Juxtapose for a minute that you were planning an innuendo and later recovering in the windward. To the simple-minded, the previous sentence will be difficult if not impossible to understand. We need be neither simple-minded nor simple-minded.Fear not! Definitions: The Ultra New Revised Standard Version is available in book form to assist you in understanding the improved meanings of everyday words and even the lesser-known words.Although very rarely seen these days...

It's amazing how much writing you can accomplish in five minute increments. And if you need help getting into the writing groove, prompts can give you the kick in the butt you need to get the words flowing. Follow them in numerical order or jump around to any of the over 400 prompts that sparks your creativity. Get writing!

In what other language, asks Lederer, do people drive on a parkway and park in a driveway, and your nose can run and your feet can smell? In CRAZY ENGLISH, Lederer frolics through the logic-boggling byways of our language, discovering the names for phobias you didn't know you could have, the longest words in our dictionaries, and the shortest sentence containing every letter in the alphabet. You'll take a bird's-eye view of our beastly language, feast on a banquet of mushrooming food metap...

When the author retired from expansive and rewarding fields of employment he searched for hobby or satisfying endeavors to spend his new life of leisure. After considering and rejecting a number of options ranging from mountain climbing to origami, he discovered the exhilarating game of tennis. His book, Tips for Senior Tennis Hackers, gives the reader his own insights on the essence of tennis and its appeal to players of all ages. It provides senior players tongue-in-cheek stratagems for ...

The poems in Money Shot are forensic. Just as the money shot in porn is proof of the male orgasm, these poems explore questions of revelation and concealment. What is seen, what is hidden, and how do we know? Money Shot's investigation of these questions takes on a particular urgency because it occurs in the context of the suddenly revealed market manipulation and subsequent "great recession" of 2008–2009. In these poems, Rae Armantrout searches for new ways to organize information. What c...

Maintain your brain with these 320 fun ways to test your vocabulary knowledge and perhaps discover new words.You are given a word like CARPORT or a series of words like DONALD DUCK, and you make as many 6-letter words as you can from that word or series of words using each letter only once.Sound simple? Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't.Great fun and a great way to maintain your brain.

Nobody wants to be a loser. With this revolutionary new handbook, readers will learn how to win at literally everything*—even things that aren't contests, and that you can't or shouldn't try to win at, such as dreaming, apologizing, and talking on the phone with your mom. Crucial illustrated advice and instruction guides would-be winners through activities including bird-watching (start by spotting common species like pigeons, or dogs), job interviews (maintain eye contact: very smart peop...

Before the later collections, there was JUST FOR FREE—a raw, unfiltered exploration of life, loss, and the art of writing. This book documents the poet’s first public venture, where the boundaries between the personal ("Better Day," "One Step Nearer") and the political began to blur. Experience an array of random, yet electric, ideas: from a car crash that serves as a morality tale, to blistering poems aimed squarely at the powerful. This is the origin point of a self-published po...

FUN CRaZy Book with Weird facts, phobias, world records and fun with words! If you like interesting, weird facts then you will love this book. Some facts are unbelievable and crazy. The facts in this book will make you laugh - which is a good way of lowering stress and make you feel GOOD!!! YOU WILL ENJOY ALL THE INTERESTING FACTS PROMISE YOU ITS FUNNY :))

Have you ever met someone new, and were completely stumped as to what to say? This short ebooklet is for you. Once you finish, you will never have that happen again. You will always be able to come up with witty conversation and interesting questions to get that person talking!

Here is Barbara Crafton at her best—funny, warm, direct, honest, and vulnerable—on aging.“I think growing older is both funny and sad, but mostly it just makes me grateful to be alive and able to reflect. I have been an Episcopal priest for 33 years and have had extensive experience in ministering with the elderly. Now, I am growing old myself. I hate it when people are ashamed of being old. We should be proud!” she proclaims. Join her in this celebration of life!

My musicI fill up my flute with notesThen I start singingAnd this musicMakes a bird out of me.