Nature Discussions Gifts

Controversy over species-change operations...

"Toadstool you say? No, this is snailstool now!"

"Agenda item 14 C, does anyone have any idea what happened in Game of Thrones?"

Frontispiece to 'The Pickwick Papers'

"I don't know which makes me happier: switching to natural gas to save money or watching the fight about fracking in order to get that gas."

"Did I say Henny Youngmen? I meant to say Sergei Prokofiev."

At Mary Higgins Clark's book club.

Tonight's Debate. Nature versus Nurture. You believe in heredity over environment? Yep --- I was just born that way.

THE UNCANNY PREDICTIONS OF THE GREAT NOWSTRADAMUS, 'A prominent academic will suggest that females may be intrinsically emotionally different from males... and the feminists will become hysterical.

'He spoke in millions...then I found out he was a bacteriologist.'

'It's been a few hundred years, gentlemen... I think it's finally time to admit that forks are better.'

"What if we could see five dimensions?"

"My novel? I've put it on hold. I'm writing my response in case I get asked to do on eof those 'How I write' columns..."

Parallel Universe Committee - Meeting Today!

'Forget about the birds and the bees. Tell me about new names for the Washington Redskins.'

'Say, did you guys catch that report on the most important meal of the day?' ... 'I swear Breakfast, if you don't shut up already...'

"Doctor, I find you very easy to talk to."

If there are eclipses of the sun and eclipses of the moon, how come there are never any eclipses of the earth? Can we continue this tomorrow? It's getting dark.

Given enough time, audiences know what to expect, Rosencrantz. And with expectation comes acceptance. Give them crudty, and that is what they will accept. Give them erudition, and they will rise to accept that. Feed them a diet of lies, and they will learn to crave them. I still would prefer to eat my sandwiches before you've chewed them. Give it time.

Planck's Constant Nagging.

Rush Linbaugh - Radio Commentator.

"I wonder if we're talking about the same Grace Jones."

Mother Nature

"I really enjoyed the Bible."

"I'm just so impressed with what you're saying about the victimization of men."

"So … Rachel tells me you're Canadian …"

"This evolution show is a crock! There's no way we evolved."

"So, it's cultural miss-appropriation, is it?"

The Best-Seller of 1994: The Last Taboo

"This will nver work, David. Your family is significantly less non-obvervant than mine."

"And finally...."

'The idea that the firm is dominated by boring white middle-aged male lawyers is clearly wrong...for example I know for a fact that Gerald wears a basque under his suit.'

"I wonder how the experts can talk about increasing temperatures within years... the same experts who can't even do a reliable forecast for tomorrow..."

The World's Biggest Book Club

What about reading another memoir for our next book club? Which one? There's the woman whose hubbie left her for a man. Or