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How much would you pay for a painting with nothing on it? Would it be art? Marc's best friend Serge has just bought a very expensive - and very white - painting. To Marc, the painting is a joke, and as battle lines are drawn, old friends use it to settle scores.

With friendships hanging in the balance, the question becomes: how much is a painting worth?

This manual provides a review of the tactical combat advantages enjoyed by zombies and gives the listener a step-by-step guide to adopting them for him or herself. Have you wondered where the great military leaders of modern history have found their collective inspirations? Well look no further. It is the walking dead upon whom the most important tactical infantry innovations of the last three hundred years have been based.

Nothing escaped the eye of the satirical eye of Britain's phenomenally successful all-Asian sketch show that was Goodness Gracious Me. The complete BBC Radio series 1-3 fore-ran the award-winning BBC TV series that ran in the late 1990s, and features the same cast. Prepare for your heart to pound in the Indian recreation of Brief Encounter, sing along to the profound words of wisdom with Fifty Ways to Leave your Mother, and enjoy pop classics such as Hindi People and Punjabi Girl.

One town. One murder. One million hot dogs.

In this satirical alternative history, Professor Jeronimo Herodotease and his team of documentary filmmakers and reenactors revivify the dark days of the Grim Depression and Amerika's descent into dictatorship. In the chaos and strife that followed the assassination of President-elect Frankie van Rosenvelt, General Jackson and a cadre of Forcist-minded cockroaches swarmed the stage, gnawed away at democratic norms, and declared martial law under the guise of restoring "Law and Order."

Drei Wochen unterwegs mit der "schwimmenden Schwarzwaldklinik" - Traum oder Albtraum...

Julius Fischer hat sich wieder ziemlich aufgeregt. Angefangen bei der eigenen Ehefrau. Familie geht auch gar nicht. Noch ätzender sind eigentlich nur Freunde. Die sind am schlimmsten. Aber nichts im Vergleich zu allen anderen. Dann gewinnt er auch noch den Pirnaer Backstein (na ja fast, als Dritter von dreien) und sein Verleger findet, er solle Influencer werden - #makeeastgermanygreatagain. Als er eine wertlose Kneipe in Sucknitz, irgendwo im Erzgebirge, erbt, ist das Fass schon längst übergelaufen.

Life as an NFL player has always been fast-paced, but nothing prepared me for becoming the guardian of my godson, Duncan. With his grandmother contesting custody, I need to prove that I'm a steadfast influence who's not going anywhere, and there's one sure-fire way to show that: get engaged.

The late Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Art Buchwald wrote over 30 books, including his two-part memoir, the best-selling Leaving Home, and I'll Always Have Paris. In 1986, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

A Modern Comedic Satire relating to and utilizing how the film "Drunken Master" used novel characters to depict different aspects of Kung Fu.

Elfriede Greismanns erster Fall um einen verschwundenen Stoffesel mit YouTube-Kanal. Während Frauke Pläne schmiedet, wie sie das Herz ihres Spanischlehrers erobern kann, hat ihre Mutter - Oma Greismann - ganz andere Sorgen: Ihr Stoffesel Klausmüller ist spurlos verschwunden und das führt zur Gründung einer Klausmüller-Senioren-Soko im Altenheim. Zusammen mit Hundespürnase Tessa lässt der Senioren-Soko-Trupp nichts unversucht, um Klausmüller auf die Spur zu kommen.

Roger Folger, age 61, recently lost his wife, Stella, but her spirit hasn't wandered far. In an all-too-earthly way, Roger converses with her disembodied voice in the privacy of the home they shared for many years, and you can bet Stella talks back. Roger fills her in on the latest about their kids and neighbors, while she tells Roger what heaven's like—picture the Ritz-Carlton in Florida, managed by Saint Peter. Worried that Roger is lonely, Stella decides that he needs a new woman in his life. But once he begins to date, Stella grows jealous.

Einige Pranks sind einfach dazu verdammt, nie zu funktionieren. Da gibt es die technischen Pranks, bei denen Handys und PCs manipuliert werden sollen, aber meistens nur Frustration verursachen. Dann kommen die Büropranks, bei denen die vermeintlichen Spaßvögel versuchen, die Stimmung zu heben, aber oft nur die Augen verdrehen lassen. Geschichtenerzähler auf der Arbeit meinen, mit ihren erfundenen Storys Pranks zu landen, doch sie nerven nur die Kollegen. Klassiker wie Fake-Geister oder Alien-Sichtungen wirken oft langweilig und vorhersehbar.

Jeder von uns hat mit Sicherheit eine schlechte Angewohnheit, die man einfach nicht los wird. Sei es Fingernägel kauen, Freunden auf ihr Handy glotzen, wenn sie gerade eine Nachricht lesen oder beim Essen laut schmatzen. In diesem Hörspiel zeigen wir euch 10 Arten von schlechten Angewohnheiten. Erkennt ihr euch bei einer wieder?

Eighty-year-old Southern aristocrat Iris Temple's health may be failing, but her wit is as sharp as ever. Before she joins her ancestral ghosts, she must pick an heir to take over her sprawling estate—and the book of secrets that's kept her family in power for generations. But between her scheming son, her estranged daughter who abandoned Savannah years ago, and her illegitimate half sister, she's working with slim pickings.

“Christopher Moore is a very sick man, in the very best sense of that word.” —Carl Hiassen “[Moore’s novels] deftly blend surreal, occult, and even science-fiction doings with laugh-out-loud satire of contemporary culture.” —Washington Post “If there’s a funnier writer out...

An Entertainment Weekly 30 Hottest Books of the Summer Selection A Refinery29 25 Books You’ll Want To Read This Summer Selection One of today’s most provocative literary writers—the author of the critically-acclaimed Sunshine State and the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award finalist...

"Stories of Making a Fortune" collects dozens of stories about making a fortune, allowing more listeners to enjoy good stories, read good stories, appreciate good stories, cherish good stories, and spread good stories.

The funding is designed to make sure America's poems are the best in the world.

A BBC comedy drama set in the world of a 'pile 'em high university'. Karen Poynter is the new head of the Geography Department - renamed Geographical Tourism - at Hayborough University, which is definitely not part of the elite Russell Group of top universities. Ranked 132nd in the UK academic league table; if you have a pulse, you can have a degree.