Culture Curiosity Prints

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

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

Louis Armstrong

Great Chinese Dynasties

Unable to raise enough money for a trip to Paris, the Bartlesville High French Club had to settle for three days in Tulsa.

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

Omara Portuondo

Fabrique en Francais (Made in France).

World Tour.

"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!'

"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."

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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?'

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

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

Birthday Cakes: From Around the World

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

Dynasties - Ping, Ching, Ming.

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

Introducing Piza Island.

"Please hold applause until end of dragon."

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.'

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

The Cremaster Cycle

Museum. Hours. You're donating your collection of pre-Columbian art? Yes! What's Mayan is yours!

"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."