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Hardback. Etat : Good. Chock-full of jokes and entertaining twists of the tongue, this lighthearted but scholarly guide to humorous language is a sure?re hit with word lovers. The examples are entertainingly bawdy, with a delightful narrative voice in word sleuth and author, Jim Bernhard. He provides examples and puzzles, teaching a smidgen of historical and etymological scholarship, but above all, amusing his audience. Puns from Greek dramatists, Shakespeare, the Bible, George S. Kaufman, and Groucho Marx vie for attention with comical spoonerisms, droll malapropisms, witty anagrams, and humorous palindromes--plus original material by the author--including limericks, clerihews, crossword puzzles, acrostic puzzles, tonguetwisters, and other kinds of word play. Some examples: Why does a match box? Because it sees a tin can. Time ?ies like an arrow. Fruit ?ies like a banana. The pony was unable to talk because he was a little hoarse. Two peanuts went into a bar. One was a salted. The chicken that crossed the road was pure poultry in motion. As the gardener said when asked why he was cutting grass with a pair of scissors: That's all there is; there isn't any mower.…

Hardback. Etat : Very Good. Chock-full of jokes and entertaining twists of the tongue, this lighthearted but scholarly guide to humorous language is a sure?re hit with word lovers. The examples are entertainingly bawdy, with a delightful narrative voice in word sleuth and author, Jim Bernhard. He provides examples and puzzles, teaching a smidgen of historical and etymological scholarship, but above all, amusing his audience. Puns from Greek dramatists, Shakespeare, the Bible, George S. Kaufman, and Groucho Marx vie for attention with comical spoonerisms, droll malapropisms, witty anagrams, and humorous palindromes--plus original material by the author--including limericks, clerihews, crossword puzzles, acrostic puzzles, tonguetwisters, and other kinds of word play. Some examples: Why does a match box? Because it sees a tin can. Time ?ies like an arrow. Fruit ?ies like a banana. The pony was unable to talk because he was a little hoarse. Two peanuts went into a bar. One was a salted. The chicken that crossed the road was pure poultry in motion. As the gardener said when asked why he was cutting grass with a pair of scissors: That's all there is; there isn't any mower.…

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Paperback. Etat : Very Good. What do actress, Helen Mirren, author, Louisa May Alcott and Nobel-Prize winning scientist, Gertrude B. Elion, have in common? They are all fascinating outspoken women whose quotes along with Bette Midler, Coco Chanel, Bette Davis, Gloria Steinem and 250 more grace the pages of this ribald collection. The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then they marry him. -Cher I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete. -Bette Davis You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation. -Billie Holiday I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. -Gilda Radner This is an outrageous, amusing, and sometime ribald collection of candid observations on a variety of topics. Each page offers wit and wisdom on everything from bras to babies, shopping to sex, menopause to men, politics to parties from the most famous and infamous women of the past and present.…

Paperback. Etat : Good. What do actress, Helen Mirren, author, Louisa May Alcott and Nobel-Prize winning scientist, Gertrude B. Elion, have in common? They are all fascinating outspoken women whose quotes along with Bette Midler, Coco Chanel, Bette Davis, Gloria Steinem and 250 more grace the pages of this ribald collection. The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then they marry him. -Cher I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete. -Bette Davis You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation. -Billie Holiday I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. -Gilda Radner This is an outrageous, amusing, and sometime ribald collection of candid observations on a variety of topics. Each page offers wit and wisdom on everything from bras to babies, shopping to sex, menopause to men, politics to parties from the most famous and infamous women of the past and present.…

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