Funny Thing About Names

Author : Jim Wegryn
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595346820
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Funny Thing about Names written by Jim Wegryn and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A town called Hell, which freezes over. A mollusk raised to college mascot. A brand of bubble gum named for a musical instrument. Wegryn visits all these examples and more in his humorous investigation of naming practices. For a popular overview of the field, Funny Thing About Names delivers its message with wit and style."--Christine De Vinne, American Name Society President. Ask yourself this... What is the most popular street name? Who was Benedict Arnold's infamous brother? What is the oldest sports team nickname? What famous university once was named Chatholepistemaid? Why did Boris Karloff change his name? Why didn't Arnold Schwarzenegger? Funny Thing About Names answers these questions and many more as it delves into the wide world of names. Bases upon ten years of research, this amusing account examines how and why we label people, places and businesses in America. It will delight the trivia buff, intrigue the reader interested in onomastics (the study of names), and put a smile on both.

Author : Jim Wegryn
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9780595794263
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Funny Thing about Names written by Jim Wegryn and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-03-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A town called Hell, which freezes over. A mollusk raised to college mascot. A brand of bubble gum named for a musical instrument. Wegryn visits all these examples and more in his humorous investigation of naming practices. For a popular overview of the field, "Funny Thing About Names" delivers its message with wit and style."-Christine De Vinne, American Name Society President.Ask yourself this.What is the most popular street name?Who was Benedict Arnold's infamous brother?What is the oldest sports team nickname?What famous university once was named Chatholepistemaid?Why did Boris Karloff change his name?Why didn't Arnold Schwarzenegger?"Funny Thing About Names" answers these questions and many more as it delves into the wide world of names.Bases upon ten years of research, this amusing account examines how and why we label people, places and businesses in America. It will delight the trivia buff, intrigue the reader interested in onomastics (the study of names), and put a smile on both.

Author : Larry Ashmead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781861977175
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bertha Venation written by Larry Ashmead and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though probably considered extremely juvenile, most of us have a fascination with weird and wonderful names and when they happen to be of real people and real places it is even better. So we're used to Ben Dover and Ann Other (a favourite of banks everywhere) but how do we react when faced with the name Bertha Venation? Or Nosmo King? Or the surgeon Dr De'ath? With chapters full of interesting stories and anecdotes about strange celebrity names, really long and meaningless names and even the weirdest names in sports this book is for trivia lovers everywhere.

Author : Andrew Noske
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Funny Team Names written by Andrew Noske and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wouldn't it be nice, to just once, win the funniest team name prize at trivia? This book is a comprehensive list of 800 funny team names - everything from "Southern Discomfort", to "Fat Married People", "Industrial Fuzz Bunnies", "Unsolicited Penis Photos", "Your Local Prostitutes", "Eric's Little Swimmers" and then the names too rude to put on the back cover. Yeah that gets you wondering. This book covers everything from sports teams, to fitness groups, social clubs, planning committees, game nights, trivia teams, book-reading clubs or even that team building exercise that your boss is forcing you to do. Yet this book is more than just a list of laugh-out-loud inappropriate group names. It also trains you to always be kick ass at naming a team. To learn the techniques to create something unique and funny. Even if you suck at the game, you'll be memorable and make all your lousy team-mates smile, and that's the next best thing to winning. Enjoy the read!

Author : Ellen DeGeneres
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743253663
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Funny Thing Is . . . written by Ellen DeGeneres and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-10-28 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable reference for anyone who knows how to read—or wants to fool people into thinking they do—The Funny Thing Is... is sure to make you laugh. Ellen DeGeneres published her first book of comic essays, the #1 bestselling My Point...And I Do Have One, way back in 1996. Not one to rest on her laurels, the witty star of stage and screen has since dedicated her life to writing a hilarious new book. That book is this book. After years of painstaking, round-the-clock research, surviving on a mere twenty minutes of sleep a night, and collaborating with lexicographers, plumbers, and mathematicians, DeGeneres has crafted a work that is both easy to use and very funny. Along with her trademark ramblings, The Funny Thing Is... contains hundreds of succinct insights into her psyche and offers innovative features including: -More than 50,000 simple, short words arranged in sentences that form paragraphs. -Thousands of observations on everyday life—from terrible fashion trends to how to handle seating arrangements for a Sunday brunch with Paula Abdul, Diane Sawyer, and Eminem. -All twenty-six letters of the alphabet.

