A retrospective collection of the humorous, macabre artwork of Charles Addams features black-and-white drawings and full-color covers from The New Yorker, in a selection that spans more than fifty years in Addams' career.

    Opus the penguin makes a Christmas wish that he might fly.

    In this omnibus of characteristically hilarious short stories and novels, Jeeves is for the first time shockingly employed to resolve the woes of someone other than Bertie Wooster. Contains The Mating Season, Ring for Jeeves and Very Good, Jeeves.

    One not infrequently sees cars or trucks sporting the bumper sticker "Have fun—beat the hell out of someone you love."

    Once there he slipped so easily into Deric and Aileen's lives that there was an unspoken agreement that he had found his real home. Little did he know that he had entered the Longden world, in which the unexpected (almost) always happens. . .Aileen being Aileen, it was probably inevitable that sooner or later the kitten would be trapped in the refrigerator. And Deric being Deric, the obvious way to thaw him back to life was to make a little coat for him out of a shrunken thermal vest. Thus the cat who came in from the cold got his name - Thermal - and joined the wonderful cast of characters in the ongoing Longden saga.

    Also meet hunting dog Strange, dog delinquent, whose prey of choice is year-old roadkill. Readers of McManus's humor column in Outdoor Life will enjoy his observations on the joys of pig-back riding, workshop puttering, and Sasquatch ducking. So will those who, like McManus's wife Bun, appreciate nature most from the window of a seven-story luxury hotel.Contents:Controlling My LifeStrange Meets Matilda JeanTough Guys Don't BirdA Good Deed Goes WrongThe Fishing BoxSocial SkillsThe ClownA Good Night's SleepA Brief History of Giving (1942-89)Pouring My OwnTeenagers From HellSecret PlacesPutteringSearch and - Uh - RescueThe BustReal Ponies Don't Go Oink!Blood SausageCrash Dive!My Abduction by Creatures From Space, for What It's WorthPhantom of the WoodsThe Piano LessonZumbo and the Misty Mountain GhostsThe Road HunterWhy Is It?The Late Great FourthCamping In

    or did they? The Princess can't stand the Prince's froggy habits—the way he hops around on the furniture, or sneaks off to the lily pond. The Prince is unhappy, too, and decides that it would be best if he were changed back to a frog. But finding a witch who will do the job is harder than he expects. They all seem to have other spells in mind...

    Yet most of us utter that sound every day. And have used it all our lives...Uh-oh is way up near the top of a list of small syllables with large meanings...Uh-oh...is a frame of mind. A philosophy. It says to expect the unexpected., and also expect to be able to deal with it as it happens most of the time. Uh-oh people seem not only to expect surprise, but they count on it, as if surprise were a dimension of vitality."These words from the opening of Uh-oh describe a special vitality that, in fact, infuses the writings of Robert Fulghum with the incomparable joie de vivre and sense of wonder that have made his books, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten and It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It, modern classic, translated into twenty-five languages.In this third volume, Fulghum explores a variety of subjects from both sides of the refrigerator door—from meatloaf to the Salvation Army Band, from fireflies to funerals, from hiccups to a watch without hands. One again, Fulghum celebrates everyday life in all its richness, subtly weaving a theme of balance throughout, balance between the mundane and the holy, between humor and grief, and between what is and what might be.

    Here is the best of American Splendor and other comics by Harvey Pekar, including never-before-seen material.

    Here’s the correct version, as published in Omni, 1990." -- Terry Bisson

    Erma Bombeck, whose books have sold more than 15 million copies, takes her show on the road with this devastatingly witty and quintessentially Bombeckian book about family travel--here and abroad.

    . . The silliness is right on target for tickling young readers.--Booklist. Pilkey's endearing stories are perfect for beginning readers.--Publishers Weekly.

    A story that has captured the hearts and minds of sports fans throughout the world. Feel every blow and unearth the answer to the all-important question...What ever happened to Ivan Drago?

