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Jon Spoelstra, one of the country's best sports marketers, contends there is less risk and more payoffs in creating outrageous marketing .
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The author of the wildly successful Portable Curmudgeon and Portable Curmudgeon Redux outdoes himself in the biggest collection yet of acid wit and wisdom cunningly collected from sardonic savants of every stripe.

A curmudgeon is defined as 1. A crusty, ill-tempered, churlish old man; 2. Anyone who hates hypocrisy and pretense and has the temerity to say so; or 3. anyone who points out unpleasant facts in an engaging and humorous manner. The Big Curmudgeon is the richest collection yet of curmudgeonly commentary, combining all of the material from the bestselling Portable Curmudgeon and Portable Curmudgeon Redux, plus selections from A Curmudgeon’s Garden of Love—and lots of brand-new quips, quotations, and wisdom freshly collected by compiler extraordinaire, Jon Winokur.

Arranged alphabetically by subject and featuring special sections on such world-class grumps as H.L. Mencken, John Simon, W.C. Fields, and Dorothy Parker, the book is the last witty word on all things cynical, snide, and hilariously grouchy.

Equally suited to the "humor" and "reference" sections, The Big Curmudgeon is filled with the pithiest, smartest things ever said by the wittiest people who ever lived..
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The brownie-lover's bible.

Discover how to make the perfect classic brownie that tastes just the way you always wanted: moist and rich with an unforgettable chocolate glaze.

Brownie Points, the brownie-lover's bible, features tested and proven, easy-to-make recipes for every imaginable kind of those deep, dark delicacies. Lisa Slater clearly and concisely explains everything about brownie baking methods including choosing the right chocolate, other ingredients and the equipment needed.

Brownie Points includes proven techniques and recipes for:

• Brownie muffins and cupcakes
• Tarts and mousse
• Brownie cheesecake
• Sugar-free date brownies
• Brownie molasses cookies
• Gluten-free brownies and more.

Bakers of all levels will welcome the interesting variations on each recipe and the fool-proof methods to ensure the perfect brownies every time.

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Now that she is setting into eighth grade, the class she used to envy, Alice discovers it isn't as exciting as she thought She's tired of being the same old Alice, and longs to be a bit outrageous

Instead, she finds herself in situations that are more embarrassing then they are thrilling. She likes dressing up as a showgirl for Halloween, but hasn't counted on what happens in the broom closet at school. And she's delighted to be a bridesmaid, but feels awkward at the bridal shower. Even Patrick begins to seem childish to her.

Elizabeth and Pamela, however, her two best friends, feel that life is changing too much for them. Elizabeth finds that a new a boy at school is attracted to her, while Pamela faces a serious problem at home. Lester, too, Alice's brother, can't quite believe he's losing his old girlfriend, Crystal. When Alice dials Miss Summers, however, the woman her father loves, there is always the hope that this time she will get the mother she has always wanted..
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He's America's mouth that roars: Rush Limbaugh . . outrageous, outspoken, and some say out-to-lunch. When Limbaugh claims "I'm not making this stuff up, folks," plug in the lie detector He is making it up, and FAIR can prove it. In The Way Things Aren't, the media watch group FAIR catches more than one hundred of Rush's wildest whoppers. From ozone to abortion, Rodney King to Reaganomics, Limbaugh has a finely honed ability to distort reality, yet his facts often go unchallenged. Some of these "truths" would be laughable if not for the millions of people who believe them. .
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What do Lucy Parsons, Clarence Darrow, Carl Sandburg, Mary MacLane, Lawrence Lipton, Elizabeth Davis (Queen of the Hoboes), Jun Fujita, Sherwood Anderson, Ralph Chaplin, Katherine Dunham, Djuna Barnes, Kenneth Rexroth, Sam Dolgoff, and Slim Brundage have in common? They were all Dil Picklers! Founded in 1914 by former Wobbly Jack Jones, Irish revolutionist Jim Larkin, and a group of fantastic IWW-oriented Bughouse Square hobos and soapboxers, the Dil Pickle in just a few years was widely recognized as the wildest, most playful, most creative, and most radical nightspot in the known universe - especially after Dr. Ben Reitman joined the club in 1917. In this book, Rosemont has collected forty-one reminiscences of the Dil Pickle by poets, artists, journalists, novelists, hobos, scholars, anarchist, wobblies, and other assorted radicals and oddballs. Among them are accounts by the club's founders, habitues, visitors,and critics. Rosemont's introduction provides the fullest account so far of the Dil Pickle's chaotic history, and goes on to explore the role of the Picklers in the arts and the 'Chicago Renaissance', along with its meaning(s) for our own troubled times. .
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Southeast Cambodia, 14 February 2005. The moon was rising as Hamish strolled along the beach, inhaling the balmy sea air. He came upon a solitary coconut palm and decided to sit underneath it. Click! The sound heralded the arrival of a ten-second eternity. Red light flashed in his brain. Eardrums buzzing, a torrent of adrenaline screamed through his bloodstream. Hamish experienced the sensations of a freefall paratrooper, tearing through the clouds as he rushed down to meet his destiny ... Angus and Hamish were twins, but far from identical. Separated at birth, they grew up knowing nothing of each other s existence; but their lives were destined to intertwine. Fifty years on, and thousands of miles from the land of his birth, Hamish finds himself on a beach in Cambodia sitting on a live landmine. He has a choice move, and die or sit still and let his life pass before his eyes... The night Angus and Hamish were born, a violent storm raged across the west coast of Scotland. The storm killed their father, and their birth killed their mother. Storm and tragedy were destined to mark both their lives, in very different ways. Angus was a wayward boy, careering into a life of crime, drug dealing and violent entanglements with the Glasgow underworld, before finding spiritual salvation on the 1960s hippy trail to India. Hamish, from his earliest memories, lived a life of middle-class normality. But beneath the surface of his happy domestic life, a dark secret lurked like a bomb waiting to detonate in his mind..
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