Historical Comedy Buff Gifts

Nanki Poo

"You're on a what?!"

When laundry ruled the waves.

The Uber Ride of Paul Revere

Ezekiel and his Dog: "Have you been in the valley of dry bones again?"

"Can you stop complaining about historical inaccuracy and try to enjoy yourself for one minute?"

"Bonk!"

Early on-line shopping

Moses unblocking the toilet.

"I'd like you to see an Anthropologist.''

"Perhaps it wasn't so wise to bring Frosty along!"

"I should cover your ears.I'm not very good at this.'

'It's a pterodactyl-house.'

"So who ordered the 'Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum on a dead mans chest'?"

Young costermonger trying to sell to a gentleman.

PHARMACY, 'Tell Hippocrates to write his prescriptions in Greek -- I can't read Babylonian!'

"They got me for pillaging. How about you?"

Inventor of the Tudor spirit-level

The Algonquin Round Table

'Yes, the colours are wonderful. But he only does five pages per month, and he doesn't support PostScript.'

"C'mon. Just one more round of funding and I'll build you a horde that'll knock your socks off."

"You ever get the feeling the posse's starting to lose focus?"

'You've had a bad day? Try being stuck in this house!'

'Too cheap to buy me real flowers, huh?'

Carl Wilhelm Scheele: "There was a great display of ores and minerals...I could not write with a molybdenite pencil."

Ed Revere, Spam Courier

"We brought him into oversee our millennium menu...he did such a good job on the last one"

'Hey, I made a hole in Juan.'

The Enemy

'Huh, that Will Shakespeare, a man of few words.'

"Has anyone considered that maybe his dress was a disguise?"

"Lady Liberty, I choose you...ooo...ooo...oooh!"

Washington Crossing the Delaware, Having Been Invited to Join the Faculty at Princeton

'Don't believe everything you read.'

Shakspeare a little altered. - 'He lived not wisely, but too well.'