Historical Comedy Lovers Gifts

'I've invented a device for making people late for work.'

"You're on a what?!"

When laundry ruled the waves.

Romeo & Juliet & Ron

It started friendly enough...'I'm Henry VIII, my dear, but you may call me 'Hank'.'

"Bonk!"

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

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

"Why can't you be more like little Hester Prynne? She's getting straight A's."

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

'It's a pterodactyl-house.'

Inventor of the Tudor spirit-level

Young costermonger trying to sell to a gentleman.

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

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

Nanki Poo

The Algonquin Round Table

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

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

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

Ed Revere, Spam Courier

'Hey, I made a hole in Juan.'

Gladstone Gives Disraeli a Bloody Nose over Schleswig-Holstein

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

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

Servant Painting Targets Around Arrows Shot by a King

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

"Let's try one with your hand tucked into your shirt."

"Surely, as the world's only superpower, we're entitled to a little mischief now and then."

"I'm sleeping in today. I got in late from last night's orgy."

A bath at Boulogne. - Appalling position of Mr and Mrs Tomkins, who had a jib horse when the tide was coming in.

"Oh my god, you guys, a puppy!"