Search Results: Humour from Infinity Books Japan

US: BCM, Inc, 2001. Very Good. Sensational for speech writers, and for social and personal amusement! For some years investors have been asking Mr Dines to publish a compilation of his jokes and bits of wisdom from his speeches, thousands of radio and TV i nterviews and from The Dines Letter itself. Mr Dines' first joke book has o ver 60 categories of jokes and here are a dozen free samples: 1) We arrive in the world naked, and we leave the world naked...so stockbrokers are just doing God's work. 2) Always travel first class, because if you don't, your heirs will!. 3) The early bird gets the worm, but it's the second mouse th at gets the cheese! 4) Why is divorce so expensive? Because it's worth it. 5) If the world were always logical, men would ride sidesaddle... and women 's bikes! 6) The argument with your wife you just won is not over yet...and the man who thinks he's smarter than his wife has a really smart wife! 7) There are many benefits to marriage, such as sex every night...and, if you' re… Read More

Orient Publishing Service, 2012. Paperback. Good.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. Near Fine.

US: CreateSpace Independent Publ, 2015. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. 99 amazing, fascinating and hilarious facts about farts! We all do it! It's a fact. And there are so many more facts about fart ing you probably don't know. Here's the book that will astonish, amaze and not at least give you a good laugh! This book covers (almost) everything! From how many farts it would take to send a space shuttle into orbit, you will learn about the most notorious fa rters of all (no, it's not your brother) and the first Disney figure t o fart, to record holders and occupational farters. The facts are organised in easy to find chapters.  99 Facts About Farts is an easy to read astonishing book of facts for all ages. Explore this fun and smelly gas we all produce. You will not regret it!

Methuen Publishing, Ltd, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. A highly collectible first edition/printing, a tight clean copy, protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscriptions or markings, not price clipped an ex-library or a book of the month club edition; This witty new volume takes up where the first left off, further expanding their gallery of colorful characters.

US: Pan Macmillan, 2002. Very Good. Moore has many hysterical things to say about deserving targets of all poli tical persuasions from the anaemic left to the giddy right. Hailed as 'bril liant' and 'subversive' on both sides of the Atlantic, TV NATION champions the issues which concern us all - from the heavyweight to the just plain ir ksome. Only in TV NATION will you witness the unthinkable - Mexican and Afr ican Americans gatecrashing a Ku Klux Klan rally to regale them with love s ongs and install a kissing booth - and the simply wish-fulfilling - the hom e of the director of the largest car alarm company in America being woken t o the tuneful chorus of a dozen car alarms at 6am. If you have ever felt po werless or at the mercy of 'the system', ADVENTURES IN A TV NATION is guara nteed to lift your spirits.

US: William Morrow Paperbacks, 1998. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Based on an American television show, of the same name, it brims with Micha el Moore's special brand of subversive humour that melds outright silliness with poignant realisation. From the oh-so-obvious Serial Killer Next Door who's ignored by his neighbo urs: to Mike enjoying some quality time with Dr. Kevorkian : to raising mon ey for Charles Keating, this is a compilation of classic TV Nation that'll make you laugh and think at the same time. This book is a must read for anyone and everyone.

US: Pocket, 1991. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The hysterically funny trade paperback that topped everyone's list of smash hit bestsellers last year was just the beginning. Now, get ready for 169 more of the funniest, most outrageous Top Ten Lists in one hilarious volume including: "Orville Redenbacher's Top Ten Most Horrifying Secrets," "Top Ten Mafia Euphemisms for Death," and " Top Ten Features of Saddam Hussein's Bunker.

US: Nation Books, 2008. Very Good. For some, the American Dream is a pre-fab house in the suburbs with 2.5 kid s and a two-week vacation at the end of the year. To others, it is working a push fruit cart in Oakland in order to put food on the family's table in Oaxaca. In The American Dream Harmon Leon draws upon his experiences of ado pting personas and disguises to infiltrate the various institutions of ever yday life, living among a diverse range of subcultures and learning first h and how they see their vision and utopia. His incursions include working as a marijuana farmer in a hippie commune in Northern California; becoming a carnie in rural Indiana; visiting a tourist attraction in Mexico (that allo ws people to simulate illegally crossing the border); venturing to Hollywoo d while trying to climb the ranks in the star-making machine; and working i n the strawberries fields of California with newly arrived immigrants. The American Dream is a funny, satirical, and ultimately poignant take on… Read More

US: Tandem, 1971. Paperback. Good.

