5600 Jokes for All Occasions

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Edited by Edmund Fuller Over 330 Subjects, Handily Cross-referenced
Here are several centuries worth of ingenious wisecracks and short remarks, selected with wit and taste and indexed, as few other books are, for amazingly easy and provocative reference.
This is a book for browsing, for ruminating among somé of the greatest remembered remarks of all time. Never were points made so succinctly by such a variety of quick-tongued "experts." Here are John Barrymore commenting on Women ("The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run"), Ambrose Bierce on Opinion ("To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.") and many surprises. Think you know who said, "What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar"? Look under "Tobacco."
Use this collection to supercharge your conversation, your speeches, your writings, your cocktail parties, your next sell-ing trip or your next date. Nothing in here is irrelevant, though nearly everything is good-naturedly... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Edited by Edmund Fuller Over 330 Subjects, Handily Cross-referenced
Here are several centuries worth of ingenious wisecracks and short remarks, selected with wit and taste and indexed, as few other books are, for amazingly easy and provocative reference.
This is a book for browsing, for ruminating among somé of the greatest remembered remarks of all time. Never were points made so succinctly by such a variety of quick-tongued "experts." Here are John Barrymore commenting on Women ("The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run"), Ambrose Bierce on Opinion ("To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.") and many surprises. Think you know who said, "What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar"? Look under "Tobacco."
Use this collection to supercharge your conversation, your speeches, your writings, your cocktail parties, your next sell-ing trip or your next date. Nothing in here is irrelevant, though nearly everything is good-naturedly irreverent. "Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma," says the instructive and delightful introduction, which alsó reminds us that epigrams are sometimes even better when changed and adapted to one's own needs. However you use it, this collection is the easiest possible way to find those witty remarks for every dilemma, and every occasion.
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BY MILDRED MEIERS AND JACK KNAPP
Illustrated
What's better than Dial-A-Joke?
File-A-Joke. This is the book you've been looking for. The one that takes the B. worry out of wisecracks, the book that proves there is such a thing as easy humor
¦ (providing somebody else does the work!)
This book does all the work. Now all you have to do is leaf through and enjoy. Or, better yet, pick a victim and look him up in the index. Your unsuspecting mailman, for instance:
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"Say, Charlie, why is this letter wet?"
(Your postman gives a puzzled look.)
"Must be postage dew." (Then duck, quickly.)
And there's no need to stop there. Is your postman rather hefty? Then just flip to the back of the book and look under "Fat Peo-ple" (no beating around the bush with this book). You'll find high-level intelligence quotients under "Smartness," conceit under "Stuck Up," and unmarried ladies under "Old Maids."
Now that you have 5600 Jokes for All Occasions as a guide, you no longer have to feel frustrated when you leave a door open and a smart aleck asks you if you
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were raised in a barn. Just follow this book's advice and start to cry immediately. When he asks what's wrong, just sniff the following: "Yes, I was raised in a barn, and whenever I see a jackass I get homesick."
Want a crazy excuse for being late for work? Try #3212. Or for never having learned to spell? #4923. And #4378 is great to try on ex-cons and football lovers. If you want to impress a literary snob who asks you if you know Shakespeare, quote #4595 and say, "Sure, I read his stuff as soon as it comes out."
Search these pages to find out why Ire-land is the richest country in the world (#5480), how we know Washington had a great memory (#4007), and who went two thousand miles on a galleon [sic] (#5025).
In its unusual Introduction, 5600 Jokes for Ali Occasions supplies us with a valu-able guideto makingthe most ofthe mate-rial. The Introduction gives hints on How to Select Material, Write and Teli Jokes, Adapt Jokes, and Write Sketches and Con-tinuities. The humorous situations are broadly classified into Individuals and In-stitutions, and these are neatly subdivided so that every subject is related to the sub-jects before and after it.
The most comprehensive collection of humor on the markét today, 5600 Jokes is a laugh-makers dream.
Jacket designcd by Michael Swido Vissza