Discipline Detective Gifts

'That large, rolled up newspaper is a reminder - mess up in this office and you'll pay the price.'

'Someone needs to work on their parenting skills!'

'My school has a very strict detention policy.'

"It seemed like a long timeout."

"Your good cop, bad cop routine isn't working."

"Now that's the Mr. Lumpkin I know and love!"

Method, Discipline, Professionalism, Feral children.

"Then again, in some extreme cases, a swift kick in the pants is called for!"

'I remember when you used to look for answers using your astute powers of deduction.'

'Am I being too suspicious or do you think it's possible that they're crooked?'

'So let me see if I've got it straight. It was a very large squirrel and your husband is a nut.'

"What's that? I asked for a teal lichen. That's a brown thread. Are you trying to upset me?"

"Evidence suggests she was working on the puzzle, got up to make tea, husband enters and puts last piece in..."

CSI: Mother Goose Unit...'Hmmm...I'm beginning to suspect that perhaps mister Dumpty's demise wasn't simply a tragic accident.'

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

Barks in code.

'No doubt about it Captain. See these markings? This arrow belongs to Robin Hood!'

hard-boiled egg...

Missing Persons...'I'm not sure when she disappeared - sometime during the football season.'

"Talk, Wallace - where'd you hide the loot?"

Round up all the king's horses and all the king's men for questioning.

'Still not ready to talk? Ok dip him again.'

'You know too much,'

"Your hunch was right, Officer Garcia. We'll need a good editor to clean up this manuscript and bring his unfinished novel to a satisfying conclusion."

"First Lady Lettuce goes missing, then Colonel Crouton followed by Reginald Radish... Great Caesar's Ghost! Someone is making a salad!"

"I'll have the Investigator's Special."

"The Hound of the Baskervilles, Watson--I took him walkies!"

"Elementary, my dear Watson- the cartoonist did it."

Man stood by signpost to 'here' or 'there'.

'Mysteries' section of bookshop reveals secret door.

Mall Directory: You aren't here x - where the heck are you?

Hither and Yon sign

'Listen up, Baskerville! This is MacDonald! Those hounds of yours are scaring the E-I-E-I-O out of my animals!'

"It's not the first time he'd been warned about wearing a long tie when leaning over the shredder."

When Engineers Crack.