Culture Curiouser Gifts

'Ethnologists good. Saving us from starving.'

"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

'Now that's an afro!'

Fabrique en Francais (Made in France).

Viking on beach with rubber ring shaped like viking ship.

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!'

Famous Jewish Blues Singer Series.

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

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

Now showing, at a University near you...

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

Mr. Punch in Venice

'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.

Introducing Piza Island.

Stonehenge Explained

Birthday Cakes: From Around the World

Dynasties - Ping, Ching, Ming.

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

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

"No - you’re right. It’s dumb."

"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.'

"He wants to study bacteria to relate to the counter culture."

"Then what happened?"