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Author: Billy Edd Wheeler Publisher: august house ISBN: 9780874836523 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 164
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The contributors comprise a "Who's Who" of country music in this book of anecdotes, funny songs, and a tribute to the late Chet Atkins.
Author: Billy Edd Wheeler Publisher: august house ISBN: 9780874836523 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 164
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The contributors comprise a "Who's Who" of country music in this book of anecdotes, funny songs, and a tribute to the late Chet Atkins.
Author: Faye Little Publisher: ISBN: 9781794383715 Category : Languages : en Pages : 91
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Snapshots From A Country Diary is a collection of true stories reflecting life in rural America as experienced by a tenant farmer's daughter. Values learned by being a member of a large family along with the importance of common sense are integral parts of the content. Contributions farmers have made and their means of sharing what they knew, are life lessons for all. The humor portrayed is a reminder of how using our sense of humor can help us enjoy life, just as our relatives did in the past. Readers will be informed about what goes on during hog-killings as shown in actual photos. Life on a tobacco farm, making moonshine, and gardening reflect on life at its' best, despite the back-drop of poverty in a large family. Pearls of wisdom acquired from experiences as a farmer's daughter, can be found In her quotes. Her work experience in the field of psychiatric nursing shine throughout many of the stories. Interactions with friends, neighbors, former co-workers, and relatives are sprinkled with humor. Readers may identify with life lessons learned from associations with ordinary working people. Necessary tasks such as moving to another house, replacing the chicken house and making a living in lean times represent more challengers for farm families. The stories included about these challenges are meant to remind readers that perseverance and resourcefulness helps us reach our goals, regardless of the circumstances. Relationships formed from participating in the events described, are long lasting and irreplaceable. Observations of women on the job in rural America shines light on the changing roles of women. Perhaps, many readers will recognize their participation in this transition. Our on-going love affair with the earth, can not be overstated. Results are seen in garden photos, encouraging readers to dig in the dirt. Examples of misunderstandings, point to how they occur and their relevance in everyday life. Because of the appreciation for the humor in them, they are shared with a new audience. Going through life, listening to well intended advice and grabbing nuggets that can improve our lives has been included, with credit given to persons who shared them An expressions shared from a close friend, which has become priceless, compelled the author to share it with people who might fail to understand its' importance in our relationships with someone of a different race. When all is" shucked down to the cobb" the realization that we are all more alike than we are different should be apparent. Upon reading Snapshots of A Country Diary, the author hopes your funny-bone has been tickled and your appreciation of country living has been enhanced.
Author: Charles R. Gruner Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351482378 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 212
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Humor, wit, and laughter surround each person. From everyday quips to the carefully contrived comedy of literature, newspapers, and television we experience humor in many forms, yet the impetus for our laughter is far from innocuous. Misfortune, stupidity, and moral or cultural defects, however faintly revealed in others and ourselves, seem to make us laugh. Although discomforting, such negative terms as superiority, aggression, hostility, ridicule, or degradation can be applied to instances of humor. According to scholars, Thomas Hobbes's "superiority theory"?that humor arises from mischances, infirmities, and indecencies, where there is no wit at all?applies to most humor. With the exception of good-natured play, Charles R. Gruner claims that humor is rarely as innocent as it first appears.Gruner's proposed superiority theory of humor is all-encompassing. In The Game of Humor, he expands the scope of Hobbes's theory to include and explore the contest aspect of "good-natured" play. As such, the author believes all instances of humor can be examined as games, in terms of competition and keeping score?winners and losers. Gruner draws on a broad spectrum of thought-provoking examples. Holocaust jokes, sexual humor, the racialist dialogue of such comic characters as Stepin Fetchit and Archie Bunker, simple puns, and many of the author's own encounters with everyday humor. Gruner challenges the reader to offer a single example of humor that cannot be "de-humorized" by its agonistic nature.The Game of Humor makes intriguing and enjoyable reading for people interested in humor and the aspects of human motivation. This book will also be valuable to professionals in communication and information studies, sociologists, literary critics and linguists, and psychologists concerned with the conflicts and tensions of everyday life.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691211078 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 326
