sketches the ridiculous, the appalling, and the damaging aspects of the church as we know it--as well...
1465) My 1992 Diary
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Ready to revisit the early '90s-that golden era of big bangs, Bubble Tape, and doing the Bartman? Meet your tour guide: Dawn Luebbe, an 11-year-old Nebraskan obsessed with 90210 and writing Kurt Cobain–inspired poetry. In My 1992 Diary, Dawn shares with readers her zany, silly, and deadpan adolescent observations. She touches on the cornerstones of growing up-from crushes to siblings to Ouija boards-all peppered with memorable call-outs from the...
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Music Jokes: Funny Jokes About Music! Get ready to hit the high notes of hilarity with "Music Jokes: The Symphony of Snickers"! Are you in pursuit of the most uproarious music jokes on the internet? Looking to orchestrate waves of laughter and be the comedy conductor in your group? Brace yourself for a performance of humor that will have you chuckling in tune with the funniest jokes about music and musicians worldwide, featuring a staggering ensemble...
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Extrait : "Tu le veux, provincial honnête... ma longue station dans ce Paris que l'usage du bel air défend, je ne sais pourquoi, de désigner sous la qualification de capitale du royaume, les trente-cinq ans passés à le parcourir dans tous les sens, à l'explorer dans ses monuments, ses mœurs, ses usages, sont en effet mon droit à te conduire o tu voudras aller..."
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Would you rather…
Be rich and stupid or smart and poor?
Have the CIA after you or have the Mafia after you?
Be on vacation with your 60-year-old parents and have your mom insist on wearing a thong bikini or have your dad insist on wearing a tiny, Euro-style bathing suit?
Warning! This book contains shocking content meant to inspire hilarious discussion. These field-tested conversation starters are guaranteed to provoke ridiculous...
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Laughter is powerful medicine--and it's just plain fun. The Laugh-a-Day Book of Bloopers, Quotes & Good Clean Jokes brings together hundreds of the funniest bits of wit and humor to brighten anyone's day. From blunders like "For sale: Electric hospital bed, hardly used. No one died in it," to truisms like "The only thing worse than hearing the alarm clock in the morning is not hearing it," there's something to tickle everyone's funny bone. Teachers,...
1470) By the Seat of My Pants
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Humorous tales of travel and misadventure. Lonely Planet knows that some of life's funniest experiences happen on the road. Whether they take the form of unexpected detours, unintended adventures, unidentifiable dinners or unforgettable encounters, they can give birth to our most found travel lessons, and our most memorable - and hilarious - travel stories. These 31 globegirdling tales that run the gamut from close-encounter safaris to loss-of-face...
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Plato's dialogues, updated for the age of social media and short attention spans. Socrates hangs out with his old gang, Plato, Glaucon, Thrasymachus and the rest, but also meets new characters including Madonna, George W. Bush, Richard Dawkins, Hamlet and an extremely well-meaning robot.
Don't count on it teaching you any philosophy, but it might make you laugh if you have a sufficiently warped sense of humor.
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Gus Silber, well-known journalist and wordsmith, has over the last few years written some extraordinary commentary pieces on his journeys around his neighborhood in Johannesburg and his digital wanderings through the global village we call social media, and posted them to Facebook. Gus's followers know what insightful and frankly charming pieces he writes, and we're bringing those digital missives to the page and discerning masses. This is a collection...
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The author of Don't Tell Mom I Work on the Rigs shares more hugely entertaining stories of his seriously crazy, sometimes terrifying, always hilarious adventures Paul Carter is still, well . . . Paul Carter. He's still risking his life performing daredevil acts like trying to break speed records on unusually fueled vehicles, and he is still up to hijinks with his friends and a cast of complete strangers, both in Australia and in the U.S. Decidedly...
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From television producer Jack Gray comes a generational account of finding one's way at work, at home, and even across the street.
There are a lot of unforgettable characters in these pages: a loveable if possibly alcoholic dog; a set of grandparents who crush on Alex Trebek and obsess about death; Golden Girls and blue bloods, anchormen and Supreme Court justices; divas and wags-but the best character of all is the author himself. To read Jack...
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The New York Public Library staff answers questions remarkable and preposterous, with illustrations by Barry Blitt.
Have you've ever wondered if you can keep an octopus in a private home? Do you spend your time thinking about how much Napoleon's brain weighed? If so, Peculiar Questions and Practical Answers is the book for you. The New York Public Library has been fielding questions like these ever since it was founded in 1895. Of course, some of...
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Una combinación de periodismo y testimonio personal traza el relato de este libro en donde la periodista y activista afro Liliana Valencia Murillo reconstruye las luchas de esta población por su reconocimiento y el ejercicio de sus derechos en Colombia a partir de la visibilidad de sus tradiciones, usos y estéticas. El cabello y el ornamento en torno al mismo —el rizo, los trenzados, los recogidos y el turbante— sirven de hilo
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Five travel stories told with a lot of humor and irony. Five chronicles of a time when travelers did not carry a digital camera with memory for thousands of photos; nor did they carry a mobile phone with an infinite number of functions capable of resolving any unforeseen event. The reader will be immersed in an initiatory journey, in passages that are pure adventure and will remember an unprecedented historical event that occurred at the same time...
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Los diferentes pueblos se han reído a su manera en todos los idiomas y dialectos del mundo, destacándose sin duda el ídish de entre ellos, como un idioma visceralmente dotado para la risa y la sonrisa. Surgido impetuosamente entre los judíos de Europa Oriental, sus descendientes trajeron consigo a los Estados Unidos, a América Latina y a Israel, ese humor ídish atravesado de lágrimas y carcajadas.
Los autores de esta obra venimos recorriendo...
1480) America's Funniest Memes
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Can we uninstall 2020 and install it again? This version has a virus.
The Internet has been working overtime with humorous memes, tweets, Facebook postings, Pinterest collections, you name it during the pandemic crisis. This outpouring of gallows humor suggests that we're coping with our profound grief and overcoming our fears, and we're going to eventually make it out of this, with our sense of humor, and self, intact. This book collects the best...
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