Pretend Play Aficionado Mugs

'AQ popgun? I want a field model Browning pump chambered for the 3-inch magnum load.'

"Did I hear the dog in here?"

"He likes it."

Pirate

"We're playing doctor. Do you have any old magazines for our waiting room?"

"You be the moral grandstander and I'll be the politically incorrect troll."

Kid with 'Little Wellness Facilitator' kit

"I’ve settled comfortably into middle-age while Barry has settled comfortably into Middle Earth."

Little doctor.

'Off hand I'd say she needs re-stuffing.'

"I will give you the specimen some other time!"

'This is your spinal column...It's a bunch of bones that runs up and down your back and keeps your legs from going all the way up to your neck.'

'All of our Little Doctor medical kits are on sale. Since the Healthcare bill passed, sales of the kits have been poor.'

'Stop purring I can't hear your heart beat.'

'Because of the mess, 'Mr. Potato Salad-Head' never took off.'

Imagination

A boy dressed as a cowboy riding a stick horse encounters a stick with a cow's skull at the end lying on the ground.

"Let's play make-believe. I'll diagnose you with a life-threatening illness, then cure you with a wonder-drug that turns out to be a placebo."

"As night falls, You return to claim what isn't yours. . . come at me, sea devil!!!"

"Jonathan! I've told you not to put your space toys in the freezer and pretend they're on the ice planet!"

That kid's all business.

'Don't bite it. I have to check Daddy next.'

"I tested very high in playing."

"Fellow graduates, when I look at you, I see future princesses, ninjas, wizards, superheroes, and zombies."

People leave joke shop with false moustache, nose and glasses marketed as 'the Robert Winston'.

A little boy is crawling through a sandbox towards his mother as though he were dying of thirst in a desert.

'Maggots.' - playing doctor

"Tea parties are passé. I'm opening a craft brewery."

"We're doing a skit of Peter Rabbit at school. I'm the potting soil."

"It's cute that yours has a Fire Island share, mine has the East Hampton Dream House."

"Take a pill in the morning, in the afternoon and at night."

"I'm playing "Explorer" and looking for the Elephant Cemetery: there should be really big bones there!"

'Let's play doctor. You be the primary care giver and I'll be the doctor you refer patients to.'

Kid to sister: 'I never play doctor anymore. There's too much paperwork.'

A Masked Ball