Fresh Voice Aficionado Gifts

"That was too many fresh original voices for one night."

George Michael

"I love it when you use your 'All Things Considered' voice."

"I’ve heard of them barking at the moon, but never scatting at the sun."

'He likes a room where he can reverberate.'

'Sir, you inaugural speech is simply wonderful. I would just suggest you say 'dear employees' instead of 'hey, you bunch of lousy slaves'.'

Pay me not to pay 'Wonderwall'

"Just play the hit single, then you can do the experimental track."

Elton John

Michael Jackson: The thriller of entertainment.

"Do your thing, Phil...lull them into submission."

Hey boss, it's April 13th. A couple years ago, you said come back April 13, 2015, and we could talk about you giving me a raise. Yes, but that was predicated on the notion that you'd need a raise by now. I see you're still alive. Clearly you haven't starved to death. You smell minty-fresh, so clearly you haven't been forced out onto the streets. Karl Marx said it best: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." I'm pretty sure that is not what Marx meant.

Justin Timberlake

'Vote for me because my Super PAC raised lots more money than my opponent's Super PAC.'

'Now that we've learned to talk, maybe we should establish some speech codes.'

I play the guitar. Deal with it.

The passing of a radio/tv personality.

'Hey, I voted for the big tax hike because suffering builds character!'

"I'm feeling a lot of love in the room - with the exception of that guy over there."

Pam collected ceramic pigs. Just one so far, but even that seemed like too many.

'I need to appear bold and decisive. Won't someone PLEASE ask me a yes or no question?'

The Pope looks through here to check out the crowd before he speaks. Ah --- The papal people peephole!

'This next song is for all the people out there who came to hear me sing.'

'You have echolalia — it's very common among politicians.'

"Friends, Romans, countrymen..."

A big dog at lectern.

"I enjoyed your speech. Although I was sorry to miss my children growing up."

"Thank you. That one came directly from the heart."

Heavenly voices.

At the CD shop.

"Sorry Mr. Gross, Mr. DeVries, but the firm has decided to go with the earthy, down-home fingerpicking of Ms. Aimee Parker-Grossman."

"Mr. Chairman, distinguished guests, Gramm, Rudman, Hollings..."

'You're listening to no repeat radio where we never play the same song twice! Yeah! No repeat radio! Where you'll never hear the same song twice! Only on no repeat radio!'

"I like him. He sounds authentic."

'Let's see now, if one score equals twenty years...'