Inside Jokes

Inside Jokes PDF Author: Matthew M. Hurley
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 026201582X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 374

Book Description
Some things are funny -- jokes, puns, sitcoms, Charlie Chaplin, The Far Side, Malvolio with his yellow garters crossed -- but why? Why does humor exist in the first place? Why do we spend so much of our time passing on amusing anecdotes, making wisecracks, watching The Simpsons? In Inside Jokes, Matthew Hurley, Daniel Dennett, and Reginald Adams offer an evolutionary and cognitive perspective. Humor, they propose, evolved out of a computational problem that arose when our long-ago ancestors were furnished with open-ended thinking. Mother Nature -- aka natural selection -- cannot just order the brain to find and fix all our time-pressured misleaps and near-misses. She has to bribe the brain with pleasure. So we find them funny. This wired-in source of pleasure has been tickled relentlessly by humorists over the centuries, and we have become addicted to the endogenous mind candy that is humor.

The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh

The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh PDF Author: Helen Rutter
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338652281
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186

Book Description
When life is funny, make some jokes about it. Billy Plimpton has a big dream: to become a famous comedian when he grows up. He already knows a lot of jokes, but thinks he has one big problem standing in his way: his stutter. At first, Billy thinks the best way to deal with this is to . . . never say a word. That way, the kids in his new school won’t hear him stammer. But soon he finds out this is NOT the best way to deal with things. (For one thing, it’s very hard to tell a joke without getting a word out.) As Billy makes his way toward the spotlight, a lot of funny things (and some less funny things) happen to him. In the end, the whole school will know -- If you think you can hold Billy Plimpton back, be warned: The joke will soon be on you!

Start with a Laugh

Start with a Laugh PDF Author: Liz Carpenter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781571684110
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
A gold mine for anyone who does public speaking and for those who never go near a lectern.

I Love to Laugh!

I Love to Laugh! PDF Author: Karen Farmer
Publisher: Penton Kids
ISBN: 9781591258087
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 16

Book Description
Readers can push the button and hear giggling as a boy plays such games as "Pat-a-cake," "This Llittle Piggy," and "Peek-a-boo" with his mother and father. On board pages.

Make Us Laugh!

Make Us Laugh! PDF Author: Stéphanie Babin
Publisher: Twirl
ISBN: 9782408016135
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Warning: Laughter is contagious! The animal friends dare the reader to make them laugh, but the ladybug and the bunny are sure that they won't laugh, no matter what. The monkey and the crocodile think it's impossible to make them laugh too. And the same goes for the bear and the wolf. Still, readers can go ahead and try . . . but will they succeed? Kids will giggle and chuckle as they find ways to make the animals laugh in this seriously funny sound book that includes seven big laughs.

Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage

Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage PDF Author: Mark Gungor
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416558799
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 307

Book Description
By using his unique blend of humor and tell-it-like-it-is honesty, he helps couples get along and have fun doing it.

Laugh with the Moon

Laugh with the Moon PDF Author: Shana Burg
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0375985689
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Laugh with the Moon is on the Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List. Thirteen-year-old Clare Silver is stuck. Stuck in denial about her mother’s recent death. Stuck in the African jungle for sixty-four days without phone reception. Stuck with her father, a doctor who seems able to heal everyone but Clare. Clare feels like a fish out of water at Mzanga Full Primary School, where she must learn a new language. Soon, though, she becomes immersed in her new surroundings and impressed with her fellow students, who are crowded into a tiny space, working on the floor among roosters and centipedes. When Clare’s new friends take her on an outing to see the country, the trip goes horribly wrong, and Clare must face another heartbreak head-on. Only an orphan named Memory, who knows about love and loss, can teach Clare how to laugh with the moon. Told from an American girl’s perspective, this story about how death teaches us to live and how love endures through our memories will capture the hearts of readers everywhere.

The Laugh Book

The Laugh Book PDF Author: Joanna Cole
Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780385185592
Category : Children's literature.
Languages : en
Pages : 302

Book Description
A collection of jokes, riddles, tongue twisters, tricks, games, poems, and stories.

Captivate

Captivate PDF Author: Vanessa Van Edwards
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399564500
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
Do you feel awkward at networking events? Do you wonder what your date really thinks of you? Do you wish you could decode people? You need to learn the science of people. As a human behavior hacker, Vanessa Van Edwards created a research lab to study the hidden forces that drive us. And she’s cracked the code. In Captivate, she shares shortcuts, systems, and secrets for taking charge of your interactions at work, at home, and in any social situation. These aren’t the people skills you learned in school. This is the first comprehensive, science backed, real life manual on how to captivate anyone—and a completely new approach to building connections. Just like knowing the formulas to use in a chemistry lab, or the right programming language to build an app, Captivate provides simple ways to solve people problems. You’ll learn, for example… · How to work a room: Every party, networking event, and social situation has a predictable map. Discover the sweet spot for making the most connections. · How to read faces: It’s easier than you think to speed-read facial expressions and use them to predict people’s emotions. · How to talk to anyone: Every conversation can be memorable—once you learn how certain words generate the pleasure hormone dopamine in listeners. When you understand the laws of human behavior, your influence, impact, and income will increase significantly. What’s more, you will improve your interpersonal intelligence, make a killer first impression, and build rapport quickly and authentically in any situation—negotiations, interviews, parties, and pitches. You’ll never interact the same way again.

Don't Make Me Laugh

Don't Make Me Laugh PDF Author: James Stevenson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 9780374418434
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
Do you feel like laughing? Then you'd better not read this book! There is no laughing allowed! Do you hear? NO LAUGHING!