The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners contains the ultimate, most comprehensive compendium of humor ever compiled. From shaggy-dog stories to 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 diverting—collection of ticklers and howlers for any occasion. Humorous quotations, epigrams and epitaphs, limericks, and puns also appear among the volume's thousands of entries categorized by topic. This format makes the book an easily accessible as well as invaluable companion to speechmakers for events great and small—meeting 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. Providing more than 10,000 choices, this mammoth book even offers would-be wolves on the prowl pick-up lines—at the same time that it offers some snappy comebacks and a few ribald ripostes for the reluctant or disinterested prey.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Great book of Zingers,
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This was a fun book to go through, but did not necessarily have many new jokes that I hadn't found in other books like the Frair's encyclopedia of jokes.
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A Joyful Reference Volume for all Writers,
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The poet e.e. cummings said a day without laughter is a day that's lost. This volume provides enough intelligent zingers to make sure no days are lost from your calendar. As a professional writer, I can easily see how useful this volume is for all article and speech writers -- and especially the speech writers since most speeches, especially within a business environment, needs to start off with a classic ice-breaker; and that's usually a well-placed joke that's relevant to the subject matter and audience of the speech. This book provides ample materials to use in a situation like that. One additional feature that must be mentioned is the fact that the book is organized under alphabetical topic headers. It also has an "Index of Contributors" in the back but that's really not that helpful. What's really helpful is the alphabetical topic headers all which are listed in the Table of Contents up front. So if you have a topic in mind, you can easily find a few intelligent jokes and wisecracks about that topic. Here are some random samples from this reference volume: FARCE Farce is a tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. JOHN MORTIMER. JUDGMENT Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that, who cares? He's a mile away and you've got his shoes. BILLY CONNOLLY COOKERY I can't cook. I use a smoke alarm as a timer. JOAN RIVERS Thoughtful, sophisticated, and very funny quotes from celebrities, comedians, and VIPs from all walks of life. You can't go wrong with this one. Highly recommended.
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Arranged by category. Keep one in the bathroom for light reading, or use it to find the perfect anecdote to lighten up that after-dinner talk.
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