Baby, It's Cold Inside : Thirty-Two Side-Splitting Stories by America's Master Humorist

by S. J. Perelman

• ISBN13: 9781585741175
• ISBN10: 1585741175
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: The Lyons Press

Summary

Culled from the pages of The New Yorker, Holiday, TV Guide, and Venture, these thirty-two stories span all of Perelman's work from the 1960s.

Table of Contents

Anna Trivia Pluralized	11	(18)
Heads I Trim, Frails You Lose	18	(7)
The Rape of the Drape	25	(8)
Dear Sir or Madam	33	(8)
I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls	41	(8)
In Spite of All Temptations/To Belong to Other Nations	49	(8)
Turn the Knob, Doc, You're Obsolete	57	(7)
Three Loves Had I, in Assorted Flavors	64	(7)
Call Me Monty, and Grovel Freely	71	(8)
I Hate Spanish Moss	79	(8)
Come, Costly Fido, For I Am Sick With Love	87	(8)
Be a Cat's-Paw! Lose Big Money!	95	(7)
She Walks in Beauty---Single File, Eyes Front, and No Hanky-Panky	102	(8)
Five Little Biceps and How They Flew	110	(7)
To Err Is Human, to Forgive, Supine	117	(7)
Naked in Piccadilly, W.1	124	(7)
Moonstruck at Sunset	131	(8)
Calling All Moths: Candle Dead Ahead	139	(7)
Shamrocks in My Head	146	(10)
Hark---Whence Came Those Pear-Shaped Drones?	156	(8)
The Hermit Crab	164	(7)
Paint Me a Pinion Immortal, Limner Dear	171	(8)
Let a Snarl Be Your Umbrella	179	(7)
The Skin You Love to Watch	186	(8)
Out of This Nettle, Danger . . .	194	(7)
My Life in Scotland Yard	201	(9)
Too Many Undies Spoil the Crix	210	(8)
Lock Lips---Monkeyshines in the Bridgework	218	(7)
And, in the Center Ring, That Stupendous Death-Defying Daredevil . . .	225	(6)
10:30, and All Quiet on West Forty-fifth Street	231	(7)
Plus Ca Change	238	(7)
Thunder Under the Kalahari	245