Life Is a Joke: 100 Life Lessons (with Punch Lines)

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It's the perfect marriage of wisdom and wit-here are 100 valuable lessons on how to live, drawn from 100 hilarious and unforgettable jokes. A really good joke, like a great poem, memorable song lyric, razor-sharp anecdote, or Zen koan, is a portal of discovery-it can get a meaningful message across in a way that's clear, humorous, and practical. It's the secret weapon of every great comedian-there's the joke, and then there's the subtext of the joke, and that can mean serious business. A funny, funny joke about a therapist and his patient conveys, for example, an important lesson on the power of communication. A surprising joke about a tribal shaman and the weather service turns into a necessary critique on how we should view experts.;Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Force of Habit -- 2. Leave Me a Loan -- 3. Great Expectations -- 4. Donâ#x80;#x99;t Confuse Me with Facts -- 5. The Big Picture -- 6. Feet of Clay -- 7. Good Enough? -- 8. Sorry, Frog -- 9. Efficiency Expert -- 10. Brain Freeze -- 11. The Old Sandbag Trick -- 12. Piece of Cake -- 13. Fast Friends -- 14. In Too Deep -- 15. Some Pig -- 16. Go With the Flow -- 17. Countdown -- 18. Buy, Buy, Baby -- 19. Insufficient Information -- 20. Too Much Information -- 21. Who, Me? Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Force of Habit -- 2. Leave Me a Loan -- 3. Great Expectations -- 4. Donâ#x80 #x99 t Confuse Me with Facts -- 5. The Big Picture -- 6. Feet of Clay -- 7. Good Enough? -- 8. Sorry, Frog -- 9. Efficiency Expert -- 10. Brain Freeze -- 11. The Old Sandbag Trick -- 12. Piece of Cake -- 13. Fast Friends -- 14. In Too Deep -- 15. Some Pig -- 16. Go With the Flow -- 17. Countdown -- 18. Buy, Buy, Baby -- 19. Insufficient Information -- 20. Too Much Information -- 21. Who, Me? 22. The Old Man and the Cookies23. Back to the Front -- 24. On Second Thought -- 25. It's All in Your Head -- 26. The Perfect Martini -- 27. A Monk's Tale -- 28. The Easy Way -- 29. Hello, I Must Be Going -- 30. Anchors Aweigh! -- 31. Nonverbal Communication -- 32. The Whole Truth -- 33. Do the Right Thing -- 34. Bring the B Team -- 35. Head Case -- 36. Elementary -- 37. Life Is a Beach -- 38. Just Do It -- 39. Hidden Agenda -- 40. Who's in Charge Here? -- 41. That's News to Me -- 42. Dead Weight -- 43. Value Meal -- 44. You're the Bomb 45. The Naked Wife46. In Confidence -- 47. Who's Driving -- 48. Local Hero -- 49. Don't Ask -- 50. MYOB (Mind Your Own Business) -- 51. Getting a Leg Up -- 52. Get in Line -- 53. Pushing Buttons -- 54. Lost Keys -- 55. Is That Your FInal Answer? -- 56. Love, Actually -- 57. Bad News -- 58. Take the Money and Run? -- 59. You're Bad Luck -- 60. Don't Get Bugged -- 61. Water Torture -- 62. Old Faithful -- 63. Expect the Unexpected -- 64. Kind of a Drag -- 65. Don't Just Do It -- 66. Scared Straight -- 67. Dumb and Dumber -- 68. On Target 69. Too Late70. Thanks, But No Thanks -- 71. Don't Count on It -- 72. All About Me -- 73. You May Already Be a Winner -- 74. Model Behavior -- 75. A Fish Story -- 76. Helping Hands -- 77. Reach Out -- 78. Didn't Step in It -- 79. Orange You Sorry? -- 80. Don't Take It Personally -- 81. I Won't Grow Up -- 82. SAY WHAT? -- 83. First Time Around -- 84. Personal Pain -- 85. Appreciating Life -- 86. Other People's Money -- 87. Payback -- 88. The Wrong Tool -- 89. Enough, Already -- 90. Thank You for Not Sharing -- 91. It's Not You, It's You 92. I Knew It!93. A Question of Balance -- 94. Badge of Shame -- 95. Nun the Wiser -- 96. Mob Rule -- 97. The Memory Hole -- 98. Dream Job -- 99. First Things First -- 100. And in the End