Funny Words in Plautine Comedy

Funny Words in Plautine Comedy
Author: Michael Fontaine
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2010
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0195341449
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Combining textual and literary evidence, this book argues that many Plautine jokes, puns, and names of characters were misunderstood in antiquity. By examining the comedian's tendency to make up and misuse words, Fontaine elucidates many new jokes and argues for a sophisticated, Hellenistic Plautus who wrote for a sophisticated Roman audience.

Sex Is a Funny Word

Sex Is a Funny Word
Author: Cory Silverberg
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2015-07-28
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1609806077
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2016 Winner of the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction 2016 ALA Stonewall Book Award, Honor Book 2016 ALA Notable Children's Book A comic book for kids that includes children and families of all makeups, orientations, and gender identities, Sex Is a Funny Word is an essential resource about bodies, gender, and sexuality for children ages 8 to 10 as well as their parents and caregivers. Much more than the "facts of life" or “the birds and the bees," Sex Is a Funny Word opens up conversations between young people and their caregivers in a way that allows adults to convey their values and beliefs while providing information about boundaries, safety, and joy. The eagerly anticipated follow up to Lambda-nominated What Makes a Baby, from sex educator Cory Silverberg and artist Fiona Smyth, Sex Is a Funny Word reimagines "sex talk" for the twenty-first century.

Too Funny for Words

Too Funny for Words
Author: Frank Thomas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1987
Genre: Humor
ISBN:
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Thomas and Johnston, two animation artists who joined Walt Disney Studios in time to work on the legendary Snow White, record in this volume the origins and development of Disney's unique type of visual humor. Includes some original drawings. 500 full-color illustrations.

Absurd Words

Absurd Words
Author: Tara Lazar
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2022-01-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1728241197
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Why use boring old words when you can expand and build your vocabulary—and have fun doing it! A user-friendly, engaging book about the power of words—perfect for educators, parents, and future word nerds. Build confidence and become a stronger reader, writer, and communicator! This fun and hilarious vocabulary builder: Includes over 750 high-level, wondrous, and wacky words! With sample sentences and word history that help new words make sense! Bright and fun illustrations make learning new words fun! Allows to search by category so new word choices are easy to find! Kids with strong vocabularies are better readers, better writers, and even feel more confident tackling math and science. When a kid wants to learn a new word, we often send them to the dictionary or a thesaurus. But dictionaries only work if you know exactly the word you want. This dictionary-thesaurus hybrid is organized by theme and puts words in context with fun, engaging and hilarious sentences, pictures, and fun facts. You'll learn what words mean and then actually use them!

The Silly Book of Weird and Wacky Words

The Silly Book of Weird and Wacky Words
Author: Andy Seed
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2015-12-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1408866854
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Do you know what 'park your jam on the frog' means? Fancy some ognib? What rhymes with 'circus'? ...plus many more amazing things you never knew about words. Have hours of fun wixing up your murds with this hilarious book, packed full of rhymes, puns, games, jokes, gibberish and more.

It's Kind of a Funny Story

It's Kind of a Funny Story
Author: Ned Vizzini
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2010-09-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1423141083
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Like many ambitious New York City teenagers, Craig Gilner sees entry into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School as the ticket to his future. Determined to succeed at life—which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job—Craig studies night and day to ace the entrance exam, and does. That's when things start to get crazy. At his new school, Craig realizes that he isn't brilliant compared to the other kids; he's just average, and maybe not even that. He soon sees his once-perfect future crumbling away.

A Pocket Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A Pocket Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
Author: Captain Francis Grose
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2020-04-07
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1797203436
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A Pocket Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue is a profane guide to the slang from the backstreets and taverns of 18th-century London. This slang dictionary gathers the most amusing and useful terms from English history and helpfully presents them to be used in the conversations of our modern day. Originally published in 1785, the Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue was one of the first lexicons of English slang, compiled by a militia captain who collected the terms he overheard on his late-night excursions to London's slums, dockyards, and taverns. Now the legacy lives on in this colorful pocket dictionary. • Learn the origin of phrases like "birthday suit" and discover slang lost to time. • An unexpected marriage of lowbrow humor and highbrow wit Discover long lost antique slang and curse words and learn how to incorporate them into modern conversation. A Pocket Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue is perfect for enlivening contemporary conversation with historical phrases; it includes a topical list of words for money, drunkenness, the amorous congress, male and female naughty bits, and so on. • A funny book for wordplay, language, swearing, and insult fans, as well as fans of British humor and culture • Perfect for those who loved How to Speak Brit: The Quintessential Guide to the King's English, Cockney Slang, and Other Flummoxing British Phrases by Christopher J. Moore; Knickers in a Twist: A Dictionary of British Slang by Jonathan Bernstein; and The Official Dictionary of Sarcasm by James Napoli

Funny Swear Words (and Insults) from Around the World

Funny Swear Words (and Insults) from Around the World
Author: Colorful Calm
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2017-03-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781544108346
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Funny Swear Words (And Insults) From Around The World is the adult swear word coloring book that lets you "be out of line within the lines!" It contains 50 beautiful illustrations that feature funny swear word sayings and insults in various languages. Have fun coloring while also learning to insult people from all around the world. It's never been easier to show your "true colors." Every illustration features a funny swear word phrase (or insult) in a foreign language along with its English translation. On each page, the funny swear words are surrounded by drawings of famous imagery from each featured country. Each page in this coloring book is single sided to avoid bleed-through for a high quality coloring experience. Celebrate the highs and lows of life, humor and frustration, with our adult swear word coloring book. Sometimes you just need let off some steam and swear up a storm! Funny Swear Words (And Insults) From Around the World will help you forget your frustrations and allow you to relax into creativity. This swear word coloring book features: - High quality paper and binding - 50 beautiful illustrations and swear words in various languages that are sure to make you laugh. HARD. - Each page in this adult coloring book is single sided to avoid bleed-through for a high-quality coloring experience. - Every illustration features a funny swear word phrase (or insult) in a foreign language along with its English translation. - On each page, the funny swear words are surrounded by drawings of famous imagery from each featured country. Swear word coloring books are the ideal for having some fun and unwinding from stress. Instead of yelling at your boss, terrible neighbor, or bitchy people, you can learn swear words in numerous languages form all around the world. If you think English has some interesting swear words and insulting sayings, you haven't seen anything yet! Some featured languages are: Albanian, Romanian, Korean, Arabic, Armenian, Bulgarian, Bosnian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Laotian, Lithuanian, Nigerian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Welsh, and more!

A Confederacy of Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces
Author: John Kennedy Toole
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2007-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0802197620
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).

Bullshit

Bullshit
Author: Mark Peters Phd
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2015-10-27
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1101904542
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An irreverent lexicon of the seemingly infinite ways we call bullshit, written by a McSweeney's columnist and etymologist, illustrated by a New Yorker-contributing cartoonist. What's the difference between "balderdash" and "drivel"? Where did "mumbo-jumbo" come from? How should you use "meadow mayonnaise"? What's "felgercarb" and which popular TV show coined it? There are hundreds of common and rare terms for bullshit in English, including borrowings from German, turn-of-the-century sailors, The Simpsons, and beyond. Bullshit is everywhere, but not all of it is created equal. Mark Peters's Bullshit: A Lexicon is the handy guide to identifying and calling BS in all of its many forms, from "bunk" and "claptrap" to "applesauce" and "gobbledygook." Packed with historical facts, pop culture tidbits, and definitions for each term, Bullshit is perfect for humor readers, language lovers, and anyone looking to describe life's everyday annoyances.