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THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE FISHY is a joint effort between two cousins in their tweens that has been in production for almost seven years. The spy spoof story was inspired by a visit to the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC in 2010. The author, Shelby Williams, spent the next three years acting out various scenes from her on-going story of intrepid koi fish who are really secret spies. Her grandmother, Mary Schaller, kept notes of all Shelby's...
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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...
24) Bag of Hammers
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There are the timeless questions that must be answered: Where is the most boring town in Eastern Canada? How can a government most efficiently mismanage prosperity? Are all of our contemporary psychoses a direct result of the motion-picture montage? As the Newfoundland saying goes, that's "as foolish as a bag of hammers." And in this collection of hilariously creative essays, critically acclaimed writer Edward Riche stretches his satiric muscles to...
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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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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...
27) 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...
28) 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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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...
32) 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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Celia Rivenbark's essays about life in today's South are like caramel popcorn- sweet, salty, and utterly irresistible
Celia Rivenbark is a master at summing up the South in all its glorious excesses and contradictions. In this collection of screamingly funny essays, you'll discover:
* How to get your kid into a character breakfast at Disneyworld (or run the risk of eating chicken out of a bucket with Sneezy)
* Secrets of Celebrity Moms (don't...
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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...
35) Putin Down Putin
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Enduring the last several months of Russia's attacks on Ukraine has been a catastrophe to the Ukrainian people and their relatives in Russia. PUTIN DOWN PUTIN has been originated as a way to bring discontent and misery to President Putin for the terrible murders and destruction he has inflicted in Ukraine. This book promotes a Consumers household and clothing trade-in program to send modern products to disadvantaged countries such as Ukraine to boost...
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From the author of The Portable Curmudgeon, a delicious, witty, irreverent A to Z guide to the tics, twitches and safety-valves that characterize our twisted, neurotic modern world.
We live in an Age of Anxiety. The events of modern life have overwhelmed the average homo sapiens until getting from Point A to Point B without being overcome by neuroses is a practical impossibility. Enter, the comic safety valve. Jon Winokur's Encyclopedia Neurotica...
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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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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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"Greetings, Dear Homsaps" is a highly satirical look at the conditions on planet Earth in the years prior to, during, and just after TBC, or The Big Change.
Climate variations bring many disasters but also some fortuitous changes, proving how adaptable the species Homo Sapiens is.
The Galactic Federation of Lightworkers is heavily invested in a beneficent future for Earth. They see clearly how badly the planet's being run by a corrupt ruling elite...
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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...