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Published at the height of the 1980s self-help boom, Lost in the Cosmos is Percy's unforgettable riff on the trend that swept the nation. Filled with quizzes, essays, short stories, and diagrams, Lost in the Cosmos is a laugh-out-loud spin on a familiar genre that also pushes readers to serious contemplation of life's biggest questions. One part parody and two parts philosophy, Lost in the Cosmos is an enlightening guide to the dilemmas of human...
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At last, a compendium of ingeniously insulting words for every occasion.
For anyone who's been stymied by the level of sloth, bad looks and low intelligence of his fellow man (and woman), help is on the way. You can't change the tiresome creatures around you, but now you can describe them behind their backs with pleasing specificity.
Yes, Insulting English is a user's guide to little-known and much-needed words that include:
Gubbertush: Buck-toothed...
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So you want to be a successful bad writer. Well, who doesn't? We all want that sweet sweet hack writer money. And why shouldn't you have your piece of that cash pie?
Being a successful bad writer is easy. So easy. It's like knowing your ABCs. And that is what we have here. It is all you need to know to be a fabulously bad writer, from A to Z. We have one helpful tidbit of goodness for every letter of the alphabet.
Compiled by the Institute of Bad...
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Bro-cab-u-lary (n.): A revolutionary new lexicon for bonding with your bros
Put down your BlackBerry, you PDA-hole, and step into the testosterzone with Brocabulary. Wax fandiloquent about your favorite team or have a fargone-versation at the bar. Brocabulary leaves the vagibberish to the chicks and shows you how to:
• Define your stripping point (the precise number of Jäger shots it takes to make a woman want to get naked with you).
• Conceal...
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The only thing Americans want to read more than Trump's tax returns.
Constantly late to work? Caught cheating on your spouse again? Can't stop tweeting unhinged rants against your political enemies at three in the morning? Then The Kellyanne Conway Technique is the book you need.
Preeminent spin expert and University of Phoenix Online alumnus, Jarret Berenstein, brings you the world's only comprehensive analysis of the tricks, distractions, and...
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Une revue comique du vocabulaire relatif à l'automobile
On recensait à peine plus de 100'000 automobiles au début du XXe siècle. Le cap des deux milliards de voitures à moteur thermique sera bientt franchi. L'invention et le développement de l'automobile a non seulement bouleversé l'environnement et radicalement transformé la civilisation, mais elle a aussi engendré une nouvelle espèce humaine : l'automobiliste. Une créature le plus souvent...
8) Crackers
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An indispensible guide to southernness from revered humorist and unapologetic curmudgeon Roy Blount Jr. When a simple-talking, peanut-warehousing, grit-eating Southern Baptist Cracker got himself nominated for president of the United States in 1976, it set Roy Blount Jr. to thinking-about the South, about southerners, and about southernness. The result is a collection of savagely funny and insightful takes on redneck heaven, whiskey, blood, possums,...
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Extrait: "ABAISSEMENT - Moyen de parvenir, fort en honneur au XIXe siècle. ABANDON - En chœur: - Oh ! les hommes ! - Dieu! les femmes ! ABBAYE - Inutile dulci. ABATTOIR - Ne pouvant rien créer, il ne faut rien détruire. (Vers connu.) ABDICATION - Mouvement de magnanimité par lequel, en général, un prince cède sa couronne à un autre... quand son peuple vent de la lui reprendre. ABEILLES - 'Chastes buveuses de rosée.' Il y en a aussi en or;...
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Un dictionnaire hilarant qui vous donnera une autre vision des mots !
Le Dictionnaire approximatif de Georges Gelbard est d'abord conçu pour faire rire. Des entrées inattendues, des détournements désopilants, des jeux de mots facétieux feront votre bonheur. A découvrir pour se distraire uniquement !
Esprits moroses se tenir à l'écart.
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ABELARD P : pianiste, a composé la « Lettre à Héloïse ».
ABOMINER : haïr les chats.
ABREUVOIR :...
