Satire
epub |eng | 2018-12-24 | Author:Stephen Dodson, Robert Vanderplank

oinobares, kunos ommat’ ekhon, kradien d’elaphoio [oi-noh-bah-RESS, kew-nos OHM-mat eh-KHOHN, krah-dee-AYN deh-lah-FOY-oh] When Achilles gets fed up with Agamemnon’s insults, he really lets him have it:“You drunkard with a dog’s ...
( Category: Etymology March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-15 | Author:Jason Hazeley

Everyone at this office drink has said everything they have to say to each other by half past eight. Luckily they have drunk enough to start saying roughly the same ...
( Category: Animals March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jack Gray

THE (LARRY) KING AND I The first time I saw Larry King in person was the summer of 2004. I was working on-site at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. ...
( Category: Essays March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-16 | Author:Mel Croucher & Robin Evans

With nods to Robin’s heroes Donald McGill and Leo Baxendale. 127 : SUMMER SPECIAL : cover date September 1998 Mel comes up with a new format, completely based on word-play. ...
( Category: Anthologies March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-10 | Author:Mike Haskins & Clive Whichelow

THE WORST THINGS THAT WILL HAPPEN AND HOW TO LOOK AT THEM POSITIVELY You will find your youthful appearance can only be maintained in half-light – which is a fantastic ...
( Category: Satire March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gosling, Lucinda

‘Sixth Column Strategy – Stout Patriots Dislodge an Enemy Machine Gun Post from the Dome of St. Paul’s’, The Sketch, 17 July 1940. Probably Heath Robinson’s most famous cartoon from ...
( Category: Satire March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-10 | Author:Mike Haskins & Clive Whichelow

LESS IMPORTANT AND MORE IMPORTANT THINGS YOU MAY START WORRYING ABOUT LESS IMPORTANT TO WORRY ABOUT MORE IMPORTANT TO WORRY ABOUT You feel bloated after eating Everyone leaves the room ...
( Category: Satire March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-30 | Author:Saki

CHAPTER X The Rutland Galleries were crowded, especially in the neighbourhood of the tea-buffet, by a fashionable throng of art-patrons which had gathered to inspect Mervyn Quentock’s collection of Society ...
( Category: Victorian March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2004-07-15 | Author:PETER STRUPP

Percentage of American fourth graders who are unaware of the Pilgrims’ and Puritans’ reason for voyaging to North America: 59 Percentage of American fourth graders who cannot name one of ...
( Category: Essays March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-06 | Author:Michael Getz

DEADLY FRUIT In The Godfather, every time a character dies, there are oranges somewhere in the room. DEADLY DONKEY Far more people are scared of flying than donkeys – those ...
( Category: Satire March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-12 | Author:Cormac O'Brien

You can get a drink out of a coconut. Why did the Irish king leave his castle and go to the dentist? To get his teeth crowned. My mother used ...
( Category: Jokes & Riddles March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-02 | Author:betches

“The first time I see a jogger smiling, I’ll consider it.” —Joan Rivers The marathon runner: To the rest of the world this girl might be called ambitious or an ...
( Category: Self-Help & Psychology March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-11 | Author:Don Marsh

19: Dressing If it weren’t for the gray hair, the wrinkles, and the varicose veins, the one feature that sets us older humans apart is often the way we dress. ...
( Category: Love, Sex & Marriage March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-28 | Author:Ian F. Svenonius

9 The Artist, Alienation, and Immortality I. ALIENATION THE DEFINING CHARACTERISTIC of the rock ’n’ roll group is not electrification of instruments or the colonization of outsider music. Nor is ...
( Category: Essays March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-17 | Author:Matthew Dibenedetti [Dibenedetti, Matthew]

I hate all men who wear fanny packs. I hate unfocused parachute packers. I hate people who only pray when they need something. I hate the “spit talker.” I hate ...
( Category: Love, Sex & Marriage March 11,2020 )