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For When You Need Just the Right WordTravelling is fantastic – we don't deny it. But sometimes when you're in another country, stuff happens. A thieving kid lifts your wallet, a cab driver nearly kills you, or a waiter charges you $25 for bottled water. You feel powerless without the ability to do what you really want to do – curse them out.Help is at hand! Here are 100 of the best curses and insults in Spanish so the next time a waiter in Valencia refers to you as a yanqui or a pushy...
| Автор | Chuck Gonzales, Rachel Perez, Antonio Martinez |
| Жанр | Зарубежный юмор, Зарубежная образовательная литература, Юмор и сатира |
An hilarious spoof self-help book from the star of Marion & Geoff and host of the hit BBC comedy The Keith Barret Show.‘I don't feel like I have lost a wife but that I have gained a friend. I would never have met Geoff if Marion hadn't left me.’‘Marion and Geoff’ was one of the most-loved and most-acclaimed BBC comedies of recent years. Rob Brydon wrote and starred as cuckolded Welsh cabbie Keith Barret, recording a hopelessly optimistic video diary about his life as a divorcee. It was a...
| Автор | Keith Barret |
| Жанр | Зарубежный юмор, Юмор и сатира |
Due to the complicated layout, this ebook is best viewed on a tablet.Ever wanted to see Harry Hill’s nuts? Fancy a cuppa with Karl Pilkington and his Clippable Coasters? Ever wondered how Michael Jackson defied gravity with his dance moves? Then read on!Our nation’s best-loved celebrities, from Jamie Oliver to Harry Hill, the Stig to Sherrie Hewson, Karl Pilkington to Peter Jones, Ruby Wax and beyond, have been scratching their heads to come up with logic-defying, bizarre and random inventions...
| Автор | Peter Jones, Mark Champkins |
| Жанр | Зарубежный юмор, Юмор и сатира |
Hadley Freeman, Guardian features writer and author of the popular ‘Ask Hadley…’ column, reminds the modern lady to ‘Be Awesome’.‘Being single is often awesome. You can leave a party when you want to, whether that be 9pm or 9am; you don't have to live in fear of ever hearing yourself described as “my better half”; and you can spend all day lying on the sofa in your pajamas watching “Murder She Wrote” and eating peanut butter straight out of the jar’Covering topics vital for any modern woman to...
| Автор | Hadley Freeman |
| Жанр | Биографии и Мемуары, Зарубежный юмор, Юмор и сатира |
The essential Christmas stocking filler for every Brit who’s ever found themselves on a deflating airbed in their parents’ spare room wedged up against the washing machine come Christmas Eve and wondering why this Christmas, just like every year, doesn’t look like the ones on the telly.
| Автор | Rhodri Marsden |
| Жанр | Справочная литература, Зарубежный юмор, Юмор и сатира |
Now available as an ebook. The follow-up to The World’s Best Drinking Jokes.This collection of drinking jokes is aimed at anybody who is either fond of a drop, or knows someone else who is.
| Автор | Edward Phillips |
| Жанр | Зарубежный юмор, Юмор и сатира |
What would you do if you woke up to see a living, breathing, tiny, glowing, pink elephant? If you’re anything like Schoch, who lives on the streets of Zürich and is decidedly down on his luck, you might well think it’s time to put away the bottle before your hallucinations get any stranger, and go back to sleep.But what if the tiny pink elephant is still there when you wake up? And clearly needs someone to take care of it? And what if you discover that it’s been created through genetic...
| Автор | Мартин Сутер, Jamie Bulloch |
| Жанр | Приключения, Героическая фантастика, Зарубежная современная проза, Зарубежные приключения, Зарубежный юмор, Юмор и сатира |
From the author of 21st Century Dodos comes a festive collection of endangered objects.An irreverent collection of eulogies, tributes and fond farewells to the many Christmas traditions and, well, other festive things that are threatened with extinction.From handwritten cards to coffee cremes, from Yule logs to thruppenny bits in Christmas puddings, from making paper chain decorations to carol singing, all of these and more are endangered, on the way out or on their last legs……so what better...
| Автор | Steve Stack |
| Жанр | Зарубежный юмор, Юмор и сатира |
One of the most endearing features of sport is its perennial humour. Witness this extraordinary collection of Freudian slips, true confessions, double entendres and unintentional puns which demonstrates that sporting foot-in-mouth disease is far more rampant than mad cow disease.Players, coaches, commentators and journalists are all represented as well as some famous names who know little about sport but are always good for a quote."I wanted to be an Olympic swimmer but I had some problems with...
