Giving Guru Gifts

Honey badger do care.

'It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to GIVE there.'

"Done saving the world for today."

"I'll match donations when you match my tax payments."

"As you can see, I've alphabetized the items, presents owing if you will, so if you can digitally initial here, here, here, here and here and sign there. Thank you. See you December 24."

Peephole in a pile of presents (colour).

Van Gogh was starting to run out of gift ideas.

Cat Reunion

"Cards to remind people that you still haven’t gotten a thank you note from them"

"I'm in nonprofit work for the money."

Thank you bubbles

Santa called but you were out!

Kirsten Johnson

"Tia Carmen, if times are tough, how come you're giving money away?"

"I finally got tenure by publishing a research paper funded by a grant about subsidies."

It's a busy mother's day down there! The glucose molecule got his mom a box of sweets, the histamine brought flowers ... A sodium atom got bath salts, and the genes had a family portrait taken. Frank, the neuron didn't get a gift for his mother. No, he didn't but he always sends a nice message!

'I don't believe it - if this evidence is correct it'll rock the very foundations of our research grant application.'

'You brought gold? I thought we agreed to a twenty dollar limit?'

Regifts of the Magi

Greeting card section: 'thank you' and 'you're welcome'.

C'mon, help me out! Which rock do you think my kids would like better?

Valentines Day truck

Great moments in science. . . 'Nice work, you've isolated the funding gene.'

"Does he have to do that every time he gets a little grant?"

"Will you only promise the children toys that can be brought at this store?"

Mother using candy cane to pull son away from toy window.

'Sorry - I only donate big.'

"I volunteer for the Samaritans. I tried to phone in sick this morning but they talked me out of it."

"Dean Williams, the grant committee approved my research grant to determine how many research grants are a waste of government money!"

"What are we doing wrong?"

"Sure, you can buy them another round, but is this really how you want to spend your MacArthur Grant?"

"All yours, Buddy. I'm ALREADY living on house money."

Maybe I'd better write a thank you letter for the Last Supper after all

He's got 'I'm in grant renewal heaven' all over him.

"By the way… If no one has mentioned this before, we think you're swell."