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Le Français, c'est difficile. Difficile? C'est impossible. C'est maddening. C'est une peine dans le neck. Mais le Franglais est une doddle…
Welcome back to the absurd yet joyful world of Miles Kington's legendary Franglais guides! C'est une des grande mixtures de l'histoire, comme gin et tonique, oeuf et bacon, ou les deux Ronnies. Cette combinaison de Français et Anglais vous permet une expérience mind-blowing.
MAINTENANT UNE SCRATCH ET SNIFF...
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Birthing a microwave. Breaking up with a male meter maid. Confronting a fellow bird with a lazy eye. In Bedtime Stories To Read To Yourself If You Like Dreaming About Stupid Things, Joe Gerlitz explores the ridiculous, peculiar and seemingly unimaginable. What exactly did President Lincoln have living inside his top hat? How bad does it suck to be the tandem bicyclist who has to always ride in the back? Why don't more doctors force patients to wear...
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An interspecies romance with a cow, Adam and Eve get acquainted, and the battle of the sexes begins--even God isn't spared. The little girl told, in a famous book, to "go the f to sleep" comes up with ten clever ways to say "No!" Hemingway is drunk and aroused as he rewrites The Great Gatsby, cows are interplanetary aliens in disguise, and George W. Bush and his National Spin Council plot to tell the American people, "I stand by all the misstatements...
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When nature calls, disaster sometimes answers. Flush This Book: True Tales of Bodily Malfunctions is a collection of funny, gross and totally true stories about poop mishaps and messes. A portion of the proceeds from sales of this ebook benefit the World Toilet Organization. Find out about their important work improving sanitation in some of the world's most impoverished nations at www.worldtoilet.org This is a book for the non-squeamish among us...
65) Thought Nuggets
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Thinking about cannibalism? Want to kick a pigeon? Fed up with open-mouthed yawns? Wheelie bags? One-named celebrities? And what, exactly, are your 3rd amendment rights? For less than a grande latte at Starbucks, you can find answers to those and many more questions in "Thought Nuggets," a collection of humorous essays and funny observations about the world around us filtered through the brain of Walter Michka.
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There are hundreds of online companies that will do your homework for you at a price. But will they write ANY essay you request? Only the WORST of these horrible companies were employed in the composition of Mindsploitation. A GREAT DEAL of money was wasted ACROSS THE GLOBE to commission what may be the dumbest collection of ridiculous assignments in HUMAN HISTORY. What does it say about our society that we can buy a quick custom eulogy for our...
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Filipino humorist RJ Ledesma shares the five universal steps of flirting that women use to ensnare clueless men; he raises male literacy levels by educating men in the finer points of female body language; and reveals the secrets of professional pick-up artists that make women do things that they will regret in the morning.
68) Me Funny
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Humor has always been an essential part of North American aboriginal culture. This fact remained unnoticed by most settlers, however, since non-aboriginals just didn't get the joke. For most of written history, a stern, unyielding profile of the Indian" dominated the popular mainstream imagination. Indians, it was believed, never laughed. But Indians themselves always knew better. As an award-winning playwright, columnist, and comedy-sketch creator,...
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"Read this book for advice you'll probably never need -- about how to scare a big bearded guy out of your house with four simple words or how to derail a North Slope natural gas deal using two pounds of lean hamburger. Or simply enjoy a rural Alaska perspective on a wide range of early 21st century topics. In these pages you'll find bite-sized takes on restless teenagers, twisted nature movies, Haiti's tragic earthquake, big box stores, civics, cell...
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When The Atlantic Monthly celebrated its 150th anniversary by publishing excerpts from the best writing ever to appear in the magazine, in the category of the humorous essay it chose only four pieces-one by Mark Twain, one by James Thurber, one by Kurt Vonnegut, and Ian Frazier's 1997 essay "Lamentations of the Father." The title piece of this new collection has had an ongoing life in anthologies, in radio performances, in audio recordings, on the...