    For the first time between the covers of one book, these are the complete Adrian Mole diaries, taking him from 13 3/4 to 23 3/4.

    The Chromicles comprise all five of the immensely popular series of comic novels consisting of ‘The Darling Buds of May’ (1958), ‘A Breath of French Air’ (1959), ‘When the Green Woods Laugh’ (1960), ‘Oh! To Be in England’ (1963), and ‘A Little of What You Fancy’ (1970). Bates, speaking of how he was inspired to create the Larkin family, recalled the real junkyard that he often passed near his home in Kent; and he remembered seeing a family -- a father, mother and many children, sucking at ice-creams and eating crisps in a "ramshackle lorry that had been recently painted a violent electric blue". He tried writing a brief tale based on the family, but soon decided that he couldn’t waste such a rich gallery of characters to a short story." Pop is a wonderful character who hates pomp, pretension and humbug; loves his family, but doesn’t hesitate to break a few rules... and his and the Larkins' secret is “that they live as many of us would like to live if only we had the guts and nerve to flout the conventions."

    Funny and touching, these monologues from original live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion focus on the winter season.Includes: "Guys on Ice," "The Christmas Story Re-told," and "Storm Home."

    Funny and touching, these monologues from original live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion focus on the fall season.Includes: "Giant Decoys," "Daryl Tollerud's Long Day," and "Thanksgiving."

    Funny and touching, these monologues from original live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion focus on the summer season.Includes: "The Living Flag," "The Tollefson Boy Goes to College," and "Tomato Butt."

    In the beginning there was the Holy Bible2 Which was a very good book indeed, but so many things happened since the beginning,3 That Maybe it was time for another bible,4 So a punk from Philadelphia wrote a new one,5 And so it is called The Boomer Bible,6 So there.7 And Its Past Testament tells the history of the world, including the Book of Greeks, Book of Brits, Book of Yanks, Book of Russkies, and all the other self-proclaimed Chosen Nations,8 And people sticking each other with pointed sticks, and acting up, which is called civilization,9 And also about religion and art and movies and literature, and TV, and so forth, which is why there are also the Books of Pnowlege,10 Including Psongs, Psayings, and Psomethings,11 Written just like the other Bible but without any big unpronounceable words,12 So that you and I might truly understand it,13 For a change.14 And Its Present Testament tells about the coming of Harry, and The Way of Harry,15 Who may be the messiah everybody has been waiting for,16 Unless he really isn't,17 Which is hard to say,18 So there.19 And there is also The Book of Harrier Brayer together with the Harrier Hymnal,20 And another Testament too,21 And Concordance, and a lenticular hand on the cover.22 And It is not for the faint of heart,23 Or the easily offended,24 Or the priggish or the prudish,25 But who cares,26 Because neither was Candide, or Swift's A Modest Proposal, or Rabelais, or Lenny Bruce28 Or all the other satires and satirists who felt the need to warn us when we have gone astray,29 Which we have,29 Which you'll know all about,31 If you read your Boomer Bible,32 Or there.Over 87,000 copies in print.

    Jeter

    Pouring boiling oil on unsuspecting carol singers, sharpening the spikes on the garden fence, laughing where others cry and delighting in all forms of misery and horror, the family earned Addams his title of "master of the macabre".

    Adorable, absurd, and irresistible reading for the sophisticated cat. Illustrated.

    Funny and touching, these monologues from original live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion focus on the spring season.Includes: "Me and Choir," "A Day in the Life of Clarence Bunsen," and "Letter from Jim."

    In this book, Grizzard turns his attention to his mother, and to all mothers, casting a loving, comic eye toward the most important and defining relationship of all.

    The reader perceives Boodil as lumpish, dithering, dawdling, obstinate, stubborn, and generally idiosyncratic; the child-narrator sees her as charming, playful, delightful, and original. So we have a masterful children's book - humorously painted with exceeding verve, told deadpan, and introducing young readers to the tricks of complex narrative. Recommended for Ages 4 - 8 yrs.

