Why Do Pirates Love Parrots?
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Tuxedos, figure skating announcers and
Typewriter keys, location of
Uniforms, baseball managers’
Unimponderables
Urination, running water and
Vending machines, newspaper
Vultures, circling of
Walking, versus standing still
Water, carbonated, club soda and
Water vapor, formation of clouds and
Whistles, train, patterns of
Windows
airline, shapes of
alignment of, on airplanes
cleaning, with newspapers
portholes, shape of
Women
hip swaying
“Just For Men” and
psychics
snoring
Worms, as food for fish
“Xmas,” origins of term
Yawning, contagiousness of
Years, in calendars before Christ
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
DAVID FELDMAN is the author of thirteen books, including the Imponderables® series—Do Penguins Have Knees?, Are Lobsters Ambidextrous?, and others. He has a master’s degree in popular culture from Bowling Green State University in Ohio and consults and lectures on the media. He lives in New York City.
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Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Imponderables® is a registered trademark of David Feldman.
WHY DO PIRATES LOVE PARROTS? Copyright © 2006 by David Feldman. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Mobipocket Reader September 2006 ISBN 0-06-120554-0
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ISBN-10: 0-06-088842-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-088842-8
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