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Ignorance is Blitz: Mangled Moments of History From Actual College Students
Now in chunky format, the funniest book ever written about the history of Western Civilization. Originally published under the title Non Campus Mentis, this book made four national bestseller lists— The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, and BookSense; has 200,000 copies in print; and garnered praise from across the country: "Glorious . . . equal-opportunity idiocy for every era."— Philadelphia Enquirer. "A horrifically hilarious compendium . . . knitting together errors, assumptions, and creative fact-making that are shocking and hysterical."— Associated Press. "You'll laugh until you cry, shedding tears for the state of American education."— Baltimore Sun. Compiled by Professor Anders Henriksson from the term papers and blue book exams of students who clearly made it to college before the advent of "No Child Left Behind," Ignorance Is Blitz is unput-downable. You won't believe what you just read, and won't want to wait to see what's coming next, from the Virgin Mary's Immaculate Contraption to Pericles' greatest erection, the Parthenonon to Custard's Last Stand to Hitler shooting himself in the Bonker and Martin Luther King's ground-breaking speech, "If I Had a Hammer." And who knew: Caesar was assassinated on the Yikes of March, when he is reported to have said, "Me too, Brutus." Rasputin was a pheasant by birth. Victims of the black plague grew boobs on their neck. Judyism had one big God named Yahoo. Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize for inventing the radiator. And "During the Dark Ages, it was mostly dark.".
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Crash!: Twisted Steel, Mangled Bumpers and Shattered Windshields from the '40s, '50s and '60s
We've all been there, driving by the scene of a car accident where you can practically hear every "crash" "crack" and "crunch." This gift-sized guide features the biggest collection of the most spectacular and sometimes humorous traffic accidents in automotive history. An attention getter of anyone who's ever gotten behind the wheel, this hard-hitting pictorial includes: * 400 detailed photos from Old Cars Weekly archives, a proven resource for any car collector
* Intriguing and often entertaining captions
* Features early Model A and Model T mishaps to big bumper bang ups involving highway cruisers of the 1950s and '60s With this book it's more than Ok to stop and stare..
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Manglo-Saxon: Marvelously Mangled Meanings for Well-Worn Words
From The Unkempt Language Laboratory of England's foremost unknown neolinguist comes Manglo-Saxon: a new kind of lexicon in which words sound and look like what they mean. You'll yelp with pleasure (when you're not wheezing with indignation) at such redefinitions as: EQUATOR: Exclamation on finding something unexpected in restaurant food. "Equator! There's a spider in my soup." LIMPET: A sedated domestic animal. "A simple pill turns a hysterical schnauzer into a wobbling limpet." YOGHURT: An injury sustained while practicing yoga. "I'm sorry I can't come jogging with you today. I've got yoghurt in my groin." ...and more than three hundred similarly refreshing, ready-to-use new old words! 124 pages with approximately 360 entries in eleven chapters such as food, health, and music. Black-and-white and color illustrations are spackled throughout. Smythe-sewn casebound book with dust jacket..
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Mingled biographies and mangled lives: Isaac Babel--a first glance.(Book Excerpt): An article from: Midstream
This digital document is an article from Midstream, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2005. The length of the article is 4375 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: Mingled biographies and mangled lives: Isaac Babel--a first glance.(Book Excerpt) Author: Jerome Charyn Publication:Midstream (Magazine/Journal) Date: September 1, 2005 Publisher: Thomson Gale Volume: 51 Issue: 5 Page: 5(5) Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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Biggie and the Mangled Mortician (Biggie Weatherford)
This time out, as her twelve-year-old grandson J.R. narrates, the grande dame of the East Texas town of Job's Crossing definitely has her hands full. She's directing and starring in a local production of HMS Pinafore, but just before the first rehearsal, cast member and new town mortician Monk Carter suddenly takes his final bow. The cause of death is chalked up to either a heart attack or epileptic seizure, Although Doc Hopper's examination shows that the undertaker's ribs were powerfully crushed. Suspects are few and far between, but there's no stopping Biggie, with J.R. at her side, as they attempt to bring down the curtain on a crafty killer. Loaded with quirky Southern charm, knee-slapping humor, and irresistible eccentric characters, Biggie and the Mangled Mortician will delight old Biggie fans-- and make new ones wonder how they ever lived without her. .
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Portacath Monologues; Mangled Messages......... 10-20-2003
Grandma Nise was a beloved daughter, sister, mother, grandmother and wonderful friend to many. The Portacath Monologues are her whimsical newletters that she sent out to her friends and family while she was living with cancer. May Grandma Nise's newletter bring a smile to your life!.
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Mauled, Maimed, Mangled, Mutilated Mythology
Mauled Maimed Mangled Mutilated Mythology is adult literature that satirizes twenty-one classic mythology stories into more mature presentations featuring adult language, content and humor. Author Jay Dubya goes right to work retelling adult renditions of female myths Pandora, Ceres Goes Against the Grain and Echo-s Cursing Curse. Other famous adventure myths that are thoroughly pulverized and clobbered are Bellerophon-s Marathon Adventure, Theseus and the Minotaur, Perseus and Medusa, Osysseus and the Cyclops and Jason and the Golden Fleecers. Male hero and vanity/punishment myths are also imaginatively assaulted and mercilessly converted into adult versions as in the cases of Prometheus and Fire, The Three Golden Apples, Oedipus, King Midas and Orpheus. Other stories that are not saved from degeneration are the author-s humorous original tales Olympus Lives and also Colliding Myths, where Jay Dubya combines the popular stories of Phaethon and the classic Daedalus and Icarus. Love myths are also hammered with novel presentations of Baucis and Philemon, Psyche and Stupid Cupid along with Atalanta-s Last Race. Finally, Norse mythology is not spared from total degeneration with a very amusing retelling of Beowulf and Arabian literature is also assaulted with a creative presentation of The Fourth Voyage of Sindbad. Mauled Maimed Mangled Mutilated Mythology is exclusively adult satirical literature that is definitely not written for or to be read by children. .
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