    No agonizing choices between light reading and the serious stuff. This little volume has it all: Entertainment, humor, education, trivia, science, history, pop culture...and more! And it's even divided by length-you can spend a minute with the Quickies, relax with Normal-Length articles, or really get comfortable with Long Items.With Uncle John's Bathroom Reader strategically placed in your home, you'll settle in happily and read about:-The origin of common words and phrases-The 7 wonders of the ancient world-The origin of Ronald -Elvis's letter to Richard Nixon-The curse of King Tut-World-class winners & losers-Famous pirates-And a host of great bathroom topics

    J. O'Rourke's savagely funny and national best-seller Parliament of Whores has become a classic in understanding the workings of the American political system. Originally written at the end of the Reagan era, this new edition includes an extensive foreword by the renowned political writer Andrew Ferguson -- showing us that although the names and the players have changed, the game is still the same. Parliament of Whores is an exuberant, broken-field run through the ethical foibles, pork-barrel flimflam, and bureaucratic bullrorfle inside the Beltway that leaves no sacred cow unskewered and no politically correct sensitivities unscorched.

    It's a classic because it's the first collection of poems selected by kids! It includes clever creations from some of the most popular names in children's poetry, including Bill Dodds, Timothy Tocher, Joyce Armor, Robert Pottle, Bruce Lansky, and Kenn Nesbitt. Humorous illustrations by Stephen Carpenter make this book even better.

    In her early thirties, she took to the woods with her husband. They found their livelihood and raised a family in the remote Maine backcountry. Louise made time after morning chores to write about their lives, and these magnificent books are the result. They are still captivating readers a half-century later.

    A thematic collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Love includes "Truckstop," "Uncle Al's Gift," "Rotten Apples," and "The Wise Men."

    Despite its title, it's not wild ranting pseudo-science to be dismissed by those with brains. Rather, Amdahl maintains that one need not understand quantum physics to grasp how electricity works in practical applications. To understand your toaster or your fax machine, it doesn't really matter whether there are electrons or not, and it's a lot easier and more fun to start with the toaster than with quarks and calculus. The book is mildly weird, often funny, always clear and easy to understand. It assumes the reader doesn't know a volt from a hole in the ground and gently leads him or her through integrated circuits, radio, oscillators and the basics of the digital revolution using examples that include green buffalo, microscopic beer parties, break-dancing chickens and naked Norwegian girls in rowboats. OK, it's more than mildly weird.The book has been reprinted numerous times since 1991 and has achieved minor cult status. Reviewed and praised in dozens of electronics and educational magazines, it is used as a text by major corporations, colleges, high schools, military schools and trade schools. It has been studied by education programs at colleges across the United States. This book was making wise cracks in the corner before anyone thought of designing books for dummies and idiots; some say it helped to inspire that industry.It may be the only "introduction to electronics books" with back cover comments by Dave Barry, Ray Bradbury, Clive Cussler, and George Garrett, as well as recomendations from Robert Hazen, Bob Mostafapour, Dr. Roger Young, Dr. Wayne Green, Scott Rundle, Brian Battles, Michelle Guido, Herb Reichert and Emil Venere. As Monitoring Times said, "Perhaps the best electronics book ever. If you'd like to learn about basic electronics but haven't been able to pull it off, get There Are No Electrons. Just trust us. Get the book."

    The story of a young man who finds himself somewhat unexpectedly a fine arts major in college, a fledgling sculptor in Chicago, a gadabout painter in Hoboken, and who eventually winds up a writer sometimes called "a born storyteller".The author of more than fifty books, Pinkwater now chronicles his own early life.

    Bodett offers his keen, unforgettable observations of the lives of the peopleof Homer, Alaska, who "just ended up there, and stayed." 2 cassettes.

    A thematic collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Humor includes "Skinny Dip," "Homecoming," "The Freedom of the Press," and "Vicks."

