and expert at seeing the cosmos on 30 Altairian dollars a day. Ford lives by the Guide's seminal bit of advice: Don't Panic. Which comes in handy when their first ride--on the very same vessel that demolished Earth to make way for a hyperspacial freeway--ends disastrously (they are booted out of an airlock). with 30 seconds of air in their lungs and the odd of being picked up by another ship 2^276,709 to 1 against, the pair are scooped up by the only ship in the universe powered by the Infinite Improbability Drive.But this (and the idea that Bogart movies and McDonald's hamburgers now exist only in his mind) is just the beginning of the weird things Arthur will have to get used to. For, on his travels, he'll encounter Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-President of the Galaxy; Trillian, a sexy spacecadet he once tried to pick up at a cocktail party, now Zaphod's girlfriend; Marvin, a chronically depressed robot; and Slartibartfast, the award-winning engineer who built the Earth and travels in a spaceship disguised as a bistro.Arthur's crazed wanderings will take him from the restaurant at the end of the Universe (where the main dish of the day introduces itself and the floor show is doomsday), to the planet Krikkit (locked in Slo-Time to punish its inhabitants for trying to end the Universe), to Earth (huh? wait! wasn't it destroyed?!) to the very offices of The Hitchhiker's Guide itself as he and his friends quest for the answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything ... and search for a really good cup of tea.Ready or not, Arthur Dent is in for one hell of a ride!

    Together this dynamic pair begin their journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitch Hiker's Guide "A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have" and a galaxy-full of fellow travellers: Zaphod Beeblebrox - the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out to lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ball-point pens he has bought over the years.

    Leonard's life at his new junior high is just barely tolerable until he becomes friends with the unusual Alan and with him shares an extraordinary adventure.

    Our Erma is on her way to becoming a sub-total woman.

    Stevenson's watercolors couldn't be better."--School Library Journal.

    Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber. Carson's incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that extraordinary civilization.

    His mixture of verbal wit and beautifully crafted farce, ethnic humor and insight into universal foible, and above all compassion and understanding, make even his sharpest barbs touch the heart as well as the funny bone. These seven plays, beginning with his unforgettable debut, Come Blow Your Horn, make us laugh uproariously even as we indelibly identify with the objects of our laughter.

    But, with its unforgettable songs and its infinitely quotable script it has gone on to become an enduring cult classic.

    Hilarious trials and heartwarming joys of big family life by a mother who can still laugh about toddlers sharing ice cream with the dog, first graders who curl their hair with bubble gum, sixteen yr olds with goggles for eyes and headphones for ears, the summer the chauffeur (guess who) went on strike and the teenagers had to take walking lessons..and all those priceless moments no mom will ever forget- no matter how hard she tries!

    A collection of stories by the author who describes things that happened to him while living in the southern United States

    This new edition, with an extensive amount of fresh material, will prove irresistible to all fans of the most popular TV series of all time. Illustrations.

    Now a fresh generation of readers will be able to enjoy the Hideous Hog and the Rueful Rabbit.

    

    Our much-cherished humorist opens her heart with a story that shines with the hope of restoration in the wake of pain and tragedy.

    The Devil and Billy Markham, published in Playboy in 1979, was later adapted into a solo one-act play.

    The image of the middle-aged, balding and bespectacled gentleman is unmistakable. In black and white or color, in English or in German, Herman is a cartoon character who provides a daily dosage of levity and subtlety for addicted readers around the world".--OTTAWA CITIZEN.

    While visiting Rochester, New York, young Eugene meets the strange Professor Ambrose McFwain and goes out with him in his boat to search for a mysterious sea monster that has been sighted on Lake Ontario.

    Perfectly normal paintings in rich colors appear on pages split horizontally so that the images become quite different when tops or bottoms are turned, distorting things into comic or fearful surrealism.--Publishers Weekly Full-color illustrations throughout.

    Tells of how Phyllis Lose fought against prejudice, ridicule, and opposition to become a horse veterinarian and describes her efforts to establish an award-winning equine clinic where she has ministered to today's most famous stallions and racers

    Based on countless conversations with Groucho and his close cooperation, access to his private papers, and hundreds of interviews with friends and associates, here is the first biography to explore rather than exploit the fast-quipping, ferociously witty phenomenon that was Groucho Marx.More than a collection of wild antics and heady Hollywood hijinks, this in-depth portrait evokes the man whose wit masked a profound romanticism, whose barbs served to blunt his own doubts about his place in Hollywood society and his success with some of the most sought-after women of all time.Hector Arce probes Marx’s three marriages, his problem-riddled relationships with his three children and the other women in his life including Olivia de Havilland, Maureen O’Sullivan, Virginia Shulberg, and others. We are also giving a detailed account of his relationships with his gifted brothers, parents, and countless friends—all of whom appear in three-dimensional form in his work. Friendships, quarrels, triumphs and defeats—all are recorded here with care and frankness.Lively, loving, blisteringly candid, Groucho goes beyond the brilliant wag to reveal the bedeviled man beneath.

    

    Wellington Wimpy finds a hamburger (it can take all day), and how "jeep", "glop" and "goon" found their way into the language. Plus: who Popeye was ordered to be a gentleman, why children love Popeye, why "if you ask a stupid question, you'll get one back."

    Follows the tennis exploits of Snoopy as he is victimized by bad line calls, realizes his dream of going to Wimbledon, and withstands the agony of insensitive or inanimate doubles partners.

