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Dishing out witty one-liners and old-fashioned country logic the same way an old camp cook dishes out beans and biscuits, Roy English’s Advice from a Country Farmer is simply this: no-nonsense humor and wisdom from a country gentleman schooled in common sense and kindness. “Most farmers work only half a day; the other twelve hours they do other stuff.” “When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.” “Don’t skinny dip...
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Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and laxative on the same night. Aunty Acid is the sassy senior created to give “the crazy old lady in all of us” a voice that can be heard from 10 blocks away. With her long-suffering husband Walt, Aunty Acid tells it like it is and has her own unique opinions on everything. Her fanbase is growing by over 1,000 a day, as word on her wit and sassy sayings spreads across the internet, where she...
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Life is too short to remember to remove a U.S.B. safely. Aunty Acid is the sassy senior created to give “the crazy old lady in all of us” a voice that can be heard from 10 blocks away. With her long-suffering husband Walt, Aunty Acid tells it like it is and has her own unique opinions on everything. Her fanbase is growing by over 1,000 a day, as word on her wit and sassy sayings spreads across the internet, where she reaches over three million...
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Wickedly witty and wonderfully wise! Aunty Acid is the sassy senior created to give “the crazy old lady in all of us” a voice that can be heard from 10 blocks away. With her long-suffering husband Walt, Aunty Acid tells it like it is and has her own unique opinions on everything. Her fanbase is growing by over 1,000 a day, as word on her wit and sassy sayings spreads across the internet, where she reaches over three million people each week.
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Henry Ward Beecher said, “the common sense of one century is the common sense of the next.” That said, these pocket-sized humor books pack quite a bit of punch—lines that is. With more than one and a half million copies in print, their all-new look will leave a whole new generation in stitches!
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Meet Joe Cool, the Flying Ace, the Legal Beagle-and Snoopy's other secret identities-in this collection of classic comic strips!
Snoopy is no ordinary beagle. Through the years, he's adopted many personas, each unique and full of personality. As Joe Cool, he's aloof, unflappable, above the fray, the hip dog we'd all like to be. As the World War I Flying Ace, he engages in aerial combat with the notorious Red Baron. Snoopy has adopted various guises,...
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We're running out of problems as a first world nation. Sure, our schools are a mess, we mortgaged our future to the Chinese government and the average lifespan of a black male in the inner-city is 26, but those trivial inconveniences come a distant second to the real American plight. Naturally, I'm referring to the pervasive dipping cup dilemma that's currently plaguing our society. If you're unaware of this current day crisis then let me be the first...
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It has been said that providing a fact humorously helps increase the chance of you remembering the facts.
Here I offer you a platter of historical events, hopefully in a humorous way, so that you may either chuckle or say it's ridiculous, boring, or otherwise. I'm willing to bet that you're going to remember some of these humorous facts.
Life is like a train. We can watch the trains go by, or we can get on the train and ride it into the future!
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10) Personal Quotes
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Winning is a mind-set; losing is a curse.
I hope you and yours will join those worldwide who are enjoying these personal quotes. They are considered as depression busters by many. They make you laugh. Some will be like puzzles to be solved. Self-pity is the basement of human existence. Many of these quotes will boost and energize the spirit. Others will be excellent conversation tools even between total strangers on a long flight. Despair rages until...
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The bouquet of stories in this book is, written in a very lucid manner. Majority of stories are of bye-gone eras and some are more contemporary. The underlining theme in these stories is to throw up characters possessing inner strength and spiritual values as the title suggests. It is readable and interesting once one picks up this books, one gets engrossed totally and wants to put it down, only when one finishes the books. The true stories are the...
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Fernande habite à Binche, ville de carnaval synonyme de fête, mais elle pourrait aussi bien habiter à Mons, Charleroi, Namur, Liège, Arlon ou dans n'importe quelle autre ville ou village de Wallonie ! Et même à Bruxelles. Fernande, c'est ma voisine. La vraie et la sublimée. La sublime aussi. Fernande, c'est la voisine qu'on a tous un peu. Celle qui nettoie son trottoir à six heures du matin en tablier, celle qui parle plus à son chien qu'à...
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Don't Worry About the Mule Going Blind Just Load the Wagon, is book about the funny and wise things my dad used to say. The book is a little bit biography-autobiography woven into the explanations of the sometimes hilarious things my dad used to say. Billy James Eaton grew up in a time when humor was free flowing and certainly not censored. However, I did leave out some of Daddy's one liners that most certainly would have offended some; even as a...
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One of the things that will happen to all of us, if we are lucky, is that we will grow old. In Old Fogies, Unite!, author, Sam Almond, takes a humorous and witty look at what happens if you are lucky enough to reach the age of 90 and beyond. In the introduction, and having reached the grand age of 90 himself, the author tells us what he believes constitutes an old fogey and in so doing, has devised an amusing system for categorizing different levels...
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In Cruise Confidential, Brian David Bruns spills the dirt - or in this case, the dirty water - on those romantic, fun-filled vacations at sea. His hilarious chronicle of the year he spent working for Carnival Cruise Lines takes readers down into the areas where the crew works and lives, leaving readers gasping with laughter as they're assaulted nonstop with events that range from the absurd to the utterly bizarre. Stewards fighting over food. Cutlery...
16) Scottish Wit
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Scotland is famous for its sense of humour. This collection brings together quotes about Scotland and the Scots, as well as the sage wit and wisdom of some of its most renowned sons and daughters.
These quotes will make you smile, and by buying it you will be helping to make others smile as the proceeds go to fund the work of Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Scotland.
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Old sayings, idioms and synonyms are as Americana as apple pie. They are a part of our history and culture. "My Grandma's Old Sayings from A to Z and More" is a collection of over 800 old sayings and their meanings, that took the author five years to collect.
Growing up in a small southern town in the 1950s and 60s, old sayings were a way of communicating. Although, times were hard, people didn't complain. It was a time when people said what they...
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"If you think education is expensive, try stupidity."Great wisdom-and great humor-often go hand-in-hand. Sometimes a lot of truth and insight can be packed into a short proverb or saying. This book is a collection of more than 500 sayings-short insights for both your amusement and self-improvement! At least in this case, "The road to knowledge begins at the turn of the first page."
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From the author of the national bestseller F in Exams comes a new compendium of hilarious and inventive wrong test answers and homework hiccups.
F for Effort features hilarious gems from elementary school ("two halves make a whale"), middle school (Q: What does "germinate" mean? A: To become a German citizen), and high school (Q: Fossil fuels are usually associated with which major type of rock? A: Classic rock). These 250 examples of creative invention...
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Facebook Quotes and Status Updates Volume 1 is the perfect read for lovers of quotes that are edgy, slightly "out there" and sometimes R-Rated. These are not your usual quotes! These quotes will have you laughing out loud, shaking your head or saying. "Oh, no, he (or she) didn't!" This book brims with quotes on a wide range of accessible topics. Who can't relate to quotes about love, marriage, or relationships? Since we all grow older and age, the...
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