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A writer for Sports Illustrated shares his impressions and observations of the Steelers in the 1973 season as he followed them from June training to January drafting

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9780345291103 | Ballantine Books, October 12, 1980, cover price $2.75 | About this edition: A writer for Sports Illustrated shares his impressions and observations of the Steelers in the 1973 season as he followed them from June training to January drafting

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A writer for Sports Illustrated shares his impressions and observations of the Steelers in the 1973 season as he followed them from June training to January drafting

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9780345341068 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, July 1, 1986), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: A writer for Sports Illustrated shares his impressions and observations of the Steelers in the 1973 season as he followed them from June training to January drafting

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Product Description: In 1973, the Pittsburgh Steelers were super, but missed the bowl. Blount's portrait of a team poised to dominate the NFL for more than a decade recounts the gridiron accomplishments and off-the-field lives of players, coaches, wives, fans, and owners...read more

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9780345364418 | Rev sub edition (Ballantine Books, October 1, 1989), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: In 1973, the Pittsburgh Steelers were super, but missed the bowl.

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Ali G: How many words does you know?Noam Chomsky: Normally, humans, by maturity, have tens of thousands of them.Ali G: What is some of 'em?—Da Ali G Show Did you know that both mammal and matter derive from baby talk? Have you noticed how wince makes you wince? Ever wonder why so many h-words have to do with breath? Roy Blount Jr. certainly has, and after forty years of making a living using words in every medium, print or electronic, except greeting cards, he still can’t get over his ABCs. In Alphabet Juice, he celebrates the electricity, the juju, the sonic and kinetic energies, of letters and their combinations. Blount does not prescribe proper English. The franchise he claims is “over the counter.” Three and a half centuries ago, Thomas Blount produced Blount’s Glossographia, the first dictionary to explore derivations of English words. This Blount’s Glossographia takes that pursuit to other levels, from Proto-Indo-European roots to your epiglottis. It rejects the standard linguistic notion that the connection between words and their meanings is “arbitrary.” Even the word arbitrary is shown to be no more arbitrary, at its root, than go-to guy or crackerjack. From sources as venerable as the OED (in which Blount finds an inconsistency, at whisk) and as fresh as Urbandictionary.com (to which Blount has contributed the number-one definition of alligator arm), and especially from the author’s own wide-ranging experience, Alphabet Juice derives an organic take on language that is unlike, and more fun than, any other.

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9780374103699 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 14, 2008, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Ali G: How many words does you know?

Paperback:

9780374532048 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 29, 2009, cover price $15.00

CD/Spoken Word:

9781427204936 | St Martins Pr, October 14, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Ali G: How many words does you know?

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Fresh-squeezed Lexicology, with TwistsNo man of letters savors the ABC’s, or serves them up, like language-loving humorist Roy Blount Jr. His glossary, from ad hominy to zizz, is hearty, full bodied, and out to please discriminating palates coarse and fine. In 2008, he celebrated the gists, tangs, and energies of letters and their combinations in Alphabet Juice, to wide acclaim. Now, Alphabetter Juice. Which is better.This book is for anyone—novice wordsmith, sensuous reader, or career grammarian—who loves to get physical with words. What is the universal sign of disgust, ew, doing in beautiful and cutie? Why is toadless, but not frogless, in the Oxford English Dictionary? How can the U. S. Supreme Court find relevance in gollywoddles? Might there be scientific evidence for the sonicky value of hunch? And why would someone not bother to spell correctly the very word he is trying to define on Urbandictionary.com?Digging into how locutions evolve, and work, or fail, Blount draws upon everything from The Tempest to The Wire. He takes us to Iceland, for salmon-watching with a “girl gillie,” and to Georgian England, where a distinguished etymologist bites off more of a “giantess” than he can chew. Jimmy Stewart appears, in connection with kludge and the bombing of Switzerland. Litigation over supercalifragilisticexpialidocious leads to a vintage werewolf movie; news of possum-tossing, to metanarrative.As Michael Dirda wrote in The Washington Post Book World, “The immensely likeable Blount clearly possesses what was called in the Italian Renaissance ‘sprezzatura,’ that rare and enviable ability to do even the most difficult things without breaking a sweat.” Alphabetter Juice is brimming with sprezzatura. Have a taste.

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9780374103705 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 10, 2011, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Fresh-squeezed Lexicology, with TwistsNo man of letters savors the ABC’s, or serves them up, like language-loving humorist Roy Blount Jr.

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9780374533373 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 8, 2012, cover price $15.00

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A delightful combination of lively photographs and amusing verse provides a rollicking glimpse into the innermost thoughts of barnyard animals, from relationships and food-chain issues to why people want to come up to cows and go 'moo.' By the authors of I Am Puppy, Hear Me Yap!. 50,000 first printing.

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9780060194871 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, November 1, 2001), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A delightful combination of lively photographs and amusing verse provides a rollicking glimpse into the innermost thoughts of barnyard animals, from relationships and food-chain issues to why people want to come up to cows and go 'moo.

