Kategoria BISAC: Humor >> Form - Jokes & Riddles

We've all seen her. She's hunched forward, her blue hair is tucked neatly under a plastic rain bonnet, she's clutching expired coupons, and she's discussing her latest health problems over lunch. She's a little old lady . . . and she's coming your way at 2 m.p.h.

Little old ladies have elastic waistbands on all their slacks. They save rubber bands, remember 15-cent McDonald's hamburgers, and have never seen a public rest room that was clean enough.

How Not to Become a Little Old Lady...

Listen Up, America

The solution to your problems has plopped right in your lap. Mama is running for president

Discover How President Thelma Harper would handle:

• Immigration--I'll tell you how we solve the problem at our border: build senior citizen housing all along the American side. No one sees more than a nosy old lady peeking through her window...

Join Ed Fischer and many of the world's best authors, comedians, and statesmen, as well as folks who could be your next-door neighbors, as they take a comical and sometimes whimsical look at life's golden years. People over 50 who have developed a keen sense of humor from a lifetime of hard and soft knocks will find this book's cartoons, quotes, and anecdotes genuinely funny. From achy joints to Social Security to other maladies of aging, getting older is a little easier when reading You're No Spring Chicken

Riddles, along with proverbs, are key aspects of oral communication in many African cultures, including that of Abagusii of Kenya. Popular, especially with children in the community, participants typically use riddles to challenge one another's knoweldge. One person would metaphorically describe something with a concealed clue. The listener, using imagination, previous experience and the context in which the riddle is said, would search for the most relevant answer. It takes great imagination to get the correct answer.

Riddles are also performed communally as in the case of groups of...