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The Devil's Dictionary (1906) is a work of satire by Ambrose Bierce. Although he is commonly remembered for his chilling short stories on the experiences of Civil War soldiers, Bierce was recognized in his day as a leading journalist and humorist who spent decades ruffling feathers and drawing laughter with his witty opinion columns, poems, and definitions. Toward the end of his career, he decided to compile these satirical definitions into a book,...
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A delightfully evil gift, How to Be a Villain is a step-by-step guide to joining the forces of darkness. Because, though villains may never win, they sure have more fun, hatching master plans for world domination, smoothing their dastardly tights. Neil Zawacki answers all the most urgent questions: Should I go with a black or red theme? Do I invest in an army of winged monkeys or ninja warriors? And, just where will I put the evil hideout? Whether...
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From everyone's favorite TikTok oracle, Devrie Donalson (aka @devriebrynn), comes a hearty dose of her sometimes jaded, always funny, and surprisingly soulful wisdom. For fans of Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson and Everything's Trash, But It's Ok by Phoebe Robinson.
Through her TikTok videos, Devrie has chronicled only a small part of her journey as a single woman-leaving her unsatisfying life behind and flying to Scotland in pursuit of a version...
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Dunlop Fantasia has a passion for marketing, excellent ideas, hovercrafts and avoiding rehab. A dark, complicated family upbringing sets him on course for early divorce, a blunder with his father's mistress, making TV shows, the heartbreaking death of a manservant, pursuit of celebrity endorsements and winning respect for his growing advertising empire. Follow his satirical exploration of wealth, self-help advice, business success, gritty optimism...
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From comedian and writer (Parks and Recreation, Eastbound & Down) Harris Wittels comes a hysterical breakdown of boasts, brags, and self-adulation disguised as humble comments and complaints-based on his popular @humblebrag Twitter feed.
Something immediately annoyed Harris Wittels about Twitter. All of a sudden it was acceptable to brag, so long as those brags were ever-so-thinly disguised as transparent humility, such as:
"Just filed my taxes....
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Jesus Christ, time traveling trip to 21st Century New Jersey, walks into a bar, and confesses his "Daddy Issues" to a customer who asks him what he does. Jesus tries to explain, and soon loses his cool.
So, too, do the Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi, who also time travel to 21st Century New York, only to discover that, no matter how big your Daddy was, or how serious your Daddy issues are, it is not easy to impress a New Yorker to recognize their seriousness,...
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Nonfiction books like Welcome to my Soapbox are hybrids; there's just no theme. Uh, I prefer to describe this book as a literary buffet table. I've got fibrous protein with real bite. There's mushy mashed potatoes in the form of unabashed pandering. I lied-they have lumps you didn't expect. Following is the mixed media of string beans with little pearl onions and grey mushrooms. Stories of varied interest. At the end are desserts, sweet, plain vanilla...
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Just in time for Comic-Con comes the investigative romp through the conventions industry! Conventions. Tradeshows. Expos. Every profession and obsession has them. We select hot tubs, handguns, the best Wonder Woman costume and even our presidential contenders at these neo-tribal gatherings where commerce and communalism collide. With a tanking economy and looming layoffs, lapsed-fanboy Bob Calhoun sets out on a quest through the temporary worlds created...
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From the author of The Portable Curmudgeon, a delicious, witty, irreverent A to Z guide to the tics, twitches and safety-valves that characterize our twisted, neurotic modern world.
We live in an Age of Anxiety. The events of modern life have overwhelmed the average homo sapiens until getting from Point A to Point B without being overcome by neuroses is a practical impossibility. Enter, the comic safety valve. Jon Winokur's Encyclopedia Neurotica...
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Wally Nichols is an advice columnist for a regional upstate paper. It's not exactly advice, though- at least not in the 'Dear Abbey' sense. This is up on a soapbox/ bully pulpit material that is sometimes salty, sometimes very funny, sometimes clever, sometimes humble, sometimes appreciative, sometimes observant. This is a collection of the best 50 over 3-year span. They are all short enough to read in the John, the bedroom, or the beach.
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Presenting laugh-out-loud stories for lovers of absurd comedy, featuring an eccentric cast of characters including Derek Organ: Private Investigator, Lionel the Moth, Roman slave Servus Minimus, the Battlefield Masseur, ambulance chaser Bradley Scherp, the Incredibly Delusional Shrinking Man, Compound Fracture the Clown, and of course, the Dancer on the Ceiling.
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Airports were never built to make travel easier for the public. A psychologist named Brian Brain who was writing a paper on behavioural understanding phoned his mate Bob the Builder and asked him if he had any spare bricks and mortar. When Bob said yes Brian said lets build a place where people can ride on aeroplanes, I can watch how they behave, write a book about it, you can make a few bob from the car parks and well both make a fortune from the...
15) Putin Down Putin
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Enduring the last several months of Russia's attacks on Ukraine has been a catastrophe to the Ukrainian people and their relatives in Russia. PUTIN DOWN PUTIN has been originated as a way to bring discontent and misery to President Putin for the terrible murders and destruction he has inflicted in Ukraine. This book promotes a Consumers household and clothing trade-in program to send modern products to disadvantaged countries such as Ukraine to boost...
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Celia Rivenbark's essays about life in today's South are like caramel popcorn- sweet, salty, and utterly irresistible
Celia Rivenbark is a master at summing up the South in all its glorious excesses and contradictions. In this collection of screamingly funny essays, you'll discover:
* How to get your kid into a character breakfast at Disneyworld (or run the risk of eating chicken out of a bucket with Sneezy)
* Secrets of Celebrity Moms (don't...
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Sink the F**king Putt, a humor book for adults, is a Parody of the well-known Dick and Jane elementary school reading primers. Dick and Jane had become somewhat reclusive since they were the child stars of the early elementary school reading textbooks. Now they are grown up and living with Spot in the basement of Mother and Father's house. In recent times they became far more social but this led to some complications. This book is the zany story...
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It's impossible to go a full day without using snark, so why fight it? Snark is everywhere, from television to movies to everyday life. This lively collection provides hours of entertainment-better than an Etch A Sketch, and more fun than Silly Putty! At the heart of it, being in a state of snark can be one of the most useful tools at one's disposal and hence (yes, I used "hence"), a powerful way to get what you want. With snark, you can catch people...
20) Dating Your Mom
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From the opening essay, "The Bloomsbury Group Live at the Apollo (Liner Notes from the New Best-Selling Album)" to the title piece that discusses ways in which you might begin a romance with your mother ("In today's fast-moving, transient, rootless society, where people meet and make love and part without ever really touching, the relationship every guy already has with his own mother is too valuable to ignore...") to a parody that features Samuel...
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