The Best Jokes Minnie Pearl Ever Told

Author : Kevin Kenworthy
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999-02-10
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781418530792

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The Best Jokes Minnie Pearl Ever Told by Kevin Kenworthy Pdf

From the stage of the Grand Ole Opry to concert halls around the world, and on television's Hee Haw and Prime Time Country, Cousin Minnie Pearl entertained fans and friends with her stories about Grinder's Switch and her jokes. Now you can recall the best of them, such as . . . This week we decided we'd better take Brother up to Nashville and try to get him a job. So I took him to one of the places and the man said he'd give Brother a job. He said, "I can start you at thity dollars a week and in five years you'll get two hundred!" Brother said, "That's fine. I'll be back in five years!" Mr. Smith, a seventy-five-year-old multimillionaire, just married a young, beautiful eighteen-year-old girl. A friend asked, "How did you get an eighteen-year-old to marry you when you're seventy-five?" The man said, "I told her I was ninety-five!" Also included are memories of Minnie by . . . Porter Wagoner Ralph Emery Bill Anderson Johnny Russell Little Jimmy Dickens Jimmy C. Newman

Author : Joan Dew,Minnie Pearl
Publisher : New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0671435361

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Minnie Pearl by Joan Dew,Minnie Pearl Pdf

Author : Grand Ole Opry,Robert K. Oermann
Publisher : Center Street
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781599951843

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Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain by Grand Ole Opry,Robert K. Oermann Pdf

The Grand Ole Opry has been home to the greatest legends of country music for over eighty years, and in that time it has seen some of conutry music's most dramatic stories unfold. We'll hear of the great love stories ranging from Johnny Cash and June Carter in the 1960s to Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, who married in 2005. We'll get the truth of the tragedies that led to the loss of three stars all in the same month, starting the rumor of the "Opry Curse." We'll learn how after being stabbed, shot, and maimed, Trace Adkins calls his early honky-tonk years "combat country," and we'll find inspiration from DeFord Bailey, an African American harmonica player in 1927 crippled by childhood polio who rose to fame as one of the first Opry stars. Our hearts will break for Willie Nelson, who lost his only son on Christmas Day, and soar for Amy Grant and Vince Gill, who found true love. Based on over 150 firsthand interviews with the stars of The Grand Ole Opry, these are stories that tell the heart of country--the lives that are lived and inspire the songs we love.

Author : Hans Warren
Publisher : Terrace Books
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0299209806

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Secretly Inside by Hans Warren Pdf

In the Dutch countryside the war seems far away. For most people, at least. But not for Ed, a Jew in Nazi-occupied Holland trying to find some safe sanctuary. Compelled to go into hiding in the rural province of Zeeland, he is taken in by a seemingly benevolent family of farmers. But, as Ed comes to realize, the Van 't Westeindes are not what they seem. Camiel, the son of the house, is still in mourning for his best friend, a German soldier who committed suicide the year before. And Camiel's fiery, unstable sister Mariete begins to nurse a growing unrequited passion for their young guest, just as Ed realizes his own attraction to Camiel. As time goes by, Ed is drawn into the domestic intrigues around him, and the farmhouse that had begun as his refuge slowly becomes his prison.

Author : Marc Galanter
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 0299213544

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Lowering the Bar by Marc Galanter Pdf

What do you call 600 lawyers at the bottom of the sea? Marc Galanter calls it an opportunity to investigate the meanings of a rich and time-honored genre of American humor: lawyer jokes. Lowering the Bar analyzes hundreds of jokes from Mark Twain classics to contemporary anecdotes about Dan Quayle, Johnnie Cochran, and Kenneth Starr. Drawing on representations of law and lawyers in the mass media, political discourse, and public opinion surveys, Galanter finds that the increasing reliance on law has coexisted uneasily with anxiety about the “legalization” of society. Informative and always entertaining, his book explores the tensions between Americans’ deep-seated belief in the law and their ambivalence about lawyers.

Author : Liz Sonneborn
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : United States
ISBN : 9781438107905

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A to Z of American Women in the Performing Arts by Liz Sonneborn Pdf

Presents biographical profiles of 150 American women of achievement in the field of performing arts, including birth and death dates, major accomplishments, and historical influence.

Author : Shawn Levy
Publisher : Doubleday
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780385545792

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In On the Joke by Shawn Levy Pdf

“A sensitive and vivid study of early female stand-ups… [Levy is a] painstaking, knowledgeable guide.” —New York Times Book Review A hilarious and moving account of the trailblazing women of stand-up comedy who broke down walls so they could stand before the mic—perfect for fans of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Hacks Today, women are ascendant in stand-up comedy, even preeminent. They make headlines, fill arenas, spawn blockbuster movies. But before Amy Schumer slayed, Tiffany Haddish killed, and Ali Wong drew roars, the very idea of a female comedian seemed, to most of America, like a punch line. And it took a special sort of woman—indeed, a parade of them—to break and remake the mold. In on the Joke is the story of a group of unforgettable women who knocked down the doors of stand-up comedy so other women could get a shot. It spans decades, from Moms Mabley’s rise in Black vaudeville between the world wars, to the roadhouse ribaldry of Belle Barth and Rusty Warren in the 1950s and '60s, to Elaine May's co-invention of improv comedy, to Joan Rivers's and Phyllis Diller’s ferocious ascent to mainstream stardom. These women refused to be defined by type and tradition, facing down indifference, puzzlement, nay-saying, and unvarnished hostility. They were discouraged by agents, managers, audiences, critics, fellow performers—even their families. And yet they persevered against the tired notion that women couldn’t be funny, making space not only for themselves, but for the women who followed them. Meticulously researched and irresistibly drawn, Shawn Levy's group portrait forms a new pantheon of comedy excellence. In on the Joke shows how women broke into the boys’ club, offered new ideas of womanhood, and had some laughs along the way.

