Mirth of a Nation电子书

Cover

Title Page

CONTENTS

Introduction: Humor Me

“You’ll Never Groom Dogs in This Town Again!”

Cafe Manhattan

The Young Man and The Sea

How to Be Difficult

The Yanni Files

A Prayer for Bill Clinton

Independence Day

Parlez-Vous Francais?

An Aesthetically Challenged American in Paris (Part II)

You Could Look Me Up … Sometime

I Go to Golf School

A Graceland fot-Adolf

Upcoming House Votes

Let’s Hear It for the Cheerleaders

Lapses of Photographic Memories

A Year-Round Tan for the Asking

The Bane of Every Vacation: Souvenirs

Memo from Coach

As I Was Saying to Henry Kissinger …

Away from It All

Give One for the Team

God, Help Me

Autumn of the Matriarch

Future Schlock

What We Told the Kids

Un Caballo in Maschera

The Midwest: Where Is It?

Come Stay with Us

Desert Surprise: Saddam Picks Bills

Return Saddam’s Limo … Now

Laws Concerning Food and Drink; Household Principles; Lamentations of the Father

Flowers of Evil: Ask Charles Baudelaire

Authors with the Most

Long Day’s Journey into Abs

Yankee, Come Home

A Good Man Is Hard to Keep: The Correspondence of Flannery O’Connor and S. J. Perelman

Testing, Testing…

The Cheese Stands Alone

Post-Euphoria

Why Are Kids So Dumb? A Defense

Clarifications?

What We Talk About When We Talk About Little Green Men

Design Intervention Solving the World’s Problems with Style

Too Late to Become a Gondolier?

Me and My Delusions

Eating the Desk

Into the Giga Jungle

The Hidden Life of Rocks

Degas, C’est Moi

You Say Tomato, I Say Tomorrow

Chicken à la Descartes

Even More Memoirs by Even More McCourts

Love Bug

More Mergers

Rejected Polls

Driving Mr. Crazy

Red Diaper Baby

Money

Trout

Jumpin’ Jiminy

Space Travel Eaod

Piscopo Agonistas

The Way of the Ear

Eleventh-Hour Bilde

I Network with Angels

Phone Hex

Birthdays: So Now What?

Things That Are Confusing

How and Why Book of Magnets

Joyce Maynard Looking Back

Bad Numbers

Sunken Treasure

One Guy’s TV

After This Word Tom Motel 3

O.J.: The Trial of the Next Century

Scrambling for Dollars

Gambling in the schools

Diary of a Genius

TV Guide, Soon

My Genetic Memories

The Last Publicist Earth

Memoir Essay

March

Nil-Strings Attached

Ferret-Face

Barnes Ennobled

T.G.I.Y2K!

All Happy Families…

Christmas Frejid

El Niño Has a Headache

In New England Everyone Calls You Dave

The Million Millionaires March

Wing Tsu

T. S. Eliot Interactive

Buy Me

Rejected Celebrity Cab Announcements

Conspir-U.S.-cy History

Dysfunctional Adult Education Catalogue

The All-Purpose Concession Speech

Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol

Humor Thy Father

Khmer Roué

Taking the A Train to Early Retirement

A Few Notes on Sex Education

The Last Supper, or The Dead Waiter

Pen Pals

I Am a Tip-Top Starlet

To Our Valued Customers

Getting Over Getting Stoned

Manifesto

Glad Rags

From: Corporate Communications at CRT301

Contributors’ Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

A NOTE ABOUT THE EDITOR

A NOTE ABOUT THE TYPE

Copyright

About the Publisher