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A Dictionary of Shakespeare’s Sexual Puns and Their Significance

This dictionary examines previously unnoted puns on the erotic attitudes and practices of the heterosexual and homosexual, the sexual deviant, and the impotent. It includes scatological puns in their usually bawdy contexts and ethnic puns, as sexually snide then as now. It stresses the need to read and hear Shakespeare word by word, giving full weight to each …

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Brilliantly Smart Tips: 50 Tips for everyday life

Join Eric as he walks you through some of the most important and useful information you have ever had the opportunity to rest your squishy little ocular orrifices upon. A book that is so easy to read it consist completely of words and pictures, numbers as well (page numbers)….and no shortage of ellipses. Eric’s advice accompanied …

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Words Gone Wild: Puns, Puzzles, Poesy, Palaver, Persiflage, and Poppycock

Chock-full of jokes and entertaining twists of the tongue, this lighthearted but scholarly guide to humorous language is a sure?re hit with word lovers. The examples are entertainingly bawdy, with a delightful narrative voice in word sleuth and author, Jim Bernhard. He provides examples and puzzles, teaching a smidgen of historical and etymological scholarship, but above all, amusing …

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The Old Ones Are the Best: Over 500 of the Funniest Jokes, One-liners and Puns

The essential joke-teller’s bible, collecting the wisecracks that have made us laugh aloud for decadesA man bumps into a friend as he comes out of the dentist’s. “Oh,” says the man, “I’ve just had all my teeth taken out. Never again!”A termite walks into a pub. And the termite asks, “Is the bar tender here?”A man walks into a psychiatrist’s …

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The Fun-damentals: Puns, Parables (Adventures in Odyssey Gold)

Another exciting collection of Adventures in Odyssey episodes is now available in CD format and repackaged cassette! In The FUN-damentals, the Odyssey kids manage to get themselves into all kinds of interesting predicaments. But with a little help from John Avery Wittaker, the kids learn that God can guide them through anything. In Volume 4 of the Adventures …

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The Art of Swearing: Over 40 Examples of Colourful Language

A hilarious collection of the most resplendent and refined examples of colourful language. Swearing really can be a beautiful thing as this collection of elegant expletives demonstrates. Calligrapher, sign writer and illustrator of the highest distinction Lord Dunsby presents over 40 of his favourite insults, all rendered beautifully in his faultless style. Wankers, tossers, dickheads, douchebags, and a …

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Shop Horror: The Best of the Worst in British Shop Names

“I was lying in bed, trying to think of it. And I was singing to myself, badly. ‘Shoobie-shoobie-do.’ Then it came to me: Shoe-Be-Do.” Shop Horror is a celebration of the best of the worst in British shop names—from the genuinely inventive to the truly awful. The Prawnbrokers. Sherlock Homes Properties. Pane in the Glass Windows. Sherwood Florist. …

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