The Best Ever Book of Orienteering Jokes

Author: Mark Geoffrey Young
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781478120360
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 106

Book Description
If you've ever heard a Jewish, Italian, Irish, Libyan, Catholic, Mexican, Polish, Norwegian, or an Essex Girl, Newfie, Mother-in-Law, or joke aimed at a minority, this book of Orienteering jokes is for you. In this not-so-original book, The Best Ever Book of Orienteering Jokes; Lots and Lots of Jokes Specially Repurposed for You-Know-Who, Mark Young takes a whole lot of tired, worn out jokes and makes them funny again. The Best Ever Book of Orienteering Jokes is so unoriginal, it's original. And, if you don't burst out laughing from at least one Orienteering joke in this book, there's something wrong with you. This book has so many Orienteering jokes, you won't know where to start. For example: Why do Orienteers wear slip-on shoes? You need an IQ of at least 4 to tie a shoelace. *** An evil genie captured a Orienteer and her two friends and banished them to the desert for a week. The genie allowed each person to bring one thing. The first friend brought a canteen so he wouldn't die of thirst. The second friend brought an umbrella to keep the sun off. The Orienteer brought a car door, because if it got too hot she could just roll down the window! *** Did you hear about the Orienteer who wore two jackets when she painted the house? The instructions on the can said: "Put on two coats." *** Why do Orienteers laugh three times when they hear a joke? Once when it is told, once when it is explained to them, and once when they understand it. ***

The Best Ever Book of Girl Scout Jokes

Author: Mark Geoffrey Young
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781477609682
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 106

Book Description
If you've ever heard a Jewish, Italian, Irish, Libyan, Catholic, Mexican, Polish, Norwegian, or an Essex Girl, Newfie, Mother-in-Law, or joke aimed at a minority, this book of Girl Scout jokes is for you. In this not-so-original book, The Best Ever Book of Girl Scout Jokes; Lots and Lots of Jokes Specially Repurposed for You-Know-Who, Mark Young takes a whole lot of tired, worn out jokes and makes them funny again. The Best Ever Book of Girl Scout Jokes is so unoriginal, it's original. And, if you don't burst out laughing from at least one Girl Scout joke in this book, there's something wrong with you. This book has so many Girl Scout jokes, you won't know where to start. For example: Why do Girl Scouts wear slip-on shoes? You need an IQ of at least 4 to tie a shoelace. *** An evil genie captured a Girl Scout and her two friends and banished them to the desert for a week. The genie allowed each person to bring one thing. The first friend brought a canteen so he wouldn't die of thirst. The second friend brought an umbrella to keep the sun off. The Girl Scout brought a car door, because if it got too hot she could just roll down the window! *** Did you hear about the Girl Scout who wore two jackets when she painted the house? The instructions on the can said: "Put on two coats." *** Why do Girl Scouts laugh three times when they hear a joke? Once when it is told, once when it is explained to them, and once when they understand it. ***

Discovering Orienteering

Author: Orienteering USA
Publisher: Human Kinetics
ISBN: 149258231X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
Engaging the mind and toning the body, orienteering offers a mind–body workout that builds confidence, problem-solving skills, and an appreciation for the natural environment. Written in an engaging manner, Discovering Orienteering: Skills, Techniques, and Activities offers a systematic approach to learning, teaching, and coaching orienteering. Discovering Orienteering presents the basic skills and techniques of the sport for beginners. It also functions as a review for advanced orienteers, featuring stories of orienteering experiences to illustrate the fun, challenge, and adventure of the sport. An excellent resource for physical educators, recreation and youth leaders, and orienteering coaches, Discovering Orienteering distills the sport into teachable components relating to various academic disciplines, provides an array of learning activities, and includes an introduction to physical training and activities for coaching beginning to intermediate orienteers. Guidelines take eager beginners beyond the basics and prepare them to participate in orienteering events. More than 60 ready-to-use activities assist educators in applying the benefits of orienteering across the curriculum. Developed in conjunction with Orienteering USA (OUSA), Discovering Orienteering addresses the methods, techniques, and types of orienteering commonly found throughout the United States and Canada. Authors Charles Ferguson and Robert Turbyfill are experienced orienteers with expertise as trainers and elite competitors. Ferguson and Turbyfill also have backgrounds in education with a variety of teaching experiences, lending to the book’s utility as a resource for introducing orienteering in a physical education or youth recreation setting. Discovering Orienteering begins by explaining the basics of orienteering, including a brief history of the sport followed by information on fitness, nutrition, safety, and tools and equipment. After this introduction, readers learn orienteering skills, techniques, and processes using the OUSA’s systematic teaching and coaching methodology. Next, readers learn how to apply these skills, techniques, and processes to an event situation. Orienteering ethics and rules are discussed, including the ethical use of special equipment. Information is also included to help readers prepare for and compete in an orienteering event. Activities in the appendix are presented in a concise lesson plan format indicating the skills or techniques covered in the activity, level of expertise required, and equipment needed. Discovering Orienteering: Skills, Techniques, and Activities offers an excellent introduction to the sport for beginniners and a comprehensive resource for educators, youth leaders, and coaches. With its systematic approach, Discovering Orienteering can help readers chart a course to fun and adventure in the great outdoors.

