Humor

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Report copyright infringementby Harold H. Fletcher (Author)So You Want to Be a Doctor? tells of some of the more humorous, tragic, and poignant cases Dr. Harold Fletcher encountered during his many years as a physician. He tells hopeful medical students, "If you can: Give the same medical attention to a woman off the street that you would a Major Hollywood star. Extricate Vaseline jar from a drunk lady's vagina. Endure the horror of hundreds of bodies and body parts scattered over a field...

Book Of Mulligan: 18 Guaranteed Ways To Lower Your Golf Score Today

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Neal (Author), Louis III Faust (With)The Book of Mulligan-18 Guaranteed Ways to Lower Your Golf Score Today is a classic book of golf humor. It follows the entertaining life of Stewart ("Stewie") J. Mulligan from his early days in his home country of Ireland through his adventures on several continents finally ending in Boston where his story continues. The book cleverly traces the history of the Mulligan, the most used and misunderstood part of the gam...

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Report copyright infringementby Stan Otremba (Author)Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a cop? Well, it's time to find out. Follow Stan Otremba from his beginnings as a relief bailiff at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in 1959. There, he hears the case of Johnny Stompanato, who turned up dead in his home one night. Stompanato's stepdaughter, Cheryl Crane, testifies that she killed him because he was beating her mother. But bailiff Otremba is suspicious, and years l...

Thoughts While Waiting in the Doctor's Office: The Funny Side of Life

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Report copyright infringementby Shirley J. Nicholson (Author)Finding the humor in life is a skill honed and presented by Shirley Nicholson in Thoughts While Waiting in the Doctor's Office. In this collection of thirty-six essays and memoirs, Nicholson entertains by capturing the funny events in her life and through her observations. From puberty to dating, from marriage to honeymoons, from housework to pets, Nicholson writes about these events with warmth. She pokes fun of her tooth fairy sti...

The Magic of Bewitched Cookbook: Clients, Cookery and Cocktails

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Report copyright infringementby Gina Meyers (Author)Want to cook fun easy meals while remembering one of your Beloved 1960's sitcoms Bewitched? "Well", as Samantha would say hop on your brooms with an appetite and take a nostalgic flight back to yesteryear with The Magic of Bewitched Cookbook: Clients, Cookery and Cocktails. A magical cookbook with plenty of culinary classics that unthaws the proverbial TV dinner and brings to life delectable desserts, mouth watering main dishes, scrumptious ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jackie And Patrick Reid (Author)Hilarious true story of a naive young couple suckered into the late night commercials promising millions of dollars through No Money Down Real Estate. Take a look at the secret life of your friends, neighbors and creepy coworkers. Live and learn as our duo bungle their way to success. Read this and you will feel older and wiser and be a real expert on rental property. Number of Pages: 400 Dimensions: 0.8...

Teaching: we do it for the Money and Fame...

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Report copyright infringementby Myles O'Kane (Author)Now Fifteen years in teaching and I still find myself sitting back at times and reaffirming to myself that yes, that did just happen. Who is this book for? First, it's for anyone considering or about to start teaching. I applaud you! I hope you can learn a thing or two from my trials and tribulations. Second, it's for anyone who has already been teaching for a while. If this is the case, I have one thing to say: You are a star! Sometimes we...

The Vortex made me do it: The History & Mystery of Desert Hot Springs, California

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Report copyright infringementby Brian D. Effinger (Contribution by), Bill Effinger (Author)This is a true story of a city and its people, seemingly making a wrong turn on the road to a better life, and having to live it while hoping for change. The story reads like a B-Movie with high crime, political corruption, illicit sex and bank robberies, mixed with violence, mystery, myth and Indian lore. While laughable at times, the story profiles many of the people and the experiences associated wit...

Who'd You Put Your Panties on for Today?: One Woman's Ingenious Journey of Self Discovery

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Report copyright infringementby Tara John (Illustrator), Amy Deans (Author)Do you feel like you've lost yourself...that everything you do, you do for your family, your friends, you co-workers, your boss...?Wish you could take a break, take care of yourself, and recreate your life?At the end of the day, do you wonder, "Who'd You Put Your Panties on for Today...You...or someone else?"If you're like a lot of women, you've probably put taking care of your loved ones ahead of taking care of yourse...

Mr. Lastings The 1L: A Guide For The First Year Law Student

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Report copyright infringementby John Nemoy (Author)Join Mr. Lastings as he navigates his way through the first year of law school. See him stumble along the way. Learn what its like to be a law student. This guide, created by an actual lawyer, features original cartoons depicting law school and the funny things that happen along the way. The book also includes quotes from some of the world's most critical thinkers concerning the law and inspiration. This law school humor book makes a great gi...

