Literary Nostalgist Gifts

If you give a mouse a french cookie

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

The Grave of the Manuscript

"We hardly ever intercept hard copy notes anymore, Stanley."

Letter Collecting Nerd

'Lost Diary'

The Last Non E-Book In The World.

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

I love the way barbecues take you back to nature.

"It's a sad state of affairs when Lever House begins to seem like a warm old friend."

The King In The Rain.

'If only Darwin could have seen this!'

I suppose industrial pollution is the price of progress, but I still miss that old world atmosphere.

'I didn't know people still played footsie.'

"My jacket blurbs used to have such conviction, he thought to himself wistfully."

"I'm impressed! Junior actually asked to use our old-fashioned dictionary!"

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

A quill pen in case the computer crashes.

'Rorschach multiple-choice test'

'Elm and Oak? The streets were named after trees that were here before the developers cut them down.'

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

'Your problem is that you're a Johnny Carson guy in a Jay Leno world.'

Victorian mother and daughter.

'Which tape shall we watch, the wedding or the honeymoon?'

"See Dick text. Text, Dick. Text."

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

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

"Since he retired he misses his meetings."

Rust in Piece - Second Hand Car Salesman.

"Harold still has all the moves...he just forgot how to use them."

'I kind of miss the good old days when they used to fight over us...'

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

"How we met is quite unusual, we met in a pub."

'I still say it was a big mistake for our office to go paperless.'

Things are changing back like the old days!