Stewart Lee! The 'If You Prefer a Milder Comedian Please Ask For One' EP

Author: Stewart Lee
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571279856
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 103

Book Description
Following his hugely acclaimed TV come-back Comedy Vehicle, Lee finds himself in search of ideas for a new Edinburgh show. On a long walk across London, he endures a coffee shop humiliation involving a loyalty card which suggests itself as a framing device. Later that month, thanks to Jeremy Clarkson's casual slur against Gordon Brown and the appearance of a well-meaning young comedian in an advert, a show is born. Featuring a transcript of the show fully annotated with footnotes, the If You Prefer A Milder Comedian EP confirms Stewart Lee as the most original, daring and brilliant comedian of his generation.

Star Scouts: The League of Lasers

Author: Mike Lawrence
Publisher: First Second
ISBN: 1250308585
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 107

Book Description
Avani has found the one place in the universe where she fits in: Star Scouts. The League of Lasers is the second volume of this action-packed graphic novel series by Mike Lawrence. During a troop meeting, a robot messenger delivers Avani some exciting news: she has been invited to join a secret society of elite scouts known as the League of Lasers. She is eager to join their ranks, but first she has to survive her initiation challenge. Stranded on an uncharted planet, Avani must contend with the methane atmosphere, hostile frog-like inhabitants, and her dwindling supplies of food and water. But even worse: her arch nemesis, Pam, is stranded there, too.

Star Scouts

Author: Mike Lawrence
Publisher: First Second
ISBN: 1250159563
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
Avani is the new kid in town, and she’s not happy about it. Everyone in school thinks she’s weird, especially the girls in her Flower Scouts troop. Is it so weird to think scouting should be about fun and adventure, not about makeovers and boys, boys, boys? But everything changes when Avani is “accidentally” abducted by a spunky alien named Mabel. Mabel is a scout too—a Star Scout. Collecting alien specimens (like Avani) goes with the territory, along with teleportation and jetpack racing. Avani might be weird, but in the Star Scouts she fits right in. If she can just survive Camp Andromeda, and keep her dad from discovering that she’s left planet Earth, she’s in for the adventure of a lifetime.

Down the Mysterly River

Author: Bill Willingham
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780765366344
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
Top notch Boy Scout Max "the Wolf" cannot remember how he came to be in a strange forest, but soon he and three talking animals are on the run from the Blue Cutters, hunters who will alter the foursome's very essence if they can catch them.

What Once Was True

Author: Jean Grainger
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781984142641
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394

Book Description
Robinswood, Co Waterford, 1939. The once grand house is home to two very different families. Despite delusions of grandeur, Lord and Lady Kenefick and their adult children, live a life of decayed opulence as the money needed to keep such a large house and grounds ever dwindles. Meanwhile, the Murphy family, Dermot, Isabella and their three almost grown up girls, live and work on the estate and do their best to keep everything running smoothly. Social structure is vital. Everyone knows their place, but as war looms, both families find themselves drawn into the conflict and begin questioning everything that once was true. From the leafy grounds of an Irish stately home, to the bombed out streets of London in the Blitz, allow yourself to be swept away once more in Jean Grainger's latest historical saga.

Love and Trouble

Author: Claire Dederer
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101946512
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
Blazingly intelligent, wickedly funny, and piercingly honest, a memoir that captures the perils and pleasures of girlhood, womanhood, and life itself. “One of my favorite books of the last few years.” —Cheryl Strayed “Sentence for sentence, a more pleasure-yielding midlife memoir is hard to think of.” —The Atlantic At mid-life, Claire Dederer developed a sudden yearning for jailbreak. In this exuberant memoir, she reflects on two periods in her life uncannily similar in their emotional intensity: her present experience as a middle-aged mom in the grip of unruly and mysterious new hungers, and her recollections of herself as a teenager.

Snow Country

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Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
In the 87 issues of Snow Country published between 1988 and 1999, the reader can find the defining coverage of mountain resorts, ski technique and equipment, racing, cross-country touring, and the growing sport of snowboarding during a period of radical change. The award-winning magazine of mountain sports and living tracks the environmental impact of ski area development, and people moving to the mountains to work and live.