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Making the Cat Laugh : One woman's journal of single life on the margins
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Lynne Truss
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One woman's journal of single life on the margins. A brilliant collection of Lynne Truss' journalism -- recording the life of a metropolitan refugee from coupledom. The alternative 'Bridget Jones'. For seven long years, starting in 'The Listener' in 1988 and continuing in 'The Times' and 'Woman's Journal', Lynne Truss has been trying to make her cat laugh. It has been an uphill task, which is why she deserves this book, a recognition of outstanding courage in the face of futility. Along the way, 'Margins', 'Single of Life' and 'One Woman's Journal' have collected a band of devoted fans, yet still the cat remains unimpressed. Never have so many jokes about Kitbits been found in such concentration as in 'Making the Cat Laugh'. But under the headings such as 'The Single Woman Considers Going Out but Doesn't Fancy the Hassle' and 'The Single Woman Stays at Home and Goes Quietly Mad', we discover a writer not only obsessed with cats, but ...
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1,000 Unforgettable Senior Moments
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Tom Friedman
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...Of Which We Could Remember Only 246
No, you’re not losing your mind. And you’re definitely not alone.
There’s Jimmy Carter, forgetting the nuclear launch codes in a suit at the dry cleaners.
Rod Stewart fumbling for the name of the intense first love who inspired “Maggie Mae.”
G. K. Chesterton writing a long letter to his mother announcing the good news about his engagement — while his mother is in the room with him.
Marilyn Monroe blowing the same line through 52 takes during the filming of Some Like It Hot.
Celebrating history’s greatest mental lapses, is a perfect impulse book in the fine gift format of
Famous Last Words
. Not just outlandishly funny, it’s also a book of great comfort — after all, having a senior moment puts you in the company of Einstein, Lincoln, Beethoven, Newton, Toscanini, and a whole assortment of presidents, poets, philosophers, popes, and Nobel Prize–winners. ...
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100 Ways a Horse is Better Than a Man
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Tina Bettison
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From the writer of "One Hundred Ways to Live with a Horse Addict" and "One Hundred Ways for a Horse to Train Its Human", this hilarious collection is the perfect gift for the entire female horse-loving population! If your stallion is getting to be rather too much of a handful you can have his testicles removed to calm him down and make him more compliant. Men seem to object to this. "You won't have to meet your horse's parents before you commit to each other, nor will you ever have to spend Christmas with them. Horses don't cancel dates at the last minute with lame excuses. You cancel the date with them when they really are lame."
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Advanced Banter : The QI Book of Quotations
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John Lloyd & John Mitchinson
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Have you ever wondered why most books of quotations are stuffed full of rather pedestrian quotes by people you've never heard of? It's a shame because a really good quotation book, one which gathered the truest and funniest insights of the best minds, and organised them into 250 subjects, from ambition to worry, (or from artichokes to woodpeckers), a book which offered you a useful take on almost every situation life throws at you (from the death of your child's hamster to the unified theory of everything), a sourcebook of wise one-liners, of knock-out jokes, of drole asides and heartfelt statements of truth and beauty, a practical handbook of interestingness, well, that would be worth having. And, guess what? Those thoughtful gentlemen at QI have come up with one. Five years of learning how to avoid the dull stuff have left the QI team in a uniquely good position to deliver this elusive holy grail: the big, useful, funny and really ...
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A Year in the Merde
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Stephen Clarke
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There are lots of French people who are not at all hypocritical, inefficient, aggressive, arrogant, adulterous or incredibly sexy. They just didn’t make it into this book ...
A Year In The Merde
is the almost-true account of a year in the life of 45-year-old Brit expat, Stephen Clarke.
Inspired partly by the culture shock on his arrival in Paris in September 2002, and partly by the enviable sales figures of Peter Mayle’s
A Year in Provence
, Stephen started keeping a diary of his hilarious experiences chez the French. As
The Guardian
newspaper reported, Stephen printed several hundred copies in his garage to send to friends, just for fun. Within a few weeks, however, his parodic novel became a word of mouth must have book in Paris and in some bookstores, outsold Clinton’s memoirs.
The story of a 27-year-old lad, a cross between Hugh Grant and David Beckham who is hired to open a tearoom in ...
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Bad Bridesmaid : True Tales of Bachelorette Brawls and Taffeta Tantrums
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Siri Agrell
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Bad Bridesmaid:
an underachieving, inadequate, sinful, vulgar, naughty or disobedient bridal attendant. Usually characterized by eye-rolling, drunkenness, lack of pantyhose and an overdrawn bank account.
