Niblets
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THE BOY SCOUTS * ROMANCE IN THE NURSING HOME * FALLEN KNIGHT * FLATTERY * BISEXUALITY * IF I WERE A CARPENTER, * SHOTGUN WEDDING * THE YES MAN SNAPS * YOU'VE GOT A SWAY ABOUT YOU * SKIN TIGHT * 34 - 22 - 36 * SEDUCTION * PRE - NUPTIAL JITTERS * THE CEREMONY *
A neo - knotsy organization
Carbon dating
Sir had a gal
Aphrodisiyak
Now you she it, now you don't
AND YOU WERE A LADY
Chipboard romance
To rifle with one's affections
Can't get it "yup" any more
Bawdy language
Breeches of promise
20 - 20 hindsight
Love and mirage
Down to the "why her?"
Much I do's about nothing
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About the Book
The title of this modest volume announces the fact that its contents are small, corny, and essentially tasteless (indeed, "Nit Wit" was a title reluctantly discarded by the author). A "gentle" reader may find the flavor of these niblets a trifle bitter: cynical, sexist and misanthropic. Political correctness is every-where absent. Worse, these acrid trifles are all wordplays of the kind that confuse some and irritate many. Their prime virtue is that they are short; not even one-liners: half-liners. If you don't like one or one hundred of them, at least you will not have wasted much time. Can you say that of any other book? Or of the rest of your life, for that matter? A suggestion: do not savor too many of these niblets at one time. The toothsome becomes tiresome. Ambrose Bierce, author of The Devil's Dictionary, once reviewed another's work with the single phrase, "The covers of this book are too far apart." If you treat each of the pages that follow as a single volume you may spare your taste buds for another day. Plus, you will have bought 103 books for the price of one! The object of the corn-cob in your hand is to elicit a frequent smile, an occasional laugh and a recurrent wince. These pages are intended to make you neither wise, nor thin, nor in any way a better person. If you seek only books that are good for you, go read a banana.
About the Author
David Lord Porter is the author of several books for both adults (Love Bitter and Sweet, The Silver Scream) and children (Mine!, Help! Let Me Out!, and Histoire de l’O). He is a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, and lives in Newton, Massachusetts.