Author: Oliver Gaspirtz
Publisher: Westhoff Publishing
ISBN: 0692208143
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 139
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Have you ever had one of those moments, when something so horribly awkward and embarrassing happens, you just want to crawl in a hole and die? Well, you’re not alone. This book is full of those moments. And as terrible as they may be when they happen to you, they’re pretty funny when they happen to someone else. “A very entertaining little book. Makes a great travel companion or bathroom reader.” “A delightful guilty pleasure.” “These stories of utter embarrassment have universal appeal, because we have all been in one or more of these situations at one point or another in our lives.” “The human experience, sliced and diced into microscopic short stories and cartoons that will make you laugh out loud.” “Why do we like to laugh at other people’s misfortune? Who knows? But Germans even have a word for it: Schadenfreude.”
Author: Charise Mericle Harper
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
ISBN: 152351017X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
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A graphic novel that makes embarrassment into something hilarious – and normal. You’re not alone! No way are you the first kid who ever tripped and fell in public. Or spilled water on your pants so it looked like… you know! For those moments and more, here’s, the book that understands what you’re going through when you get caught farting in class. Laugh-out-loud funny yet enormously compassionate, So Embarrassing is a comics-style compilation of stories about awkward and embarrassing situations for kids. Written and drawn by Charise Mericle Harper, the bestselling creator of the Just Grace series, So Embarrassing combines humor, science facts (what happens when we blush, for example), tips for quickly recovering from a cringe-worthy situation, and practical advice––like what to say to comfort a totally embarrassed friend.
Author: Ryan Jacobson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988184268
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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People poop in their pants. It happens. No biggie, right? Wrong! Some bathroom accidents occur at the worst possible moments - on a first date, at the start of a new job, while stuck in traffic - and their stories ascend to the level of Toilet Tales. If you enjoy bathroom humor, this funny book collects 28 of the most humiliating true accounts that anyone was ever brave enough to confess. Toilet Tales makes a hilarious conversation-starter and a perfect bathroom read. But be warned: These short funny stories are gross!
Author: Suzanne Guillette
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416586024
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 433
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People who don't have embarrassing stories are untrustworthy. Or at the very least, they aren't telling the truth. -- Suzanne Guillette By your own definition, you are very, very trustworthy. After all, you are the kind of person who spills pasta sauce down the shirt of a famous writer you're trying to impress. You are the girl who, when taking a new mentor out for a fancy lunch, forgets to bring cash -- or a backup credit card. You are almost thirty, an unemployed writer, recently un-engaged from your fiancŽ of several years, and in all your naivetŽ can't foresee that mixing the personal and the professional will bring you mortifyingly disastrous results. You are Suzanne Guillette, the author of Much to Your Chagrin, a smart, hilarious memoir of how chronicling the humiliations of others helped her come to understand and accept herself. Guillette was twenty-nine and the proud owner of a freshly inked MFA when she began to work on her first book -- a collection of embarrassing moments gathered from family, friends, coworkers, and strangers on the street. Stories poured in about every possible type of gaffe, from wardrobe malfunctions (widespread) to romantic misunderstandings (ditto), and from office faux pas (common) to bodily fluid mishaps (distressingly common). Everyone Guillette talked to was enthusiastic about her clever project -- and no one more so than Jack, the wry, handsome literary agent who Guillette thought might just be her soul mate. But as time marched on, Guillette began to see that the tales she'd been gathering were nothing compared to her own moments of shame. Like her increasingly frequent need to sneak out of work (at a health agency, natch) for a "quick smoke" to settle her nerves. Or her stubborn ability to ignore the reality that her fairy-tale romance with Jack was imploding in a truly spectacular fashion. When Guillette accepted that the story she was meant to tell was not others' but her own, Much to Your Chagrin was born. Told in a unique and captivating voice, punctuated by the embarrassing stories she collected, Much to Your Chagrin follows one woman's discovery of what it's like to finally feel comfortable in your own skin (even while accidentally exposing yourself to your elderly neighbors). Raw, honest, and brilliantly funny, it is an extremely personal memoir about the lengths to which we human beings sometimes go to conceal the parts of ourselves that we are least willing to admit are true. Forget the stuff we keep from the world -- it's what we hide from ourselves that is of greatest consequence. What is your most embarrassing moment?
Author: Ann Hodgman
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1429964332
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Ann Hodgman is a funny lady. In this book, she explains how she got that way. But the book only goes up through sixth grade. After that, her life became so embarrassing that writing it down would have caused the pages to burst into flames.
Author: Melissa Dahl
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735211639
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Examines the ways that embracing socially awkward situations, even when they lead to embarrassment and self-conciousness, also provide the opportunity to test oneself and to recognize how people are connected to each other.
Author: Penny Manke-Dombrowski
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 148368475X
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 49
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How Embarrassing. was a long process. I have always been interested in peoples most embarrassing moment. More of a get to know someone conversational piece. I never thought of putting the stories in a book. I had a handful of stories that I remembered, but needed many more. My dear husband was able to give me a few, just in the short time we have been together. The more I was digging especially in his family, I found some beautiful gems. Each story in the book is true, with only the names changed as not to offend anyone. I have really enjoyed writing this book and my hope is that you find one or more of the stories humorous.
Author: Mark Brown, MD
Publisher: Villard
ISBN: 0307829596
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 295
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Long before the hit TV show E.R., emergency room doctor Mark Brown decided that the world just had to know about real life in a hospital's E.R. The emergency room is a cauldron of human emotions. The anguish, fear, need, and gore is wearing. As the protective layer of the self is weakened, the pain seeps through and begins to stain the soul. The protective layer grows thicker. But the patients’ needs call out to a sensitive heart, and a balance is struck. Survival in this place requires a deep kindness nestled in a very dark sense of humor, and a strong faith tempered with cynicism. The people who work in this place refer to it as the Pit. What follows is a collection of true stories from all over the country about what the ER doors bring. These stories are irreverent, funny, horrifying, and heartbreaking. They will buffet you. These stories are presented randomly, not neatly categorized as one might desire but in the disorderly manner in which the doors might bring them. They are written not by writers and reporters but in the words of the doctors, nurses, and paramedics who were there.—From the Introduction
Author: Robynn Clairday
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780439095020
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 107
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As explained by the kids themselves, this book offers a collection of true stories that deal with moments of embarrassment and awkwardness while providing tips and advice on how to handle such difficult situations when they arise. Original.
Author: Sam Harris
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451636024
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Spirituality.The search for happiness --Religion, East and West --Mindfulness --The truth of suffering --Enlightenment --The mystery of consciousness.The mind divided --Structure and function --Are our minds already split? --Conscious and unconscious processing in the brain --Consciousness is what matters --The riddle of the self.What are we calling "I"? --Consciousness without self --Lost in thought --The challenge of studying the self --Penetrating the illusion --Meditation.Gradual versus sudden realization --Dzogchen: taking the goal as the path --Having no head --The paradox of acceptance --Gurus, death, drugs, and other puzzles.Mind on the brink of death --The spiritual uses of pharmacology.
