Fabulist Gifts

Ivan Krylov

I quilt therefore I am

"We need to do something about excessive admin. I want you to fill out one of these forms every time you think you're doing some."

'This has all the makings of a fable. But first lets take lots of tests.'

"Say, when did you get so fluff?"

Man admiring his patterned clothes in the mirror

"Simplified application form? . . . This IS the simplified application form!"

"I'm starting to think stripes."

'It's good of you to go out of your way to show me what not to do, Mum.'

"Tia Carmen, can you make a new dress for my doll?"

The good news is that I've got all the figures...the BAD news is that I'm not sure what order to put them in!

On Champagne: 'Nobody knows the bubbles I've seen.'

'I'll place the bets. You just be sure to hit the hare with the tranquilizer.'

I love bathtime.

Somewhere in France: The Fabric of Daily French Life Is On Display

Sales

King Madras

"After the big race, the tortoise and the hare are ordered to provide urine samples."

"Have ye seen a whale that matches this swatch?"

'Give you liberty or give you death? That's easy for you to say. You have nine lives.'

'Reminds me of how I balance your pay packet each week!'

'All right, who sewed in the disposable diaper?'

' Sheesh! I think people are getting tired of hearing those fables of Aesop's

Androcles, the Lion, and Sid, health insurance auditor.

'It's 50 Rayon, 50 wool and 30 deposit.'

"This all started when I had a farm, and now I'm C.I.E.I.O."

"Same hectic routine every damn year. Mind if I hang back with you?"

'This caught my eye; Johann Sebastian needs new study curtains - and he does like a good pattern.'

Hanley Fabric Co., Polly-Esther

The Filibuster.

Scrabble with the Hares and Tortoise

'Then, one day a kid yelled, 'Man, look at that ugly duck with the long neck and the black mole over it's beak.'. To think I spent years parading around thinking I was a swan.'

"Pas de dejeuner sur l'herbe"

Joe Lieberman rehearses the Filibuster dance.

"Inside you there are two wolves..."