    As chunky as its subject, chock full of hilarious full-color illustrations, Santa Claus's strictly unauthorized biography contains a ho, ho, ho--or an oh, oh, oh--on every page. 125 full-color illustrations.

    But Adam (Madam, I'm Adam) and Napoleon (Able was I ere I saw Elba) are credited with only one palindrome apiece. Jon Agee has come up with a whole bookful!Each of the more than sixty palindromes is accompanied by hilarious illustration in the inimitable Agee style. Children and adults alike will enjoy these linguistic laughs.

    

    These sixteen songs in praise of felines include "My Grandmother's Cat," "The In and Out Song," "Cat O Cat Come Home" as well as tunes from the more cat-loving classical composers. An enchanting recording on a very popular subject. Tracks: The Cat Came Back; The Hallelujah Patrol; The Mystery; The Cats of Cash; Dance To My Cats; Eine Kleine Kat; In Memory of Our Cat, Ralph; Alaska Cats; Beethoven Chased by Rossini; Near Death: Or, The Search Rewarded; Oy, Chuck and Katie; Forty Miles; The Rescue Cat; My Grandmother's Cat; As I Walked Out; Cats May Safely Sleep; Guilt and Shame; Out in the Catskill Mountains; Cat, You Better Come Home; The In and Out Song.

    A thematic collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Hope contains “Truckstop”; “Smokes”; “The Perils of Spring”; “Let Us Pray.”.

    

    . . Bart as a baby! Marge as a pre-teen! Homer with hair! Grampa with teeth! and . . . a potato grown in the shape of Millard Fillmore!Don't laugh! Take the bait!It's the definitive memoir of an all-American nuclear family.

    Includes three new tales of Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children - "The Night They Missed the Donkey Show", Lester, the Lonesome Druid" and "Even Bluebirds Go to Hell." Every page features text with a full-page illustration.

    Enrich your vocabulary with the colorful language of wordsmith Miriam who delighted the people across the country.

    

    "Bawdy, bitter, very funny...Jenkins's farewell salute to big-time sportswriting is a tell-all novel that deflates the hype around each and every event, from the Olympics to the Kentucky Derby to Wimbledon (Kirkus Reviews).

    An uproarious guide to the manners, mores, and mystique of the legendary ladies of the South. What The Official Preppy Handbook did for the madras-and-penny-loafer set, A Southern Belle Primer does for the indestructible ladies from below the Mason-Dixon line.

    A thematic collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Faith contains “Rotten Apples”; “O Death”; “The Wise Men”; “A Trip to Grand Rapids”.

    Readers catch a glimpse of the passion, playfulness, and excitement of the Lord, and are reminded to enjoy life to the fullest.

    Giving in-depth coverage of each of their 36 feature films from start to finish, this is the only book that has the permission of Abbott and Costello estates to use rare personal materials, many of which have never before been seen by the public.

    Only this time, she has a foolish accient and loses her life in a glass of water. Another fable with a humorous moral by Venezuelan poet Aquiles Nazoa

    

    Reprint.

    These lighthearted jabs at education and cultural literacy have enlivened the pages of magazines and newspapers.An ideal gift for anyone who reads!

    A must for all the crazy fans to keep these bizarre but lovable characters alive.

    Here, too, are outstanding Faulkner parodies from the past—even one written by Faulkner himself. Caricatures.

    (an excerpt from 'Lady Slings the Booze', published in a special edition)

    In Tom Stoppard's best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of Waiting for Godot resound, where reality and illusion intermix, and where fate leads our two heroes to a tragic but inevitable end.

    Ashleigh Brilliant, the Pot-Shot cartoonist/philosopher, is also a masterful satirist and a provocative and entertaining essayist. His fans will welcome this new and substantial collection of his bemused essays on the human condition (illustrated with his own Pot-Shots, of course). like, The Theology of Peanut Butter, Faith, Soap, and Charity, Black Snow, The Lost Cord, A Little Gift of Immortality. The anthology also includes a generous collection of Brilliant's famous song parodies and poems, as well as other reflective, probing and funny literary musings. Illustrated.

