Welcome to Volume 1 of The Little Ho! Ho! Book. (Referred to in familiar circles as the T.L.H.H.B.) This is a compilation of twelve of the Fan’s Favorite Holiday Columns that ran in years past throughout the Midwestern United States in the weekly humor column "And...More, Later." Simple, eh?

Well...not quite that simple. For this Holiday Gift Book is much more than just your average compilation. In this its finest hour, it represents the extremely hard work of several individuals who felt strongly enough about this project to devote an enormous amount of Time, Patience, and Support to it. Its purpose is twofold: to bring attention to a devastating condition, Alzheimer’s, which is affecting our aging population on an ever-increasing basis, and secondly to generate a non-typical source of revenue to the local chapter responsible for increasing the public’s awareness of this serious illness.

The authors and artistic contributors are receiving no monetary remuneration for their efforts. In fact, 100%...again, that’s 100%...of the royalties generated by the sales of this small effort will be paid directly to the Heartland Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association, the charity selected to benefit from this first edition of T.L.H.H.B. Hopefully, this is just the first of many such volumes that will continue to benefit this particular charity as well as several other worthy organizations in future years.

On behalf of everyone who contributed their energy to this endeavor...“Thanks,” our appreciation, and Happy Holidays.

Gino Balloni and Ricky Rye are NYPD detectives; and they're as dirty as it gets. These guys will do just about anything for a laugh and a quick buck including doing 'side work' for Gino's uncle Tony Rizzoli, a mob captain for the Cavetti crime family.

Join Gino and Ricky in this satirical tongue-in-cheek mob-cop spoof as they spend their time creatively avoiding doing any actual police work while breaking every law imaginable including committing murder to suit the needs of the mob and lining their own pockets in the process.

If you're looking to read the literary masterpiece of our time this aint it. But if you want to laugh your ass off and have a smile on your face when you're done reading a book you came to the right place.

Whaddeva!

Bridge is one of the few games you don’t have to play for money to enjoy. It’s a fun game played by people who want to have fun, but often hide that fact with a serious face and demeanor. Bridge, like good love making, takes time, effort, patience, concentration, and energy and is good for your mind, body, and soul. In Alterman Big Club, author Dr. Stanley B. Alterman presents a new world of bridge—the Alterman Big Club (ABC)—that enhances the current aspects of the game you now enjoy eliminating complexity and adding constructive precision.

Developed over the last five years, Alterman Big Club details a simple, novel system that bridge players can use to obtain above-average results. He uses his personal experience and research as a starting place for an insider’s guide that presents some history of playing systems and insights into the key strategies used by successful professional players. He invokes the KISS (keep it simple stupid) principle to allow players to learn the ABC system as easy as they did their ABCs.

Alterman Big Club shows how ABC is a precise system marked by with natural, simple bidding rules and none of the complexity and ambiguities of Precision or Standard American bridge bidding systems.

Bill Daugherty has been collecting and telling jokes and humorous stories for many years. He does this, not for profit, but for the sheer enjoyment he receives from making people laugh.

With stories such as these, he has entertained his Rotary Club, local and National Audubon Societies, literary group meetings, humorous roast, and members of his weekly bridge games.

Bill’s occupation has not been entertainment. Rather, he has post graduate degrees in Physics and Education, and before retiring, was an Aerospace Engineering Manager at Hughes Aircraft Company, Space Technology Laboratories, and TRW Systems.

He has written two WWII novels about the air war in the South Pacific, Black Cats, and Nightmares. He published a monolog on education, Public School Education Destroyed by Educators, and an engineering text he co authored, Mechanical Engineering for Electrical Engineers. His OP-ED pieces have appeared in major newspapers.

Bill firmly believes that laughter is sorely missing in our world, and jokes about mature subjects are especially entertaining.

To find out of this “Not our typical joke book” you’ll have to read it.

Bill Daugherty has been collecting and telling jokes and humorous stories for many years. He does this, not for profit, but for the sheer enjoyment he receives from making people laugh.

With stories such as these, he has entertained his Rotary Club, local and National Audubon Societies, literary group meetings, humorous roast, and members of his weekly bridge games.

Bill’s occupation has not been entertainment. Rather, he has post graduate degrees in Physics and Education, and before retiring, was an Aerospace Engineering Manager at Hughes Aircraft Company, Space Technology Laboratories, and TRW Systems.

He has written two WWII novels about the air war in the South Pacific, Black Cats, and Nightmares. He published a monolog on education, Public School Education Destroyed by Educators, and an engineering text he co authored, Mechanical Engineering for Electrical Engineers. His OP-ED pieces have appeared in major newspapers.

Bill firmly believes that laughter is sorely missing in our world, and jokes about mature subjects are especially entertaining.

To find out of this “Not our typical joke book” you’ll have to read it.

Thirty-year-old Roger marks time by the gradual shifting of sunlight and shadows outside his Toronto high-rise apartment. As a freelance columnist, he makes about as much money as a twelve-year-old with a lawn-mowing business. With all his hopes riding on the novel he started eight years ago, Roger is clearly not in a hurry to do anything except dodge life’s ups and downs as much as he can.

