Dinner Dialogue Debater Gifts

"They were, sitting around the dinner table, knocking off a bottle of Côtes-du-Rhône and blathering about the Middle East – you've never heard such shallow, simplistic reasoning in your life – and one of them turns to me and says, "And what do you think, Barney? What do you think we should do?' and all I could come up with was 'Woof'. I felt like such an ass."

"You owe me five bucks."

"All of tonight's specials dance around the whole GMO thing."

"Must everything with you be a landmark decision?"

'When you asked me over for a home-cooked meal, I assumed you'd be making it.'

"You know why they make these straws so big? It's a scam to make you drink fast so you can finish quicker and order more."

"Let me get this, but keep in mind that you'll pay for it in other, more subtle ways later on."

"Oh sorry, those are the Ten Commandments. Hang on, I'll get you a menu."

"Those are insightful and legitimate questions about our country, Tommy, and if times were different, your mom and I probably wouldn't have to report you to the government for asking them!"

The Shakespeares Dine Out.

"How do you prepare the chicken?"

'Nobody goes there anymore.' 'Because it's too crowded.'

'You're cute when you blow your cool.'

"Oh, c'mon! Who eats aardvark with a fork?"

"Are we pessimists and our stomachs are half empty or optimists and our stomachs are half full?"

'I'll be late for dinner - a shelf fell on me.'

"You ordered mammoth again?"

'And just how much is silver going for a troy ounce these days?'

'All right, I agree with you.'

"You have zero empathy, Carlton. And I can't even begin to imagine what that's like."

"The social conservative in me tells me to pay for dinner, but the fiscal conservative thinks we should split it."

'I hate them too. Listen, would you like to go out sometime? Dinner maybe? We could complain about the service.'

'I wouldn't say you're boring, Chuck, but you're the only person I know who records The Weather Channel.'

Members of the legal fraternity at their favourite Chinese restaurant: So Su Me.

Alexis Tsipras meets Francois Hollande

Dear, this is the third time we've had broccoli casserole since you declared an end of major hostilities.

"First the porridge is too hot, then too cold... you're getting a lousy tip."

'Will you stop going BAAAAA every time I eat a piece of lamb!'

"You know, if lima beans, cauliflower and broccoli tasted like candy and ice cream, we wouldn't have to go through this every night!"

"When you say 'the same', do you mean worse or better?"

The Birth of Philosophical Thought Experiments.

"Oh, I don't eat turkey. One of my spiritual advisers is a turkey."

'Today I learned it's hard not to sound condescending when explaining science to a religious person.'

"Because of the war can we split this?"

'Charles, what did I tell you about bringing your work home?'