Pencil Ponderers Gifts

"Mind if I borrow your pencil?"

'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!"

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

'A short economics test - if you bought something for

"Exactly how undecided would you say you were at this precise moment?"

"Well, I've come this close to asking out Sylvia Sanchez. But I'm just an average guy! Nothing about me says 'I'm cool! Look at me!'"

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

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

Thinking and thinking backwards.

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

'Would you like your dividend in pennies, nickels or bitcoin?'

'We'll skip that rubbish.'

Vocation,vocation,vocation.

"Is there a God?"

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

"I appreciate you have a real passion for music Mr Hibberd. . . but I can see you're going to struggle with the piano."

'The hippiest dryads were often farouche.'

Answers to last week's brain-teasers

"Big deal! My digital picture frame can hold a thousand pictures!"

Doo inc..can and no can.

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

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

'That's from the last year the data was available.'

'If Aunt Arctica is on the bottom of the world, does that mean Uncle Artica is on top of the world?'

Document Filing in the Post-Literate Era.

'You may choose either everlasting life or whatever is behind the curtain.'

"Crap in" and "crap out"

'Does he mean before or after the needs survey?'

"I think the idea behind coin collecting is to get one of each kind, not all of the same kind!"

"It's almost as if you can get lost in it, Timmy. Timmy?"

The Loneliness of Power

An epiphany is the sudden realization of essential meaning. An "explanation point"!

The Big Four debate banking ethics