Analyzing Society Mugs

'Consumer Society'

"The Net National Product rose slightly last month."

"You're going to have to submit to peer review eventually, Bradshaw!"

Reading my Critics

"Gee, thanks pal."

"Biff's old money, Angelo is new money and Boris is funny money."

'Due to government surveillance, is my allowance taxable?'

Six Thinking Hats

"How to talk to people" "Make them rue the day"

"Next time be more careful where you put the decimal point!"

'Herb will provide one of his concise interpretations of the quarterly sales charts.'

"Son, the world is full of disappointments. About 7.7 billion of them."

'Your 'marriage' invention sounds good, but what if it leads to a concentration of power for the central government?'

Experience-Productivity Ratio / Age-Salary Ratio.

Before the riots/after the riots

"If you're not on the brink of despair you're part of the problem"

"How is it in Russia?"

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

Hudibras - 12 - Hudibras encounters the Skimmington.

Regardless children just want to fit in.

"...but this is the stuff of dreams Mr Whitley! Dreams."

'I know a lot of wives let themselves go when they're married- but AFTER the reception?'

Profit slump

"He's so anti-regulation he won't even take a laxative."

World Financial Mafia

"A grand jury sitting in Terre Haute, Indiana, today handed up an indictment of society."

"At first I was a bit worried about the comeback of wolves in Europe. But I must admit that they had adapted well to living together with humans!"

Micro and Macro Department,

'My problem is that I am an informed citizen.'

I'm here to update your census form. Since you mailed the form in, have any of your children moved back in with you?

"Your Honor, we the jury blame the victim."

"It takes a while for technological advances to benefit everybody equally."

are you so alienated from any real form of community that you can no longer distinguish between belonging and conforming?

"Remember, data doesn't tell the whole story."

'Now,they're going to teach you to talk, but remember, after you learn how.stay away from religion or politics.'