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."

"Please hold applause until end of dragon."

Men gossiping

"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?'

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

'Who's the new guy?'

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

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

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

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

The Kali De Milo.

'Kafka! Kandinsky! Kokoschka!'

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

Count Valmont- Proposed Titlepage to 'Les Liasons Dangereuses'

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

Antonin Leopold Dvorak

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

Chinese History: Redwash

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

"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.'

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

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

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

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Australia's role in the Asian century.

Burger stall at an art gallery

White Wine Wisdom (2)

The British Hamlet. He says: 'Alas poor Yorick, I knew him ... well, I say knew, more of an acquaintance really. Only met the chap three or four times.'