Historical Parody Lover Gifts

Dirigibull.

"The cook, sire--for some reason you have his pepper mill."

"Don't get strung out by the way I look, don't judge a book by its cover."

"You're on a what?!"

When laundry ruled the waves.

Godzillla eating people using telephone poles as chopsticks.

Ideas Ahead of their Time

The Uber Ride of Paul Revere

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

Moses unblocking the toilet.

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

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

'Dropping the Pilot'-the Fall of Bismarck

'It's a pterodactyl-house.'

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

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

The Algonquin Round Table

'We're getting closer - That's a goldfish.'

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

'Mind if I head off a little early today?'

'It says here that later in life they were able to patch things up and became best of friends.'

Exotic Insects Arrive in England with Imported Fruit

'Hey, I made a hole in Juan.'

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

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

Nun fight at the OK Corral.

'Make sport of the Queen.'

Psychologist Birthdays

"Oh stop it. You know perfectly well that before every battle the enemy shouts things at us that we may find offensive."

'I do wish you'd use the study when you work from home.'

Colonel George Hanger atop his Steed

"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.

Abraham Lincoln

"Your Majesty, this learned committee has done deep research on the subject, and we have come to one conclusion: queens often marry down."