Lewis Grizzard got his first newspaper job when he was ten years old. Thirty-odd years later (thirty-very-odd years) he’s still in the newspaper business—and he’s still infuriated by it, still tickled by it, and still very much in love with it. If I Ever Get Back to Georgia, I’m Gonna Nail My Feet to the Ground is all about that anger, that great humor and that even greater passion for something that affects every single one of us: the daily newspaper. Grizzard begins with his first writing job...
Siiras ja erakordselt naljakas lugu sellest, kuidas pikast, häbelikust Weston-super-Mare’i noorukist sirgub teada-tuntud legend. Oma teekonnal kirjeldab John Cleese esimest närvesöövat avalikku esinemist Saint Peteri erakoolis, kui ta oli vaid kaheksa ja viis kuuendikku aastat vana; oma lõputult rändavat elu vanematega, kes ei suutnud elada nähtavasti kusagil kauem kui kuus kuud; oma esimesi kogemusi õpetajatöös, teadmata vähimatki ainetest, mida ta pidi õpetama; oma hamstriomaniku päevi...
The Optimist’s Encyclopedia.In this A-Z of all things nice, Steve Stack takes the reader on an alphabetical tour of the good things in life.Trivial things such as dunking biscuits, drawing pictures in steamed up windows and the sound jelly makes.Big important things like falling in love, Nobel Peace Prize winners and the Internet.And pretty much everything in between from Lego to the shipping forecast, popping bubble wrap to meerkats with guest appearances from Sir David Attenborough, Oliver...
A few years ago I watched the performance of Mikhail Zadornov with his monologue «It was getting dark», which I really liked and could not get it out of my mind. Then I decided that I would definitely write something on the same wavelength. But a suitable life situation did not come. And this New Year, at the festive table, one of the guests told a very funny and cautionary tale. It became the plot of this book.
Ko tenei kohinga e korero ana mo te koiora o nga papanga iti rawa o te taupori o Rusia kaha, kaore i te tika, whai rauemi hoki.Engari ko te iwi kore o Ruhia e kore e ngakaukore, ka kite i te koa i nga mea katoa.Kaore he kaupapa tōrangapū, he noho noa noa te oranga o enei hunga kino. Ko ratou te wairua o Ruhia, he ao tuuturu, he waahanga ano kei roto e tuwhera ana ki te katoa.Panuihia ka koa, engari kaua e mau. I pai tenei reta a Donald Trump…# Katoa te mana whakahaere..
The era of the Moscow Tsar Ivan the Third Vasilyevich (the fifteenth century) represents a turning point in the history of Russia, namely, the deliverance of Russia from the Tatar-Mongol yoke, at this time our contemporary also falls, but he falls as a baby, being fifty years old in our time.Why and how it happened, and how an adult can feel himself, being a baby, but retaining his consciousness, and even five hundred years ago…