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The 176 Stupidest Things Ever Done
The 176 Stupidest Things Ever Done: The 176 Stupidest Things Ever Done is a hilarious collection of inane incidents, senseless stunts, farcical feats, and utterly asinine activities from throughout history, and around the globe. From Sam Goldwyn to Walter Mondale, Albert Einstein to Fabio, the board of General Motors to British Parliament, this comic compendium chronicles the stupidest acts, ideas, decisions, inventions, songs, and ad campaigns that the mind of modern man has been able to devise.
The Best Book of Bizarre But True Stories Ever!: Brace yourself for 500 of the strangest, the funniest, the most bizarre stories you'll ever read, and they're all 100% TRUE!
The Best Book of Bizarre But True Stories Ever!
Paul Harvey's For What It's Worth
Paul Harvey's For What It's Worth: Paul Harvey is the most listened-to radio personality in America. Millions of loyal listeners tune in every week to hear his unique blend of news and views. Now the man who brought us The Rest Of The Story brings us the humor behind the headlines in this hilarious collection of truth-is-funnier-than-fiction stories. Told in Paul Harvey's unique, inimitable, and unforgettable style, here are stories that will tickle you, touch you -- and just plain make you laugh out loud, such as . . . the jogger who quit running because the wind kept putting out his cigarette, the man who fell into a tree stump and had to be rescued by forest rangers, the nude sunbather on the hotel roof who accidentally stretched out over the dining room skylight, the woman karate expert who stopped a purse snatcher cold -- by hitting him over the head with her umbrella, the man who resigned himself to deafness for twenty years -- until he discovered his hearing aid was in the wrong ear.
True Remarkable Occurrences: Since his days as president of the Harvard Lampoon and as an editor of the Paris Review, John Train has been regaling his friends with tales of amazing and funny true events, drawn from life or encountered in periodicals and books. His travels to every country in Western Europe and South America and to many in Asia and Africa have given him a rich supply of source material, as has his indefatigable reading in a number of languages.

The stories in this book, which have been verified with care, are Mr. Train's favorites from his collection.

True Remarkable Occurrences


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