English Lit Buff Gifts

Alfred Tennyson

'The iceman cometh too soon!'

'Alas, poor Yorick, I knew you well. But dude, you're creeping me out, so I gotta un-friend you!'

"I think I may have stumbled on something, Walpole."

German Expressionist Breakfast

The writer: something who devotes a lifetime of solitude to the same of communication.

"Have you read any of Shakespeare's plays?"

"The spoon, he ran away with the goddam spoon."

'What amazes me most is that years ago I couldn't even spell teacher - now I are one!'

John Bunyan

'Yorick? No, I don't think so, unless of course he was a Neanderthal!'

Wishing Well, Wishing Good.

Emily Dickinson: Mime - "I think she's saying something about death."

Wordplay: In The Bag.

Doggone

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

Cat Burglar

Humpty Dumpty goes bungee jumping.

"Eye of pie...a**e of rat...p**s of newt."

Shakespeare. Hamlet. Romeo and Juliet. "To be or not to be, that is the question". "We are such stuff …As dreams are made of …" "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would small as sweet." That Shakespeare guy had some neat sound bites.

'Fyodor Dostoevsky sends weeks describing Alexy Karamazov's quest for a white whale, and then discards the entire chapter."

"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! … Emerson" "Good boy!"

Malaprop Man! Adventures. Malaprop Man! Where have you been? At a stupor her comet confection! Did many of your fellow heroes show up? We had a great turnabout! Backman and the Incredible Bulk were there! So was Caption Americ, the Flush, Wander Woman and Plasterman! Very impressive. Who was the most popular with the fans? I think I was the main distraction! I have no doubt at all about that!

"Hamlet. By William Shakespeare." Painting.

Roget's Pet

The loving, yet vengeful God of Cheshire!

Shakespeare Street

T.S. Eliot lacks the courage to eat a peach.

Early man wasn't exactly enthusiastic about the development of language.

'What? You used a Welshman? The recipe specifically calls for a scot!'

Shakespeare's Brain

"You'd be angry, too, if your alter ego was a successful physician."

"My dad says this pencil was once used by William Shakespeare." "Is it 2B or not 2B?"

Richard the Turd

"Will thee not sayeth uncle?!"