Culture Curiosity Gifts

Absoulutely NO OTTOMANS: 'Not you, Omar! They mean footstools!'

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

Great Chinese Dynasties

"Hmm...well...It'll look better when it's finished...!"

Omara Portuondo

World Tour.

Fabrique en Francais (Made in France).

"Will you have a Sphinx?"

'Great news, Dear! I've been traded to a think tank in California for a PhD Specializing in the Baltics!'

Nothing like traveling hundreds of miles to immerse yourself in art for the sole purpose of killing time between meals.

'Are you sure this is authentic ancient Indian art?'

"Can you speak up: there's a bloody racket going on in the background."

"Biff's old money, Angelo is new money and Boris is funny money."

Now showing, at a University near you...

"Yeah, I know. bu tthe administration didn't want to appear culturally insensitive."

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

Dynasties - Ping, Ching, Ming.

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

"Please hold applause until end of dragon."

'Now that we've learned to talk, maybe we should establish some speech codes.'

Introducing Piza Island.

Creation of Red Wine

'Our goal is to stress di-versity while remaining a uni-versity.'

'He bowed lower for me than for you.'

"Then what happened?"

Guide reading book called 'A farewell to arms.'

The Cremaster Cycle

"How the hell is that supposed to feed us?"

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

A couple looks at posters of Rio, Paris and Tokyo, all of which feature skyscrapers.

Birds talking about package holiday makers - "Amazing how they find there way back every year."

'Some of these traditions don't half linger on.'