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Edgar Allan Poe
Satire and Humor Selected Short Stories

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Fall for music and juggling (The Journal News)

The Jen Slaw Juggling Show with musical guest, the Elephant Stompers are giving a show at Riverspace at 10:30 a.m. as part of the Milk ‘N Cookies Playhouse series. Jen Slaw presents her family juggling show in which she combines grace, humor, skill and beauty with a captivating style to delight all audiences. She is joined by the amazing, totally new and completely out-of-this-world kid’s rock ...

Caption Contest | No. 24: Readers: Humor us, won't you? (The Columbus Dispatch)

Get a load of this, will you?

Readers React To Historic Election With Praise, Criticism, and Humor By S. L. FRISBIE, IV, Publisher (Polk County Democrat)

Readers of The Polk County Democrat and The Fort Meade Leader responded with praise, criticism, and humor to the election of Barack Obama as president.

The judge's design rules (The Cincinnati Enquirer)

The interior design of Jim Cissell's house reflects his interests and humor.

Popular priest's death 'leaves us all poorer' (The Cincinnati Enquirer)

Determined to serve St. Susanna Church until ALS got the best of him, the Rev. Dan Schuh plodded on and kept his sense of humor. until the day before his death.

'Ray' of fright (Louisville Courier-Journal)

Cooking czarina Rachael Ray is scary enough, what with her painfully cheery voice, perma-grin and ever-growing empire. Humor writer Elizabeth Hilts is capitalizing on the Ray-bashing trend and has created a parody of Ray's "Every Day With Rachael Ray" magazine.

Caption Contest No. 23 | Finalists: It's a bull market on humor (The Columbus Dispatch)

As the financial markets dive into the dumper, sometimes an investor can only chuckle.

The late George Carlin honored with 11th Annual Mark Twain Prize for Humor (The Daily Record)

WASHINGTON - The late comedian George Carlin — famous for those "Seven Words You Can Never Say on TV" — was honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the only award he saw as a legitimate comedy prize.

Anniversary for Down East humor icons (Cape Cod Times)

Some of the classic lines that define Maine humor emerged 50 years ago on a record made by two Yale University students in a dormitory room.

Seniors Connections Presents "The Importance Of Humor" (Garden City News)

The Garden City Library will host the third in a series of three Senior Connections Public Forums on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 1:30 PM. Melissa Atkinson, LCSW will present the importance of humor in the later years of life. Ms. Atkinson will discuss the many benefits of laughter as part of the healing process.