Conceptual Enthusiast Gifts

Performance Artist - Gone to put you off your lunch.

"What do you mean 'theoretically'? Everything we do is theoretical."

Bob encounters one of the bugs in the Jean Paul Sartre fan website.

"Hey! If you're here to marvel at the smallness of your existence within a glorious, vast and unknowable universe, there's a line!"

'No, Timmy, we are not supposed to connect them.'

"Space is curved and time is relative? Yeah, OK...I'm calling you a cab right now, buddy."

Convenience.

Nails pinning down the hammer that usually strikes them.

Jackson Pollock: abstract; Picasso: cubism; Bobby: eight year old

Lots of famous art may have been inspired by taxes. Jackson Pollack's "Number 5" could be a visual representation of global regulations. And perhaps Rodin's "The Thinker" is a man trying to understand those rules. Maybe Roy Lichtenstein's "Ohhh ... Alright ..." shows a woman being told to continue holding to get her tax question answered. And they there's Edvard Munch's "The Scream" ... Nothing makes you feel like that more than preparing a tax return!

"Nihilistic customer service"

A Freudian slip...

'What do you mean 'theoretically'? Everything we do is theoretical.'

"Don't you find her work just so wonderfully liberating!"

Women's sportswear - Sale on paradigm shifts.

Complexity Made Simple.

Business Sisyphus

Shallow End (Slightly innocuous statements) - Deep End (a little more weighty)

Darwin first tested his theory in a letter to a magazine ('Lookalike' letter points to similarity between man and ape.)

Theory A Day Calendar.

'Don't know much about art but I know what I like.'

Two guns are pointing at each other in a peace sign.

"Actually, I worked my way up from 'ideas'."

X-RAY

'Since you conduct only thought experiments, we were hoping you would, from time to time, come up with some thought results.'

Tracey Emin's Bed

"I think, therefore I am depressed."

"I don't pretend to be great. I merely know myself to be very, very good."

How does it feel to always be the smartest guy in the room, Dr. Kapuchnik? Usually, it feels pretty good. In this particular case, it feels like I'm cheating.

Man falls off perch

'Even if you do, never admit that you know everything.'

"This is a little embarrassing to admit, but everything that happens happens for no real reason."

'I wonder if you would like to subscribe to a theory.'

'What are you talking about? ? how can you have half a quantum theory?'

A Sculptor chiselling out 'The Invisible Man' from a block of stone.