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Urban Dictonary: Fularious Street Slang Defined
by Aaron Peckham  Publisher Comments Urbandictionary.com is a wildly successful site that encourages users to define the world with their own unique terms. In Urban Dictionary, site founder Aaron Peckham culls his more than 170,000 definitions for the funniest, wittiest, and most...
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This Little Piggy Went to Prada: Nursery Rhymes for the Blahnik Brigade
by Amy Allen Publisher Comments For the woman more accustomed to singing Missoni's praises than singing lullabies comes Amy Allen's irresistible This Little Piggy Went to Prada: Nursery Rhymes for the Blahnik Brigade. Filled from cover to cover with sumptuous full color illustrations...
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Archy and Mehitabel
by Don Marquis Publisher Comments The now classic tale of Archy the cockroach and Mehitabel the cat in her ninth life. First published in 1927, this free verse poem has become an essential part of American literature....
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The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories
by Tim Burton Publisher Comments From breathtaking stop-action animation to bittersweet modern fairy tales, filmmaker Tim Burton has become known for his unique visual brilliance -- witty and macabre at once. Now he gives birth to a cast of gruesomely sympathetic children...
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Hipster Haiku
by Siobhan Adcock Publisher Comments A trenchant collection of barbed odes to the hipster world utilizes the meters of haiku to offer a look inside the obsessions, fetishes, insecurities, and characteristics of hipsterdom. Original. 35,000 first printing....
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Smart Feller Fart Smeller and Other Spoonerisms
by Jon Agee Synopsis Wordplay master Jon Agee takes some of the more comical examples of these verbal mix-ups and pairs them with his equally hilarious pictures. Illustrations....
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The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear
by Edward Lear Publisher Comments All nonsense limericks, zany alphabets, Owl and Pussycat, songs, nonsense botany, and more. Illustrated by Lear....
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The Humorous Verse of Lewis Carroll (Dover Classics for Children)
by Lewis Carroll Publisher Comments Verse, puzzles, "The Hunting of the Snark," acrostics, poems from larger works — largest collection of Carroll verse in print. 130 illustrations by Tenniel, Carroll, others....
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Forever Fifty
by Judith Viorst Publisher Comments Her bestselling verse has unerringly captured our follies and our foibles over the decades. Now Judith Viorst, in a witty and beautifuUy illustrated book of poems, looks at what it's like to be (gulp) fifty. Judith Viorst's poetry collections, which...
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Sit on a Potato Pan, Otis]
by Jon Agee Publisher Comments Eegad, Agee! Not another palindrome book! Well-known author and illustrator Jon Agee has been playing with words again, and now a third collection of clever, absurd, and hilarious reversible phrases is the result. These palindromes and their accompanying...
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Puns Spooken Here:
by Richard Lederer Synopsis Q. What's a skeleton's favorite food?< br> A. Spare ribs.< br> Q. What was the witch's favorite subject in school?< br> A. Spelling.< br> Q. What kind of horse does a ghost ride?< br> A. A night mare.< br> Q. How does...
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How to Speak Fluent Lovey-Dovey in 11 Languages in 24 Hours
by Karen Salmansohn Synopsis The French purport to be one of zee most romantic cultures, but, my honeybunny, did you know that they call their sweeties mon petit chou (my little cabbage)? Or that in El Salvador, lovers call each other gordita (fatty) without getting slapped for...
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Mrs. Goose Goes to Washington: Nursery Rhymes for the Political Barnyard
by Hart Seely Publisher Comments Can anything be poetic in the politicking of Washington, D.C.? Is there poetry in the morning's headlines and in tonight's news tickers? Or, as Seely paraphrases Dr. Seuss, Do W's troubles trouble you, too? America's pundit poet laureate, the man who...
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Sailing: A Lubber's Dictionary (Bulging Pocket Dictionary)
by Henry Beard Publisher Comments A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ".Quite simply the funniest book I have ever read." (William F. Buckley. Jr.) INCLUDING: ahoy: the first in a series of four-letter words commonly exchanged by skippers as their boats approach one another Wooden boat: a hole...
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Holy Tango of Literature
by Francis Heaney 
Publisher Comments In Holy Tango of Literature, mad anagrammist Francis Heaney rearranges the letters of a writer?s name (say, William Shakespeare) to create a title ("Is a Sperm Like a Whale?") and renders a perfect parody in that author?s style. The results are...
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So Much Nonsense
by Edward Lear Publisher Comments The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to seaIn a beautiful pea-green boatThey dined on mince, and slices of quince Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon, The moon, The moon, They...
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To My Wife with Love
by Allen Appel Publisher Comments And husbands can thank their wives for... -- Agreeing to marry him even after she met his mother -- Cleaning the house -- Not seeming to mind his lack of hair -- Discussing things reasonably, even when he's not being reasonable -- Being proud of his...
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So many dynamos! and other palindromes
by Jon Agee Publisher Comments Jon Agee and his better half, Eega Noj, have conspired again to inspire palindromania in Mom, Pop, Sis, and the family pup. With over sixty new reversible absurdities, readers will be doing a double take, while the preposterous illustrations leave them...
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Now We Are Sixty
by Christopher Matthew Publisher Comments Childhood is confusing enough, but compared to middle age it is a piece of cake. When Christopher Matthew was six, the poems of A. A. Milne were always on hand to reassure him that other children were just as puzzled and foolish as he was. Now Matthew is...
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The Smoking Pun: Crimes Against the Language
by David T Taylor Publisher Comments A good amount of legitimate etymology is presented in this collection of 44 puns, each accompanied by a funny illustration and analyzed in endnotes on origins, roots, prefixes, suffixes, and linguistic peculiarities of the punned words. For...
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