Historical Irony Admirer Gifts

Made in China

'It's a nice idea. A bit rough around the edges but I'm sure it will evolve given time.'

"We're following Carrot Top."

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

"Where is everyone?" "You had 'everyone' killed." "Stalin family reunion"

"The peasants are revolting Sire."

'When he said it would be 'me and him against the world' I had no idea everyone was already mad at him.'

"I thought it would be appropriate to have a band playing as we went down."

"When they said progress made our replacement inevitable I thought they meant by AI."

"Can you read the part about Job again?"

Angel wears t-shirt with logo: YOLO.

"Tell me, Chuck, is barbarism the natural state of mankind, and will it ultimately triumph?"

'Waiter, could I have some more water right away?'

'I've had a few short stories published, but I'd really like to write 'the Great American How to Write a Novel.''

"Grant them amnesty and then hang them."

Right-thinking people against wrong-thinking people

'You keep turning them out and I'll dig a parking garage.'

A rare picture of Henry VIII's divorce lawyer.

'You're proposing to me with, cubic zirconias?... But, you're a diamond dealer!'

Leaking Hudson River paintings.

John Bull presenting the building for the 1862 International Exhibition to Britannia

Dear Author: We really are tickled by your persistence. Sincerely, The Editors.

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. Frankly, it beats Pandora."

Please help. Always in the wrong place at the wrong time.

'I want my lectures to have entertainment value.'

"Of course no one wants a forest fire anywhere, anytime. It can be devastating. That's why I feel so guilty."

'It always great to get away from it all.'

'I'm afraid Mr. Caldwell doesn't want to see you now. However, you're free to visit his web site.'

"That's an early Vermeer, very early."

"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one person to dissolve the marital bonds which have connected her with another..."

In 1682 in a remote cave in the Ural Mountains, Heinrick Glaston discovers irony.

"The house next door is slated for demolition, but your house is in the way."

An artist creates a sculpture of a "thumbs up" and is then crushed by it.

'Kill all the Canaanites? -- Won't that set a bad precedent?'

"No worries. I'm well-prepped and ready for anything they might throw at me."