Budding Scientist Gifts

On Aug. 3, 1992, the Moon rose over the horizon wearing heavy eye-liner and mohawk. Fortunately it was just a phase.

"I don't know what I want to do for my science project. I was thinking of trying to cure something."

"I'm making pink lemonade!"

"For you young scientists who hope to do public service work someday, the following six experiments, showing the basic ideas behind chemical warfare...."

"So, you two idiots have gone and fused your heads together, eh? Well, maybe now you'll learn that an atomic laboratory is not a playground!"

"Do you want to play doctorate?"

'Hmph. College kids.'

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

'I love your playing....especially when you stop!'

"If oceans are absorbing more carbon dioxide, why isn't this water fizzy?"

'We use to tiptoe through the tulips. . . now we just waddle through the weeds.'

Rose Garden

Florabation - '..mmm...It must be spring!'

"... And his piano teacher says that he definitely has Van Gough's ear for music."

'We're pushing our do-it-yourself kit, today, sir - a ream of paper and a half-dozen pencils.'

"Mom, Mom, watch me!"

'This is your spinal column...It's a bunch of bones that runs up and down your back and keeps your legs from going all the way up to your neck.'

Mum has a bad judgement day - Well OK, you can take it to your room as long as you play it quietly.

"Gracie, I'm proud of you. Your team lost, but you tried your best and that's all that counts."

Roses

Children playing football.

"I think this is the perfect place to grow a family."

Dig the Garden,"Hey those Geraniums are cool."

"You must have a green thumb."

'I've crunched the numbers and you can afford to increase my allowance by 15.5%.'

Learner Driver

Setting out the bedding plants was one of his few remaining pleasures,

"There's the pressure from my public, naturally, as well as the pressure from my publisher, my agent, and all that. But the real pressure comes from that devil inside that makes me different from other men, that makes me a writer. But, of course, you know all about pressure, grinding out those papers at Sarah Lawrence."

'What's the fist thing you're going to think of when your brain is fully formed?'

'I'm not sure if he plays that loud because he has a good set of lungs or if it's a mean streak in him.'

Gardener

Gardening new year's plans

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

'Talk about stuck-up! -- he has Masterpiece Theatre action figures!'

"So you can tweet. That's why you have to learn the alphabet."