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Springfield Pet Shop: All Our Pets Are Flushable Pet shop sign, The Simpsons From Anon to Bart Simpson, Julie Birchill to P.G. Wodehouse, Miss Piggy to Dorothy Parker, the last 100 years offer a rich banquet of humour. This new edition of 'The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations' contains over 5,500 quotations by the funniest writers of our time, with an introduction by Mike Scully, Executive Producer of the Simpsons. Fred Metcalf's clearly cross-referenced anthology provides a superb selection of quips and wisecracks that is ideal for after-dinner speakers, would-be wags and anyone in search of amusement.
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What's the funniest thing you've ever heard? Who said it? Was is Oscar Wilde, P.G. Wodehouse (The Right Hon. was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say "When"!), Groucho Marx (A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running), Nancy Mitford (She said that all the sights of Rome were called after London cinemas), Lily Tomlin (Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain), Homer Simpson (To alcohol! The cause of - and solution to - all of life's problems!) or Joan Rivers (I don't exercise. If God wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor)? May be it was Noel Coward, Jack Dee, H.L. Mencken, Woody Allen or Rowan Atkinson? They are all here: over 5,500 quotations from the funniest people of the past hundred years. The quotations are grouped thematically, covering catgories from abstinence, bosses and honeymoons (Honeymoon - the morning after the knot before) to wealth, wine and Yugoslavia, via creativity, pets (Springfield Pet Shop: All Our Pets are Flushable) and swimming (They say that swimming is great exercise. Have you ever seen a whale?).
The result is a book which will give the reader a line for any kind of speech or simply provide hours of pleasurable browsing. He who laughs, lasts - Mary Pettibone Poole.About the Author
Fred Metcalf is a freelance writer and editor. He is the editor of 'The Penguin Dictionary of Jokes.' He lives in Somerset.
Emmy Award-winning writer Mike Scully joined The Simpsons as a producer in April 1993.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0141004401
- ISBN 13 9780141004402
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number2
- Number of pages384
- EditorMetcalf Fred
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