Npr Enthusiast Mugs

"Now, now, let's try using our NPR voice."

"It ain't over until NPR says it's over!"

"You may have heard me on 'Fresh Air with Terry Gross.' I'm Terry Gross."

'The only high-class networking I do is listening to NPR.'

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

Victor Hugo

Thomas Mann.

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

'Let's go to our education reporter for more underreporting of school success stories.'

'To most people, 1984 is just a novel; around here it's our instruction manual.'

UK border controls relaxed.

'You're going to have to make some changes in your lifestyle.'

"I can't decide what I fear the most, Putin's Russia or Putin's America."

'Look! The new long awaited, highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing novel by that guy you like.'

Television Readers.

Silence of the Chickens...

'Greek debt was downgraded for the 11th time this week, by S&P, to P.O.S. Negative Infinity, meaning it's safer to eat uranium, than own Greek debt.'

The First Draft. . . Moby Duck.

Meet the Enemy

Characters jumping out of a book.

'That large, rolled up newspaper is a reminder - mess up in this office and you'll pay the price.'

"Why don't you ever fetch anything good like a pizza?"

"If I 'HAD IT ALL' it would it be enough?"

Iris Murdoch

'We interrupt this programme for a sex flash.'

News Internecine: Murdoch succession battle

There's a crew here from 60 minutes and they're coming this way.

Apart from protest footage I forget what downtown looks like.

'Is that where you keep the banned books?'

"I love it when you use your 'All Things Considered' voice."

'Now for today's numbers...'Bad Dogs' outnumbered 'Good Dogs' by two-to-one...'

Sign in book shop window: 'Critics agree the book is much better than the movie.'

'It's a novel based on a movie adapted from a magazine article that was inspired by a video game.'

'Well, dad, as a medical student I've got to read specialized literature!'