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With more than 1200 questions, this new Would You Rather…? collection is antic, audacious, comic, comical, hilarious, humorous, hysterical, riotous, side-splitting, and uproarious and will provide hours of amusing, diverting, jocular, playful, waggish, whimsical, witty, gleeful, merry, and/or mirthful entertainment.

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Mythologist and adventurer Phil Cousineau theorizes that riddles are proverbs turned into questions. He believes telling riddles is a lost folk art. This eclectic collection of brain twisters from Leonardo da Vinci to Lewis Carroll is designed to bring the practice back to the living room. Cousineau invites readers into the peripatetic, poetic, and sweet language of riddles.

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Humorous, startling, and shocking quotations from fierce and fiery women fill the pages of this sassy little book. Out of the Mouths of Babes continues the tradition started by author Autumn Stephens in her books Wild Women and Wild Words from Wild Women. There is no lack of confidence and sense of self in these women's sayings. More than 150 outrageously entertaining quotes present mostly well-known women in their outspoken glory. Organized into sections with titles like Gifted Gabbers, Liberated Lovers, and Brazen Biddies, Out of the Mouths of Babes is a perfect reminder to all women that the feminine spirit is alive and well!

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Nobody ever said being an adult was easy. But it's easier with The Little Book of Big Excuses, with hundreds of excuses for things you did, things you didn't do, things you did wrong, and things you never want to hear about again. First things first: «Fake Don't Flake.» In here are your excuses for being late for or not showing up to any number of places for any number of reasons–grandma's birthday party, work, home, weddings, dentists appointments. «Excusez-Moi, si'l vous plait» is where to look when you're caught wearing a halter top to a black tie event. Or forget your boss's spouse's name–again. Or don't want to pick up the tab. The French have a word for everything. If you need to learn how to say «I'd Love to, but»–the art of articulating just why you can't do most anything you don't want to do–in any language, this is the book for you. Demonstrate your incompetence. When someone asks you to bring those complicated hors d'oeuvres, show up half an hour late with half the ingredients. Bonus section here: how to get someone else to do all the work while you still get the credit. «Delivery Subsystem Failure–Mailboxes, Messages, Missives Gone Awry, Oh My!» Never, ever again will you want for an excuse for not writing, calling, IMing, or emailing. Fake communication breakdowns make fail-safe excuses for a myriad of don't wannas and didn't do its. «All's Fair in Love» contains excuses for not calling, not going on the second date, forgetting the birthday or anniversary of the one you love. Plus how to retreat with remorse, even from the altar steps. Hint: You could have your mother or your manager phone it in. That's what Julia Roberts did.* Hundreds of excuses for thousands of situations, plus «The Excuse Clinic: How to Make Lame Excuses Walk and Okay Excuses Sing.»* Life is serious business, people, so pay attention. Let Addie help you off the hook.

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From princesses to prostitutes to movie stars and supermodels, plus a few radicals and racecar drivers, Loose Cannons showcases hundreds of female movers-and-shakers, including Oprah Winfrey, Maria Callas, Michelle Pfeifer, and Catherine the Great, at their chatty, catty, and deliciously subversive best.From the book:"I'm the girl who lost her reputation and never missed it." -Mae West"What do you expect me to do? Sleep alone?" -Elizabeth Taylor

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The authorized sequel to the #1 best-selling international smash hit Go the Fuck to Sleep 150,000-copy first printing. A perfect gift book for parents of young children. Go the Fuck to Sleep is an international phenomenon that has sold more than a million copies worldwide and resonates with generations of parents, from first-time mothers and fathers to great-grandparents. Beyond the obvious humor, the book has deep emotional resonances for parents since getting children to eat is often the major psychological/emotional challenge for people with young children.

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10,000-copy first printing. A perfect gift book for parents of young children. Beyond the obvious humor, the book has deep emotional resonances for parents since sleep deprivation is often the major psychological/emotional challenge for people with young children.

