http://smirkbooks.com Hundreds & Hundreds of Smiles Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:05:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Expand your sense of humor with fast quotes, quick wit, convenient clichés, wisdom, fun and clever ideas. Enjoy hundreds of select quips from comics, classics, editorials, bumper stickers and anonymous sayings. Discover the most snarky, smiley, sanctimonious, sentimental, sacred, irreverent, tender, cheeky and enduring short funny punches. These off-beat quotes, pithy ... http://smirkbooks.com/?p=66 Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If you're too open-minded, your brains will fall out. Junk is something you've kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it. If you’re going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it! Blessed ... http://smirkbooks.com/?p=74 Leave a Comment or Contact the Author http://smirkbooks.com/?p=80 What goes on back stage in a comedy club is pretty much like high school. Plenty of back-biting, mud-slinging and nasty digs. Stand up comedians say that comedy is actually a blood sport. They steal each other’s one-liners, pilfer another comic’s gestures and then adapt the stuff to their own ... http://smirkbooks.com/?p=147 . A man slips on a banana peel or falls down an open manhole—that is one of the oldest and funniest gags in comedy’s joke book. The art of walking entails a simple pattern of putting one foot in front of the other. Once you master it, it’s unconsciously accomplished ... http://smirkbooks.com/?p=146 What we need is a good universal swearword.Someone invented WAXYQUEZ to do the job. A tad difficult to pronounce, but it is composed of a few letters that aren’t used frequently: Q. W.X.Y and Z. It was fabricated by Paul Dickson, a wordsmith with high credentials who rambles on ... http://smirkbooks.com/?p=143 You solved a sticky mess by using your own unique humor? How DID you do that? What was so troublesome to begin with? Right now I'm writing a book about how humor gets the way it is and how the funny stuff works. Care to share a predicament at work, ... http://smirkbooks.com/?p=139 Kids are naturally fun. Luckily, most adults are former children. Actually, we should probably acknowledge that adults are simply obsolete children. Kids can make other kids and even some adults laugh—but that doesn’t make them prodigy comedians. They are cute youngsters who might grow up to become star comedians ... http://smirkbooks.com/?p=138 It was election time in a small Ecuadorian town. The entire (but small) population chose the mayor, a brand of foot powder, Pulvapies. Why? During the election campaign the foot powder company set up huge billboards advertising “Vote for any candidate but if you want well being and hygiene, ... http://smirkbooks.com/?p=137 One thing that might put us in line for smoother link with people is sharing the idea of a personal fun day. OK, that sounds somewhat sentimental. Joking and kidding around generally does add to getting a kick out of life, it's worth the effort. Just try to figure out ... http://smirkbooks.com/?p=136