Sentences with phrase «joke books from»

Buy or check out joke books from the library.

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«I got a half a star from Businessweek on my book, so I just want you to take everything I say with a grain of salt,» he jokes.

The joke on me was that «I like the book for all the reasons the writer says its evil,» and that's probably true, but there's an important point I've taken away from the document: having paying customers speaks louder than critics.

It is said that Runciman once joked that, aside from himself, the only other author to have made more money for Cambridge University Press was God, with his book, the Bible.

We make jokes from these delightful books all the time — Toad croaking «Tomorrow!»

We joke now that something has to be happening for me to finish a book: this latest book I just finished and turned in was completed while I was — and still am — in recovery from a major car accident haven't been able to sit or stand without pain and I have daily headaches and other health challenges.

No, it's all a joke... I have read most of the other books banned from the Bible.

It's pretty worn out from many years of use but all our poking jokes at her book does not deter her from loving it.

My favorite quote in the book from Antonia is when she says, «At the end of the day, it doesn't matter if your experience of family is a mom and her preschooler coloring pictures and telling knock - knock jokes while they eat or a rowdy gathering of parents and kids, aunties and uncles, grandparents and friends fiercely debating which team will win the next big game.

«The Best Joke Ever: A Letter from Paul Tough on Whittling Down,» September 28, 2000 «Are there any books I just can't live without?

Encourage your child's attempts at humor, whether it's reading (potentially unfunny) jokes from a book or drawing «funny» pictures of the family dog.

Light relief was provided both by in - jokes from the books as well as almost caricature portrayals of politicians, with a topical aside regarding funding for a house.

I'm sure the booking agent from Morning Joke is frantically trying to get this guy on to tell his story.

A new book curates pages from a series of mail - order prank catalogues published between 1896 and 1930, when American men played hair - raising jokes on initiates of their fraternal lodges

Much like Feynman himself, the book succeeds in making complicated science clear — and gladly takes detours from the cerebral side of physics to travel the globe, tell some jokes, and meet a few girls.

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In my goal to continue to hustle like a Jamaican (see reference to joke here) check out the next installment of book excerpts from «Swirling: How To... [Read more...]

This is hands down the funniest comic book adaptations and will likely require multiple viewings to catch all the jokes you missed the first time from laughing so long.

Repeatedly, it sacrifices logic to sell a joke, from the unlikely book typo to the reasons it saddles two of the Cooper men with outlandish costumes.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Based on the comic book of the same name by Daniel Clowes, Terry Zwigoff's film follows Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson), who, as they graduate from high school, respond to a personal ad from a middle - aged record collector as a joke — a decision that changes their friendship.

Talking about the project's origins, Anderson teasingly tied in some of Phantom Thread's plot, joking that he hadn't been feeling well and noticed «a love and affection» from his wife he hadn't seen in a while, adding: «So, I called Daniel to say, «I think I have a good idea for a movie...» One thing lead to another and then we had fashion books all over our house and we kept talking, writing and then things kept going, going and going until it seemed impossible to stop.

Based on the setting alone, the film trips over every obvious German stereotype in the book - from the uninhibited cultural attitudes, to the kinky sexual indulgences, to the peculiar artistic tastes, smaller automobiles, penchant for beer and Euro - trashy nightclubs, etc., etc., etc.... Beyond that, the lineup of comedic gags and sequences feels like mishmash of ideas that never seem to balance out tonally with other jokes, not the entire dramatic side of the film.

And, impressively, Deadpool 2 ends up being funnier than the original, assaulting its audience with a consistent stream of wickedly insightful jokes that lampoon everything from the current landscape of comic - book properties to Reynolds» own roller coaster ride as a celebrity, both on the screen and off.

Debut writer - director Gillian Robespierre springs an early surprise with Obvious Child, a screwball comedy that clears the decks for a breakout performance from Jenny Slate as Donna, an oversharing stand - up comic who will joke about everything from the stains on her pants to the abortion she has booked for the following day.

Recalling that time, Ryan joked of barely being able to reach the podium as he shared a series of «famous and not - so - famous quotations» on time, strung together from Bartlett's Book of Quotations.

Whether it is a few funny jokes, a silly joke book, or a funny movie, we can all benefit from the positive effects of comedy and humor!

this is the worst reader i have ever seem it say you can do video on web page mine it will not play even have hard time trying to get books from goggles is there something i am doing wrong r this just a joke for a reader

Filled with friendly verbal sparring, joking, jiving, and laughing as they pile improbability atop exaggeration atop the utterly impossible, Graham, with assistance from author Myers, creates a recording of a picture book that stands on its own and is as much fun to listen to without the accompanying book as with it.

Bill Givens, who has chronicled blunders via a series of books about film flubs, now goes after Reel Gags: Jokes, Sight Gags, and Directors» Tricks from Your Favorite Films.

Naturally, I plunged right into the book, anticipating a cornucopia of drivel from the pens of famous authors asking to become the butts of my jokes.

The contributors didn't want the party to end (this was fun), and so, we went to our local recording studio and spent two days recording the best jokes and stories from the book.

What happened with the romance community thread is that, as readers commented on the topic, several authors hijacked the thread, spamming it with everything from angry spews to jokes from joke books, anything to derail the comments.

With cute and silly dog illustrations and funny jokes, beginning and early readers can enjoy hours of fun and entertainment.Special Note: The images are optimized for the best color and vibrancy on e-readers, phones, computers, and tablets.This book is especially great for traveling, waiting rooms, and reading aloud at home.Funny jokes from this book... Q: What is a dog's favorite food?A: Anything that is on your plate!

Honestly, 8 gigabytes of storage would seem like a joke if it weren't for the fact that Amazon offers Fire owners unlimited free cloud storage for all of their books, movies, music and apps purchased from its stores.

While the funny short film has a lot of great moments, I think the best use of actual events from the book to make a cat joke is at the 1:08 mark when the cat playing Peeta Mellark says, «Dogs chasing cats, eh?

There's the Arkham series of games from RockSteady and WBIE; there's the FOX series Gotham; there are DC - Universe animated films like the recent adaptation of The Killing Joke; there are multiple comic books based on Batman or spin - off characters; and then there's the WB series of films, including this year's Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice and the upcoming Justice League.

His first Jokes were quite simple pieces, hand written, taken from various joke books.

For The Harems, Kelley organized all his various collections, from the marbles and comic books of his youth to the shot glasses and spoons collected as a joke to make fun of the objects often collected by American travelers, into sixteen groups according to degrees of importance and sentimentality in his life.

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However, all the other items in the installation, which included a joke painting, planters made from old tires, a table made from a basketball backboard, a jewelry cabinet displaying a necklace fashioned from bread fasteners, and a selection of first - edition books about Woodstock from Prince's library, are presumed to have been lost to the flames.

Luery relishes using his favorite puns from the marijuana joke book to color the debate.