The Mammoth Book of Limericks

Author: Glyn Rees
Publisher: Running Press
ISBN: 9780762433957
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This is the best-ever collection of those catchy Irish rhymes – from squeaky-clean to the moderately filthy. With over 2,000 silly, political, modern, classic, and more to choose from, there is bound to be a limerick to get you giggling. This giant collection includes Irish classics called out in corner pubs for decades as well as many new verses specifically created to be read here. Creators include Spike Milligan, Mark Twain, Michael Palin, Lewis Carroll, Isaac Asimov, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, W.H. Auden, and many, many more.

The Mammoth Book of Filthy Limericks

Author: Glyn Rees
Publisher: Running Press
ISBN: 9780762437306
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This hilariously inappropriate collection of rhymes is sure to provide ammunition to use at the office or even at a party among friends. You'll never have to repeat a line from this collection of more than 2,000 dirty verses. Perfect for St. Patty's Day or any time year-round!

The Mammoth Book of Humor

Author: Geoff Tibballs
Publisher: Running Press
ISBN: 9780786707836
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 512

Book Description
More than 10,000 stories and jokes, limericks and one-liners, put-downs and puns in the ultimate, most comprehensive compendium of humor ever compiled. From boners and groaners to classic shaggy-dog stories and jokes for roasts and toasts, virtually every form of verbal humor on a whole raft of topics is represented in this not totally politically correct but always devilishly diverting collection of ticklers and howlers for any occasion. Humorous quotations, epigrams and epitaphs, newspaper misprints, misleading headlines ("MAGISTRATES MAY ACT ON INDECENT SHOWS"), limericks, puns, and the darnedest things said by kids ("a fjord is a Scandinavian car") also appear among the volume's ten thousand entries, which are arranged by category and fully indexed by subject. This format makes the book an easily accessible as well as invaluable companion to speech-makers for events great and small. So it is that The Mammoth Book of Humor meets the needs of both the maiden aunt looking for a wholesome joke to relate at a golden wedding anniversary and the best man who needs a blue one for the bachelor party. The volume even offers would-be wolves on the prowl pick-up lines-at the same time that it provides some snappy comebacks and a few ribald ripostes for the reluctant or disinterested prey. Waggish, witty, wisecracking, or whimsical, the humor is as various as it is vigorous on every page of this endlessly entertaining collection.

If You Were a Chocolate Mustache

Author: J. Patrick Lewis
Publisher: Wordsong
ISBN: 159078927X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
A collection of poems about animals, school, wacky inventions, foods, and computers.

A Sackful of Limericks

Author: Michael Palin
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473538432
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 98

Book Description
If you've ever wondered what happened to the young fellow from Malta who bought his grandfather an altar... If you're concerned about the camper called Jack who found a huge snake in his pack... And if you suspect that an eccentric landowner called Grey spent Christmas a very strange way but aren't sure precisely what that entailed... Then a dip into Michael Palin's Sackful of Limericks will provide all the answers – and a lot of fun besides.

The Little Book of Limerick

Author: Sharon Slater
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752493655
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158

Book Description
Did You Know? At least 189,429 Limerick residents migrated from Ireland between 1851 and 1911. A Limerick man, George Geary Bennis, saved the life of King Louis Phillipe of France during a street fracas in 1848. For this he was awarded the title of 'Chevalier'. The last Limerick woman hanged was Annie Walsh, who was executed on 5 August 1925 after being found guilty of murdering her husband. In 1849 an Adare man called Hamilton attempted to assassinate Queen Victoria. The Little Book of Limerick is a compendium of fascinating information about the city and county, past and present. Here you will find out about Limerick's buildings and bridges, crime and punishment, tragic accidents, and its famous (and occasionally infamous) men and women. It covers not only the well-known aspects of Limerick's history but also focuses on the details of the everyday man in the street, recording facts that could so easily have been forgotten. A reliable reference book and a quirky guide, this can be dipped into time and again to reveal something new about the people, the heritage, the secrets and the enduring fascination of this ancient city and county. It is essential reading for visitors and locals alike.

Very Bad Poetry

Author: Kathryn Petras
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679776222
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 145

Book Description
Writing very bad poetry requires talent. It helps to have a wooden ear for words, a penchant for sinking into a mire of sentimentality, and an enviable confidence that allows one to write despite absolutely appalling incompetence. The 131 poems collected in this first-of-its-kind anthology are so glaringly awful that they embody a kind of genius. From Fred Emerson Brooks' "The Stuttering Lover" to Matthew Green's "The Spleen" to Georgia Bailey Parrington's misguided "An Elegy to a Dissected Puppy", they mangle meter, run rampant over rhyme, and bludgeon us into insensibility with their grandiosity, anticlimax, and malapropism. Guaranteed to move even the most stoic reader to tears (of laughter), Very Bad Poetry is sure to become a favorite of the poetically inclined (and disinclined).

The Mammoth Book of Cats

Author: Mark Bryant
Publisher: Constable
ISBN: 9781841191010
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 612

Book Description
A collection of odes, fables, stories, limericks, songs, nursery rhymes on cats drawing on sources from all periods of history, worldwide. It includes every aspect of the subject from myths and legends, queens and kittens, the domestic tiger, the fireside sphinx, Old Deuteronomy, the Witch's familiar, Krazy Cats, Felix D'or and In Memoriam.

Uncle Switch

Author: X.J. Kennedy
Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN: 1630832529
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35

Book Description
A hilarious collection of limericks introduces a variety of absurd, upsidedown situations featuring the truly unique exploits of Uncle Switch, who never does anything the way other people do.

Laughing Matters

Author: Peter Medgyes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521799600
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 249

Book Description
120 activities to inject some lighthearted fun into lessons whilst still being grounded in respected language learning theory.