{"product_id":"2940016376493","title":"Toaster's handbook; jokes, stories, and quotations","description":"PREFACE \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNothing so frightens a man as the announcement that he is \u003cbr\u003eexpected to respond to a toast on some appallingly near-by \u003cbr\u003eoccasion. All ideas he may ever have had on the subject melt \u003cbr\u003eaway and like a drowning man he clutches furiously at the \u003cbr\u003enearest solid object. This book is intended for such rescue \u003cbr\u003epurpose, buoyant and trustworthy but, it is to be hoped, not \u003cbr\u003eheavy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLet the frightened toaster turn first to the key word of his \u003cbr\u003etopic in this dictionary alphabet of selections and perchance he \u003cbr\u003emay find toast, story, definition or verse that may felicitously \u003cbr\u003eintroduce his remarks. Then as he proceeds to outline his talk \u003cbr\u003eand to put it into sentences, he may find under one of the many \u003cbr\u003esubject headings a bit which will happily and scintillatingly drive \u003cbr\u003ehome the ideas he is unfolding. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile the larger part of the contents is humorous, there are \u003cbr\u003einserted many quotations of a serious nature which may serve \u003cbr\u003eas appropriate literary ballast. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe jokes and quotes gathered for the toaster have been \u003cbr\u003eplaced under the subject headings where it seemed that they \u003cbr\u003emight be most useful, even at the risk of the joke turning on the \u003cbr\u003ecompilers. To extend the usefulness of such pseudo-cataloging, \u003cbr\u003ecross references, similar and dissimilar to those of a library card \u003cbr\u003ecatalog, have been included.","brand":"Majestic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47153269473520,"sku":"2940016376493","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016376493_p0.jpg?v=1763634698","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016376493","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}