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Report copyright infringementby Baye McNeil (Author)Hilarity Meets Heart in This Unfiltered Look at Life as a Teacher in Japan!Knife-wielding schoolgirls, menacing schoolboys, and back-stabbing colleagues-welcome to the unforgettable world of Loco in Yokohama! In this eye-opening follow-up to his acclaimed debut, Baye McNeil pulls back the silk curtains to reveal the wild, often hilarious, and occasionally maddening realities of teaching in Japan.With his trademark wit and raw honesty, McNeil...

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Report copyright infringementby Jo A. Hiestand (Author)A book of 13 Groundhog Day carols based on familiar folk tunes and Christmas carols. Ideas for hosting your own Groundhog Day party, as well as table decoration and food recipes for a buffet meal, are also included.Author BiographyJo Hiestand is the author of fifteen British mystery books and one non-fiction book. This is her first book of carols, groundhog-based or otherwise. She shares her St Louis-area home with her cat. N...

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Report copyright infringementby Scott Rim (Illustrator), Jane Kuo Paris (Author)A picture book for parents. The Runaway Mommy imagines what life would be like if she ran away. She learns flamenco dancing in Barcelona, joins a tech startup in San Francisco and hits the campaign trail interning for a presidential candidate. All the while, her little one follows with a captivating eagerness that brings the runaway mommy back where she belongs.Author BiographyJane Paris is a mother to two boys. S...

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Report copyright infringementby Molly Ivins (Author)Whether she's writing about redneck politics in her native Texas or the discreet charms of Bushwazee, Molly Ivins in never less than devastatingly honest--and hilarious. Our toughest, funniest, and savviest columnist delivers the goods on: -Texas politics: "Well, our attorney general is under indictment. He ran as 'the people's lawyer'; now we call him 'the people's felon.'" -The flag burning debate: "Bush's last birthday cake was in the for...

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Report copyright infringementby Janet Deangelo (Author)Say goodbye to B-O-R-I-N-G Family nights and Bible Studies. Bet you didn't know these facts are written in the Bible? All scripture references are given with each quiz and Bible fact, made easy for quick reference check. This great king danced in his SKIVVIES in public. He baked his goodies over COW POO. This wicked witch was tossed out the window to her death and eaten by STARVING dogs. Did ya know a man took off his sandal to SE...

It's Not the Heat, It's the Humidity: Seventh in the Series of Stories About Growing Up

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Report copyright infringementby Jean Tennant (Author)It's Not the Heat, It's the Humidity continues, with this seventh volume, the tradition of Shapato Publishing's yearly "Midwest" stories. In these pages you'll have the opportunity to read author/director Scott Rubsam's account of meeting Robert Kennedy during a campaign stop in Worthington, Minnesota; Orville Taylor's stay in Japan following WWII; as well as new contributor Sam Kaderly's amusing story about an ornery billy goat on the fami...

Fart Club: A guide to maximizing your meager potential through your dirty stink hole

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Report copyright infringementby Angus Beeftickle MD (Author)Angus Beeftickle, MD, has an emission mission. The brave doctor seeks to break down one of polite society's longest-standing taboos: He would return the fart to its rightful place. To let one fly in public is Beeftickle's dream. To toot on public transit. To play the intestinal tuba in elevators. To let the comic potential of a well-timed rip bring us together as brothers and sisters in a sonorous choir of nether horns. To share in a...

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Report copyright infringementby Earl Mills (Author)My first thoughts about this book "The Thangs Mama' nem Said, was around 2008. After reading one of Langston Hughes's poems in the dialog of African Americans after slavery, the broken English, and what I to call laze tongued poem awakened something within me and inspired me to try and write one of my own, that birthed the poem "Devil Keep On Bother'n Me." This caused me to think about the sayings I heard my great grandparents, grandparents, ...

Twenty Five Mystery Science Theater 3000 Films That Changed My Life In No Way Whatsoever

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Conniff (Author)In 1990, Frank Conniff joined the staff of Mystery Science Theater 3000. First he was hired as a writer, then he was called upon to play TV's Frank, the bumbling yet lovable Mad Scientist henchman in Deep 13. And then he was given the sacred duty of finding the films that would be riffed on the show. Thus, because of his actions, the world now knows of Manos: The Hands of Fate, Monster A-Go-Go, The Brain That Wouldn't Die, Teenagers From O...

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Report copyright infringementby Matt Lake (Author)Horror and Humor are in the same section in every dictionary. There must be a reason for this. Award-winning journalist and best-selling nonfiction writer Matt Lake attempts to plumb the depths of this connection in a slim volume of poetry in styles ranging from limerick (which he calls an Irish Haiku) to lengthy dramatic narrative forms. Lavishly illustrated with gothic-themed woodcut pictures, this volume is intended to be taken with a pinch...

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Report copyright infringementby Jake Fuller (Illustrator), Bill Berger (Author)Conavirus COVID-19 Comedy Alert! Timely solutions to an emerging problem! Quarantine yourself with this book! The definitive parody of the Baby Boomer generation! Learn the cause of the sudden extinction of Baby Boomers in 2025! With all those Dead Boomers piling up everywhere, learn how Millennial entrepreneurs find a way to turn them into fully functioning consumer products! Read the full color illustrated gift c...