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Timeless advice about how to use humor to win over any audience Can jokes win a hostile room, a hopeless argument, or even an election? You bet they can, according to Cicero, and he knew what he was talking about. One of Rome’s greatest politicians, speakers, and lawyers, Cicero was also reputedly one of antiquity’s funniest people. After he was elected commander-in-chief and head of state, his enemies even started calling him “the stand-up Consul.” How to Tell a Joke provides a lively new translation of Cicero’s essential writing on humor alongside that of the later Roman orator and educator Quintilian. The result is a timeless practical guide to how a well-timed joke can win over any audience. As powerful as jokes can be, they are also hugely risky. The line between a witty joke and an offensive one isn’t always clear. Cross it and you’ll look like a clown, or worse. Here, Cicero and Quintilian explore every aspect of telling jokes—while avoiding costly mistakes. Presenting the sections on humor in Cicero’s On the Ideal Orator and Quintilian’s The Education of the Orator, complete with an enlightening introduction and the original Latin on facing pages, How to Tell a Joke examines the risks and rewards of humor and analyzes basic types that readers can use to write their own jokes. Filled with insight, wit, and examples, including more than a few lawyer jokes, How to Tell a Joke will appeal to anyone interested in humor or the art of public speaking.
Author: P. K. Kauppi Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand ISBN: 9528000347 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 281
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In the complex world today, the foreign project planning and development is faced with a chancing flow of decision situations. Added to this must be Covid 19 virus with its world wide impact that complicate the situation further. The degree of impact varies on case basis, the location, activity or sub disciplines associated with the scope and the partners' role in the project. In the changing world situation it is not realistic to outline a detailed blanked coved impact to all typical project activities. Rather, in more general terms and strong foreign field experience create awareness of important project planning issues for engineers and responsible managers. The book is a Rare and Unique introduction to the topic with illustrations to clarify the issues.
Author: Trevor Noah Publisher: One World ISBN: 0399588183 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 279
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! A “brilliant” (Lupita Nyong’o, Time), “poignant” (Entertainment Weekly), “soul-nourishing” (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid “Noah’s childhood stories are told with all the hilarity and intellect that characterizes his comedy, while illuminating a dark and brutal period in South Africa’s history that must never be forgotten.”—Esquire Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor and an NAACP Image Award • Named one of the best books of the year by The New York Time, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Esquire, Newsday, and Booklist Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle. Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. The stories collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional, unconditional love.
Author: Giselinde Kuipers Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 3110898993 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 313
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Good Humor, Bad Taste is the first extensive sociological study of the relationship between humor and social background. Using a combination of interview materials, survey data, and historical materials, the book explores the relationship between humor and gender, age, regional background, and especially, humor and social class in the Netherlands. The final chapter focuses on national differences, exploring the differences between the American and the Dutch sense of humor, again using a combination of interview and survey materials. The starting point for this exploration of differences in sense of humor is one specific humorous genre: the joke. The joke is not a very prestigious genre; in the Netherlands even less so than in the US. It is precisely this lack of status that made it a good starting point for asking questions about humor and taste. Interviewees generally had very pronounced opinions about the genre, calling jokes "their favorite kind humor", but also "completely devoid of humor" and "a form of intellectual poverty". Good Humor, Bad Taste attempts to explain why jokes are good humor to some, bad taste to others. The focus on this one genre enables Good Humor, Bad Taste to have a very wide scope. The book not only covers the appreciation and evaluation of jokes by different social groups and in different cultures, and its relationship with wider humor styles. It also describes the genre itself: the history of the genre, its decline in status from the sixteenth century onward, and the way the topics and the tone of jokes have changed over the last fifty years of the twentieth century.
Author: Billy Edd Wheeler
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Author: Charles R. Gruner
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