Nostalgic Note-taker Gifts

"Polishing my mouse just doesn't have the same calming effect as sharpening my pencil."

STRIP Hambone: Pen and paper, In case of emergency

"Dear Wendy, please excuse the tardiness of my response to your recent tweet from Hoboken."

"I want one of those. He takes notes and DOODLES at the same time."

"Remember? I was sitting right up there when you came by and said 'Hi, beautiful!'"

Lambs to the Slaughter

Geriatrics clinic: 'Wine, women and song, Doc! But not swashbuckling too!'

"These EHR formats are an indecipherable headache to try and wade through. I miss the old days when the doctor's writing was all we had to figure out."

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

'Not more junk mail!'

'Am I the only one who still enjoys the glide of a perfectly sharpened #2 on a fresh yellow legal pad?'

'When I was a student, wireless data transmission meant passing notes in class.'

20 years as Stamp Club Chaorman and they send my retirement card by E-MAIL.

Another Programme Reminding You How Much Better Music Used To Be.

Love note discovered by teacher

"That's not an email, so you don't have to worry about it containing a virus. It's a birthday card from Nana."

Stephen Collins Foster

"It's a note from my teacher. I would have already read it, but it's in cursive."

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

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

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

"Handwrite and mail grandma's thank you note instead of texting? I don't have this kind of time!"

'Looks good on paper. Let's scan it in and see how it looks on the screen.'

'We're all having to work harder in the music business now.' (Dog listens to four gramophones at once)

"Oh god, he's going for the jukebox!"

Old man: 'I didn't get to tramp Europe in my college days, so I'm going now- first class, of course.'

'These are the VCR tapes I recorded, but never watched.'

"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."

"I must be getting old. They're playing my favorite son on the muzak!"

A token record...

'You send cards and gifts and letters, but do they write? No! Do they even call? No! And another thing...'

'Couldn't you just send out an Email?' (a messenger pigeon complaining)

'Hang in there, Sandra. In a few years we'll be tormenting them.'