Siri Agrell didn't mean to become a bad bridesmaid. It just kind of happened when she innocently asked-in a newspaper piece-if it was really necessary for the bride's best and most loyal friends to endure 12 months of themed showers, endless fittings and the inevitable "taffeta terror" of coming face to face with the chosen dress. Agrell got her answer when she was promptly fired as a bridesmaid. Bad Bridesmaid devilishly dissects the hilarious, expensive and unbelievable experiences of leading a treasured friend down the aisle, and asks why it all has to be so damn difficult. From the history of bridesmaids-who in ancient times were used as decoys-to their contemporary role of strapless dress-wearing servitude-Agrell covers ...
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Bad Dates
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Sam Jordison
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Charting the extraordinary encounters ordinary people around the world have undergone in the name of love, "Bad Dates" lays bare (in more ways than one) the ritual of humiliation that is dating. The horrific tales it contains are sometimes embarrassing, often rude, and always absolutely hilarious; proving conclusively that for every match made in heaven, there are dozens more made in hell. From the man who had information about his underpants emailed to his entire office, to the couple who found their passions doused by an unexpected dip in a lake, via the girl who ruptured her stomach when over-indulging at an all-you-can-eat restaurant, these stories are a much-needed answer to the icky cliches normally surrounding romance. So, if you have loved and lost, crashed and burned, been humiliated, betrayed, abused and bemused, this is undoubtedly the book for you. And even if you haven't, you'll still enjoy laughing at all the fools who ...
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Black Day Book : Daily tragic briefs
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Penguin Group (Photos Getty Images)
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Everybody has black days.
So what should you do?
Nothing.
What's the point?
Things rarely get better.
It's best to just stop trying.
Live every day as if it were your last
. . . if you're lucky, it will be soon enough.
First published 2005.
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Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker
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various
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More than a book, this is a bona fide publishing event. The largest-ever collection of New Yorker cartoons features the best of every decade in book form, plus two easy-to-browse CDs--Windows and Macintosh compatible--with every cartoon ever published in the magazine--more than 68,000 of them!
Since its founding in the 1920s, The New Yorker has had a profound cultural impact on the country and the world, and has almost singlehandedly elevated the cartoon to an art form. For the first time ever, EVERY cartoon ever published in The New Yorker is collected in one place.
Accompanying the cartoons in the book, several thousand of them organized chronologically, are essays by eminent New Yorker writers reflecting on the life and times (and sense of humor) of each successive decade. Additionally, each decade includes profiles and mini-portfolios of the cartoonists who made their marks on the era, from Peter Arno and Charles Addams to ...
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Dead Sexy
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Kathy Lette
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Why do men like intelligent women? Because opposites attract.
This is what Shelaine Green thinks when she meets Kit Kinkade. Raised by a single mum, Shelly is convinced that if vibrators could 'kill spiders in the bathtub, light the barbie, kiss our upper eyelids and tell us we don't look fat in stretch lycra', then women wouldn't need men at all.
Okay, Kit's broken nose may give him the look of a streetwise Greek God - the way Hercules would look if he played in a heavy metal rock band - but he also believes a woman is little more than a life support system to an ovary.
They meet the day they are married.
A reality T.V. show runs a 'Desperate and Dateless' competition. A computer has matched Kit and Shelly, predicting them to be the perfect pair... with huge financial rewards if they can survive their honeymoon on a paradise island.
So, can Shelly and Kit fall in love at second sight? Or ...
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Demented
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Author:
Jacky Fleming
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Have the inevitable signs of ageing taken you completely by surprise? Do Friends Reunited emails from primary school acquaintances precipitate an instant mid-life crisis? Has your computer introduced levels of frustration into your life that you never dreamed were possible? Does the sound of orchestrated easy-listening music while you're on hold for half an hour drive you to despair? Then this demented cartoon narrative may help slightly, although how I can't imagine. This is an absolute must for the middle-aged but immature woman and her bewildered partner - or anyone obsessed with looking on the Internet at properties for sale in sunny countries.
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Dog
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Matthew Van Fleet
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In Matthew Van Fleet's captivating new multiconcept book, twenty breeds of capering canines demonstrate action words, opposites, synonyms, and more. Cleverly designed pull tabs and flaps plus ten pettable textures provide interactive treats that will have toddlers arfing along from start to surprising finish. Bow-WOW.
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Encyclopedia Neurotica
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Author:
Jon Winokur
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Our modern age of anxiety threatens to overwhelm us all with angst, ambivalence, and dread. Most of us manage to cope, but not without displaying some pretty bizarre behaviour.
