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What is it about lawyers that has made them the butt of hundreds and hundreds of jokes over the centuries? Whatever the reason, everyone-including lawyers and judges themselves-has laughed at attorney-aimed humor. Now here is the best and most recent collection of jokes, anecdotes, quotations, and proverbs that poke fun (. . . and malice) at the legal profession. In summation, you must find The World's Funniest Lawyer Jokes guilty of disorder in court...
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For years after college, Max Gross was a schlubby ne'er-do-well sporting an unwieldy Jewfro. He fought off double-chins and man-boobs. His style of dress was reminiscent of a stoned urban slacker. Young Max Gross truly was hapless in a big city. He was seemingly without luck or hope. He had bedbugs, a bad break-up, and an audit by the IRS that threatened to break his soul. But he had heart (as well as two nagging parents). When Gross saw the smash...
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Awakened by great shouted oaths below. Peeped over the side of the manger and saw a Belgian lass milking and addressing a cow with a comprehensive luridness that left no doubt in my mind that British soldiers had been billeted here before.' - Private Norman Ellison, 1/6th King's Liverpool Regiment Humor helped the British soldier survive the terrible experiences they faced in the trenches of the Western Front during the Great War. Human beings are...
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Here is a kaleidoscopic analysis of Jewish humor as seen through Funnyman, a little-known super-heroic invention by the creators of Superman. Included are complete comic-book stories and daily and Sunday newspaper panels from Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's creative fiasco. Siegel and Shuster, two Jewish teenagers from Cleveland, sold the rights to their amazing and astonishingly lucrative comic book superhero to Detective Comics for $130 in 1938....
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Les tracas du quotidien de nos contemporains abordés avec humour et décalage.
La vie est toujours aussi drle.
Dans ce deuxième album, les petits tracas de tous les jours continuent d'être croqués avec humour.
Encore plus d'ironie, de mauvaise foi, et de méchanceté, pour des personnages perdus dans leur quotidien, et qui peinent à exister aux yeux des autres. Un cocktail désopilant à mettre entre toutes les mains !
Un nouveau recueil...
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Neighbors From Hell finds itself nestled in the "children's book for adults" niche in the vein of Go the Fuck to Sleep. The book tells the story of the real life monsters in America who could be living next door, people like a repo man, a reality TV star, or a slumlord. The playful rhymes provide the reader (whether a child or an adult), an informed perspective on the biggest social and economic problems facing our country. Taras Kharecko illustrates...
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When the self-help books just aren't helping, it's time to call in the experts: real people...
San Francisco Chronicle columnist Adair Lara polled her readers for life lessons learned through experience, receiving thousands of heartfelt and irreverent responses. The best are compiled here in more than two hundred bits of priceless counsel, accompanied by witty, whimsical illustrations by award-winning artist Roxanna Bikadoroff.
This handy little...
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A Fun Gift Book for Anyone Who's Experienced Qualms about Modern Dating Culture!
Inside you'll find 40 different boys gone wrong, from The Boy Toy to Midlife Crisis Man, The Gym Rat to The Fixer Upper, and from The Activist to The Couch Potato. Whether you met him at home, at the office, or farther afield, this little gift book will show you how to spot a bad boyfriend from fifty paces.
Special features like the handy "not to be confused with" help...
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I Saw Mommy Biting Santa Claus is a new spin on a holiday classic that tells the story of a suburban zombie outbreak and the little boy who knows just what to do. When Johnny finds out that his mother has turned into a zombie and has attacked Santa Claus, he knows that it's up to him to put the living dead (back) to rest.
While the chaos spreads from the mall to the Christmas parade, Johnny finds his friends Glenn, Barb, and Ben, and they devise...
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From the author of Midlife Cabernet and Frozen Dinners, a guide to life after fifty full of personal anecdotes and laugh-out-loud humor.
More than forty million middle-aged women are tumbling over the hill, laughing all the way because the kids are grown, their menstrual periods stopped, and they survived at least four decades of arbitrary rules dictated by a crabby universe. They went to work with varying degrees of success and brought home the...