    His thirst for knowledge leads to brutality, sexual excess, and finally, self-destruction. A fast-paced, funny, and ironic story straight from today's headlines.

    Paperback: 216 pages Publisher: Avon Books (P) (February 1991) Language: English ISBN-10: 0380712539 ISBN-13: 978-0380712533

    

    

    

    Jon is breaking all records for standing, sitting, or lying down boredom. And Jon's apathy is really starting to bug Garfield! It's clear to him that Jon needs friends, Jon needs excitement, Jon needs . . . a life!As Jon and Garfield set off in search of excitement, what they find are lots of laughs, plus a few important lessons about love and loyalty.Of course Garfield knows the secret to a happy life: you just take it one meal at a time!

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    But miracles seem to come easily for George, who is America's most beloved nonagenarian author. Here he delivers wit, charm and sage advice with laughter and the puff of a cigar. Photographs throughout.

    This volume brings together the five My Word! books.

    Introduction by Digby Diehl; caricatures.

    

    a Hunted amusement park, an overcorowded hen house

    --People

    

    But when he calls his ten tall soldiers to fight the creature, the monster mysteriously disappears. Until the king rounds the next corner. It takes one brave boy to show the king the folly of his fears. Then it's ten tall soldiers and one small soldier, guarding their bumbling king.

    The comic strip is presented in a bilingual format. Annotations explain points of custom and culture.

    What is "The Qwerty Mad?" As any Schmendrick knows, a "Querty" is a bit of a Poiuyt, a tad of a Potrzebie, but never a Fershlugginer! Above all, as any Master Qwerty will tell you, it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsey in snide!So there you have it! The Qwerty Mad!

    

    A book which reflects the humour of the television personalities, French and Saunders, including a compilation of some of their sketches.

    What will the world be like between now the next millennium? Pulitzer prize-winning editorial cartoonist Tom Toles provides answers that are wry, irreverent, and always penetrating.

    

    Benjamin Butters is called Butterfingers because he always drops everything, but when he is given his new baby sister to hold, he knows he won't drop her because she's his sister.

    The fun of lifting the flaps to find the punch line makes this popular joke form even sillier. Full-color illustrations.

    Garfield has a mystery to solve, someone keeps sending him strange letters!

    Preston, a nearsighted armadillo. Together, they open up the Cactus Flower Bakery, where the lemonade is always cold and the cake is the best in Texas. Could Stewart's new pair of glasses mean the end of their friendship? Full color.

    Overboard stands out with a pointed wit that has dagger-sharp timing and effect.Louie, the ship's faithful dog, is the center of attention of the adventures on land and at sea. His human companions not only have to deal with Louie and his requests, but also the many problems they face living at sea, like dolphins eating their garden, and sea monsters taunting Louie. The entertaining exchanges between Louie and the humans on the ship will have readers coming back for more of this cast-away comedy. Man overboard!

    And, everyone wonders when the mad punter--who strikes fear into the hearts of all football owners--will strike again.

    Calabash, wherever you are! Now Jhan Robbins, a friend of Jimmy Durante's for over 20 years, shakes down the memories of this immortal entertainer. Photographs.

    It's a verb, an attitude, an entire way of life. The full meaning of Bobness is now revealed in the words of famous and regular Bobs themselves in this offbeat, humorous tribute to Bobs everywhere. Illustrated with celebrity photographs throughout.

