Author: Jamie Lamb
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN: 1772032859
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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Longlisted for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour A funny and heart-warming tribute to Canada’s most famous small town, and its most celebrated humourist, Stephen Leacock. Many Canadians grew up in small towns, or at least in neighbourhoods that acted like small towns. But what if you grew up in Canada’s most famous small town—Stephen Leacock’s Mariposa? This was the world that journalist Jamie Lamb was raised in, the actual place that inspired Leacock’s Canadian classic, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town,over a century ago. The Mariposa of Lamb’s time was slightly different, yet it still embodied the heart and soul, the eccentricities and the bizarre local customs of Leacock’s sketches. Christmas in Mariposa is a celebration of that town and its people. It tells of secret gardens, special rinks, oddball hotels, remarkable foods, fast boats and sunken aircraft, Christmas Eve fireworks, and the best Christmas office party in the country. It describes a place where Christmas could be celebrated in summer with a Baby Jesus look-alike contest, Canada’s only officially sanctioned reindeer races, and the Three Wise Men arriving with gifts by parachute. It transports readers to a world where where Gordie Howe once dropped by for a skate, and Glenn Gould regularly came to eat a well-done steak and six Parker House rolls slathered in butter at a Chinese restaurant. Jamie Lamb’s Mariposa is timeless and quintessentially Canadian.
Author: Roger Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781926677903
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A collection of hilarious Christmas jokes for the discerning adult. Not your average joke book; these have an edge! Santa was having a bad day. Mrs Claus was nagging. The elves were working too slowly. There were serious toy assembly issues. Rudolf was getting old and stodgy and the sleigh needed repairs. In the midst of all this a shimmering angel arrived one evening with a lovely tree. As Claus answered the door, frowning and muttering, the angel smiled and said "Merry Christmas, Santa! Here's your tree. Where do you want me to stick it?" Christmas: The time when everyone gets Santamental. Why is getting Christmas presents for your kids just like a day at the office? You do all the work and the fat guy in the suit gets all the credit. - Girl 1: Where's your Christmas party at? Girl 2: It's poor grammar to end your sentence with a preposition. Girl 1: All right then, where's your Christmas party at, bitch?
Author: Michael Newton
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing (CN)
ISBN: 9781927492734
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Scottish Highlanders, and their descendants all over the world, are no better and no worse than any other people where "sinful" behaviour is concerned. Standards of morality and social conventions changed dramatically during the 19th century - and most of the people engaged in recording and commenting upon Highland life and tradition were puritanical ministers and priests who left out the racy bits. So, while there are many useful books that provide a wide range of Scottish Gaelic vocabulary to express many aspects of daily life - except, for the most part, the topics covered in this book.
Author: Joel Jeffrey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781772761504
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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If you like a good joke (and we all know you do), then you'll get a kick out of this hilarious collection that pokes fun at all things Saskatchewan. With zingers that will tickle your funny bone, these good-natured jabs are just funny enough that they will leave you rolling in the aisles. The Great Saskatchewan Joke Book will literally make you laugh out loud. Joel Jeffrey believes that if you can't laugh at yourself, then who can you laugh at?
Author: Stephen Leacock
Publisher: New Canadian Library
ISBN: 0771093977
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Affectionately combining both the idyllic and ironic, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is Stephen Leacock’s most beloved book. Set in fictional Mariposa, an Ontario town on the shore of Lake Wissanotti, these sketches present a remarkable range of characters: some irritating, some exasperating, some foolhardy, but all endearing. Painted with the skilful brushstrokes of a great comic artist, the delightful inhabitants of Mariposa represent the people of small towns everywhere. As fresh, funny, and insightful today as when it was first published in 1912, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is Stephen Leacock at his best – colourful, imaginative, and thoroughly entertaining.
Author: Stanley Burke
Publisher: Lorimer
ISBN: 9780888620484
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 45
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Earnest and industrious Beavers, funloving but discontented Frogs, a Lobster named Lugubrious J. Standfast and a wonderful Frog leader are some of the characters in this mythical tale about a Swamp named Canada. This delightfully illustrated and satirically sharp review of Canadian history in the late 1960s and early 1970s features some familiar faces--Lester B. Pearson, Richard Nixon, Rene Levesque, the immaculate chief-frog (chief beaver?) Pierre Trudeau--evolved slightly to survive in Swamp conditions. Frog Fables & Beaver Tales is a clever, hilarious souvenir of a particularly vibrant period in Canadian politics.
Author: Stephen Leacock
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802035943
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Stephen Leacock's views on life provide a uniquely Canadian take on the world, an ironic perspective which continues to delight and instruct readers around the globe. An anthology of Leacock's wit and wisdom.
Author: Chad Carpenter
Publisher: Calgary : Altitude
ISBN: 9781551537542
Category : American wit and humor, Pictorial
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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From the twisted mind of the internationally syndicated cartoonist Chad Carpenter comes a comic strip from the True North fit for man and beast. Carpenter's Tundra comic strips appear in newspapers throughout Canada and Alaska, as well as in newspapers throughout the lower 48 states. It has been called (by those in the know) one of the fastest-growing newspaper comic strips in the business.
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
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Author: Lauren K. Lee
Publisher: Williamsport, Pa. : Brodart Company
ISBN: 9780872720954
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1276
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