Context Connoisseurs Gifts

"Make my speech so incomprehensible it won't matter if I'm taken out of context."

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

Men gossiping

"Please hold applause until end of dragon."

"The Leonardos, the Raphaels, Titians, Veroneses, Giottos... Italy wants them back, all 427 of them."

'Why is it he never understands sit , stay or down, but understands spayed and neutered?'

'Who's the new guy?'

"I guess when your husband dies you'll really understand what they mean by a statistical death."

"By 'genius' do they mean the artist or the marketing department?"

The Kali De Milo.

Counselor. It's annoying that he always has to have the second-to-last word

"No, no, that’s in a bar, Mr. President — you can talk politics and religion here."

Bee to bee: 'We used buzzwords before they were trendy.'

"We've all said things about heliocentricity that look bad when taken out of context."

'Kafka! Kandinsky! Kokoschka!'

"Can you take a video of me attacking the garbage so I can post it on Instagram?"

'If content is king, why doesn't anybody want to pay for it.'

Count Valmont- Proposed Titlepage to 'Les Liasons Dangereuses'

"Nope! He'd never set eyes on a water cooler in all his years in the office!"

Chinese History: Redwash

"I like them. They hate the same things we do."

Antonin Leopold Dvorak

"You have an air of Camille Paglia about you."

"Now we're leaving the hall of stuff we stole from other cultures and entering the hall of stuff we paid too much for."

'I may not know much about art. But, I don't know what I like either.'

Brighter days are ahead. I love it when I hear that in both news and weather segments of the program.

'Yeah, but this time she just said no -- there wasn't any hysterical laughter!'

White Wine Wisdom (2)

Somebody should really be filming this for YouTube.

Can I ask you a question, man-to-man? Sure, little buddy. What do "man-to-man talks" usually consist of? What? I've never really had one, I don't think. What usually goes into them? Sports? Shaving? Carburetors? A little of this, a little of that. There's a proper ratio, of course. I'm not good at math.

"I said, you know why women talk more than men?" "What?" "I said, you know why women talk more than men..." "What?"

"We should probably talk about the elephant in the Roomba."

Burger stall at an art gallery

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Australia's role in the Asian century.