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Comic Sections Plus is a revised and greatly expanded edition of the hugely popular book Comic Sections, published by Boole Press in 1993, and now long out of print. It is the biggest (and best!) compendium of material ever published relating to mathematical jokes, anecdotes, humour, wit and wisdom. The author writes: Much of Comic Sections Plus is devoted to 'anecjokes', that is, stories, jokes and anecdotes about mathematics and mathematicia...

Sometimes called `imponderables' or `rhetoricals', they do not necessarily have answers. These silly questions are always amusing and often interesting because they concern the little unnoticed contradictions in life. Why do we write things down but type them up? Why do ships carry a cargo, while cars carry a shipment? And how did the guy who made the first clock know what time to set it to?This is philosophy for the man and woman in the stree...

One day many years ago a student came up to me and said, `I bet you do not know what "8 S on an SS" stands for?'I didn't, and it took me several days to work it out. But I did, on my own, and experienced the thrill every puzzle solver feels when the moment of revelation occurs.Immediately, I began to collect and manufacture them myself. This book contains the biggest assembly of these puzzles ever published, graded from very easy to the fiendi...

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The Irish have a reputation for being the wittiest people on earth and when you read this book, you'll soon see why. Pick up any book of quotations in the English language and you will find it chock-full of quotations from Irish authors such as Wilde, Shaw, Sheridan, Beckett, Keane, Kavanagh and O Faolain, plus the new kids on the block like Moran, O'Hanlon, McAleer and Moncrieff. Irish Wit cuts through the rest to give you the very cream of I...

The author of the "Wit" books presents a compilation of quotations covering all the big questions of life: love and happiness, politics and religion, good and evil. From the likes of Mark Twain and Evelyn Waugh, read words of wisdom as spoken by some of the world's most celebrated thinkers.

A huge compendium of witty quotations from all walks of life and from eminent politicians and philosophers to comedians and celebrities.

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A hilarious collection of rich Dublin wit, including jokes, quotations, graffiti, malapropisms, sayings, and anecdotes from internationally famous wits such as Behan, Swift, Shaw, and Wilde, and a host of others such as Dave Allen, R.B. and J.D. Sheridan, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Hugh Leonard, Sean O'Casey, Jimmy O'Dea, Maureen Potter, Tony Butler, Brendan Grace, and many anonymous and apocryphal Dubliners.

Una buena cita humorística debe tener varias cualidades: o Debe ser divertida, provocar la risa o por lo menos una sonrisa. o Debe ser breve y concisa ya que la brevedad es el alma del ingenio. o Debe sostenerse por sí sola independientemente del contexto en que surge. Esto suscita una pregunta: ¿Quién ha sido la persona más ingeniosa de todos los tiempos?: Osear Wilde fue quizás el talento más brillante del siglo diecinueve y Woody Alien es e...

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