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  101 Amazing Food Jokes - Told by...

  Jack Goldstein

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  This side-splitting collection of 101 of the best food jokes you have ever heard pasta be our funniest joke book yet!  
  We’ve prepared a sumptuous banquet of hilarity for you that’ll have the whole family laughing. The jokes are organised into categories, so you’ll always have a food joke ready for every course. Get ready to learn your favourites!  
  This is another hilarious addition to the World’s Greatest Jokes series of audiobooks performed by Kent Harris.

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  1-900-OLD-LADYs: The Lost Art of...

  L. Lee Starr

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  Margie and Ellie are two elderly sisters from North Dakota. Recently widowed and abandoned by their husbands and left penniless, the two sisters decide to operate a sex chat line from their farm, all the while trying to hide the true nature of their 900 business from their respectable neighbors of Himmel. When Ellie's husband Stanley turns up dead in the barn, Margie and the townsfolk go to extraordinary lengths to hide the true nature of his death from Ellie--which ultimately turns out to be murder.

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  Pepsodent Show The - Volume 2 -...

  Staff Writer

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  The name Leslie Townes Hope is not the most familiar to us.  Born in Eltham, London on May 29th, 1903 he and his family emigrated to the United States aboard the SS Philadelphia before moving to Cleveland, Ohio. 
   
  Although he entered showbusiness in the 1920s it was only in 1928 that he changed his name to the one and only Bob Hope. 
   
  Stints in Vaudeville and then Broadway were followed by his radio debut in 1932 and feature films in 1938.   
   
  1938 was a banner year for Bob Hope as it was also the debut season for the eventual decade running smash-hit radio show: The Pepsodent Show.  Despite the sponsors name getting the billing this was Hope’s show.   
   
  His opening monologue was the result of his hiring from his own pocket – he had an extravagant salary from the sponsor - of a team of 8 writers to write top notch jokes and skits.  His comic timing turned him into a sensation.  The show was so popular that it had its pick of the best of show business stars. Everyone wanted in. 
   
  Now its time to cut the talk and get ready for laughs.  It’s time for Bob Hope and his guests.

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  The US of EH? - How Canada...

  Rob Sorensen, Kerry Colburn

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  “Uncovers evidence of covert Canadian usurpation . . .Thankfully, Colburn has some tips on identifying these stealthy yet tidy marauders in our midst.” —Seattle Weekly 
   
  Canadians are peaceable, friendly, unassuming, and adorable. They’re also secretly in control of nearly every aspect of life in the Southernmost Canadian territory known as the United States.  
   
  This hilarious illustrated compendium of real facts and wild assertions traces a vast, maple-leaf conspiracy that plays up Canada’s self-effacing second fiddle image to the U.S. while it creates and clandestinely controls nearly everything Americans hold dear, from Superman to basketball to William Shatner to macaroni and cheese.  
   
  With everyday life in the U.S. already as much as 70% Canadian, and our music, movies, and TV shows filled with subliminal pro-Canadian messages, the authors of So, You Want to Be Canadian reveal that in actuality, you already are. 
   
  “The premise is that Canadians have gotten their overly polite (and no doubt well groomed) mitts on everything. The U.S. of Eh? includes lists of many Canadian things—hotties, music, actors, inventions—as well as lots of general silliness about the ‘maple leaf conspiracy.’” —January Magazine

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  Serve the People!

  Yan Lianke

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  A satirical novel set in 1967 China from the Franz Kafka Prize-winning author of Lenin’s Kiss—“one of China’s greatest living authors” (The Guardian).  Serve the People! is the story of a forbidden love affair between Liu Lian, the young wife of a Division Commander in Communist China, and a servant in her household, Wu Dawang. Left to idle at home while her husband furthers the revolution, Liu Lian establishes a rule for her orderly: whenever the household’s wooden Serve the People! sign is removed from its usual place on the dinner table and placed elsewhere, Wu Dawang is to stop what he is doing and attend to her needs upstairs. What follows is a “steamy and subversive” story and comic satire on Mao’s slogan and the political and sexual taboos of his regime (The Guardian).   Originally banned in China, Serve the People! is the first work from Yan Lianke to be translated into English, and “a scathing sendup of life in 1960s China during the chaos of the country’s Cultural Revolution” (LA Times).

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  Food of the Gods and How It Came...

  H. G. Wells

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  Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood have invented a substance that causes living things to grow - and grow - and grow!  As their experiments progress, the substance quickly gets out of control and the fun begins as insects and plants receive the benefit of the Food of the Gods.  Surely nobody would dream of feeding such a thing to a human child… would they?In this little-known science fiction satire, Wells takes potshots at every member of society: scientists, ministers, charitable heiresses, revolutionaries, and everyone in between.  Yet in the end, Wells shows his faith both in humanity and its never-ceasing progress. - Summary by Catharine Eastman

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