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Books > Sport & Leisure > Humour > Parodies & spoofs
'Hilarious and thought-provoking, the Man Who Has It All highlights
the ridiculousness of the patronising advice thrown at working mums
every day by reimagining it with dads in mind.' The Unmumsy Mum
While women are bombarded with advice about how to be the perfect
mum, how to have a successful career and have glowing skin all at
the same time, men have been left floundering. Thank God, then, for
From Frazzled to Fabulous, which for the first time shows men how
they, too, can have it all. As well as giving essential tips for
career men and busy working dads, From Frazzled to Fabulous isn't
afraid to address the big questions. Can curvy dads ever be truly
happy? Can you be a dad and still feel sexy? This hilarious and
eye-opening book, drawn from the hugely popular Twitter and
Facebook accounts of the Man Who Has It All, offers men helpful
advice about what your face shape says about your parenting skills,
why staying hydrated will improve your career prospects and how
dressing in your 'wow' colours will get you heard around the
boardroom table. Seizing the stories we hear and throwing them back
at us with a twist, the results are funny, unsettling and
surprisingly revolutionary.
The Old Testament: but more mad, more merry, more... Milligan! "And
God said, Let there be light; and there was light, but Eastern
Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be
connected." There have been many interpretations of the Old
Testament over the centuries but never one quite like this. Spike
Milligan has rewritten, in his own inimitable style, many of the
best-known stories of the Old Testament, featuring characters like
King "my brain hurts" Solomon, the great oaf of a giant Goliath and
the lesser-known crossword clue, Hushai the Archite. Believers and
non-believers alike will enjoy this hilarious re-working, where the
jokes, jests and jibes tumble over each other from Chapter One,
Verse One until kingdom come.
The prevaricating pros who helped students glide through seven
years of college in "The CollegeHumor Guide to College" are back to
show post-grads how to turn life into an "Easy A" by, well, faking
it. From sounding like an MBA to bribing the ma?tre d' to acting
sensitive post-sex, here is everything aspiring equivocators need
to know to B.S. their way to success in the real world. As the
authors remind readers: "The important thing isn't who you are;
it's who other people think you are." With this poseur's bible in
hand, a generation is poised to go forth and fake it.
In this major study of a flexible and multifaceted mode of
expression, Linda Hutcheon looks at works of modern literature,
visual art, music, film, theater, and architecture to arrive at a
comprehensive assessment of what parody is and what it does.
Hutcheon identifies parody as a major form of modern
self-reflexivity, one that marks the intersection of invention and
critique and offers an important mode for coming to terms with the
texts and discourses of the past. Looking at works as diverse as
Tom Stoppard's Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Brian de
Palma's Dressed to Kill, Woody Allen's Zelig, Karlheinz
Stockhausen's Hymnen, James Joyce's Ulysses, and Magritte's This Is
Not a Pipe, Hutcheon discusses the remarkable range of intent in
modern parody while distinguishing it from pastiche, burlesque,
travesty, and satire. She shows how parody, through ironic playing
with multiple conventions, combines creative expression with
critical commentary. Its productive-creative approach to tradition
results in a modern recoding that establishes difference at the
heart of similarity.
In a new introduction, Hutcheon discusses why parody continues
to fascinate her and why it is commonly viewed as suspect -- for
being either too ideologically shifty or too much of a threat to
the ownership of intellectual and creative property.
A hilarious gift book to help Remainers cope in the run-up to the fateful Brexit moment.
'So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night
I hate to go and leave this pretty sight
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu
Adieu, adieu, to EU and EU and EU'
So sing the 16,141,241 of us who voted Remain on 23 June 2016 as we career head first into the oncoming traffic of independence from the EU sometime soon. March 2019 is the cursory date for exit and the story of Brexit will continue to rumble on, as will disgruntled Remainers and smug Leavers.
The Brexit Souvenir Treasury will take you back to the Good Old Days where £100 would get you €145, enough to get to Calais and back with four cases of wine and still have enough left over for a croque-monsieur and a café au lait. With activities and fun games aplenty, with this old-school treasury you can put on your blue-and-yellow-tinted glasses and lose yourself in the warm glow of the European dream for at least the next 30 years, after which another EU referendum might give us the opportunity to return to the European fold.
Features:
- Collectable Brexit Cigarette Cards: Get the lowdown on all the big-hitting Brexit superstars
- Cut-out-and-keep Remainer bunting
- Now That's What I Call Brexit classic playlists
- Dreamy Macron poster
and much, much more.
He calls me into his office and closes the door . . . to promote
me. He promotes me again and again. I am wild with ecstasy. Imagine
a world where all erotica was written by feminists: Their daydreams
include equal pay, a gender-balanced Congress, and Tom Hardy
arriving at their doorstep to deliver a fresh case of LaCroix every
week. Both light-hearted and empowering, New Erotica for
Feminists-based off of the viral McSweeney's piece of the same
name-is a sly, satirical take on all the things that turn feminists
on. From a retelling of Adam and Eve to tales of respectful Tinder
dates, New Erotica for Feminists answers the question of "What do
women really want?" with stories of power, equality, and an
immortal Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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