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Sink the F**king Putt, a humor book for adults, is a Parody of the well-known Dick and Jane elementary school reading primers. Dick and Jane had become somewhat reclusive since they were the child stars of the early elementary school reading textbooks. Now they are grown up and living with Spot in the basement of Mother and Father's house. In recent times they became far more social but this led to some complications. This book is the zany story...
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Airports were never built to make travel easier for the public. A psychologist named Brian Brain who was writing a paper on behavioural understanding phoned his mate Bob the Builder and asked him if he had any spare bricks and mortar. When Bob said yes Brian said lets build a place where people can ride on aeroplanes, I can watch how they behave, write a book about it, you can make a few bob from the car parks and well both make a fortune from the...
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Si el ser humano pasa un tercio de su efímera existencia en brazos de Morfeo, ¿cuántos días, meses o años de su vida pasa el bebedor habitual entre las ponzoñosas garras de la resaca?
Cada individuo aporta a su particular resaca la sal o la hiel de su carácter, sus fantasmas e infiernos, sentido de la neurosis, abyección e idiosincrasia. Tratado sobre la resaca es un libro inclasificable, atípico y de lectura apasionante.
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I don't pretend to be any kind of historian. These stories are just that. In my family back in West Virginia, any story that dickered
with the truth was considered to be a yarn. It was intended to be just passed on down to a group of rapt youngsters. These stories do however reflect the life of a young whippersnapper living in a small town in the middle of 20th-century America,
and could be a sort of chronicle of same. To witness my yarns all...
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It's impossible to go a full day without using snark, so why fight it? Snark is everywhere, from television to movies to everyday life. This lively collection provides hours of entertainment-better than an Etch A Sketch, and more fun than Silly Putty! At the heart of it, being in a state of snark can be one of the most useful tools at one's disposal and hence (yes, I used "hence"), a powerful way to get what you want. With snark, you can catch people...
26) Dating Your Mom
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From the opening essay, "The Bloomsbury Group Live at the Apollo (Liner Notes from the New Best-Selling Album)" to the title piece that discusses ways in which you might begin a romance with your mother ("In today's fast-moving, transient, rootless society, where people meet and make love and part without ever really touching, the relationship every guy already has with his own mother is too valuable to ignore...") to a parody that features Samuel...
27) Biker Smarts
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The book is a compilation of humorous short statements, light-hearted "insults", funny tirades, and silly, bi-partisan, outlandish non-offensive political bantering that that captures fun times and memorializes many years of memories while hanging out with my biker friends at biker bars and biker events. It is a light-hearted book intended to be fun reading for a very diverse audience who just want something fun, funny and mindless to read without...
29) Am I Zen Yet?
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Andy Williams. Yoga. Twitter. Costco.
What do these things have in common?
Well, at one time or another, I blogged something about each of them. As a writer, you are often told to write what you know. This should tell you a lot about how glamorous and exciting this writer's life is.
I've put together a number of short essays on these and other fascinating subjects, most of them previously published on one of my blogs, and am offering them as a...
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Join the Carmitchell sisters on an unexpectedly funny and fearlessly frank journey through the 78 cards in the tarot deck.
Annie Carmitchell had long used her tarot decks as a tool for spiritual guidance. During one of many late-night chats with her sister, it occurred to Annie that almost every shared memory reminded her of a particular tarot card. Her father? The Emperor. Her mother? Most certainly the Queen. And though, her sister might take a...
31) Hey Gary
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A collection of dumb things the writer texted to his friend, Gary. Gary did not listen to any of these suggestions. You probably did not even read them. That's Gary for you. It is a dust devil of absurdist ideas and configurations. This could be the kind of book you need to read if you are waiting for the volcano to erupt. Author Jeffrey Campbell read some of this book and gave this blurb that's good enough to be on the cover, "Yeah. I think this...
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Just in time for Comic-Con comes the investigative romp through the conventions industry! Conventions. Tradeshows. Expos. Every profession and obsession has them. We select hot tubs, handguns, the best Wonder Woman costume and even our presidential contenders at these neo-tribal gatherings where commerce and communalism collide. With a tanking economy and looming layoffs, lapsed-fanboy Bob Calhoun sets out on a quest through the temporary worlds created...
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Did you ever wonder why your body works the way it does? Or doesn't? Sometimes it seems like things could have been organized a little more happily. Michael Scherperel's light-hearted set of 21 essays on possible design problems with the human body, Homo Sapiens - Obsolescens?, will take you on a journey from head to toe--well, not quite that far, but pretty close--examining some of the quirks of human construction.
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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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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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Just in time for Christmas comes a collection of the very best holiday essays from the bestselling Mother/Daughter writing duo.
Whether their shopping for matching reindeer dog sweaters or having second helpings of eggnog, Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella will keep you warm with their humor and heart. So give yourself some holiday cheer in the midst of all the shopping, cooking, wrapping, and baking madness...you deserve to get a little Happy...
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Nose Hairs Gone Wild reads like a memoir, at once hilarious and poignant. From beginning to end, this collection of essays about seemingly random topics is funny, fascinating, but never flip. This book is for anyone who can read! Scott can do what all the funny guys do - he finds humor in the everyday, but Scott one-ups the rest of them. Nose Hairs Gone Wild contains 31 of Saalman's finest essays. Inspired by syndicated humorists like Dave Barry and...
39) 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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Irresistible collection of outrageous visual puns imaginatively embroiders upon the physical features of familiar animals to produce a mutated menagerie of impossible creatures. Includes the eargull, with the head of the national bird and a body comprised of a huge human ear; a beebra - a zebra with bee's wings - and 58 other rib-tickling whatchamacallits.
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