An Irreverent and Thoroughly Incomplete Social History of Almost Everything
- ISBN-10
- 0812822080
- ISBN-13
- 9780812822083
- Category
- English wit and humor
- Pages
- 160
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1983-03
- Publisher
- Stein & Day Pub
- Author
- Frank Muir
Description
Collection of remarks made over the past twenty-seven centuries by the wise, the witty, and the peevish, to which the author has added comments on the time and the circumstances.
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