Jokes Riddles category: 1216 books
Holy Cow!
Doggerel, Catnaps, Scapegoats, Foxtrots, and Horse Feathers—Splendid Animal Words and Phrases
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
We love animals but insult humans by calling them everything from weasels or pigs to sheep, mice, chickens, sharks, snakes, and bird-brains. Animal epithets, words, and phrases are so widespread we often take them for granted or remain ignorant of the fascinating stories and facts behind them.
Spanning...
Wat als?
serieuze wetenschappelijke antwoorden op absurde hypothetische vragen
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Serieuze wetenschappelijke antwoorden op belangrijke hypothetische vragen
Wat als? geeft hilarische en informatieve antwoorden op belangrijke vragen waar je nooit aan zou denken. Vragen als:
• Als iedereen op aarde een paar weken bij elkaar uit de buurt blijft, is de verkoudheid dan niet...
Hoe dan?
Bizarre wetenschappelijke adviezen voor alledaagse problemen
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 5, 2019
Nieuw boek van bestsellerauteur Randall Munroe, auteur van Wat als? (meer dan 25.000 exemplaren verkocht)
Voor elke taak bestaat er een juiste aanpak, een verkeerde aanpak en een aanpak die zo ontzettend bizar is dat niemand er ook maar over peinst hem te gebruiken. Hoe dan? is een handleiding...
by Holly Lisle, Katharina Gerlach, Bill Bush
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
20 Kinds of Stupid: An Anthology of Idiot Heroes and Ridiculous Heroines
twenty fatally flawed flash stories by Holly Lisle and students
If there’s one thing more fun than writing awesome stories, it’s occasionally indulging in the worst excesses and writing awesomely bad stories....
Un pollo in classe.
Manuale di autodifesa scolastica
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 25, 2016
“Come è andata a scuola?”. La risposta è sempre la stessa: “Bene!”. Ma come è possibile se si è dovuto fare i conti con: compiti in classe, interrogazioni, brutti voti, note sul registro, ufficio del Preside, materie assurde come italiano, storia e matematica, campanelle che suonano troppo...
by Jackie French
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
FOR TOO LONG KOALAS HAVE BEEN CALLED BEARS For too long koalas have been called bears.
But this koala is out to prove to the world that he is BARE!
And that never, ever, ever can a koala be called a bear ...
From the internationally renowned author of the bestselling Diary of...
by Demetri Martin
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
New York Times bestselling author of This Is a Book and Point Your Face at This, Demetri Martin is back with another collection of hilarious drawings:
IF IT'S NOT FUNNY IT'S ART
Packed with hundreds of new illustrations and one-liners, IF IT'S NOT FUNNY IT'S ART is a peek into the ingenious...
by Demetri Martin
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
From the renowned comedian, creator, star and executive producer/multiple title-holder of Comedy Central's Important Things with Demetri Martin comes a bold, original, and rectangular kind of humor book.
Demetri's first literary foray features longer-form essays and conceptual pieces (such...
Para insultar con propiedad
Diccionario de insultos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Una divertida guía que pone al alcance del lector más de 2 000 formas para ofender a quien más desee.
Más de 2 000 insultos tomados de diccionarios, legajos, textos literarios, pasquines y del uso coloquial del habla para formar un diccionario que le haga honor al Arte de Insultar y nos...
by William Codpiece Thwackery
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
A titillating mashup of an erotic bestseller and a romantic classic, peppered with puns, this eBook is sure to satisfy those who love Fifty Shades of Grey and Pride and Prejudice!
When Mr. Elliot Bingley comes to court Lizzy Bennet’s sister, she meets his mysterious, grey-eyed friend, a Mr....
by Puzzleland
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2015
"30 Interactive Brain teasers to Warm Up your Brain" is a mini edition by Puzzleland, containing 30 easy brain teasers to get your mind warmed up for the day!This little fun book is ideal for teens and adults who look for some creative ways to spend their free time, entertain their mind or...
Bored of the Rings
A Parody
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
From the legendary comedic scholars who illuminated the tour de force Twilight so brilliantly in the New York Times bestselling Nightlight comes The Hunger Pains, a hilarious send-up of the immensely popular dystopian young adult novel, The Hunger Games.
The classic parody of The Lord of the...
The Pun Also Rises
How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay M ore Than Some Antics
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
A former word pun champion's funny, erudite, and provocative exploration of puns, the people who make them, and this derided wordplay's remarkable impact on history.
The pun is commonly dismissed as the lowest form of wit, and punsters are often unpopular for their obsessive wordplay. But such...
Very Nice Ways to Say Very Bad Things
An Unusual Book of Euphemisms
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
At a loss for words, hockey puck? You can always quote Shakespeare...
Or delve into this entertaining compendium of insults and verbal abuse, all couched in language of the most uplifting nature. Filled with common and not-so-common zingers that will both shock you and make you laugh your @$$!...