Adult Manga: Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society

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Report copyright infringementby Sharon Kinsella (Author)First detailed analysis of the phenomenon in English. Describes and analyses the complex new attitudes to manga since the 1980s. Provocative and timely, the book shows how manga's status in Japanese society is intimately linked to changes in the balance of power between artists and editors. Number of Pages: 244 Dimensions: 0.55 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 23, 2004

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Report copyright infringementby Al Fasol (Author)In this revised collection of humorous tales, readers will find themselves turning page after page with soul-stirring laughter. Humor with a Halo: True Funny Stories from Church Life, Revised Edition reminds readers that while much of the Bible focuses on serious themes with serious characters, the pages of scripture are not devoid of laughter. In fact, scripture mentions laughter twenty times and if we dare to peer into the church, deep beyond...

Mommy Needs a Raise (Because Quitting's Not an Option)

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Parshall Perry (Preface by)Goodbye, Board Room and Legal Briefs--Hello, Dimples, Diapers, and DestructionWomen know that raising children will be different from climbing the corporate ladder. But nothing can truly prepare them for the mind-muddling world of motherhood. It doesn't take long for a new mom to question whether her tyrannical, diapered boss really understands her value to the organization. Because honestly? She's not always sure herself. With ...

The Difference Satire Makes: Rhetoric and Reading from Jonson to Byron

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Report copyright infringementby Fredric V. Bogel (Author)Offering both the first major revision of satiric rhetoric in decades and a critical account of the modern history of satire criticism, Fredric V. Bogel maintains that the central structure of the satiric mode has been misunderstood. Devoting attention to Augustan satiric texts and other examples of satire--from writings by Ben Jonson and Lord Byron to recent performance art--Bogel finds a complicated interaction between identification ...

The Senses of Humor: Self and Laughter in Modern America

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Wickberg (Author)Why do modern Americans believe in something called a sense of humor and how did they come to that belief? Daniel Wickberg traces the cultural history of the concept from its British origins as a way to explore new conceptions of the self and social order in modern America. More than simply the history of an idea, Wickberg's study provides new insights into a peculiarly modern cultural sensibility.The expression "sense of humor" was firs...

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Ames (Author)Jonathan Ames has drawn comparisons across the literary spectrum, from David Sedaris to F. Scott Fitzgerald to Woody Allen to P.G. Wodehouse, and his books, as well as his abilities as a performer, have made him a favorite on the Late Show with David Letterman. Whether he's chasing deranged cockroaches around his apartment, kissing a beautiful actress on the set of an avant-garde film, finding himself stuck perilously on top of a fence in ...

Life Is Like a Chicken COOP Ladder: A Study of German National Character Through Folklore

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Report copyright infringementby Alan Dundes (Author)Life Is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder was first published in 1984 and from the outset inspired a wide variety of reactions ranging from high praise to utter disgust. Alan Dundes' theses identifies a strong anal erotic element in German national character, citing numerous examples of scatological data from authentic compilations of German folklore. The examination of this single trait of German character is used to demonstrate that national char...

Laughing with God: Humor, Culture, and Transformation

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Report copyright infringementby Gerald a. Arbuckle (Author)When Sarah overhears God tell Abraham that she will give birth to a son, she laughs. Of course, Sarah does give birth to a son and names him Isaac, whose name means "to laugh." But can we in modern times recover the divine humor, the paradox and promise, in this and other biblical accounts? Can we use that sacred laughter as a means to evangelize a world that longs for God every bit as much as the ancients did? In Laughing with God: H...

Of Huck and Alice: Humorous Writing in American Literature

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Report copyright infringementby Neil Schmitz (Author)Of Huck and Alice was first published in 1983. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Huck Finn and Alice B. Toklas allow Mark Twain and Gertrude Stein to slip away from the cramped and smothery intentions of proper writing. Like Krazy Kat, who transforms the hurt of Ignatz Mouse's brick int...

A Very Serious Thing: Women's Humor and American Culture Volume 2

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Report copyright infringementby Nancy a. Walker (Author)A Very Serious Thing was first published in 1988. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. "It is a very serious thing to be a funny woman." -Frances Miriam Berry Whitcher A Very Serious Thing is the first book-length study of a part of American literature that has been consistently neglect...

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Report copyright infringementby Ken Ring (Author)Cats change to suit the house they are in, to preserve harmony and ensure constant food. The way your cat relates depends much on your personality and character. By looking at your cat you can see yourself! Ken Ring is co-author of Pawmistry, the runaway best-seller that allowed the cat-owner for the first time to learn about their cats' inner character by examining its paws. Here you will learn: * How you behave in relationships! * What you ap...