title: Asimov Laughs Again: More Than 700 Jokes, Limericks, and Anecdotes
author:  Isaac Asimov 
description: To list Isaac Asimov's honors, as to list his books, would be excessive. Let it simply be noted that Isaac Asimov was the most famous, most honored, most widely read, and most beloved science fiction author of all time. In his five decades as an author, he wrote more than four hundred books, won every award his readers and colleagues could contrive to give him, and provided pleasure and insight to millions. He died in 1992, still at work.
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  Treasury
  of Hjjmor
  640 Jokes,
  Anecdotes, and Limericks,
  Complete with Notes
  on How to Tell Them,
  from America's Leading
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  Renaissance
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  Man
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  Isaac Asimov's
  Treasury of Humor
  
  Isaac Asimov's
  Treasury of Humor
  A
  lifetime collection offavorite jokes, anecdotes,
  and limericks with copious notes
  on how
  to
  tell them
  and why
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  HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
  Boston
  
  Copyright© 1971 by Isaac Asimov
  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
  For information about permission to reproduce selections from
  this book, write to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Company,
  2 Park Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02108.
  CIP data is available.
  isbn: 0-395-57226-6 (pbk.)
  Printed in the United States of America
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  To Muriel Hirt,
  at whose infamous suggestion
  this book was written
  
  Contents
  INTRODUCTION
  ix
  I ANTICLIMAX
  1
  II SHAGGY DOG
  49
  III PARADOX
  68
  IV PUT-DOWN
  124
  V WORD PLAY
  159
  VI TABLES TURNED
  180
  VII JEWISH
  211
  VIII ETHNIC
  279
  IX RELIGION
  311
  X MARRIAGE
  345
  XI BAWDY
  368
  INDEX
  421
  
  Introduction
  