Author : Matthew Johnstone
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1780339038
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Had a Black Dog written by Matthew Johnstone and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I Had a Black Dog says with wit, insight, economy and complete understanding what other books take 300 pages to say. Brilliant and indispensable.' - Stephen Fry 'Finally, a book about depression that isn't a prescriptive self-help manual. Johnston's deftly expresses how lonely and isolating depression can be for sufferers. Poignant and humorous in equal measure.' Sunday Times There are many different breeds of Black Dog affecting millions of people from all walks of life. The Black Dog is an equal opportunity mongrel. It was Winston Churchill who popularized the phrase Black Dog to describe the bouts of depression he experienced for much of his life. Matthew Johnstone, a sufferer himself, has written and illustrated this moving and uplifting insight into what it is like to have a Black Dog as a companion and how he learned to tame it and bring it to heel.

Author : Bich Minh Nguyen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440635331
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stealing Buddha's Dinner written by Bich Minh Nguyen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-01-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the PEN/Jerard Award Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year Kiriyama Notable Book "[A] perfectly pitched and prodigiously detailed memoir." - Boston Globe As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Nguyen is filled with a rapacious hunger for American identity, and in the pre-PC-era Midwest (where the Jennifers and Tiffanys reign supreme), the desire to belong transmutes into a passion for American food. More exotic- seeming than her Buddhist grandmother's traditional specialties, the campy, preservative-filled "delicacies" of mainstream America capture her imagination. In Stealing Buddha's Dinner, the glossy branded allure of Pringles, Kit Kats, and Toll House Cookies becomes an ingenious metaphor for Nguyen's struggle to become a "real" American, a distinction that brings with it the dream of the perfect school lunch, burgers and Jell- O for dinner, and a visit from the Kool-Aid man. Vivid and viscerally powerful, this remarkable memoir about growing up in the 1980s introduces an original new literary voice and an entirely new spin on the classic assimilation story.

Author : Carlos Hernandez
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
ISBN 13 : 1368045782
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sal and Gabi Break the Universe written by Carlos Hernandez and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents a brilliant sci-fi romp with Cuban influence that poses this question: What would you do if you had the power to reach through time and space and retrieve anything you want, including your mother, who is no longer living (in this universe, anyway)? How did a raw chicken get inside Yasmany's locker? When Sal Vidon meets Gabi Real for the first time, it isn't under the best of circumstances. Sal is in the principal's office for the third time in three days, and it's still the first week of school. Gabi, student council president and editor of the school paper, is there to support her friend Yasmany, who just picked a fight with Sal. She is determined to prove that somehow, Sal planted a raw chicken in Yasmany's locker, even though nobody saw him do it and the bloody poultry has since mysteriously disappeared. Sal prides himself on being an excellent magician, but for this sleight of hand, he relied on a talent no one would guess . . . except maybe Gabi, whose sharp eyes never miss a trick. When Gabi learns that he's capable of conjuring things much bigger than a chicken--including his dead mother--and she takes it all in stride, Sal knows that she is someone he can work with. There's only one slight problem: their manipulation of time and space could put the entire universe at risk. A sassy entropy sweeper, a documentary about wedgies, a principal who wears a Venetian bauta mask, and heaping platefuls of Cuban food are just some of the delights that await in his mind-blowing novel gift-wrapped in love and laughter.

Author : Ethan Winer
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1136126147
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Audio Expert written by Ethan Winer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Audio Expert is a comprehensive reference that covers all aspects of audio, with many practical, as well as theoretical, explanations. Providing in-depth descriptions of how audio really works, using common sense plain-English explanations and mechanical analogies with minimal math, the book is written for people who want to understand audio at the deepest, most technical level, without needing an engineering degree. It's presented in an easy-to-read, conversational tone, and includes more than 400 figures and photos augmenting the text. The Audio Expert takes the intermediate to advanced recording engineer or audiophile and makes you an expert. The book goes far beyond merely explaining how audio "works." It brings together the concepts of audio, aural perception, musical instrument physics, acoustics, and basic electronics, showing how they're intimately related. Describing in great detail many of the practices and techniques used by recording and mixing engineers, the topics include video production and computers. Rather than merely showing how to use audio devices such as equalizers and compressors, Ethan Winer explains how they work internally, and how they are spec'd and tested. Most explanations are platform-agnostic, applying equally to Windows and Mac operating systems, and to most software and hardware. TheAudioExpertbook.com, the companion website, has audio and video examples to better present complex topics such as vibration and resonance. There are also videos demonstrating editing techniques and audio processing, as well as interviews with skilled musicians demonstrating their instruments and playing techniques.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 870 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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