Jokes category: 1216 books
The Cheaper the Crook, the Gaudier the Patter
Forgotten Hipster Lines, Tough Guy Talk, and Jive Gems
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
The Cheaper the Crook, the Gaudier the Patter: Forgotten Hipster Lines, Tough Guy Talk, and Jive Gems explores the rich vocabulary of gangsters, hipsters, jazz musicians, and military personnel of the 1930s and ’40s. Entries include definitions, etymology, and examples of usage. This delightful...
Slam Dunks and No-Brainers
Language in Your Life, the Media, Business, Politics, and, Like, Whatever
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2005
In this marvelously original book, three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Leslie Savan offers fascinating insights into why we’re all talking the talk—Duh; Bring it on!; Bling; Whatever!—and what this reveals about America today. Savan traces the paths that phrases like these travel from obscure...
by Simon Brett
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
'Brilliant! Will make a perfect Xmas stocking filler'
Bronya Ralley
'Delightful. This dip-in-anywhere book put a smile on my face from the first page . . . for everyone who likes a good chuckle'
Ruth Milligan
As we all know, the oxymoron is one of the great beauties of the English language....
Subtext
A Whimsical Look at Men (Women Too) and Manners
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Erudite humour in literature is a tricky business. However, in this marvellously wide-ranging curiosity shop of mirthful and incisive essays on the vagaries of the human condition, Professor Sukumar Nayar hits the mark. With delightful abandon, Nayar—India-born and Queen's English groomed— serves...
by Jasmine Birtles
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
You've got clowns to the left of you, jokers to the right and you're stuck in the middle unable to shut them up. Well now you can with all the put-doen lines and smart comebacks in this book. If you're all stressed out and you've no one to choke, pick a line and use it next time you feel like you're...
by Jasmine Birtles
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
So there you are, gorgeous, gifted and a brain the size of a planet and what do you have to put up with? Idiots, morons and people so ugly they ought to have a license to go outside. What should you do? Smile sweetly and put up with them? Gaze into the middle distance and talk about the weather? No....
Let There Be Facebook
Status Updates from God, Gaga, and Everyone In Between
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
The recent discovery of the ancient Ethernets has forever altered the way humanity views its past. Among the many amazing findings is a rich trove of Facebook dispatches that date back to the beginning of time itself. Now a selection of these lost Facebook updates is at last available for the world...
by Peter Crumpton
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Awesome Riddles For Kids
The Ladybird Book of Balls
The perfect gift for fans of the World Cup
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
THE PERFECT FATHER'S DAY GIFT for those obsessed with the World Cup.
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'If Ben were only happy when his favourite team did well, he would not be happy very often.
Instead Ben is happy whenever a team he hates does badly.
There are lots and lots...
by Ainhoa Montañez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Una recopilación de chistes cortos y muy buenos. Una muestra:
Si eres alérgico a los moluscos, ¿te ponen una orden de almejamiento?
–¿Por qué llevas una hiena en esa jaula?–Porque mi madre está saliendo con un actor porno.–¿Y la hiena?–Hasta las trancas. La rebosa.
Creo...
by Réjean Roy
Language: French
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: May 13, 2014
La collection Rions un peu... regroupe pas moins de sept cents blagues, devinettes et histoires drôles. Celles-ci sont regroupées en trois tomes, soit : Rions un peu... de la vie, Rions un peu... du sexe et Rions un peu... des autres.Écrites au début des années 90, soit avant l'apparition fulgurante...
Semantic Antics
How and Why Words Change Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
"My favorite popular word book of the year"
-William Safire, NY Times 6/22/2008
A fun, new approach to examining etymology!
Many common English words started out with an entirely different meaning than the one we know today. For example:
The word adamant came into English around...
The Kellyanne Conway Technique
Perfecting the Ancient Art of Delivering Half-Truths, Fake News, and Obfuscation—With a Smile
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
The only thing Americans want to read more than Trump's tax returns.
Constantly late to work? Caught cheating on your spouse again? Can't stop tweeting unhinged rants against your political enemies at three in the morning? Then The Kellyanne Conway Technique is the book you need.
Preeminent...
by Amy Plum
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
From the international bestselling author Amy Plum comes this illustrated series of rhyming couplets memorializing the mysterious deaths of twenty-six residents of the City of Light. For every letter there's another gruesome end linked to a famous spot, leading the reader on a deliciously ghoulish...