A collection of the best, worst, and silliest riddles, jokes, and rhymes.

A band of wacky animals, zany dinosaurs, and kooky monsters are all in on the goofiest jokes ever -- and now you will be too!

Structural Ambiguity in English is a major new scholarly work that provides an innovative and accessible linguistic description of those features of the language that can be exploited to generate structural ambiguities. Most ambiguity scholarship is concerned with disambiguation-the process of making what is ambiguous clear. This book takes the opposite approach as it focuses on describing the features in the English language that may contribute towards the creation of structural ambiguities, which form the core of some of the best word-plays found in advertising, comedy and marketing. Oaks utilizes a systematic and comprehensive inventory approach that identifies individual elements in the language and their distinctive behaviors that can be manipulated in the deliberate creation of structural ambiguities. In doing so he also provides authentic examples to illustrate the concepts he presents. This book will appeal to researchers and academics interested in the structure of the English language, usage, pragmatics, communication, natural language processing, editing, and humor studies as well as those in marketing, advertising, or humor writing.

Riddles, knock-knocks, put-downs, jokes, gags, and groaners: this collection’s a grab bag of humor to make kids hoot and holler! Why shouldn’t you tell a secret to a pig? Because he is a squealer. Why did the orange stop in the middle of the road? It ran out of juice.What word grows smaller when you add two letters to it? Add "er” to short and it becomes "shorter.” Where do pilots keep their personal things? In air pockets. From modern nursery rhymes to kooks and spooks, from "hey, waiter!” to exercising with dumbbells, there’s plenty of belly laughs here to enjoy and share with friends.

Presents hundreds of riddles and jokes relating to football, baseball, weightlifting, karate, croquet, and other sports.

Over 1,000 jokes, 96 drawings. Index. "Gr.4-6. A gigantic compendium of rib-tickling, giggle-inspiring one liners, puns, funny stories, put-downs...Clever and witty."--SLJ. "True kid appeal."--Learning. 256 pages, b/w illus. throughout, 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.

Presents a collection of jokes, riddles, puzzles, and brain teasers, and provides tips about how to deliver the perfect punch line.