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Ever get laid off while wearing a costume? Forced to get over a fear in less than 10 hours? Hey, we've all been there, right? These are just a few of the weird woes that writer and blogger Roberto Scarlato has had to face. A collection of six humorous essays of true events that happened in his life. It tackles subjects like Apartment Hunting, Traveling, Acting, Halloween Contests, and Scammers.
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"Who Cut The Cheese?" is the updated 2011 edition of the razor-sharp parody dedicated to the millions of readers who either enjoyed or suffered through the motivational bestseller "Who Moved My Cheese?(tm)" "Who Cut the Cheese?" is a parable in which four characters must find a way through a maze in their hunt for "Cheese." But this cheese is actually symbolic of the things that we all want out of life: success and self-confidence, a nice house, a...
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The Family Mix: Essays on Family Life from Midlife Mixtape is a collection of best loved essays on family life by Nancy Davis Kho that originally appeared on her blog, Midlife Mixtape. Parenting, school days, home life, pet ownership: Davis Kho tackles them all with a sharp eye, self- deprecating wit, and the occasional '80s music reference. Whether it's laying down ground rules for elementary school play dates that include the 50/50 rule (if you'll...
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An A-to-Z treasury of dumb, disastrous, and hard-to-believe human behavior from the New York Times-bestselling author of “Stupid History!”
* A doctor's actual diagnostic notation: The patient is married but sexually active.
* "Shooting Reported at Firing Range"-The State, Columbia, South Carolina, August 4, 2006
* Arrested for public urination in Bowling Green, Ohio: Mr. Joshua Pees.-The Sentinel-Tribune, Bowling Green, Ohio, September 5, 2001
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Les hommes préfèrent les grottes... C'est avec ce titre étrange qui fait référence au film culte du même nom que Jean-Luc Fonck nous revient avec une histoire bizarre qui a les Grottes de Han comme toile de fond. Attention, les mots « toile » et « fond » ne sont pas choisis au hasard...
76) Observations
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Shall I compare thine ass to a bouncy house? Or how about the similarities between a dog chasing geese and getting' some? H.C. Blackburne is in the hizzy house, and he be royalty or some sheet like that. He isn't afraid to "go there" so he would make a perfect wingman in all your worldly trials and tribulations. Want to go after a larger lady. It's in there! How about wearing underwear that is too small for athletic support? It's in there! What about...
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Le mot exil évoque généralement une exclusion forcée de son lieu d'appartenance. Mais les peurs non fondées-en particulier celles liées à l'économie-sont aussi une forme d'exils, intérieurs ceux-là. En nous détournant du bien commun, ils empêchent les sociétés d'évoluer vers leur plein potentiel. Il est plus que temps que l'on mette fin à ces exils avant que la notion même de collectivité ne perde son sens.
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78) Mishegas of Motherhood: Raising Children To Leave The Nest...As Long As They Come Home For Dinner
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The book explores Jewish holidays, traditions, rituals, recipes, as well as humorous insights into how the ancient advice of the sages relates to modern parenthood. Chapters include topics that appeal to all generations of parents and include "Planning A Dream Bar Mitzvah Is A Nightmare," "Why Every Mom Should Own A Dog," "Turning Your Dinner Table Into An Altar," "Holiness of Chores," and "Jewish Girls Don't Camp," which inspired a webisode on the...
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Comedian-author Charlie Demers, whose brain-bending brand of black humour will be familiar to followers of CBC Radio's The Debaters, offers his madcap perspective in a new collection of essays highlighting a wide range of topics under the heading of Bad Things. The Horrors is presented abecedarian-style, despoiling a beloved children's book tradition in order to explore personal hangups that range from the slightly awkward to the down-right terrible....
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When a zombie is taken prisoner by the Army, it need not be uselessly destroyed. In fact, just as our Army trains dogs for combat roles, it has a program to train the captured Undead for combat roles. No zombie that our Army can capture will go unutilized. This is our Army's "No Zombie Left Behind" policy.The manual in your hands is the Department of Defense's principal source of information on care, conditioning, training, and operations of our Army's...