Eccentric Economist Gifts

"My advice is buy flotsam and jetsam futures."

'...I already have 26 cats, why not 27...'

"No, ma'am. I'm not sure what the difference is between being creative or just plain weird."

'You've got to cure my sleepwalking, Doc - I keep falling into the moat!'

No caption (A crash test dummy in the shape of a bird flies toward a window. Other birds dressed as scientists study the experiment from the ground).

Blend Schools

'I'm left brained and I needed some right brains.'

"I made it myself. It's a lava lamp."

"So that's my presentation: Could I have 100 million for the startup?"

'Agghh...I've done something practical, taken up by industry...and I've been thrown out of the Mad Scientist Club!'

"Does anyone second the motion to make family meetings more informal?"

'Y'know, Henderson, that's exactly the sort of thing that makes people of you as a loose cannon.'

"Why can't you just read in bed?"

The Haroplane

Lighting a Pipe

'Ah, Baker! Still the company's lone voice in the wilderness, I see!'

'Sale - monopole magnets - 50% off'

What Newton didn't see

"Travis didn't believe in nouns."

"So, you found a way to triple the speed of our computer."

'Welcome to the Crazy Dreamer Department.'

Whacha Thinking About?

Scientist.

'Mix 1lb of greed with 2oz of corruption, fold in a sprinkle of ignorance then put on the shelf...'

"We had to remove him from public view."

11-18-11: The Day Everything Changed

'Rodney, I don't know what to make of you. You're bored by excitement, and excited by boredom.'

"The whole world is crazy except for me and thee...and sometimes I wonder about thee!"

"This is where your grandfather is buried."

Silhouettes

John Betjeman

"The Usual But With Some Added Creepyness"

'Doctor, before you meet the press to explain your theory about space aliens communicating with us, maybe you should take the tin foil off of your head.'

"Honestly, Harold, no one else but you would put up a poster about a lost sock!"

Dr Magnus Pyke.