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"Proscriptive how-to advice ranges over a wide number of subjects (e.g., sex, band photos, etc.) and can be seen both as skewering the cultural idolatry associated with rock and as genuine counsel. Verdict: Svenonius's sociopolitical analysis of rock and roll is intellectually interesting, as when he posits that the genre was 'brought about by the industrial revolution, the harnessing of electricity, and the miscegenation of various poor, exploited, and indentured cultures in the USA.'"–Library Journal"So much of the allure here is in watching Svenonius skirt absurdity. He's always seemed delighted by the fact that the profound and the preposterous can sound awfully alike, a realization that puts him in line with an avant-garde tradition that stretches back before rock 'n' roll crystallized this fact…Svenonius has the spirit of a long-gone punk past, but his book has more to tell us about rock's here-and-now than about its hereafter. Neither bourgeois nor prestigious, Supernatural Strategies may be the rare book by a rock musician to retain any power or threat."–Los Angeles Review of Books"Like its author, Supernatural Strategies is part tongue-in-cheek, part deadly serious–a satire of rock's consumerist origins but also a thoughtful treatise on what it means to devote yourself to a collective…Drawing from the wisdom of rock 'n' roll's most famous ghosts, Svenonius' advice ranges from hilarious to cryptic to surprisingly useful."–Pitchfork"Svenonius has walked the walk…Even today–as the frontman of Chain & The Gang and the host of the online talk show Soft Focus–he remains cool, cryptic, and impeccably dressed, a mod magician with a trick always lurking up his tailored sleeve."–The Onion AV Club"If 'write what you know' is one of authorship's prime dictates, then Ian F. Svenonius seems uniquely qualified…Svenonius' contrarian, anti-establishment rhetoric is his greatest gift…Strategies plays to these same strengths by allowing him to run roughshod riot over hallowed ground he's already trod–and sometimes paved–more than a few times."–Baltimore City PaperIan F. Svenonius's experience as an iconic underground rock musician–playing in such highly influential and revolutionary outfits as The Make-Up and The Nation of Ulysses–gives him special insight on techniques for not only starting but also surviving a rock 'n' roll group. Therefore, he's written an instructional guide, which doubles as a warning device, a philosophical text, an exercise in terror, an aerobics manual, and a coloring book.This volume features essays (and black-and-white illustrations) on everything the would-be star should know to get started, such as Sex, Drugs, Sound, Group Photo, The Van, and Manufacturing Nostalgia. Supernatural Strategies will serve as an indispensable guide for a new generation just aching to boogie.

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Are we frogs in a boiling pot or a stressed but resilient nation trying to make sense of bizarre times? Are we being ruled by an African liberation movement or a fourteenth-century Italian church? And why do SUV drivers look so confused? Tom Eaton explores these and other questions about modern life in South Africa with the razor-sharp, laugh-out-loud style that has made him one of South Africa's most beloved commentators.

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If you've ever had the uneasy feeling that the Japanese do things better, this book may be the ideal antidote. Even the Japanese are quick to admit that despite their enthusiasm for learning it, they still have a certain amount of difficulty with the English language.This is no new phenomenon. Shortly after Japan opened her ports to foreign traders, one doctor advertised himself as «a Specialist in the Decease of Children»; eggs were sold as «extract of fowl»; and a notice advised that «Tomorrow, from midnight to 12 noon, you will receive dirty water.» Fortunately, things are improving, but very slowly. A more recent English-language newspaper reported that someone's «wedding was consummated in the garden of the American consul's home,» while a road sign was posted near a busy intersection that commanded drivers to «Have many accidents here.»Long-time Tokyo resident Miranda Kenrick has collected these and hundreds of other delightful anecdotes to form a lighthearted, but unabashedly affectionate, portrait of the Japanese at home. Reading this book may do more for U.S.-Japan relations than a whole bookshelf of more serious-minded tomes.

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