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From the underbelly of the nuts behind hit websites failblog.org and icanhascheezburger.com comes FAIL Nation, your silent guide and handler to the not-even-close-to-perfect nation of FAIL, chock-full of irrelevant tips and useless suggestions about why to shop, who to eat, and when to see. So fasten your exit and check for the nearest seatbelt-your FAIL plane departs now.
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Garbage Pail Kids-a series of collectible stickers produced by Topps in the 1980s-combined spectacular artwork and over-the-top satire. The result was an inspired collaboration between avant-garde cartoonists and humorists including Art Spiegelman, Mark Newgarden, John Pound, Tom Bunk, and Jay Lynch. A new generation of fans continues to embrace this pop-culture phenomenon as Garbage Pail Kids stickers are still being published. Now, for the first...
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Written with the same acerbic wit and infectious humor that has made P. J. O'Rourke one of the most popular political satirists of all time, The Enemies List will keep you howling and his enemies scowling. From Noam Chomsky to Yoko Ono, from Peter, Paul, and Mary (yes, they're still alive) to all the people who think quartz crystals cure herpes, from Ralph Nader to the entire country of Sweden, P. J. O'Rourke has created a roster of the most useless,...
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Para millones de individuos en el mundo, jugar Minecraft es una actividad diaria. Sin embargo, para los que no están tan familiarizados con Minecraft, el concepto puede ser confuso, especialmente cuando apenas estás aprendiendo a jugar. La siguiente es una guía de la A a la Z de todo lo referente a Minecraft. Te presenta muchos diferentes elementos del juego; como mundos, personajes, herramientas y más.
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Does the thought of mistletoe give you hives? Does the sound of jingling bells instill fear in your heart? Do you hide under the covers from the day after Thanksgiving till New Year's Day? And even if you love Christmas, do the hyper consumerism, overindulgence, and tinsel-covered everything make you crazy?
If you said yes to any of these questions, this is the book for you. You are not alone. Everyone has a Christmas-nightmare story to tell. Some...
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El Poker puede ser percibido como "dinero fácil" ya que parece basarse solamente en dos factores: suerte y habilidades para blofear. Sin embargo, lo que mayoría de la gente no sabe es que el éxito en el póker depende menos de la suerte y más en la estrategia. En primer lugar, en un juego limpio, los jugadores no tienen control alguno sobre las cartas que recibirán. Existe un elemento de riesgo. En segundo lugar, cada participante tiene que conformarse...
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Book II is every bit as delightful as the original Vertical Lines - page after page of smiles, laughs, and sometimes outright guffaws. Both books are the perfect companions when you need a pick-me-up or just have a few minutes and want something light. And they never get old! Open to any page and see for yourself. Guaranteed to please!
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I asked my husband if I was the only one he had ever slept with. He said yes, all the others were nines...
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You drag yourself to work wearing your office uniform, complete with khaki pants and sense of impending doom. After grabbing a cup of the office sludge, you settle in with your fellow cube dwellers and wonder: How will I last another day in this freaky corporate jungle? Cheaper than therapy, Cube Monkeys is your secret weapon to surviving the longest 40 hours of the week. Wanna get the overachieving intern fired? Don't know how to tell the Stink Bomb...
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"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."-Groucho Marx
An insult can be offensive and infuriating, but it means nothing if you have a better comeback. 1001 Insults, Put-Downs, and Comebacks gathers together the very sharpest of these barbs from a wide variety of sources, with some of the wickedest put-downs from the literary, political, and entertainment worlds, along with many others.
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When a zombie is taken prisoner by the Army, it need not be uselessly destroyed. In fact, just as our Army trains dogs for combat roles, it has a program to train the captured Undead for combat roles. No zombie that our Army can capture will go unutilized. This is our Army's "No Zombie Left Behind" policy.The manual in your hands is the Department of Defense's principal source of information on care, conditioning, training, and operations of our Army's...
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¿Quién no se ha encontrado con situaciones sorprendentes y divertidísimas en sus viajes? Porque todo viaje es una nueva y sorprendente aventura que contar, hemos seleccionado las situaciones más cómicas y divertidas para que en casa, entre amigos, de vacaciones o en sus propios viajes, usted se convierta en el protagonista, se divierta al máximo y se rodee de buen humor. El objetivo principal es empezar y no parar de reír, reír y reír.
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You Don't Say!
Discover the mother lode of trivia with this quirky collection of crap! Trivia for the Toilet: Double Duty offers up more than 250 odd-but-true facts and strange happenings, including:
• The Green Bay Packers' season ticket waiting list is so long that if you joined today, it would take you 955 years to make it to the top.
• Polar bears' hair is not actually white; it's transparent.
• One in every five people has dropped...
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A joke book written by children in conjunction with Child of Achievement Awards with celebrity jokes from John Major, Gloria Hunniford, Jonny Searle, Matthew Kelly and others.
A new collection of jokes, all submitted by children who have won Child of Achievement Awards. Awards are given annually to 150 children who are nominated by parents, teachers neighbor, community worker etc. and are deemed worthy of the title. John Major and Bob Holness are...
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Summary of The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson | Includes Analysis Preview: The Summer Before the War is a novel that follows the inhabitants of a small English town through the onset of World War I. Its protagonist, Beatrice Nash, is a young woman who was recently orphaned. In the summer of 1914, she moves to Rye to escape the clutches of the oppressive relatives who administer her inheritance. Over the next few months, as she establishes...
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The shocking undead discovery of a military historian
Zombies remain popular – from The Walking Dead to Ash vs. Evil Dead, they just won't go awayA gifty, zombie collector's itemAuthentic military design with 150 illustrations
Unearthed from a dusty Army archive, here are portions of two draft manuals instructing soldiers on how to confront . . . ZOMBIES! Now declassified, these files offer a guided tour of the U.S. Army's adaptable approach...
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What happened to the historic Peace Tree? This novel is a light-hearted look at how a small town went crazy for four days looking for a "treasure" that may be gold or maybe just Native American artifacts. While the Sheriff hunts down a known criminal, Jacob Wildcrow hunts for his heritage, with his reluctant granddaughter, veterinarian Grace Snow, and her would-be boyfriend, high school history teacher Justin "Digger" Clay in tow. Things heat up when...
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"Why Cucumbers are Better than Men?
- A CUCUMBER IS EASY TO PICK UP
- A CUCUMBER WILL ALWAYS RESPECT YOU IN THE MORINING
-A CUCUMBER WILL NEVER INTRODUCE YOU AS, 'JUST A FRIEND'"
Since its initial publication in 1983 this book has remained a perennial favorite among women who have to live with men.
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Chivalry is dead. These knights want Fame. And Fama's a witch.
Follow a band of very different Knights on their quest to become the most balanced, the most tolerant, the most compromising of everyone on the modern political spectrum.
Each knight dares to liberalize and conserve, but who will win the ultimate prize and stay safely in the center?
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The book is a collection of the ChipLitFest (Chipping Norton Literary Festival) Short Story Competition Winners from 2016 - 2022, a total of 21 very varied stories which will appeal to any lover of fiction and the much-loved short story form.
Some of the authors are well-known and others are talented amateurs.
All have produced stories which have impressed the likes of Tessa Hadley, Nicholas Royle, Rachel Sieffert, Sarah Franklin, Martyn Waites,...
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