    Cathy, America's favorite comic strip woman-on-the-go, has suffered them all--and endeared herself to readers in the process.Cathy's cartoon life has hilariously mirrored the path of women everywhere. In fact, Cathy book titles provide an uncanny overview of the feminine perspective: A Mouthful of Breath Mints and No One to Kiss, Wake Me Up When I'm Size 5, and $14 in the Bank and $200 Face in My Purse.Cathy continues to entertain millions of readers daily as she shares her personal and professional struggles highlighted by her on-again, off-again romance with Irving, the hysterical give and take with her overprotective and obsessive mother, and, of course, her battle against the bulge.Among the highlights of this cartoon collection, Cathy, "careening toward bankruptcy" as she puts it, cuts up her credit cards and joins Shoppers Anonymous. She then discovers Irving is dating an environmental activist and she herself becomes environmentally conscious...for three hours. Intermixed with the subplots are Cathy's wardrobe traumas ranging from swimsuit try-ons to the time she makes the fatal mistake of removing her "big, swinging coat" while wearing only a skin-tight unitard underneath.

    It leads them into another place and time where they become time travelers.

    This Grammy Award-nominated collection comprises 10 monologues in which Keillor reflects on New York City life through the eyes of a transplanted Minnesotan. These stories are among Keillor's very best work.

    A browser's list of annoyances, inconveniences, injustices, and other things to be miserable about.

    Even if it rains for forty days and forty nights, you still won't run out of zippy things to make and do with this book around!

    Alan Dundes and Carl Pagter have collected more than two hundred and fifty "signs of the times"--the office memoranda, parodies, cartoons, and poems that daily make their way through copy machines, interoffice mail systems, and fax machines and are affixed to bulletin boards and water coolers. The rich vein of urban folklore tapped by this imaginative volume constitutes a great testament to one of the world's most prolific authors--anonymous. The popularity of the items featured in this timely book is apparent by their reproduction in mass or popular cultural form--as greeting cards, plaques, and bumper stickers--reminding us of the inevitable interplay between folklore and mass culture. Dundes and Pagter clearly demonstrate the existence of folklore in the modern urban technological world and refute the notion that folklore reflects only the past.

    Burn's Prescription for Happiness, and Dear George, a collection of George Burn's writings highlights his humorous reflections, personal anecdotes, and professional achievements.

    The first scholarly treatment of ornithological dejecta, commonly known as bird droppings.

    Key Story; The Ballad of Peanut Butter; Winged Motivational Products; Twelfth Street Tag; The Old Shower Stall; Am I Boring?; Adversity; Bob Wilson Month; Mavis & Marvin Smiley; American Music Association; Losing Your Job; Vanilla; How Does Our Brain Work?; Dad Angel; Old Folks at Home Cottage Cheese; Swanee Tag; The Announcer; Tuna the Food of My Soul

    The second edition of the fan favorite roleplaying game HoL, the previous edition is already a customer five star selection here on Amazon, this new edition is the same book, but at an affordable price!

    Jerome. Written in his own inimitable style, this marvellous selection of stories includes the funniest episodes from Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel, as well as many hilarious pieces from other works not currently in print. Those new to Jerome's work will delight in such minor comic masterpieces as 'The Polite Art of Buying Boots', 'The Man Who Was a Hospital', 'How to Go to Bed in Germany' and 'How to be Healthy and Unhappy', while those who are committed fans will have the chance to rekindle forgotten pleasures. No one who likes to laugh should be without this book.

    The Hartford house is where Twain wrote many of his works. The show pays homage to Twain's genius and personality with humor, period music, and a classic Keillor monologue. Guests included Roy Blount, Jr., the Gregg Smith Quartet, and singer Pamela Warrick-Smith.

    In styles ranging from the dark to the humorous, from the elegant to the poetic, these stories depict aspects of both traditional and modern life in Iran with its many religious, political, cultural and class tensions. The expanding role of women in Iranian society is attested to both by the large number of women writers included in the volume, and by the central role played by women in many of the stories. WRITTEN DURING the last 75 years and arranged in chronological order, these stories span a period in Iranian history from the Constitutional Revolution (1906-11) through the long reign of the Pahlavis (1925-79), the upheavals of the 1950s, the 1979 Islamic Revolution, to the present.