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What Would Macgyver Do?: True Stories of Improvised Genius in Everyday Life
ISBN: 9780452289291 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A clever collection of true stories celebrating real-life ?MacGyverisms?
For anyone who's ever wished they could channel 1980s action-adventure icon Angus MacGyver?a secret agent known for relying on his brains, scientific prowess, duct tape, and a Swiss Army knife to save the day?this unique collection commemorates the use of improvised genius in everyday life. The ?MacGyverisms? recounted range from the concrete (using Chex Mix to provide traction in an icy parking lot) to the intangible (saving a relationship with the perfect turn of phrase). Divided by theme, the book features... A clever collection of true stories celebrating real-life ?MacGyverisms?
For anyone who's ever wished they could channel 1980s action-adve... |
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62,18 zł |
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Loose Lips: Real Words, Real People, Real Funny
ISBN: 9780684803401 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ever wanted to be that fly on the wall? To listen in on conversations that were meant to be intimate, private affairs? To overhear, verbatim, the words of famous entertainers, distinguished politicians, princes, potentates, and petty criminals? Welcome to an eavesdropper's jamboree, where you can revel in the real, unexpurgated words of real people in all their astonishing, appalling, and hilarious entirely - taken from sources like transcripts of testimony that was sealed, depositions that had been buried, recordings of exchanges that were cut from the official broadcasts, conversations...
Ever wanted to be that fly on the wall? To listen in on conversations that were meant to be intimate, private affairs? To overhear, verbatim, the word...
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79,73 zł |
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Moose Dropping and Other Crimes Against Nature
ISBN: 9780945397847 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It was a dream assignment Collect wit, one-liners, tall tales, practical jokes, and funny stories for a book about Alaska humor. In Moose Dropping and Other Crimes Against Nature, author Tom Brennan writes about the indignant tourist who hears of moose droppings and wants to know from what height the moose are dropped; about the practical joker in Sitka who creates a near-panic when he charters a helicopter to drop a load of old tires into the crater of a nearby dormant volcano, then sets the tires on fire; about the equally engaging tales of people, animals, and politicians. It was a dream assignment Collect wit, one-liners, tall tales, practical jokes, and funny stories for a book about Alaska humor. In Moose Dropp... |
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79,73 zł |
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Texas Wit & Wisdom
ISBN: 9781556222573 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a friendly, entertaining collection of stories, anecdotes, amusing quotations, funny signs, some classic Texas jokes, and even some surprisingly sound advice from the often wacky but always wonderful world of Texans. Features in Texas Wit and Wisdom include the bumper sticker hall of fame, amusing T-shirt slogans, and some interesting photographs. This book is a true classic collection of Texas hilarity.
This book is a friendly, entertaining collection of stories, anecdotes, amusing quotations, funny signs, some classic Texas jokes, and even some surpr...
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88,61 zł |
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Hey Ranger!: True Tales of Humor & Misadventure from America's National Parks
ISBN: 9781589791916 / Angielski / Miękka / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his thirty years with the National Park Service, Jim Burnett has seen it all: boat ramp mishaps that have sent cars into the water; skunks in the outhouse and bears at the dumpster; visitors looking for the bridge over the Grand Canyon.
In his thirty years with the National Park Service, Jim Burnett has seen it all: boat ramp mishaps that have sent cars into the water; skunks in the o...
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75,29 zł |
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Hey Ranger 2: More True Tales of Humor & Misadventure from the Great Outdoors
ISBN: 9781589793293 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this sequel to the wildly successful Hey Ranger: True Tales of Humor and Misadventure from America's National Parks, former ranger Jim Burnett casts his net globally in search of the most outrageous and humorous stories of man in his eternal quest to experience the natural world. Burnett tells of campers being belted by mysterious objects falling from the sky, like potatoes and ice cream; wildlife photos that went awry, including a ground squirrel that outwits a photographer; dumb crooks in parks, such as the drunk driver who mistakenly knocked on a judge's door to report an accident; and...
In this sequel to the wildly successful Hey Ranger: True Tales of Humor and Misadventure from America's National Parks, former ranger Jim Burnett cast...
