Ross Petras: 23 books
Unusually Stupid Americans
A Compendium of All-American Stupidity
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A hilarious collection of lists, statistics, news items, quotations, and facts detailing stupid acts of Americans from all walks of life—by the authors of the bestselling The 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said
Everyone knows that America is “the land of the free and the home of the brave,”...
Unusually Stupid Celebrities
A Compendium of All-Star Stupidity
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
The Greeks honored Zeus, the Romans revered Juno, but modern civilization worships a different sort of god: Celebrity. Face it, we follow the stars’ every move, fashion choice, and deliciously dishy affairs. Now Kathryn Petras and Ross Petras, authors of Unusually Stupid Americans, pull the demanding...
Unusually Stupid Politicians
Washington's Weak in Review
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Kathryn Petras and Ross Petras, bestselling authors of the scathingly funny Unusually Stupid Americans and Unusually Stupid Celebrities, now set their bipartisan sights on the hallowed halls of the United States government. Unusually Stupid Politicians exposes the mind-boggling but true political...
That Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means
The 150 Most Commonly Misused Words and Their Tangled Histories
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
An entertaining and informative guide to the most common 150 words even smart people use incorrectly, along with pithy forays into their fascinating etymologies and tangled histories of use and misuse.
Even the most erudite among us use words like apocryphal, facetious, ironic, meteorite, moot,...
"It Always Seems Impossible Until It's Done."
Motivation for Dreamers & Doers
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Pursuing a dream is hard work, but the right words delivered at the right time—by people who’ve been there and done that—can give us just the motivation we need. The right words can rekindle our enthusiasm, re-energize our efforts, dispel doubt, let us know we’re not alone, and show us that...
by Ross Petras, Kathryn Petras
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
**Too lazy to drive to his girlfriend's house, a man ties helium balloons to a lawn chair--and ends up at 15,000 feet, closing the L. A. airport.
*A Chinese contraception program causes the birth rate to rise when men are discovered taking birth control pills and unrolling condoms over their...
The Anthology of Really Important Modern Poetry
Timeless Poems by Snooki, John Boehner, Kanye West, and Other Well-Versed Celebrities
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Required reading from great poets of our time. Drew Barrymore: “Upon Pondering Breasts.” Tom Cruise: “An Exegesis on Psychiatry.” Ann Coulter: “My Kind of Fun.” And Trump and Sheen and Snooki, John Boehner and Michelle Bachman, Miley and Ke$ha. Hugo Chavez. Even a Zen haiku by Emmitt Smith:
I...
The Stupidest Sports Book of All Time
Hilarious Blunders, Bloopers, Oddities, Quotes, and More from the World of Sports
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
The thrill of victory! The agony of a tight jockstrap!
It’s a celebration of true sports lunacy from the renowned connoisseurs of stupidity, Kathryn and Ross Petras, authors of the beloved 365 Stupidest Things Ever Said calendar.
Here from the wide world of professional and amateur...
"Don't Forget to Sing in the Lifeboats"
Uncommon Wisdom for Uncommon Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
Uncommon times call for uncommon wisdom. It’s inspiring to hear from people who’ve graduated from the school of hard knocks, yet kept a sense of humor. People like Twain, Voltaire, Oscar Wilde. People who've said the thing so well that we all wish we'd said it. People who've been there, done that,...
1, 2, Can't Reach My Shoe
A Counting Book for the Middle-Aged
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
The 1, 2, 3s of adulthood differ ever so slightly from the popular grade-school primers of yesteryear inside Ross and Kathryn Petras's 1, 2, Can't Reach My Shoe. This clever counting book for the middle-aged (which the United States Census Bureau defines as age 35 and above) is perfect for readers...
by Kathryn Petras, Ross Petras
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Inside Jane's Guide to Dicks (and Toms and Harrys), best-selling humorists Ross and Kathyrn Petras offer tongue-in-cheek lessons to help your average Jane suss out all the Dicks (and Toms and Harrys) they encounter along the way to finding Mr. Right.Once upon a time, Jane didn't know Jack about...
by Ross Petras, Kathryn Petras
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
A mother, answering her phone, hears her daughter shrieking and screaming. Terrified, she calls the police who arrive at the daughter's house, batter down the door--and find the daughter, nude, in her bedroom having sex with her boyfriend. Apparently her toe hit the automatic dial button for her mother's...
B Is for Botox
An Alphabet Book for the Middle-Aged
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Remember when A was for apple? Well, now (sigh) A is for aging.The A, B, Cs of adulthood differ ever so slightly from the popular grade school primers of the past inside Ross and Kathryn Petras's B Is for Botox: An Alphabet Book for the Middle-Aged. This hilarious board book has a fun, retro...
Wretched Writing
A Compendium of Crimes Against the English Language
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Wretched writing is the lowest of the low; it is a felonious assault on the English language. Exuberantly excessive, it is a sin committed often by amateurs and all-too-frequently by gifted writers having an off day. In short, it’s very bad writing. Truly bad. Appallingly bad.
It’s also...
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