US: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd, 2009. Very Good. Longlisted for the 2007 Victoria Butler Book Prize Arthur Black-bestselling author, three-time winner of the Stephen Leacock M edal for Humour, beloved radio personality, and newspaper columnist- proves in his latest sidesplitting collection of tales, Black to the Grindstone , that, without a doubt, you not only get better but funnier with age. Demonstrating once again why he is one of Canada's most loved jokesters, Black masterfully captures the laughter that often bursts out of the seams of everyday life. From an unexpected drag race to a Google search for a picture of the illusive "Arthur the Meek," you just never know when a regular day is going to turn into comedic genius. Black provides uproarious insight into uses a matador might have for a teacup, mango or simply some paper towel, the lengths one might go to defend the aural mishearing we've believed in for far too long and the bitter deception felt upon discovering that the hootenanny's… Read More

US: St Martins Pr, 1985. Paperback. Good.

US: Harper Collins, 1998. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

US: Cliffs Notes, 1989. Paperback. Good.

US: Chrysalis Books Group, 2004. Very Good. Put downs are the kind of things you wished you'd said yourself, but couldn 't think up in time. Whether it be rock star or politician, actress or busi nessman, no-one in the public eye is immune to a perfectly-executed barb. " His writing is limited to songs for dead blondes," is Keith Richards' view on Elton John. "What is Wales for?" asked Anne Robinson to a contestant on The Weakest Link Very little links Groucho Marx, Dorothy Parker, Pat Buchan an, Winston Churchill and Bette Middler, other than a common language. They 're all fluent in vitriol. This book assembles the absolute master craftsme n in their field and proves that the pen is indeed mightier than the sword. Editorial Reviews Put downs are the kind of things you wished you'd said yourself, but couldn't think up in time. Whether it be rock star or politician, actress or businessman, no-one in the public eye is immune to a perfectly-executed barb. "His writing is limited to songs for dead… Read More

Time Warner Paperbacks, 1992. Very Good. The Ten Commandments, four gospels and the golden rule meet sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll in this book which looks at the philosophy of the baby boomer generation. The book consists of more than 70 stories that look at history , culture and philosophy from the 1960s to the 1990s.

US: St. Martin's Griffin, 2002. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Fans of Richard Lederer's Anguished English series will cherish this newest installment of the author's latest chronicle of the gifts and gaffes of our oddball language. From headlines to menus, student papers to politicians' speeches, every embarrassing example is true-and wonderfully funny.

Methuen Publishing Ltd, 2001. Very Good+. 2001 election struggle.

US: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Something is amiss in society. At every level, the populace worships an unholy trinity of aspiration, vulgarity, and self-regard, while qualities such as courtesy and savoir-faire are pushed aside in the name of progress. The Chap Manifesto is a rallying point for the gentleman mired in postmodern confusion. Now, learn how to adjust your gloves with the correct degree of insouciance, how to behave at the revolutionary dinner table, and what items to pack in your anarcho-dandyist toolkit. Once you have mastered the sartorial and behavioral basics, you can move on to more advanced tactics, like The Trouser Semaphore and Random Acts of Common Courtesy. Racily illustrated throughout, this is a ripping Call to Charms.

US: Grove Press, 2016. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Jokes change from generation to generation, but the experience of the comed ian transcends the ages: the drive, jealousy, heartbreak, and triumph. From the Marx Brothers to Milton Berle to George Carlin to Eddie Murphy to Loui s CKÂ?comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff brings to life a century's worth of rebels and groundbreakers, mainstream heroes and counterculture iconoclasts , forgotten stars and workaday plodders in this essential history of Americ an comedy. Beginning with the nationwide vaudeville circuits that dominated at turn of the twentieth century, Nesteroff describes the rise of the first true stand-up comedianÂ?a variety show emcee who abandoned physical shtick for straight jokes. The end of Prohibition ushered in a surprising golden age of comedy, as funnymen were made into radio stars and the… Read More