Dock Dweller Gifts

'Wow... What did you use for bait?'

'Noticeboard? I forgot it was there to be honest.'

'I'll be late for dinner, dear. I'm up to my neck in paperwork.'

Things-to-do-today: Daily workboxes piled up on desk.

'I just don't feel I'm getting anywhere.'

City Boy.

In case of emergency, break glass.

''A desk job.' That's what they called it at the interview.' 'Same here.' 'SHH!'

'It's your husband. The baby won't burp for him.'

'I'm thinking of cutting my hours down to 24/7."

Cargo Bay at Thames Warehouse

'It's the newest thing out. A big screen fish finder.'

''Surprise' starts with an 'S', Wilkins! You're in the wrong drawer again!'

'Don't worry about the company's pension plan. The way we work you, you'll be lucky to live that long!'

"So, you want your owners to write you off and treat you more like their kid?"

"This is Mr. Harrington, our mortgage nerd."

"It was Saturday night. The clock on my office wall showed the time to be eleven-forty-five. There are times when a private eye does not necessarily feel like being a private eye. This was one of those times. The elevator door down the hall clanked open with a clank familiar to anyone on the fourth floor who had had an office on the fourth floor for as long as I had had an office on the fourth floor. Footsteps came down the darkened hall and stopped outside my door. They were the footsteps of a

Businessman at a bar mad to look like desk. Bartender says: 'The usual, Mr. B?'

"New money, Bobby, is old money that got away."

Platitudes for the hopelessly realistic. When life gives you lemons, get a gift receipt.

Full work boxes: 'IN and MORE IN'.

'Your wife called to remind you that you're married, sir.'

What makes us Canadian? It's in our DNeh!

The weightless office.

'I've noticed that no matter how busy you are, you are never too busy to stop an talk about how busy you are.'

'Bring me the Wimbish report and a short worm, Ms Perkins, no time for lunch today.'

Al, The Go-From Guy

"Word is that since we increased your case load, you've been living at the office."

'We were able to make a quick alliance together because of common insecurities.'

"I'm sorry, Marvin. I can only spend so much time off the grid."

"Alright be cool. We're just gonna ask for an autograph and be on our way."

"I'm sure you do spend all your time here at the office, but could you please stop having your mail delivered here?"

Man tried to unload a ship in a bottle.

R. J. Willoby - Old Money, Old Technology, Member 'Good Old Boys Network'.

High tide.