Historical Humor Buff Pillows

'Bad luck Grigson...another year and the first motor insurance policy would've been available.'

'Why don't we invest it in mutual funds?'

"The flat I rented from you is a pig-sty!"

Summer Arrives At Devil's Island

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

"Playing 'Pin on the mammoth'. . . a dumb idea."

Uses of a Dead Cat in History: Dead Cat Hill Figure

'I'd like your jester to tell you Atkins jokes ten times a day.'

On this date in 1896: Phineas Hiddlemeyer creates the monocle contact lense.

'Next year we'll bring the turkey.'

'Prototype number 18a/e, Adam and eve (paradise model) start again

God: 'An ARK you FOOL! I said build me an ARK!'

'The time? Yes, it's VII ... no, hang on, er ... IX ... uh ... oh, for God's sake, it's half nine, OK?'

Early on-line shopping

'You're invited for pizza. Good and crisp and even.'

"Dalton? Gang of four?"

Marco Polo faced rejection as a child.

Servant is unsatisfied with a steel fork

Mr Briggs's Pleasures of Hunting - No. XIII

Kicking horse alarms a carriage passenger

New York Corruption - 'Shadows of Forthcoming Events' under Tammany Hall Ring

A boy stealing a puff of cigar from behind a gentleman's back

'On The Face Of It.'

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Frontispiece to Tristram Shandy.

There's always one guy who "knows a shortcut."

Walking upright is an interesting idea, but how can it be monetized?

"No, no, no! Walk the plank!!"

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

"We're following Carrot Top."

"You're on a what?!"

When laundry ruled the waves.

'I was hoping you'd sign them 'To my good buddy Moses!''

"The peasants are revolting Sire."

Romeo & Juliet & Ron