2491) Keep Calm and Carry On
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Packed full of cheery motivational quotes, proverbs and mantras, Keep Calm and Carry On is an uplifting gift book meant to give you a boost through troubled times. Discovered on a poster created by the British Ministry of Information for British soldiers before World War II, the slogan still manages to strike a chord in our current difficult times.
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill
"Don't...
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Avec humour et décalage, l'auteur aborde dans ses dessins les petits et grands tracas du quotidien.
La vie est drle.
Elle est encore plus comique dans cet album lorsqu'elle est croquée en 59 dessins humoristiques qui abordent, par les petits ctés, les problèmes de tous les jours : l'argent, le couple, le bureau... Ironie, mauvaise foi, mesquineries, méchancetés, les personnages emploient les moyens les plus détestables pour vous faire part...
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A full year's worth of the strangest, most outlandish antics of one of the Internet's true titans: Florida Man! Plus, for the first time ever ... the equally bizarre, equally outrageous Florida Woman!
Go to Google and type in your birth date and the words "Florida Man." Weird, right? Well, you haven't seen anything yet! That's just one day in the life of a Florida Man.
Originally a beloved Internet game made possible by Florida's Sunshine Laws,...
2494) Rom Com
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At precisely the cultural moment you were hoping for, a dream team of smart, sexy, brunette, West Coast poets of Italian descent has passionately co-authored an intelligent collection of poetry that both celebrates and capsizes the romantic comedy. From the origin of the genre (It Happened One Night) to its contemporary expressions (Love Actually), the poems in Rom Com trace the attempt to deconstruct as well as engage in dialogue with romantic comedy...
2495) Hedgehugs
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Hedgehogs, a.k.a. adorable little spike balls, can soften even the toughest hearts with one simple reminder: a pinch of compassion goes a long way.
So small, so cute, and yet so spiky! How do these tiny creatures always know how to make us smile? With charming quotes and puns-and a whole heap of huggable hedgehogs-this book is guaranteed to add a dose of warmth and love to your day.
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What is it about lawyers that has made them the butt of hundreds and hundreds of jokes over the centuries? Whatever the reason, everyone-including lawyers and judges themselves-has had a hearty chuckle over attorney-aimed humor. Hilarious Lawyer Jokes pokes the most fun (and malice) at a profession that has been targeted with humorous jabs for centuries.
From this single hilarious source, with full-color illustrations, get your one-liners (Q: How...
2497) Swipe Left
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A funny, fully-illustrated guide to the thorny world of modern dating - the perfect Christmas stocking filler.
From ghosting to catfishing, breadcrumbing to orbiting...
As if finding 'the one' wasn't hard enough, the world of app dating has brought with it a whole host of new pitfalls.
Now, Lucy Baker is here to save the day. Taking us from setting up your profile to what not to say on the first date, this is everything you need to know to turn...
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Complaining, psychologists assert, is good for your health. It acts as a relief valve to help dispel the pent up energy generated by our daily frustrations, personal peeves, and life-long vexations. Now curmudgeons, gripers, grousers, and complainers have their own place to discard their tension! 101 Things That Piss Me Off is the manifesto guaranteed to help even the crabbiest soul let loose. Here is just a sample list of items guaranteed to piss...
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Bald is beautiful. Bald-natural and otherwise-is a fashion statement. And now, bald is fun.
A delightful gift book for anyone who wears his chrome dome proudly, Baldies is part field guide, part guessing game, part exuberant celebration of the follicularly challenged. On each page is a full-color illustration of a bald head-top only!-and the reader has to guess its owner. The portraits, by Brazilian artist Fernando L. Perottoni, are whimsical, lively,...
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Journalist, presenter, broadcaster, husband, father, vigorous all-rounder: Alan Partridge. Star of action blockbuster Alpha Papa; a man with a fascinating past and an amazing future.
I Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan is the memoir of Alan Partridge, the nation's favorite broadcaster. It is a work of heart-breaking majesty.
Genuinely one of the best books of the last fifteen to twenty years, I, Partridge charts the highs, lows and middle bits...