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

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

"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

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

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

'It's a pterodactyl-house.'

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."

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

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

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

'Make sport of the Queen.'

Nun fight at the OK Corral.

'Hey, I made a hole in Juan.'

Exotic Insects Arrive in England with Imported Fruit

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

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

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

Colonel George Hanger atop his Steed

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

Abraham Lincoln

"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.

"But I only restarted it three minutes ago."

Charles I