Ironically Nostalgic Gifts

Going wireless

'We like to keep old timers involved in our expansion.'

'Have you forgotten, dear, that you gave your heart to me in nineteen ninety one?'

Meticulously prepared, locally sourced food served on artifacts of a romanticized industrial past, by people who take their fashion cues from daguerreotypes, to adults whose parents still pay their rent.

'It's a book, Sweetie - it doesn't have any ram!'

If you give a mouse a french cookie

'Gotta hang up now. My mom wants to recycle the phone.'

"You remind me of myself - you know - a while ago."

Sir Gawain Fitzwaugh, Rust in Peace

"He wouldn't have rolled over and over in agony on the bombed-out cinder pitches we had to play on!"

"Forty years ago on this very seat I proposed to you. Made up your mind yet?"

Hot Dog Stand.

Head of Dumbing-Down

A call to save energy, based loosely on the style of second world war posters

Socially Distanced I heart N Y

For The Sentimental ExecutiveThe Charm Tie

"The sixties are over, Ralph. The seventies and the eighties, for God's sake, are over. Give it a rest!"

Teddy organ grinder

ARISTOTLE WITH A BUST OF HOMER:

Son, when I went to school, I trudged for years knee-deep in student loans!

The first book signing.

"Of all the gin joins in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine - damn Trip Advisor."

"Sorry, Michael, but no dodge balls past this point."

Antiques. Special on Low-Def.

'Remember, kids. Pester your parents for Chunkos.'

"We've known each other for a while now, so I feel it's the right time to ask – are you a psychological manifestation of my nostalgic longing of a romanticised past?"

'I'm part of the losing things generation.'

'...aye lad, I remember when this was all snow.'

'Mmm that's a bit different for 8:45.'

"These days, I suppose it doesn't matter whether you've read Thomas Mann or not."

SEX EDUCATION, 'Believe me, you don't WANT to know!'

'I haven't gained much weight...I'll bet I can still fit into the pants I wore in high school...'

Man considering a bust of his younger self

"No one's last words were 'I wish I'd done more homework.'"

"When I was young, we were scared to the death of the boogeyman...el cucuy was a nasty, mean creature."