    

    

    

    It also marks our fifteenth year on network television with Charlie Brown and Snoopy. This book celebrates those years, and also says "thank you" to the tens of millions of readers of the comic ctrip and the viewers of the television shows without whom none of this would have been possible.Lee MendelsonExecutive ProducerPeanuts movies and TV

    Here, for example, is the story of the Most Unsuccessful Tourist, who got off the plane during a refueling stop and spent three days in Los Angeles thinking he was in Rome.

    This impressive volume, prepared to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Steig's work for The New Yorker, selects more than 250 of his drawings from the 1970s, the most productive decade in the career of this singular and inexhaustible genius.

    

    

    

    

    Wigglesworth, out of curiosity, and discovers the older woman's real identity

    Wonderful!"—San Francisco Voice

    No stone has been left unturned in bringing it to you.An all-true collection of grisly records guaranteed to chill the cockles of even the warmest heart. So get with it, guys and ghouls. Hurl yourself bodily into...THE GHOULISH BOOK OF WEIRD RECORDS

    

    Start reading this book and you'll cut all your classes, fail your exams, and discover the hidden truth about higher education!!!

    Whether it is because there's just something inherently funny about chickens, kangaroos, and moose, or whether it's because animals are a perfect reflection of the foibles of our own species, the fact is these creatures have the capacity to make us laugh - and a good cartoonist knows exactly how to make them do so. From the immortal dogs of James Thurber to Ed Koren's fuzzy, bizarre beings, the birds and beasts have made us smile, chuckle, and roar with pleasure. Now more than 370 wonderfully funny animal cartoons are brought together by three distinguished editors from The Cartoonists Guild. Represented is the work of 140 outstanding cartoonists, including Charles Addams, Peter Arno, Abner Dean, Rube Goldberg, Ed Nofziger, George Price, Arnold Roth, William Steig, Ed Sorel, Rowland B. Wilson, and many, many more. Not since Noah filled his ark has a menagerie been assembled that features as many surprises and as much good humor as the Animals Animals Animals of this delightful book."

    But, as Mr. Grigson points out, it is inappropriate to be too serious or too solemn about writing which aims to poke fun and give pleasure.

    Kaufman has,” theatre critic John Mason Brown wrote of George S. Kaufman. “The wisecrack is something he snaps as precisely as a ringmaster his whip.” Kaufman, however, didn’t confine his remarkable talent merely to writing (with Moss Hart) such hit comedies as Once in a Lifetime, You Can’t Take It With You, and The Man Who Came to Dinner — he regularly entertained readers of magazines and newspapers with his unique (if jaundiced) view of modern life. Now, for the first time these short pieces, which originally appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, The Nation, and The New York Times, are collected in one highly amusing volume.Written over the course of almost four decades, they remain as fresh and funny as when they were written, revealing the wit for which Kaufman justly famous. In all, fifty pieces are reprinted here, raking from short essays to poems and one-act plays, to the complete text of the Marx Brothers’ show, The Cocoanuts. Also included is Hollywood Pinafore, a parody of H.M.S. Pinafore, that remains one of the most hilariously accurate depictions of Hollywood ever written, and Life’s Calendar for 1922 (with Marc Connelly), an irreverent chronology of humanity’s achievements. Four pages of photographs accompany the text.

    

    

    Lieberman takes readers on a hilarious, non-stop ride as they follow the mad travails of Neil Nudelman, down-and-out in Goobersville, New York.Desperate to support his wife and two children, Nudelman tries his hand at countless jobs, palming himself off as a carpenter, ghost writer for a wealthy businessman, and even attempts selling himself to the Chinese. At war with his bizarre neighbors the Szorsky’s, Nudelman contemplates justifiable homicide.Now in it’s fourth edition, the laughs are as fast and funny as ever, the pathos heart-breaking.

    It features the much-loved characters such as Albert Ramsbottom, Sam Small, and King Arold.

    A lovesick king, his court jester, and a bear embark on a quest to lift the curse of a spiteful queen.

    

    

    Draft-dodging has become America's number one vocation, with some 15 million scrambing for deferments, pyschiatrists, Canada, obscene tatoos, anything to escape the Army or jail. Ironically while the devout Levi Simon submits to Selective Service, his wayward goy friend Andrew Baron flees to a rabbinical school. Andrew has a problem. He is after all, a Gentile, the wrong half of him being Jewish. Andrew's absentee father is a Jew—descended from the first Jewish High Priest, no less—but of course Judaism regards only the child of a Jewish mother as a Jew.      The draft aside, the two friends respond as one to the beautiful Isaca Zion, who is herself studying to be a rabbi. Andrew and Levi fall in love with her—and she with each of them. But then, Isaca is forced to choose between a fiancé and the rabbinate.      Andrew's imposture is lit with comedy (his first freshman assignment is to conduct High Holy Day services, though he barely knows the difference between a bagel and a Twinkie) and very real danger. One mistake means loss of his draft deferment and Canadian exile. And when, in an attempt to redeem himself, Andrew flies to the aid of Soviet Jewry, his illegal activity in Russia propels him toward the prison term that he's been evading. Meantime, Levi fares even worse. He, who vowed never to shed a drop of blood, is shipped to Vietnam and ends up in battle.      Searching, touching. brimming with humor, this important work is an exquisite blend of the timely and timeless. Andrew Baron's venture into alien cultures—those of the philosopher rabbi, the rebel priest, and the refuseniks—gradually changes his perceptions and transforms his life. It may very well alter yours, too.

    Although there is only one small white cat in their village, the residents convince inquiring authorities that each household has a cat of its own.