Basket Refuser Gifts

'Use a basket? That's too much trouble.'

"It's about the murder of an editor who refuses to publish a writer's work..."

Why moms make bad refs.

My therapist says I should take up basket making as a pastime!

Editor.

"If obsessing about trash is wrong, then. . . I don't wanna be right."

'No wonder it was so hard to assemble. I thought it was supposed to be a basketball hoop, not a weapon of mass destruction.'

'Yes, it's a foul. But is it a flagrant foul?'

'You know you're doing your job right when both coaches are mad at you.'

'Hold the Ferguson report. Ed's had enough information for the day.'

Turkey going away for Christmas.

"I put all my eggs in different basket, like you said."

'So you're the referee who had the courage to call a Technical Foul on Bobby Knight.'

"The quality of the writing is an embarrassment, it has no style, no fluency, no soul!"

'I suppose this will be a CHARGE?'

According to this tabloid article, two guys who today are a basketabll referee and a politician, were friends as kids with a business selling seashells. The referee says that one sunny day while under an umbrella searching in the muck for shells they found a bunch of slimy, loose change. Or as the tabloid puts it "Whistleblower reveals pol's shady past with dirty money and a shell company!"

'We had a power surge, and the electronic scoreboard seems to have tapped into the CIA's computer.'

"Romance beckons, don't hold back, adventure awaits, Pisces in picture..."

'Do I look as though I want to play Monopoly?'

'No, no, of course I think you're beautiful ... it's just that, ever since you showed me those baby pictures of you ... well, I just can't seem to get those images out of my head.'

"I never nap. Such a waste of life. Besides, if I spend all my time napping, I won't finish my graphic novel."

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow...

"This is a very important book. In fact, it's too important to publish."

'I'm just living up to the fans' expectations.'

Dog in basket

'My first piece of advice is not to put all your eggs in one basket.'

Mary recycles her brother's old basketball sneakers.

Horse Play

"You've got to stop bringing your work home."

Poor Easter Bunny with sign: 'Put all my eggs in one basket'.

'Yes, but not just any wolverine. Pretend you're arguing a call.'

'Let's keep a tight rein on this game. Emotions are running hight.'

'It's a little joke on the coaches.'

'On second thought, you're right. It was incidental contact.'

'I think I'm getting my ratings from my last game.'