While nurturing a crush on the cute girl at the local coffee shop, Roger notices a leaflet on the table advertising a psychic demonstration. Intrigued, he bribes three caffeine-loving buddies to accompany him to the show featuring Anya Dreamchaser, psychic extraordinaire. Anya turns out to be a fake, but the real surprise comes when Roger’s friend Karl begins displaying his own shockingly accurate psychic abilities. As the friends come to terms with what they have witnessed, they each embark on bizarre personal journeys of enlightenment that take one of them straight into a weird New Age cult and another into a confrontation with a maniacal Scottish churchman.

Crystal Balls is a comic tale about the adventures—and misadventures—of four friends who unwittingly change their lives forever after making the fateful decision to step out of their ordinary lives into an extraordinary psychic world.

For Jim Sain, the eccentric, controversial, and frequently naked mayor of Berkeley, California, life is never dull—and that’s just the way he likes it. In this, the final installment of his mR. bERZERKELEY trilogy, Jack McLaughlin wraps up his love song to the other city by the bay.

Mayor Sain has a lot on his mind these days. He’s in Virginia City, involved in a murder trial; the accused is Asia, his half-sister, and she has been charged with their father’s murder. Jim’s an up-and-coming reality television star whose rise to fame and (possible) fortune is the talk of Hamilton House. He’s also the king of Mardi Gras in his spare time. BTW-he’s still supposed to be running a city!

Meanwhile, life at the boarding house is as outlandish as ever. No one knows quite what to think after Josh disappears. He is the target of a Chinese gang leader, and his life takes a confusing turn when he loses his memory and returns … as an alligator hunter. Sarah soldiers on in her search for the one she now loves. The controversial culmination of Asia’s dog-cloning experiment draws near. And poor Bessie must deal with sadness she always feels when all the boarders leave after another wild and wacky year. But at least she has the new school year to cheer her up, when a new cast of characters brings fresh life to Hamilton House.

Decisions are made, risks taken, drama endured, adventure survived, and excitement abounds as the mR. BERZERKELEY trilogy comes to a dazzling and bittersweet end.

Laurie Anderson believes in repeat performances, especially when it comes to marriage. Thankfully she finally got it right with her fifth husband, and is happily living on the back side of fifty in a town known for only one thing—its sins. Now she just wishes she could create a new pastime besides standing in front of a mirror and pulling her skin back so she can see her original jawline again.

Laurie is not alone. Her best friends—wacko Sally CJ, respectable Frances, and white-knight deprived Marcia—are dealing with jiggly butts, saggy breasts, and a potpourri of men with more problems than them. Sally CJ, whose thirty-four double Ds are not shrinking with age, believes sex is the magic elixir for all evils. Frances, who just ended a dead-end relationship, is approaching aging through wine and expensive face creams. Marcia, a widow who has the ability to attract guys with major character flaws, is unintentionally transforming into a nun. As the women search for their next relationship, they reflect on youthful escapades and eventually create rules to guide them through the unfamiliar territory of Internet and blind dating.

Menopausal Killer Sharks is an amusing, heartfelt tale centered around four middle-aged women who bravely face the third act of life with humor and, most importantly, each other.

Bridge is one of the few games you don’t have to play for money to enjoy. It’s a fun game played by people who want to have fun, but often hide that fact with a serious face and demeanor. Bridge, like good love making, takes time, effort, patience, concentration, and energy and is good for your mind, body, and soul. In Alterman Big Club, author Dr. Stanley B. Alterman presents a new world of bridge—the Alterman Big Club (ABC)—that enhances the current aspects of the game you now enjoy eliminating complexity and adding constructive precision.

Developed over the last five years, Alterman Big Club details a simple, novel system that bridge players can use to obtain above-average results. He uses his personal experience and research as a starting place for an insider’s guide that presents some history of playing systems and insights into the key strategies used by successful professional players. He invokes the KISS (keep it simple stupid) principle to allow players to learn the ABC system as easy as they did their ABCs.

Alterman Big Club shows how ABC is a precise system marked by with natural, simple bidding rules and none of the complexity and ambiguities of Precision or Standard American bridge bidding systems.

For Jim Sain, the eccentric, controversial, and frequently naked mayor of Berkeley, California, life is never dull—and that’s just the way he likes it. In this, the final installment of his mR. bERZERKELEY trilogy, Jack McLaughlin wraps up his love song to the other city by the bay.

Mayor Sain has a lot on his mind these days. He’s in Virginia City, involved in a murder trial; the accused is Asia, his half-sister, and she has been charged with their father’s murder. Jim’s an up-and-coming reality television star whose rise to fame and (possible) fortune is the talk of Hamilton House. He’s also the king of Mardi Gras in his spare time. BTW-he’s still supposed to be running a city!

