Paperback Ponderer Gifts

"It makes me happy that you took time to read the newspaper today."

'What I don't understand is how all three of us managed to get the figures wrong!'

"Give a sh*t" "Don't give a sh*t"

"According to mom the answers are all in this book!" "Too bad there's no pictures at which to look!"

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

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

"I'm in a catch-23 situation."

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

"Darling, I think we need to talk about where this relationship is going..." Male evolution.

"That's five votes for In The Midst of Winter....three votes for The Hollow Ground....and, again, one vote for Moby-Dick."

"William Blake said you can see the whole world in a grain of sand, but he doesn't always make a lot of sense."

"I'm trying to forget a pussycat."

Three work boxes: 'IN...LIMBO...OUT': 'I think I've found your bottleneck.'

"Today we'll examine that age old question of robot accomplishment: programming or processor?"

Temporary and Permanent Writer's Block

'Okay, let the minutes show we're not absconding with the money until the economy improves...'

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

Thinking and thinking backwards.

How do you fell about buying your own health insurance?

Boxes marked 'In', 'Out' and 'How did this end up on my desk?'

Writer

A poem: With daylight's shift, winter draws near...

"What's with kids nowadays? Walking upright's not good enough for you?"

"Sure, but what have you invented lately?"

'It's a real conundrum. Not sure if I should open it, or beat it.'

"Is there a God?"

'The hippiest dryads were often farouche.'

Desk bins: Pretend it's not here, Hope it goes away, Delegate it.

Answers to last week's brain-teasers

"I like office work, it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours!"

"We're taking separate vacations this year."

"In the room the women come and go. Talking of Michelangelo."

Shakespeare considers alternatives to iambic pentameter

Doo inc..can and no can.

"Well, for starters, Matt has been showing definite improvement in risk-taking."