Multilingual Aficionado Gifts

"Wow! Your dad knows a third language?"

Edgar Allen Poe

King Henry and his Cheshire bride

Man packing suitcase with French vocabulary

"We've decided that it will be better for his later development if we speak to him only in legalese."

'I've been called some mean things as a baby boomer, but 'Pig in the Python' really hurts.'

"Oh, look- French! Let's try it."

'Don't worry, you're safe. I started my diet today.'

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

Wordplay: In The Bag.

Stephen Spender.

'The definition of OBSOLETE: old fashioned dictionaries.'

'Whoooa,MAN,check out this STORM! It's PELTING down!'

'Amscray,fuzzbrain - no carnivores allowed

'Thank goodness you were wrong mom, dad says a period is what comes at the end of a sentence.'

The Family Joules: Part 21

"I know! I know! I K-n-o-w!. . . Um, what was the question?"

Gunter Grass

'Stick them up...'

"It lost a little something in translation."

Henry the amazing talking dog.

"No chips, but I did snag the new Hiaasen."

"I stand corrected."

Archeologist Deciphers Limerick Heiroglyphs

"You have no idea what it's like to be a 'just between you and me' person in a 'just between you and I' world."

'This is the fun part...waiting to find out just what we've ordered.

Noel Coward.

"He was a big man, but he moved like a cat."

'Mom and dad...if someone threw a rock at me, it would really be like killing two birds with one stone.' 'I told you if we had a child, he'd be a wise-quacker.'

'I made a hundred on the Spanish test. Gracias.'

We Will Beat Any Genuine Quote...

My Literary Influences

"Oui, c'est bon. It is, how you Americans say, 'Magically Delicious'."

Two vending machines for fisherman: 'Live Bait' next to 'Dead as a Doornail Bait'

Frontispiece to 'Dombey and Son'