| Автор | John Scally |
| Жанр | Зарубежный юмор, Спорт / фитнес, Хобби / увлечения, Юмор и сатира |
How to predict the weather with a cup of coffee and other essential techniques for surviving the 9-5A smart, spoof survival guide – to the 9-5. Ray Mears’ and Bruce Parry’s advice is all very well if you’re stuck up the Amazon without a paddle, but what about finding your way to a seat on a crowded bus, predicting the weather with a coffee in Starbucks or getting rid of cold callers with a microwave? Urban Bushcraft shows how to dust off your native survival instincts and update them for the...
| Автор | Matthew Cole |
| Жанр | Зарубежный юмор, Юмор и сатира |
Now available as an ebook.A collection of jokes with a holiday theme from Edward Phillips:Office manager: ‘Will you ever forget that marvellous weekend we spent in Paris?’Secretary: ‘How much are you offering?’‘We are now passing one of the biggest breweries in Ireland,’ announced the guide on a coach trip.‘Why?’ protested a voice from the back
| Автор | Edward Phillips |
| Жанр | Зарубежный юмор, Юмор и сатира |
When he’s not negotiating his way around a sand bar, there’s nothing a sailor likes more than propping up the bar – and telling tall tales and saucy jokes.The World’s Best Sailing Jokes is the ultimate collection of nautical naughtiness, quayside quips and high-seas hilarity for everyone from salty sea dogs to the youngest yachtsmen.
| Автор | Edward Phillips |
| Жанр | Зарубежный юмор, Юмор и сатира |
You’re not properly equipped without The World’s Best Skiing Jokes!On the piste or in the bar, planning a skiing trip or tripping off your skis, this look at the lighter side of skiing is essential reading for dedicated snow-addicts and armchair skiers alike.
| Автор | Ernest Forbes |
| Жанр | Зарубежный юмор, Юмор и сатира |
The eighth title in this magical series, fizzing with fun and excitement.Jess is off on a quest to find Dame Walpurga's stolen shoes. But to get them back, she must tackle a rude giant, trick a grumpy gnome and uncover a secret hidden deep underground…A sparkling new adventure about Jessica, the lively young witch-in-training.
| Автор | Nathan Reed, Maeve Friel |
| Жанр | Детская проза, Зарубежный юмор, Юмор и сатира |
This is a book for the sports lover.Some of us spend too much time in the shed listening to sport on the radio and hogging the television. The thing about sports lovers is that we hate so much about it, we shout at the radio and the television; we love sport so much that if any of it makes us cross, it makes us FURIOUS. So this is a book for us, the sports loving angry brigade.So, introducing: Frank Lampard; badge kissing (Frank Lampard); Neville Neville, for producing the Neville brothers...
| Автор | Matthew Norman |
| Жанр | Зарубежный юмор, Юмор и сатира |
‘I loved Jon’s book. It’s even better than the real thing because you can’t hear his voice.’ Michael McIntyre A control freak looks for love (women who leave wet teaspoons in sugar bowls need not apply). ‘I haven’t woken up with a cup of tea by the bed for seven years. It seems such a small thing but it’s one of a thousand things I miss about having someone around to take care of me. I have spent my entire adult life getting things the way I want them and all I want now is someone to give it all...
| Автор | Jon Richardson |
| Жанр | Биографии и Мемуары, Зарубежный юмор, Юмор и сатира |
| Год | 2011 |
For fans of the ‘Windsors’ and ‘Now we are Sixty’: a beautifully illustrated collection of amusing and affectionate stories from inside the royal family.Arriving at the theatre, the Queen and the Queen Mother appeared to be having words. ‘Who do you think you are?’ demanded the Queen Mother. ‘The Queen, Mummy, the Queen.’About twenty years ago the Guardian first published two camp anecdotes about the Queen Mother. Readers reeled to see stories actually printed in a national newspaper that until...
| Автор | Thomas Blaikie |
| Жанр | Зарубежный юмор, Юмор и сатира |
Preorder the brand new romantic comedy from bestselling author Christie Barlow‘Full of warmth, fun and feel-good factor’ Sunday Times bestseller Katie Fforde
| Автор | Christie Barlow |
| Жанр | Зарубежная современная проза, Зарубежные любовные романы, Зарубежный юмор, Юмор и сатира |