Jokes Riddles category: 1216 books
Talking Turkey
A Food Lover's Guide to the Origins of Culinary Words and Phrases
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Food is a favorite topic of conversation around the world-how to create it, how to season it, how to compliment it with other foods, how to serve it...the list goes on. Yet little attention is paid to where the names of food actually come from or why so many phrases we use daily involve food, whether...
The Book of Common Fallacies
Falsehoods, Misconceptions, Flawed Facts, and Half-Truths That Are Ruining Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
An A-to-Z compendium of the misleading, the oversimplified, the exaggerated, and the just plain wrong.
In an era when truth can be hard to track down, The Book of Common Fallacies debunks a wide variety of popular beliefs and set the record straight. By carefully researching the facts and citing...
Hair of the Dog to Paint the Town Red
The Curious Origins of Everyday Sayings and Fun Phrases
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
400 intriguing, entertaining, and often hilarious etymological journies
English is filled with curious, intriguing and bizarre phrases. This book reveals the surprising, captivating and even hilarious origins behind 400 of them, including:
• Read between the Lines
• Cat Got Your...
by James Geary
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
"A witty book about wit that steers an elegant path between waggishness and wisdom." —Stephen Fry
Much more than a knack for snappy comebacks, wit is the quick, instinctive intelligence that allows us to think, say, or do the right thing at the right time in the right place. In...
by varios
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Risas, diversión y entretenimiento con esta gran colección de los mejores chistes para todas las ocasiones.
by varios
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Risas, diversión y entretenimiento con esta gran colección de los mejores chistes para todas las ocasiones.
by varios
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Risas, diversión y entretenimiento con los mejores chistes cortos.
by varios
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Risas, diversión y entretenimiento con el libro de las adivinanzas.
Utterly Lost in Translation
Even More Misadventures in English Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Watch as the English language gets abused around the world with these weird, hilarious, and strange misspellings and mistranslations
The search for the globe’s funniest language howler continues apace. As with his two previous volumes, Charlie Croker has trawled hotel foyers in Kazakhstan,...
Mouse Attack 3!!!
A Collection of E-Mails
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
“YOU’VE GOT MAIL” . . . . That “darn mouse keeps attacking” and I continue my daily task of going through my e-mails- reading, forwarding, but now; I have saved that joke or story; before deleting . . . . be it spiritual and heart warming, a tear jerker, a funny joke or story you about...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
cartoonists in the United States. This award-winning artist began his cartooning career in 1953 while just turning 18 and attending The Billy Hon Cartoon School in Los Angeles. He submitted his first batch of cartoons to a small magazine called The Prarie Farmer, and was surprised to hear from them...
Which Way to the Vomitorium?
Vernacular Latin for All Occasions
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Tired of feeling like "The Ugly American" every time you visit the Vatican? Fed up with having to consult a dictionary when all you want to say is, "I've just been run over by a chariot!"? Well, now you can prepare yourself for almost every papal problem and haphazard happenstance...
Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary III
Learning to Talk More Gooder Fastly
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
Jeff Foxworthy clearly knows how to talk gooder redneck, especially after two runaway bestsellers on the subject. But for those folks who still need to get in touch with their inner redneck, here’s the third handy reference with even more indigenous idiomatic ingenuity. With Jeff as your guide,...
Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary II
More Words You Thought You Knew the Meaning Of
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2006
Clearly one redneck dictionary was not enough. And it’s no wonder. The South is positively bursting at the seams with colorful words and turns of phrases in this distinct dialect. Now men and women from all across this great land can further fine-tune their fluency and showcase their confidence...