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A witty illustrated guide to words that sound alike, but are spelled differently and have completely different meanings.
Do ewe no what homophones are? They're words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have completely different meanings-it's knot always easy to get it right. Based on his blog Homophones, Weakly, Bruce Worden's Homophones Visualized uses simple but clever graphics to help illustrate the differences between 100 pairs...
12) 2AM
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................Alone.........................I will walk this earth alone because I don't need anybody to distract me from my life goal.My life goal is to be fully happy, so I'm going to be just that.My life will be far better than before.You are alone, but not lonely. You are alone, but not unhappy.You are alone, but you are with me.We are Team Solo, and we walk this earth alone.Don't get me wrong, that doesn't indicate that the other seven billion...
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"A goofy, breezy book celebrating Dad Jokes and word play-for your favorite punster. Pun Intended covers every aspect of the most simultaneously loathed and beloved joke form of all time: the pun. Because "Dad Humor" should be practiced by everyone (regardless of age, gender, or family status) this book serves to encourage creative thinking and punning habits for everyone! Learn how to properly deliver a pun (whether written, visual, or verbal) and...
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Comme toutes les questions philosophiques, celle du rire a son histoire à la fois générale et particulière, théorique et anecdotique, qu'il serait injuste de dédaigner. Cette histoire prouve une fois de plus que s'il est rare que l'esprit humain saisisse dans chaque sujet la vérité tout entière, il est rare aussi qu'il la manque entièrement. Aussi les définitions du risible qui ont été successivement présentées depuis Aristote jusqu'à...
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Une série de documents qui, outrepassant l'opprobre, ont abordé ce sujet scandaleux.
Faisant fi de la censure liée à la façon d'assouvir nos fonctions les plus intimes, osons découvrir que faire « ça », activité humaine basique et quotidienne, présente des variantes insoupçonnées. Dans ce but, les voyages de l'auteure nous porteront aux quatre coins du monde, o fleuriront ses aventures en la matière. Bon nombre d'autres sources nourriront...
16) Le Dicorona
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Il faut nommer les choses pour les apprivoiser.
Tout a commencé le premier jour du confinement. Olivier Auroy s'est rendu au supermarché o il a assisté à une scène invraisemblable. Des personnes se disputaient le dernier paquet de spaghettis bio. Eurêka! PSYCHO-PTE, le premier mot du Dicorona était né.
Le Dicorona est un dictionnaire de mots-valises. Un mot-valise se construit en fusionnant la dernière syllabe d'un premier mot avec la première...
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We all hear phrases that don't seem to mean anything, or even ones that don't mean what they should. Take a look through some that seem to pop up when someone has nothing else to say, but they still want to throw in their tuppence. From office speak to tabloid trickery, from "Cheer up!" to "What do you think?" Twenty-five things people say, that you'd rather they didn't. If you'd like to know more (don't look at me like that – some people do) you...
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The Household Tips of Great Writers covers all your household needs, indoors and outdoors, from pruning a rose bush with Pablo Neruda to mending a dripping tap with Jean-Paul Sartre. Throwing a tea party? Irvine Welsh has the recipe for the perfect chocolate cake, though that's not all he's cooking. Brilliant, hilarious, and always pitch-perfect, this omnibus edition of Mark Crick's wonderful books of literary pastiche will inform and entertain the...
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Correct grammar and proper spelling can be a challenge, and their absence can be a source of gleeful humor to everyone but the victim of a bad grammar attack. How do you react to sandwich boards, road signs, laminated instructions, and other written missives that are just not exactly what their creator meant? If you've ever (gently) judged anyone else for their linguistic failures, if you find yourself guffawing about the frequent confusion between...
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When an English chef uses a preservative it is not the same as when a German 'Chef' uses a 'Präservativ'. False friends like these are a foreign language's faux pas: words that sound similar to the ones we know, but have a very different meaning.
British author Diccon Bewes and Swiss illustrator Michael Meister created 51 cartoons in which they gleefully celebrate the pitfalls of false friends between English and German. This book is guaranteed...
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