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."

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

Thomas Mann.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

'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.

Television Readers.

'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.'

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.'

Apart from protest footage I forget what downtown looks like.

'Is that where you keep the banned books?'

News Internecine: Murdoch succession battle

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

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

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

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

"This just in: one of us always tells lies; the other always tells the truth. Who's who? Stay tuned."

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

"If I Can Make One Critic Smile..."

Weatherman: "Tonight's weather forecast is confusing, followed tomorrow by downright bewildering."