Know-it-all Connoisseur Gifts

'That Jimmy is sickening!'

'And this year's 'Inquisitive Learner Award' goes to...'

'This wine is dreadful - try some.'

Atlas with the earth, says: 'So then I thought, Why not just roll the damn thing?'

Zora Neale Hurston

Imagine

Man frozen in portrait pose.

'Miss, I think I've learnt all I can too.'

'You've probably heard of me. I'm an author, consultant and lecturer in the fields of authoring, consulting and lecturing.'

"It says it's the vodka that's distilled twenty-nine times - they just can't seem to get it right."

Moliere

Bleak House

"I'd like a wine that was born in France and then bummed around California."

C Day Lewis.

Charles Dickens.

'The Entrecote a la Bordelaise? It's stuff on a plate.'

''Et cetera' implies that you know much more than you really do. . .'

" . . . and white, not yellow. Block, not shredded. Aged, but not too aged that it doesn't slice well."

"You're wise, but you lack tree smarts."

'...and to commemorate 20 loyal years to the company, this gold plated sundial.'

"Stan is one of our great, widely unread literary treasures."

"Tonight... Hemingway."

Big deal! If you were smart, you'd have waited for the price of gold to go up. Everyone's a critic.

Now Showing: "Mucky Wucky" Rated Z. That means Roger Ebert slept through it.

HP Sauce/HP Lovecraft

The 'I'm Almost Finished With War And Peace' Bookmark

"Hi honey, could you run by the bookstore on the way home? We're almost out of poetry."

Blue wine

Paul Verlaine

"I'm working on a watercolor."

Sergei Rachmaninov

When feud becomes best seller! Moby Dick vs Herman Melville!

"We have a Sauvignon Blanc to refresh your palate or a lick of this toad to obliterate your sense of self."

Ross Noble

"Of course no one is drinking the wine - it's the Murder Mystery Writers Association."