Quotes,?Jokes and Anecdotes has three objectives; the first of which to make you laugh and raise your endorphin levels. The second objective is to provide ideas for those who have to make a speech, whether at a wedding, preside at a meeting or introduce a speaker. Who has not day-dreamed of at least once in their life of delivering a speech which garnered applause and caused merriment due to wit, humour and charm? No one wants to make a faux pas. The key is a liberal sprinkling of humourous stories and quips. Many adverts on television employ humour to convey their message in order to leave a lasting impression. The last objective is to make your conversation sparkle so that you can be more entertaining at social events and never be lost for a clever riposte or comeback, rather than thinking of one hours later when the moment has passed. The 1,443 entries from 561 sources on 190 subjects in this book will help do just that. There are numerous original quotes, jokes and anecdotes in addition to many contributions, including many from Woody Allen, George Burns, Zsa Zsa Gabor, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, W C Fields, Rodney Dangerfield, Henry Youngman and Mae West - all of Gerard's favourites.?Prominent categories are sex, marriage, politics, money, religion, gender and insults. Quotes, Jokes &?Anecdotes can be enjoyed by anyone over 16 and will make a perfect present. Dip in and out, fold the page down on your favourites, write them on paper and carry them around with you! A chuckle-a-page read.
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Irish Author, Gerard O'Boyle has lived and worked in four countries on three continents. He taught in Toronto for several years in the seventies, spent four years in sales in Dublin and two years as a marketing manager in Saudi Arabia in the early eighties and now lives in Devon, where he has run his own financial planning and advice business for over twenty years.
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Mostly stuff copied from the internet, without research
April 7 2013
By Bill M.
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There is indeed a lot of great humor in this book. Unfortunately a lot of it comes down to stuff blindly copied from the internet. I remember getting emailed some of this stuff back in the 1990s.
The quotes are especially embarrassing. For example, there are several quotes here attributed to George Carlin. Some of them are slight misquotations of stuff he really said and you can hear for yourself on his albums or HBO specials, but some of them are the completely bogus quotes that have been misattributed him over the years. A quick search on the web or (until recently) the official Carlin website would have cleared this up, but I guess the author didn't care.
The quotes are especially embarrassing. For example, there are several quotes here attributed to George Carlin. Some of them are slight misquotations of stuff he really said and you can hear for yourself on his albums or HBO specials, but some of them are the completely bogus quotes that have been misattributed him over the years. A quick search on the web or (until recently) the official Carlin website would have cleared this up, but I guess the author didn't care.
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