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Books > Sport & Leisure > Humour > General
Unless you took Home Economics classes in school or your parents
gave you instructions so you could help with the household chores,
you may never have learned the various tasks involved in cleaning a
house. In both housecleaning and football, one needs to know what
to do as well as how and when to do it....in other words, a "game
plan" is required. The Story relates the experiences and research
required to develop the game plan. The Playbook puts it all
together to provide a handy and useful game plan. There are
strategies, executions and lists of the equipment necessary. Tips
for effectiveness and efficiency are features mixed in with a bit
of cleaning trivia which might someday come in handy during awkward
"pregnant pauses" at a cocktail party. This handy easy to
understand guide may be especially helpful to that bright eyed and
bushy tailed offspring moving out of the nest, a newlywed couple, a
recently divorced or widowed friend or even someone who doesn't
know the difference between a mop and a broom.
In his humorous memoir, Steven Locke chronicles the mishaps,
adolescent hazing, general confusion, and breathtaking stupidity
exhibited by himself and experienced by those unfortunate enough to
be in close proximity. He presents a whimsical journey through his
experiences as he matured from an adolescent focused on creating a
revolt in the high school cafeteria into a young man ready to
tackle a warped world.
Recalling a lifetime of adventures and misadventures, Locke
shares vignettes describing run-ins with high school principals,
military policemen, irate hotel managers, firemen, university
police officers, and Columbus cops. From rural Centertown, Ohio, to
Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and from Ohio State University to the
classrooms of Ohio's public schools, Locke takes a humorous romp
through nearly fifty years of existence as he somehow manages to
learn valuable life lessons while on fugitive manhunts, in
emergency rooms, and atop snowy Alpine slopes.
A Peck of Trouble offers an entertaining collection of stories
that detail one man's coming-of-age journey on the Big Blue Orb as
he evolves from youthful barbarian to enlightened adult.
This is a cartoon book featuring Bobby, a dog with ideas on how
people can be active after they retire. Bobby shares his ideas with
the reader. He also provides illustrations of his two masters, both
retirees, performing each activity in a way that is silly or
perilous to them, but humorous to the reader. The humor is witty,
lighthearted and unpretentious.
For anyone who loved St Trinian's - old or new - or loves a cozy
mystery on a grand estate filled with rather 'interesting'
characters. When an American stranger turns up claiming to be the
rightful owner of the school's magnificent country estate it could
spell trouble for everyone at St Bride's . . . No one can believe
it when the headmistress, Hairnet, instantly accepts the stranger's
claim, not: the put-upon Bursar, ousted from his cosy estate
cottage by the stranger the enigmatic Max Security, raring to
engage in a spot of espionage the sensible Judith Gosling, who
knows more about Lord Bunting than she's letting on the
irrepressible Gemma Lamb, determined to keep the school open Only
fickle maths teacher Oriana Bliss isn't suspicious of the stranger,
after all she can just marry him and secure St Bride's future
forever. That's if inventive pranks by the girls - and the school
cat - don't drive him away first. Who will nab the stranger first?
Oriana with the parson's noose? Gemma with sinister secrets? Or
could this be the end of St Bride's? Previously published by Debbie
Young as Stranger at St Bride's.
1996, San Francisco, CA I reached up and grabbed my boss's boney
little shoulders and shook him trying to make my point. He looked
at his secretary, who was standing nearby, and said "You're a
witness. I've just been harassed." I didn't realize at that moment
that this would be the end of my career with El Paso Natural Gas
and that I would soon be on my way to exciting new adventures in
New Mexico. Or that these adventures would include a booth at the
Tesuque Flea Market and a log cabin with a curse.
This here is a follow-up to my first book, "Million Dollar Ideas".
Is it a thousand times greater than my first book as the title
indicates? The answer is yes. Should you buy a thousand copies of
my first book to balance the purchase of this book? If my math is
correct, the answer is yes. Thank you for your support. - Jake
Wozniak
Charlie's introduction to his blog put it best: "A lifetime in
marketing actually equips a man for very little... Now pushing 58,
I realise with some horror that it is a full half century since I
last took cycling remotely seriously. If this trip does not go
well, I might leave it as long until my next attempt. In September
2012, seven friends of varying fitness and circumference,
accompanied by an elderly camper-wagon and driver, are cycling from
France to Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain." Despite
being well past their prime they cycled up the equivalent of Mount
Everest plus a bit as they crossed the Pyrenees, the Montes de Oca,
the Montes de Leon, and the Cantabrian Mountains, in the process
expending over 20,000 calories each (according to Susie's iPhone
App), most of which were put back on each evening. They cycled in
the footsteps of 1,000 years of history, marveled at the art and
architecture accumulated over the centuries, and at times crashed
into it. They visited the sites of miracles and pondered their
meaning, and crossed the 200 meter bridge at Hospital de Orbigo
which in 1434 was the site of a month long jousting tournament.
They experienced the highs and lows of triumph and disaster, and
felt compelled to test the efficiency of the Spanish medical
system. Comment on the blog from Barnaby: "God, troops...it is epic
reading and I am on the edge of my seat as I follow your progress
on my map." The De-Caff Camino is in turn amusing, informative,
easy reading and irreverent, and yet is imbued throughout with the
greatest respect for the history and traditions of the Camino and
those who have written their names into its lore. Improbably
arriving at their destination after two weeks and 500 miles on the
road, the author offers some forthright advice to the Vatican on
how to enhance the experience for pilgrims at last achieving their
goal after so much exertion, self-sacrifice and denial. The De-Caff
Camino is an essential and most entertaining addition to the body
of knowledge of The Way of St James.
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