Meanwhile, life at the boarding house is as outlandish as ever. No one knows quite what to think after Josh disappears. He is the target of a Chinese gang leader, and his life takes a confusing turn when he loses his memory and returns … as an alligator hunter. Sarah soldiers on in her search for the one she now loves. The controversial culmination of Asia’s dog-cloning experiment draws near. And poor Bessie must deal with sadness she always feels when all the boarders leave after another wild and wacky year. But at least she has the new school year to cheer her up, when a new cast of characters brings fresh life to Hamilton House.

Decisions are made, risks taken, drama endured, adventure survived, and excitement abounds as the mR. BERZERKELEY trilogy comes to a dazzling and bittersweet end.

For Jim Sain, the eccentric, controversial, and frequently naked mayor of Berkeley, California, life is never dull—and that’s just the way he likes it. In this, the final installment of his mR. bERZERKELEY trilogy, Jack McLaughlin wraps up his love song to the other city by the bay.

Mayor Sain has a lot on his mind these days. He’s in Virginia City, involved in a murder trial; the accused is Asia, his half-sister, and she has been charged with their father’s murder. Jim’s an up-and-coming reality television star whose rise to fame and (possible) fortune is the talk of Hamilton House. He’s also the king of Mardi Gras in his spare time. BTW-he’s still supposed to be running a city!

Meanwhile, life at the boarding house is as outlandish as ever. No one knows quite what to think after Josh disappears. He is the target of a Chinese gang leader, and his life takes a confusing turn when he loses his memory and returns … as an alligator hunter. Sarah soldiers on in her search for the one she now loves. The controversial culmination of Asia’s dog-cloning experiment draws near. And poor Bessie must deal with sadness she always feels when all the boarders leave after another wild and wacky year. But at least she has the new school year to cheer her up, when a new cast of characters brings fresh life to Hamilton House.

Decisions are made, risks taken, drama endured, adventure survived, and excitement abounds as the mR. BERZERKELEY trilogy comes to a dazzling and bittersweet end.

Laurie Anderson believes in repeat performances, especially when it comes to marriage. Thankfully she finally got it right with her fifth husband, and is happily living on the back side of fifty in a town known for only one thing—its sins. Now she just wishes she could create a new pastime besides standing in front of a mirror and pulling her skin back so she can see her original jawline again.

Laurie is not alone. Her best friends—wacko Sally CJ, respectable Frances, and white-knight deprived Marcia—are dealing with jiggly butts, saggy breasts, and a potpourri of men with more problems than them. Sally CJ, whose thirty-four double Ds are not shrinking with age, believes sex is the magic elixir for all evils. Frances, who just ended a dead-end relationship, is approaching aging through wine and expensive face creams. Marcia, a widow who has the ability to attract guys with major character flaws, is unintentionally transforming into a nun. As the women search for their next relationship, they reflect on youthful escapades and eventually create rules to guide them through the unfamiliar territory of Internet and blind dating.

Menopausal Killer Sharks is an amusing, heartfelt tale centered around four middle-aged women who bravely face the third act of life with humor and, most importantly, each other.

Laurie Anderson believes in repeat performances, especially when it comes to marriage. Thankfully she finally got it right with her fifth husband, and is happily living on the back side of fifty in a town known for only one thing—its sins. Now she just wishes she could create a new pastime besides standing in front of a mirror and pulling her skin back so she can see her original jawline again.

Laurie is not alone. Her best friends—wacko Sally CJ, respectable Frances, and white-knight deprived Marcia—are dealing with jiggly butts, saggy breasts, and a potpourri of men with more problems than them. Sally CJ, whose thirty-four double Ds are not shrinking with age, believes sex is the magic elixir for all evils. Frances, who just ended a dead-end relationship, is approaching aging through wine and expensive face creams. Marcia, a widow who has the ability to attract guys with major character flaws, is unintentionally transforming into a nun. As the women search for their next relationship, they reflect on youthful escapades and eventually create rules to guide them through the unfamiliar territory of Internet and blind dating.

Menopausal Killer Sharks is an amusing, heartfelt tale centered around four middle-aged women who bravely face the third act of life with humor and, most importantly, each other.

Thirty-year-old Roger marks time by the gradual shifting of sunlight and shadows outside his Toronto high-rise apartment. As a freelance columnist, he makes about as much money as a twelve-year-old with a lawn-mowing business. With all his hopes riding on the novel he started eight years ago, Roger is clearly not in a hurry to do anything except dodge life’s ups and downs as much as he can.

While nurturing a crush on the cute girl at the local coffee shop, Roger notices a leaflet on the table advertising a psychic demonstration. Intrigued, he bribes three caffeine-loving buddies to accompany him to the show featuring Anya Dreamchaser, psychic extraordinaire. Anya turns out to be a fake, but the real surprise comes when Roger’s friend Karl begins displaying his own shockingly accurate psychic abilities. As the friends come to terms with what they have witnessed, they each embark on bizarre personal journeys of enlightenment that take one of them straight into a weird New Age cult and another into a confrontation with a maniacal Scottish churchman.

Crystal Balls is a comic tale about the adventures—and misadventures—of four friends who unwittingly change their lives forever after making the fateful decision to step out of their ordinary lives into an extraordinary psychic world.