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BAFFLING GAFFES AND FANTASTIC FUMBLES   Yup, they really said that! This daily dose of absurdly asinine articulations will have you truly SMH and ROTFL. Truth-challenged politicians (“I never claimed to be Jewish… I said I was ‘Jew-ish.’” — Congressman George Santos). Pointless 911 calls (“Caller: How do I delete a voice mail from my phone?”). What not to say in court (“When we robbed that gas station, was I there?” —defendant, acting as his o...

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This is the beloved, bestselling calendar that features a rich trove of gaffes, malapropisms, and cringey moments from athletes, entertainers, commentators, and, of course, politicians: "We need to look at the states, which are lavatories of innovation and democracy."-former Texas governor Rick Perry. Here are hopelessly mangled metaphors: "The cart's out of the barn. You can't put it back in the bottle."-the Daily Beast editor Sam Stein. Pain...

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From famous craniums to prominent breasts, ancient spleens and bound feet, this book will bring history to life in a whole new way. With their inimitable wit and probing intelligence, authors Kathy and Ross Petras look at the role the human body has played throughout history as each individual part becomes a jumping-off point for a wider look at the times

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A gift that celebrates being yourself, in your own unique way. Do you ever feel different? A little weird, a little wacky? It's time to own it, because, as Meryl Streep proclaimed, "what makes you different or weird, that's your strength." In this inspiring collection, singers, poets, actors, activists, comedians, designers, athletes, and philosophers share wise and pithy reflections on what it's like to march to the beat of a different drumme...

A compendium of 100 words and phrases smart people use--even if they only kinda sorta (secretly don't) know what they mean--with pithy definitions and fascinating etymologies to solidify their meanings.Your boss makes a joke about Schrodinger's cat--which is something you've heard of but you're a little vague about what exactly happened (or didn't happen) with that cat. Or you're reading a New Yorker article that explains that "Solecism slippe...

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An entertaining and informative guide to the most common 150 words even smart people use incorrectly, along with pithy forays into their fascinating etymologies and tangled histories of use and misuse. Even the most erudite among us use words like apocryphal, facetious, ironic, meteorite, moot, redundant, and unique incorrectly every day. Don't be one of them. Using examples of misuse from leading newspapers, prominent public figures and famou...

The thrill of victory, the agony of a tight jockstrap. It's the reason we love sports-you never know what's going to happen. Sometimes everything clicks, with the best athlete in the world competing at their peak, and the result is a thing of breathtaking beauty. But sometimes the opposite happens, resulting in moments of breathtaking hilarity, or astonishing inanity, or just plain head-scratching puzzlement. Welcome to The Stupidest Sports Bo...

Three hundred kick-ass quotes with equal parts wisdom and sass from past and present-day "bad" girls.

The sun is always shining someplace."- Muhammad Ali. "In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is." - Leo Tolstoy. "I've got nothing to do today but smile." - Paul Simon. "Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon." - A.A. Milne. There really always is something to celebrate, as Kathryn Petras truly learned when undergoing treatment for breast cancer. And that was the genesis of "Nothing Is Worth More Than This Day" --a book w...

Bestselling humorists offer tongue-in-cheek lessons to help the average Jane find Mr. Right. Four-color art appears throughout, and each special secret offers suggestively irreverent and sassy quips.

The biggest book ever on the subject of Homo Sapien foolishness. From BOOKS, HOW-TO ("Nasal Maintenance: Nursing Your Nose Through Troubled Times or "Let's Make Some Undies) to POP STARS, INTELLIGENCE OF (after being offered a buffalo wing: "Oh, I don't eat buffalo."--singer Jessica Simpson) to SPEECHES, CAMPAIGN ("Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff. You can't be. And we are blessed. So d...

The first rule of holes: when you're in one, stop digging." —Molly Ivins, Writer"Some days you're a bug. Some days you're a windshield." —Price Cobb, Race Car Driver"In times like these it is good to remember there have always been times like these." —Paul Harvey, Radio BroadcasterWhen life hands you lemons, it’s inspiring to hear from people who've made (and drunk) the lemonade. People who've been there, done that, and lived to tell the tale....