Enter
Encyclopedia Neurotica
, an irreverent A-to-Z guide to the tics, twitches, and safety-valve nuttiness of modern life. Learn about such fascinating foibles as retail therapy, shopping as a means of comfort, relaxation, or mood elevation, or cell yell, loud talking on cell phones in public places by people with a neurotic need to invade their own privacy. Find out whether you suffer from cyberchondria, hypochondria resulting from seeing one's symptoms on a medical Web site, or pronoia, the irrational belief that people like you.
First published 2005.
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Everyday Devils and Angels
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Michael Leunig
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'There was once a man who could no longer believe things that were said. All he could trust was sighing, sobbing, swearing, screaming and singing. If you asked him why he no longer believed, he would sigh... He would sob... He would scream and swear. And then he would start to sing like a bird.'Michael Leunig has been drawing and writing for Australian newspapers since 1965. He was born in Melbourne and now lives on a farm in north-eastern Victoria. His work has been widely published overseas, and has been adapted in Australia for television, theatre and radio.
Leunig's many titles include The Penguin Leunig, The Travelling Leunig, Ramming the Shears, Everyday Devils and Angels, You and Me, Short Notes from the Long History of Happiness, Why Dogs Sniff Each Other's Tails, Goatperson and Other Tales, The Curly Pyjama Letters, The Stick and Other Tales of Our Times, Poems and most recently, Strange Creature.
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Favourite Funny Women
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BBC
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Filthy Shakespeare
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Pauline Kiernan
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Despite the richness of Shakespeare's sexual language (his work includes no fewer than 150 puns for female genitals, and 180 for male genitalia), scant attention has been paid to it till now. "Filthy Shakespeare" offers 100 examples of the Bard at his bawdiest, arranged under 25 sexual categories from cuckold to cunnilingus and from scrotum to semen. Each filthy passage is 'translated' into modern English and the hidden sexual meanings of the words explained in a glossary. In a lively and rumbustious Introduction, author Pauline Kiernan shows how Shakespeare's predilection for rude punning had its roots in the social and political reality of Elizabethan England, where the brutal facts of life were often described by figures of speech to distance or disguise them, and where the network of government spies meant that covert communication was, for some, a matter of life and death. "Filthy Shakespeare" is not just the quirkiest, dirtiest ...
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Furry Logic: Don't Worry!
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Jane Seabrook
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New Zealand artist
A wise mouse once said, 'One of my clever ways of fighting back against the world is by boldly going to bed'. If you've ever been so bold, you're in good company with Jane Seabrook's plucky menagerie. When the horizon is gray, a bright parrot reminds itself (and you) that 'A better time is coming - its name is lunch'. How can your frown not turn upside down when a tree frog wryly declares, 'Please excuse my occasional smiles - I'm recovering from an attack of optimism'. So reach out your paw to a friend in need and say, 'Don't worry, be furry!'
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Give the Bitch Her Chocolate
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Ed Polish & Darren Wotz et al
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Give the Bitch Her Chocolate
brings a particularly piquant imperiousness to the table, serving up a feast of edible and potable quoteables from diva-licious dames. These hedonistic heroines bring haute cuisine to a whole new level that's at least as high as their hair-dos. The ultimate validation for a favourite food-lover, churlish chocoholic, or domestic dominatrix because bitchiness isn't just an adjective - it's a lifestyle choice.
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Goodnight Bush
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Erich Origen
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In the situation room There was a toy world And a flight costume And a picture of-- So begins GOODNIGHT BUSH, Erich Origen and Gan Golan's hilarious and poignant requiem for the Bush administration. In this pitch-perfect parody of Goodnight Moon, we see a child-like George W. Bush tucked safely away in the confines of his own room with all the toys he's willfully destroyed, abused, or defaced. Complete with "a quiet Dick Cheney whispering 'hush,'" this bedtime story lets us laugh at--and finally say goodnight to--the disaster of the last eight years.
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Great British Wit
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Rosemarie Jarski
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'An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.'
- George Mikes.
There's nothing much left to feel good about these days if you're British, but one of the few things where we all agree that we're still a world leader is, our defining sense of humour.
Thematically covering every subject imaginable, from God to dogs, this collection will be the seminal gathering of our national wit, and a picture of who we are as a nation - a monument to our monumental silliness.
It also features: Jane Austen, Pam Ayres, Alan Bennett, Jeffrey Bernard, John Betjeman, Jo Brand, Craig Brown, Winston Churchill, Alan Clark, Jeremy Clarkson, Billy Connolly, Peter Cook, Tommy Cooper, Noel Coward, Quentin Crisp, Les Dawson, Stephen Fry, A.A. Gill, Stella Gibbons, W.S. Gilbert, Joyce Grenfell, Tony Hancock, Harry Hill, Jerome K. Jerome, Boris Johnson, Samuel Johnson, Maureen Lipman, Spike Milligan, Nancy Mitford, Frank ...
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