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75,29 zł |
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Guilty by Reason of Stupidity
ISBN: 9780740777127 / Angielski / Miękka / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If the iPod is too loud, does Steve Jobs have to pay? Can Steven Spielberg cut a kid's hair without permission? Did Mickey Mouse and Fred Flintstone really cast votes for Ralph Nader? Unbelievable but true tales of more than one hundred court calamities, curiosities, and comical cases. Joel Seidemann's law career spans more than 25 years. He is currently a district attorney, but when he's not arguing on the city's behalf, he can be found researching the most bizarre, hilarious, and ridiculous cases of legal history. And now, thanks to Seidemann, we know why Lady Justice is blindfolded. Surely...
If the iPod is too loud, does Steve Jobs have to pay? Can Steven Spielberg cut a kid's hair without permission? Did Mickey Mouse and Fred Flintstone r...
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57,70 zł |
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By the Bathroom Door
ISBN: 9781598248005 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of humorous stories from thirty-six years of teaching in an early elementary classroom. All stories in this book are true...all original. You will enjoy the perspective of five and six year olds as they begin their journey in education. Some of the situations will seem too far-fetched, but I assure you they are all true!
A collection of humorous stories from thirty-six years of teaching in an early elementary classroom. All stories in this book are true...all original....
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49,75 zł |
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The Funniest Thing You Never Said: The Ultimate Collection of Humorous Quotations
ISBN: 9780091897666 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whether for the loo or bedside entertainment or as a work of reference or self-improvement The Funniest Thing You Never Said is the best humorous quote book there is - a one-stop shop.
Whether for the loo or bedside entertainment or as a work of reference or self-improvement The Funniest Thing You Never Said is the best humorous quot...
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83,27 zł |
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Pulp Kitchen
ISBN: 9781447248910 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Go ahead, punk. Make my dinner.
Go ahead, punk. Make my dinner.
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123,06 zł |
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One-Lane Blacktop
ISBN: 9781598249040 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One-Lane Blacktop represents an eclectic mix of various kinds of humor - jokes, puns, satire, witty, not so witty, gross, ribaldry, and most prevalent of all: humorless humor. Also included are a few war stories. Live with it. The book is made up of notes placed in empty food containers belonging to Lynn and Julie Carl, friends of Jack Cordes. The Carls would send him home with food and he would send a thank-you note. Discovering that the Carls had kept the notes, Jack Cordes had them printed in the present form. Why the Carls kept the notes remains a mystery. Perhaps it was some sort of...
One-Lane Blacktop represents an eclectic mix of various kinds of humor - jokes, puns, satire, witty, not so witty, gross, ribaldry, and most prevalent...
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54,47 zł |
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One-Lane Blacktop
ISBN: 9781598249057 / Angielski / Twarda / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One-Lane Blacktop represents an eclectic mix of various kinds of humor - jokes, puns, satire, witty, not so witty, gross, ribaldry, and most prevalent of all: humorless humor. Also included are a few war stories. Live with it. The book is made up of notes placed in empty food containers belonging to Lynn and Julie Carl, friends of Jack Cordes. The Carls would send him home with food and he would send a thank-you note. Discovering that the Carls had kept the notes, Jack Cordes had them printed in the present form. Why the Carls kept the notes remains a mystery. Perhaps it was some sort of...
One-Lane Blacktop represents an eclectic mix of various kinds of humor - jokes, puns, satire, witty, not so witty, gross, ribaldry, and most prevalent...
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124,11 zł |
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S.J. Perelman: A Critical Study
ISBN: 9780313250033 / Angielski / Twarda / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Filling a void with his critical study of an important American humorist, Steven H. Gale has provided a comprehensive description of S.J. Perelman's prose, plays, and screenplays, along with a biographical portrait which emphasizes his connections to other writers of his time. The work is supplemented by a chronology of events, a bibliographic essay, and a general subject index.
Filling a void with his critical study of an important American humorist, Steven H. Gale has provided a comprehensive description of S.J. Perelman'... |
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410,48 zł |
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American Thighs: The Sweet Potato Queens' Guide to Preserving Your Assets
ISBN: 9780743278393 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "If I can save one woman from these thighs, I will not have lived in vain," #1 New York Times bestselling humorist Jill Conner Browne writes in American Thighs, her handbook and memoir for the Hot and Flashy. Whether young enough to look "hot" or of the age to only feel that way (in flashes with buckets of sweat), every woman has given, or will give, ample thought to preserving her best "assets" (thighs included), so that the dread transition from "cute girl" to "ma'am" won't be quite so unsettling. Here are stories of growing up and learning about life -- usually...
