General Humour category: 16710 books

this book was meant to be for light reading whilst flying between airports but don't be put off you can still read it anyway.it is a collection of true short stories, written by a not so short person, who had a short temper in those days brought about by the frustration of the job on the day....

Eva March Tappan's “A Friend in the Library” series is a comprehensive guide to the writings of six seminal American writers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. In volume six,...

Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of is a full-colour illustrated compendium of the most painfully bad games, based on Ashens' YouTube series of the same name. Everyone's heard of E.T. for the Atari 2600 and Superman for the Nintendo 64, but these are almost nothing next to the...

Claire Laishley wasn't particularly concerned when she found a lump in her breast. She'd had two others removed over the years, both benign, and at the time the doctor had intimated there would probably be more. But this time things would be different. The Diary of Delores D'Lump covers the twelve-month...

J'adore la bouffe chinoise. Mon plat préféré est le 27. Clement Atlee Quand mon heure sera venue, je veux mourir dans le calme et la dignité, comme mon père, et surtout pas en criant et en hurlant comme ses passagers. Pat O'Brien Je me souviens parfaitement de la première fois...

The history of the knicker is a history of women's rights as much as fashion. From Queen Victoria and the Quaker reformer Amelia Bloomer to the G-string, Rosemary Hawthorne is the perfect guide through this fascinating history. As entertaining as it is informative, Rosemary Hawthorne exposes the true...

Édition enrichie (Avant-propos, notes, chronologie et bibliographie) Lorsqu'on s'avisa de réunir les textes qu'Alphonse Allais (1854-1905) avait disséminés dans différents journaux pendant plus de vingt ans (à partir de 1883), presse humoristique (Le Chat noir, Le Sourire) ou « sérieuse...

Tout le monde connaît son nom, cite parfois ses bons mots, mais qui a lu son œuvre immense ? " Allais Alphonse (pas XIII), né à Honfleur, de parents français mais honnêtes. Élève de l'École anormale inférieure, 3, place de la Sorbonne. " Ainsi se présente lui-même Alphonse Allais,...

Le meilleur des blagues spécial enfants enfin en numérique ! Effet sourire et franche rigolade garanti ! 100 blagues à déguster, parmi lesquelles :• celles que vous ne comprendrez pas du premier coup...• celles que vous trouverez nulles mais qui vous arracheront tout de même un sourire…•...

From the brains behind the New York Times' bestseller, The Book of General Ignorance comes another wonderful collection of the most outrageous, fascinating, and mind-bending facts, taking on the hugely popular form of the first book in the internationally bestselling series. Just when you thought...

A liff is a familiar object or experience that English has no word for. Afterliff, its long-awaited sequel, corrects this disgraceful oversight by recycling the names found on signposts. This brilliant successor to Douglas Adams' and John Lloyd's 1983 classic The Meaning of Liff features over...

This book contains exactly what it says on the front cover, nothing but Awesome Humour. The only way you can read this book without laughing over and over and over again, is by not having a pulse. It is, quite simply, one of the funniest books ever.

Humour is an effective coping strategy and can be used for self care, staff care or patient care. By developing strategies to bring more laughter into your life, you help reduce stress, improve your focus and effectiveness, enhance your communication and creative problem solving, build morale and...

Skippers and crew have very different agenda, and nowhere does it become more evident than in their secret innermost - but not very often expressed - thoughts about the other. This brilliantly original humour giftbook has two beginnings. Opened one way it sends up skippers (from the crew's...