Author : Minnie Pearl,Minnie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0687077761

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Christmas at Grinders Switch by Minnie Pearl,Minnie Pdf

This book is like a loving and bountiful letter from an old friend.

Author : Gordon Hideaki Nagai
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781612435909

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The Ultimate Book of Dad Jokes by Gordon Hideaki Nagai Pdf

A MASSIVE COLLECTION OF LAUGHABLE, CHEESY JOKES PERFECT FOR AMUSING DADS WHILE SLIGHTLY EMBARRASSING THE KIDS As groan-inducing as they are hilarious, dad jokes are the punny one-liners and oh-so-clever quips fathers never tire of telling. With this massive collection, no Dad will ever lack new material to make his kids facepalm: • A watermelon and a honeydew wanted to get married right away, but they cantaloupe. • After Humpty Dumpty recovered from his fall, he was just a shell of his former self. • Sign language interpreters have to lean sideways to translate something in italics. • Anyone with a wheat allergy that routinely eats pasta is just a gluten for punishment. • A chord walked into a bar and ordered a drink. The bartender said, “We don’t serve minors.”

Author : Loyal Jones
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252033698

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Country Music Humorists and Comedians by Loyal Jones Pdf

This volume is an encyclopedia of country music performers who have used comedy as a central component of their presentation. Loyal Jones offers a conversational and informative biographical sketch of each performer, often including a sample of the musician's humor, a recording history, and amusing anecdotal tidbits. In an entertaining style, Jones covers performers throughout the twentieth century, from such early stars of vaudeville and radio barn dances as the Skillet Lickers and the Weaver Brothers and Elviry, to regulars on Hee Haw and the Grand Old Opry, continuing to current comedians such as the Austin Lounge Lizards, Ray Stevens, and Jeff Foxworthy.

Author : Garrison Keillor
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9798200759408

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Pretty Good Joke Book by Garrison Keillor Pdf

Over 2,200 Jokes from America’s favorite live radio show A treasury of hilarity from Garrison Keillor and the cast of public radio’s A Prairie Home Companion. A guy walks into a bar. Eight Canada Geese walk into a bar. A termite jumps up on the bar and asks, “Where is the bar tender?” Drum roll. The Sixth Edition of the perennially popular Pretty Good Joke Book is everything the first five were and more. More puns, one-liners, light bulb jokes, knock-knock jokes, and third-grader jokes (have you heard the one about Elvis Parsley?). More religion jokes, political jokes, lawyer jokes, blonde jokes, and jokes in questionable taste (Why did the urologist lose his license? He got in trouble with his peers). More jokes about chickens, relationships, and senior moments (the nice thing about Alzheimer’s is you can enjoy the same jokes again and again). It all started back in 1996, when A Prairie Home Companion fans laughed themselves silly during the first Joke Show. The broadcast was such a hit that it became an almost-annual gagfest. Then fans wanted to read the jokes, share them, and pass them around, and the first Pretty Good Joke Book was born. With over 200 new and updated jokes, the latest edition promises countless giggles, chortles, and guffaws anyone—fans of the radio show or not—will enjoy.

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1926 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : UOM:39015079755628

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The British National Bibliography by Arthur James Wells Pdf

Author : Garrison Keillor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781951627690

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The Lake Wobegon Virus by Garrison Keillor Pdf

Bestselling author and humorist Garrison Keillor returns to one of America's most beloved mythical towns, beset by a contagion of alarming candor. A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese made by a Norwegian bachelor farmer, the effect of which is episodic loss of social inhibition. Mayor Alice, Father Wilmer, Pastor Liz, the Bunsens and Krebsbachs, formerly taciturn elders, burst into political rants, inappropriate confessions, and rhapsodic proclamations, while their teenagers watch in amazement. Meanwhile, a wealthy outsider is buying up farmland for a Keep America Truckin’ motorway and amusement park, estimated to draw 2.2 million visitors a year. Clint Bunsen and Elena the hometown epidemiologist to the rescue, with a Fourth of July Living Flag and sweet corn feast for a finale. In his newest Lake Wobegon novel, Garrison Keillor takes us back to the small prairie town where for so long American readers and listeners have found laughter as well as the wry airing of our foibles and most familiar desires and fears—a town where, as we know, "all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average."

Author : Theresa Jensen Lacey
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000-10-19
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781418573478

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Amazing Tennessee by Theresa Jensen Lacey Pdf

Amazing Tennessee offers a rare glimpse into unusual people and events in Tennessee's 200-year history. Reading like the Volunteer State's own version of Ripley's Believe It or Not, this book explores hundreds of incredible stories, facts, and tidbits of human interest.

Author : Bea B. Todd
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781450201490

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Appalachian Child by Bea B. Todd Pdf

Bea grows up dirt poor among the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in central West Virginia. Theres lots of work to do, and amenities such as indoor plumbing and central heating are nonexistent. While others in Nicholas County had it tough, no one else had to suffer the type of abuse she did at home. Beas father runs his household like a dictator, and hes never hesitant to abuse his daughter whenever she does anything not to his liking. Bea gets slapped, kicked, and beaten even at five years old. While Beas spirit sometimes wavers as a result of being unable to please her father, her story is ultimately one of survival. By never giving up and trusting in God, she overcomes years of abuse, proving that fate and faith can lead to dreams that victims of abuse often think are unattainable. Become immersed in a story that defines the true meaning of determination as Bea recounts a journey that will inspire anyone who has ever suffered or felt like giving up in Appalachian Child.