"If I can save one woman from these thighs, I will not have lived in vain," #1 New York Times bestselling humorist Jill Conner Browne writes in...
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88,79 zł |
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Wisdom Well Said
ISBN: 9780982388709 / Angielski / Miękka / 620 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This carefully indexed collection of anecdotes, fables, legends, and myths has been assembled over a 20-year period by Charles Francis, a prominent communications professional.
This carefully indexed collection of anecdotes, fables, legends, and myths has been assembled over a 20-year period by Charles Francis, a prominent co...
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155,45 zł |
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Butter My Butt and Call Me a Biscuit: And Other Country Sayings, Say-So's, Hoots and Hollers
ISBN: 9780740785672 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. They're called colloquialisms, idioms, of just good old fashioned, home-grown country sayings steeped in humor and home-spun common sense. These parlances might not fit the modern hoity toity rhetoric you're used to seeing in print or hearing on TV, and that's exactly why they're more refreshing than an ice cube in July. In "Butter My Butt and Call Me a Biscuit," Author Allan Zullo offers up more than 200 vernacular verses presented in themes, such as:
* Admitting You're Wrong--The easiest way to eat crow is while it's still warm, 'cause the colder it gets the harder it is to swallow.... They're called colloquialisms, idioms, of just good old fashioned, home-grown country sayings steeped in humor and home-spun common sense. These parla...
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48,81 zł |
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F This Test: Even More of the Very Best Totally Wrong Test Answers
ISBN: 9781452127767 / Angielski / Miękka / 127 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the same hilarious wellspring of failure as the bestselling F in Exams and F for Effort comes this all-new collection of inventively wrong--yet totally real--test responses by students who don't know the answer, but come up with something better instead. Featuring crucial academic subjects including English (Q: Name a key theme in Madame Bovary; A: Cows), Geography (Q: Where can you find the Andes?; A: Google Earth), Science (Q: Describe the properties of a meteor; A: An animal that only eats meat) and more, F this Test rounds out the curriculum with...
From the same hilarious wellspring of failure as the bestselling F in Exams and F for Effort comes this all-new collection of invent...
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44,19 zł |
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Shakespeare Insult Generator: Mix and Match More Than 150,000 Insults in the Bard's Own Words (Shakespeare for Kids, Shakespeare Gifts, William Shak
ISBN: 9781452127750 / Angielski / Twarda / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Put dullards and miscreants in their place with more than 150,000 handy mix-and-match insults in the bard's own words. This entertaining insult generator and flip book collects hundreds of words from Shakespeare's most pointed barbs and allows readers to combine them in creative and hilariously stinging ways. From "apish bald-pated abomination" to "cuckoldly dull-brained blockhead" to "obscene rump-fed hornbeast," each insult can be chosen at random or customized to fit any situation that calls for a literary smackdown. Featuring an informative introduction on Shakespearean wit, and notes on...
Put dullards and miscreants in their place with more than 150,000 handy mix-and-match insults in the bard's own words. This entertaining insult genera...
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53,58 zł |
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Amusings
ISBN: 9781440146060 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Amusings is the first volume of humor by writer Theo May. Here the reader will find tales (Humoresques) with which he has regaled friends and family, including The Belt Story, Confessions of a Basketball Timer, and The Littlest Jingle Bell. Also in the book are various things from his career as a mathematics teacher, including the infamous collection of failed interviews as well as vignettes (Disciplines) of students running amuck in his classes. These culminate in an account of being fired from a college teaching position due to moral turpitude . The volume closes with the moving memoir To...
Amusings is the first volume of humor by writer Theo May. Here the reader will find tales (Humoresques) with which he has regaled friends and family, ...
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88,61 zł |
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Fail Fast, Move Faster
ISBN: 9780982432631 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Failing fast and moving faster is a philosophy that achieves tremendous results. This book is a journey about mistakes and how to handle them so that your successes are far more exceptional than you ever thought they would be. There are plenty of books on success, but few talk about failure - and the lessons that later help us to make better decisions that contribute to true success in life. Fail Fast Move Faster is a book of life stories based on true events, spanning childhood and a successful entrepreneurial adult life. Many of these simple and entertaining stories are illustrated with...
Failing fast and moving faster is a philosophy that achieves tremendous results. This book is a journey about mistakes and how to handle them so that ...
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66,58 zł |
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