Book Virtuoso Mugs

Man playing a book like a violin.

"You'll love this. It's swarthy yet munificent, didactic and gregarious with hints of dogma."

Academic Idol - 'Professor Johannsen's paper was zippy. It had robust vocabulary and I almost felt that I could dance to it. I would give it a 7.'

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

"It's a play on words."

Ninedency: A budding tendency

"Your vocabulary is enlarged."

"In my next album 'Gettin' Back', I refute all the strong beliefs expressed in 'Gettin' There', my previous album."

"I'm afraid you have a condition called 'googly-eyes'."

"This is nice. You have your knitting and I have my vodka."

"A man never stands so tall, son, as when he stoops to pick up a quarter."

Wordplay: Nonstarter.

'Apparently it's part of the evolutionary process!'

'Coleridge'

'The other kids at school say I might need glasses, Dad.'

Annette von Droste-Hulshoff

'We the jury find the defendant very, very, very, guilty.'

'This is all without rhyme or reason.'

'Aha! I think I figured out the headache problem, one of these things is pointed the other way. This would explain the double vision.'

"It's my conscience... It's all achy"

Beatlemania: Open 24/8

Writer

Poetry repairman

Sign on Roget's Thesaurus, Inc.: 'Absent Ingesting Comestibles'

'I'm a voice over artist.'

"Of course, that's only a first draft."

Bring It On!

"I don't like the tone of your voice. Mind if I tweak it a bit?"

'The chechako sparged rhamnose into his yerba.'

'They call me the 'grandfather' of Hip-Hop!'

When English majors become waiters.

'They decided to immure the ladrone in a drogue.'

"Turn down the bass."