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'How to Live in a Flat', if posed as a question, is worth asking today with so many articles on tiny flats with hugely inflated price tags in the newspapers. Flat-dwellers were faced with very similar problems in 1936. During 1932 and 1933 Heath Robinson had drawn a series of cartoons for 'The Sketch' entitled 'Flat Life', which depicted various gadgets designed to make the most of the limited space available in the contemporary flat. It was this...
62) Not Daffodils
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The first poem I remember writing was school work at the age of ten, about King Canute. The teacher, I think, felt like the King, unable to hold back the tide. The stanzas, like waves, kept coming. Later, English was my main subject in which I got a Degree. However, I chose to teach juniors rather than English at a higher level, perhaps fearing frustration? If anyone asked me the question they asked Mr. Chipping, I would have answered as he did Hundreds...
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Is Wilber Winkle a consumer advocate extraordinaire or just a nut with too much time on his hands? Whatever the verdict, this hilarious collection of complaint letters to American corporations and their responses are a laugh-aloud page-turner. Readers everywhere will recognize the beefs that Wilber strives to get to the bottom of: Denny's waitresses disturbing the delicate balance of cream and sugar in their coffee, the disappearance of the almond...
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Discover the mother lode of trivia with this quirky collection of crap! Trivia for the Toilet: Double Duty offers up more than 250 odd-but-true facts and strange happenings, including:
• The Green Bay Packers' season ticket waiting list is so long that if you joined today, it would take you 955 years to make it to the top.
• Polar bears' hair is not actually white; it's transparent.
• One in every five people has dropped...
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What is absurd, ridiculous, random, and downright hysterical? The inside of Timmy Boyle's mind. If laughter is the best medicine, you will be healthy for months after reading Inside Timmy's Mind - a collection of insanely pointed and laugh out loud funny accounts of everyday life, as seen through the eyes of Canadian up-standing comedian Timmy Boyle. Inside Timmy's Mind was not written to enlighten you with life-changing secrets or to bombard you...
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Suburgatory lampoons the absurdities and contradictions that Linda Keenan has witnessed since leaving New York City, where she was a thoroughly urban CNN news producer for seven years, and settling down as a hapless stay-at-home suburban mother. The original proposal for this book was picked up by Warner Brothers, and you can see their imagining of Suburgatory on the ABC show of the same title. Keenan was forced by the man in her life to leave her...
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Readers are invited to join a typical busy family for one year of hysterical and true-life interruptions. Their beloved pets create more havoc and chaos than deserved with harrowing trips to the veterinarian, injuries, and quirky personalities of their own. Add in the wildlife who regularly appear (pigs, skunks, muskrats, mice and occasional "two-legged" animal) and readers will be shaking their heads in incredulous disbelief, and snorting at the...
68) Meanderings
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Betty McKenzie-Tubb has been scribbling since youth, beginning with contributions to the Sydney Morning Herald and to the ABC radio programme The Argonauts. She was Ancona 49 and wrote regularly to 'Anthony Inkwell'. Degrees in Education and Arts have helped nourish her writing. She spent most of her working life as a teacher of the deaf, for whom the door to literacy is sometimes difficult to open. She is grateful to Montaigne, the father of the...
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"The Jake Chronicles" is a mother's retelling of her charismatic toddler's many escapades. This story will resonate with anyone who loves children and who can appreciate the sarcasm. Self-deprecating humor accompanies the hilarity of a young boy, reminiscent of Judy Blume's Fudge, Hank Ketchum's Dennis the Menace, and Bill Watterson's Calvin of Calvin and Hobbs.
After losing her high-powered, six-figure dream of a career in the 2008 recession, first...
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Kinky Friedman, who would be our contemporary Will Rogers if Will Rogers had been Jewish, smoked cigars, and foolish enough to believe he could govern the great state of Texas, returns with this collection of hilariously raunchy, sometimes poignant, and always insightful essays. With fearless wit and wisdom born from many a late night's experience, Kinky offers both pearls and cowpats that touch on life, death, and everything in between.
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Mary Ann Hoyt's collection of humorous essays are tongue-in-cheek views of her everyday observations and quirky experiences. The pages are filled with anecdotes about her fear of hummingbirds, the burial of the family cat in a cardboard box decorated with her son's Grateful Dead pencil drawings, and her concern that, because of her unphotogenic smile, she won't have enough decent photos for the obligatory collage at her funeral. Surviving an interstate...
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An incomparable collection of wit and wisdom from a master of comic writing After creating the popular Franglais! series, Miles Kington always had an ambition: to write a book in English as well. An endlessly curious and observant hack", as he described himself, here a gentle wit and wide-ranging intelligence are brought to bear on everything from the curious geography of Jersey to anthropological studies on German prisoners of war; from an interview...
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From "A Scooter Dork on His Way to Nowhere" to "Female Football with Very Little Padding (Except Silicone)" I SEEM TO HAVE MISPLACED MY MARBLES is a fun, fearless and funky collection of the popular Saturday morning newspaper humor columns called "Hay's Daze". For author Harley Hay, no topic is taboo, no subject is without a smidgen of silly, and it's no time like the present for a nice nap. With an infectious joie de vivre, and a wordsmith savoir...
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D'étranges évènements viennent bouleverser la quiétude de la ville d'Arlon, au coeur de la province de Luxembourg : des morceaux de corps humains sont retrouvés, sanguinolant dans divers endroits de la ville. Que signifient ces crimes ? Pourquoi cette une mise en scène si sordide ? Un sérial killer rode dans la bourgade luxembourgeoise et terrorise ses habitants ! Sous l'oeil avisé – mais légèrement imbibé de maitrank - de Jean-Luc Fonck,...
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The origins of 'How to Make a Garden Grow' lie in an article in 'The Strand' Magazine called 'A Highly Complicated Science'. The science referred to was that of gardening and the article by K. R. G. Browne was accompanied by nine of Heath Robinson's drawings, all of which were subsequently used in their book for the How To... series. Much of the subject matter for this book was drawn from Heath Robinson's earlier cartoons. For example, among his earliest...
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Unparalleled tall tales and heroes wander freely through this collection of John Gould's "reminiscences" of life in Maine. Here you'll find stories of unlicensed Maine guide Flint Johnson and his group of Yankees and Red Sox ball players, the time L.L. Bean invited the whole town of Freeport to help him choose the best ax, and Gould's grandfather's claim to have fired the shot that started the Battle of Gettysburg.
Gould does not wish his memories...
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In this humorous look at life, C. Michael Bogdal takes a light-hearted look at the quirks and eccentricities of our fellow human beings. From pedestrians to our own flesh and blood, Bogdal highlights behaviors that he sees as being "abnormal." Always with an understanding tone, Bogdal makes us laugh at our own eccentricities with precision and wit.
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A dog's tail is incredibly versatile. They use them to communicate everything from the furious, full-body wiggling "I'm so happy to see you I could burst!" to the tucked-under-the-bum "N-O-O-O! Is that the vet's office we're pulling up to?" They also keep noses warm on cold nights and conveniently sweep food off coffee tables. Tails Don't Lie 2 is Adrian Raeside's hilarious follow-up to the bestselling Tails Don't Lie (Harbour, 2013), collecting...
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From the first time he strapped on a tool belt to the last time he required first aid, Steve was involved with every aspect of the alarm industry and lived to tell about it. Throughout his twenty-five years in the field, Steve dealt with angry pets, furious consumers and more than his share of the insect world while providing a much needed but usually under-appreciated service to his customers. His insight into human behavior forces us to take a good...
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