Organization Virtuoso Gifts

Bring It On!

"You'll love this. It's swarthy yet munificent, didactic and gregarious with hints of dogma."

Academic Idol - 'Professor Johannsen's paper was zippy. It had robust vocabulary and I almost felt that I could dance to it. I would give it a 7.'

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

Ninedency: A budding tendency

"It's a play on words."

"Your vocabulary is enlarged."

"In my next album 'Gettin' Back', I refute all the strong beliefs expressed in 'Gettin' There', my previous album."

"I'm afraid you have a condition called 'googly-eyes'."

"Hey, there's Sara, padding her college-entrance résumé!"

'Apparently it's part of the evolutionary process!'

Wordplay: Nonstarter.

"A man never stands so tall, son, as when he stoops to pick up a quarter."

'Coleridge'

'The other kids at school say I might need glasses, Dad.'

Annette von Droste-Hulshoff

"It's my conscience... It's all achy"

Poetry repairman

'This is all without rhyme or reason.'

Writer

"This one's for volunteering for field trips. This one's for planning the class holiday parties. . ."

'Aha! I think I figured out the headache problem, one of these things is pointed the other way. This would explain the double vision.'

Sign on Roget's Thesaurus, Inc.: 'Absent Ingesting Comestibles'

"Of course, that's only a first draft."

'They decided to immure the ladrone in a drogue.'

'They call me the 'grandfather' of Hip-Hop!'

'You've had the eye exam. Now buy the t-shirt!'

Roget's Brontosaurus.

When English majors become waiters.

'Once a donzel, the dyvour now settled for orts.'

Nikolai Alekseevich Klyuev

'Crikey, you've got to have good eye-sight to look through those glasses, haven't you?'

Writer Blinds Shakespeare in Shame.