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A Guide To Manners: The Unexpurgated Code If you love the English language, read these selected pieces from J. P. Donleavy. They are written in a unique style-they are best printed out and read at leisure, savoring his use of words. Subtle humor at it's best. Advice on such things as being a motorist, objecting to food in a restaurant, and how to prevent people from detesting you, plus many more. CARTOONS A collection of cartoons culled from the New Yorker and National Lampoon. Can you tell where each is from? Some are obvious, others not. Churchill's Wit Next to the Bible and Shakespeare, Churchill is the most frequent source of quotations. He had a quick wit, as these examples illustrate. FUTURE HOMEBODY A prediction of what life would be like in 1949 from the post-WWII optimism of 1946 DATING? Need something to tell your kids when they begin to date? You can't do better than this common sense dating guide by none other than Nancy Reagan. It is called Nancy Reagan's Guide to Dating Do's and Don'ts. It's so good you might want to print it out and show it to your kids, just like those Ann Landers' columns you love so much. Check out Fran Lebowitz's Tips For Teens: it sure beats your high school guidance counselor's advice. Or her thoughts on use of the word 'Lady' LETTERS OF REFERENCE Have you ever been asked to write a letter of reference for some nitwit you couldn't stand? Here are some invaluable tips. BEING OFFENSIVE AT WEDDINGS & FUNERALS How-to tips for creating a memorable scene at these gatherings CLICK ! An old Gahan Wilson piece about some (ugly) Americans in space. Mean, mean, mean but funny. Takes a while to load, but worth it. KIDS Remember these types?	MISC: Pre-op Instructions Natural Childbirth Cremating Problems Young Women You've Been Living with's Tales Rap Lyrics Translated Monogamy How Many Pierced Earrings to Wear? A Comparison Between the Sexes Deep Thoughts Delivering Disagreeable News The Hypochon- driac's Guide to Life and Death Great Quips Ten Things You Should Never Tell Your Mother The Personal Ads Translated The Surgeon General Warns Letters to the Editor Mona Guerilla Theater Newspaper Reading Habits On a French Hotel Door A Guide to the Language of Children Old Age Preparation Kit Personal Ads I'd Like to See Bonnie's House Nixon Insults Royko on Doctor Salaries M Barry Mayor of Washington DC Telemarketers Catching crooks by their ears Boring Sermons The Original "Is There a Santa Claus" Letter Canada- Shame of the North TimmyFund	H. L. MENCKEN "Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking." H.L. Mencken was the leading newspaperman and literary critic in America in the first part of the twentieth century. He was born in Baltimore in 1880 and lived there until he died in 1956. He didn't like politicians, evangelists, Puritans, stupid Americans, the Ku Klux Klan, and a lot of other things. He is not for the squeamish or the easily offended. Make sure you have a dictionary handy. Mark Twain-Rarities Read these hard to find writings of Twain...includes letters, speeches, and selected passages. Not your Tom Sawyer. Disquieting Thoughts Are you paranoid? If you weren't before, you might be after you read these. Wine Lovers Unsure of what glass to use? See these tips from the American Jelly Jar Institute for their helpful advice. While you're at it , check out these results of a blind tasting. BONEHEADS Ever regret saying something you wished you hadn't? LIVES OF THE GREAT Some little known aspects of some famous people, including Chaplin, Henry Ford, Freud, Douglas MacArthur, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Ghandi, Groucho Marx, and Lyndon Johnson, Rockefeller, Jerry Brown, Hemmingway, Einstein, De Gaulle. P.J. O'ROURKE A prolific contemporary author well known for his irreverence and humor. A very small sampling of his style. If you like it, go to his books at Amazon.com- O'Rourke. POLITICALLY CORRECT? Need help to be PC? Check out this PC PRIMER. For an example of how it works, see the Politically Correct Little Red Riding Hood SO YOU WANT TO BE A.... DOCTOR? EATING IN A FANCY RESTAURANT Another Gahan Wilson Special NEW YEAR'S Reminiscences of a middle aged WASP OLD & SATIRE ADS A collection of vintage ads with some satirical ones thrown in. THE CHEMISTRY WIZARD A vintage ad updated
MY NAME IS JOE I'M RUNNING FOR MAYOR
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A Guide To Manners:

The Unexpurgated Code

If you love the English language, read these selected pieces from J. P. Donleavy. They are written in a unique style-they are best printed out and read at leisure, savoring his use of words. Subtle humor at it's best.

Advice on such things as being a motorist, objecting to food in a restaurant, and how to prevent people from detesting you, plus many more.

CARTOONS

A collection of cartoons culled from the New Yorker and National Lampoon. Can you tell where each is from? Some are obvious, others not.

Churchill's Wit

Next to the Bible and Shakespeare, Churchill is the most frequent source of quotations.

He had a quick wit, as these examples illustrate.

FUTURE HOMEBODY

A prediction of what life would be like in 1949 from the post-WWII optimism of 1946

DATING?

Need something to tell your kids when they begin to date? You can't do better than this common sense dating guide by none other than Nancy Reagan. It is called Nancy Reagan's Guide to Dating Do's and Don'ts. It's so good you might want to print it out and show it to your kids, just like those Ann Landers' columns you love so much.

Check out Fran Lebowitz's Tips For Teens:

it sure beats your high school guidance counselor's advice.

Or her thoughts on use of the word 'Lady'

LETTERS OF REFERENCE

Have you ever been asked to write a letter of reference for some nitwit you couldn't stand?

Here are some invaluable tips.

BEING OFFENSIVE AT WEDDINGS & FUNERALS

How-to tips for creating a memorable scene at these gatherings

CLICK !

An old Gahan Wilson piece about some (ugly) Americans in space. Mean, mean, mean but funny.

Takes a while to load, but worth it.

KIDS

Remember these types?

MISC:

Pre-op

Instructions

Natural Childbirth

Cremating

Problems

Young Women

You've Been

Living

with's Tales

Rap Lyrics

Translated

Monogamy

How Many Pierced Earrings to Wear?

A Comparison Between the Sexes

Deep Thoughts

Delivering Disagreeable News

The Hypochon-

driac's Guide to Life and Death

Great Quips

Ten Things You Should Never Tell Your Mother

The Personal Ads Translated

The Surgeon General Warns

Letters to the Editor

Mona Guerilla Theater

Newspaper Reading Habits

On a French Hotel Door

A Guide to the Language of Children

Old Age Preparation Kit

Personal Ads I'd Like to See

Bonnie's

House

Nixon Insults

Royko on Doctor Salaries

M Barry

Mayor of

Washington DC

Telemarketers

Catching crooks by

their ears

Boring Sermons

The Original "Is There a Santa Claus" Letter

Canada-

Shame of

the North

TimmyFund

H. L. MENCKEN

"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking."

H.L. Mencken was the leading newspaperman and literary critic in America in the first part of the twentieth century. He was born in Baltimore in 1880 and lived there until he died in 1956. He didn't like politicians, evangelists, Puritans, stupid Americans, the Ku Klux Klan, and a lot of other things. He is not for the squeamish or the easily offended. Make sure you have a dictionary handy.