With selections from such notables as Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Arthur Miller, John Updike, Carl Sagan, Charles Schulz, and others, this anthology--enhanced with quizzes, polls, and surveys--addresses the rewards and challenges confronting people over age fifty.
By Blount, Deborah H. Deford (editor) and Deborah Defore (editor)

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9780895779786 | Putnam Pub Group, January 1, 1998, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: With selections from such notables as Dr.

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An entertaining memoir by the author of Crackers and First Hubby reflects on the life and times of a Georgia boy turned New York wit, reflecting on the three profound riddles that have had a formative impact on his world. Reprint. 50,000 first printing. Tour. NYT.

Hardcover:

9780679400547 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, June 1, 1998, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The author's memoirs reflect on the life and times of a Georgia boy turned New York wit, exploring the three profound riddles that have had a formative impact on his world

Paperback:

9780156006828 | Mariner Books, May 1, 1999, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The author's memoirs reflect on the life and times of a Georgia boy turned New York wit, exploring the three profound riddles that have had a formative impact on his world

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780375403248 | Abridged edition (Random House, June 1, 1998), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The author's memoirs reflect on the life and times of a Georgia boy turned New York wit, exploring the three profound riddles that have had a formative impact on his world.

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Hardcover:

9781455621101 | Pelican Pub Co Inc, September 9, 2015, cover price $26.95

The celebrated Southern humorist presents a new collection of essays, observations, odd thoughts, songs, and crossword puzzles that address such topics as the 'National Geographic' magazine, hyenas, and kissing

Hardcover:

9780517112274, titled "Camel's Are Easy, Comedy's Hard" | Random House Value Pub, October 6, 1993, cover price $4.99
9780679400530 | Villard Books, September 1, 1991, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: The celebrated Southern humorist presents a new collection of essays, observations, odd thoughts, songs, and crossword puzzles that address such topics as the 'National Geographic' magazine, hyenas, and kissing

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Twenty-seven sketches include the story of a man who loved to make wagers and acquired a frog, which he claimed could outjump any frog in the county
By Blount (introduced by), Shelley Fisher Fishkin (introduced by) and Mark Twain

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9780195101317 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Twenty-seven sketches include the story of a man who loved to make wagers and acquired a frog, which he claimed could outjump any frog in the county

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Product Description: Have you ever asked yourself, Am I southern? If not geographically, then deep down, at heart? Or, if I am not southern myself, do I know people who are southern, whom I misunderstand? Is there some authority I should consult?Crackers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780820320601 | Reprint edition (Univ of Georgia Pr, September 1, 1998), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Have you ever asked yourself, Am I southern?
9780345298058 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, January 1, 1982), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: A rambunctious, perspicacious and occasionally sad assessment of contemporary American cultural dilution and the crisis in Southern identity

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The author presents eight rambles through different sections of New Orleans, discovering the music, architecture, food, and colorful characters, past and present, that exemplify the city.

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9780739316238 | Abridged edition (Random House, February 8, 2005), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The author presents eight rambles through different sections of New Orleans, discovering the music, architecture, food, and colorful characters, past and present, that exemplify the city.

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The humorist author of First Hubby offers a lighthearted odyssey on foot through one of America's most colorful and historic cities, presenting eight exuberant rambles through different sections of New Orleans, discovering the music, architecture, food, and colorful characters, past and present, that exemplify the city. 40,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9781400046454 | Crown Pub, February 1, 2005, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The author presents eight rambles through different sections of New Orleans, discovering the music, architecture, food, and colorful characters, past and present, that exemplify the city.

Miscellaneous:

9780307237002 | Crown Pub, February 1, 2005, cover price $16.95

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Product Description: In his first novel, celebrated humorist Roy Blount Jr. chronicles the life and times of America's first-ever First Husband. Guy Fox first encountered Clementine on the campus of Dingler College. She was running, stark naked, away from an on-campus protest and the police who were pursuing her...read more

Hardcover:

9780517080832 | Random House Value Pub, March 14, 1992, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: In his first novel, celebrated humorist Roy Blount Jr.
9780394574202 | Villard Books, May 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Guy Fox finds his romance and marriage to Clementine Fox, vice president of the United States, irrevocably altered when the president drops dead and Clementine becomes America's first female president

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9780679737421 | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, September 1, 1991), cover price $8.00 | About this edition: From Publishers Weekly - Blount, well known as a country humorist with a flair for punning, has written a first novel about a country humorist with a flair for punning.

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Paperback:

9780820317366 | Reprint edition (Univ of Georgia Pr, August 1, 1995), cover price $24.95

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Some 175 stunning full-color and black-and-white images by one of the world's leading sports photographers celebrate the game of football in lyrical and candid portraits of football's greatest players and coaches, studies of fans, and panoramic action shots.
By Blount (compiler) and Walter Iooss

Hardcover:

9781892129482 | Total Sports, November 1, 2000, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Contains portraits of professional and college football players, coaches, and fans during the game, in locker rooms, celebrating victory, and suffering defeat.

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By Blount (introduced by), Kathi Kamen Goldmark, Dave Marsh and Gretchen Shields (illustrator)

Paperback:

9780312168599 | St Martins Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $7.95

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