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."

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

Kid with 'Little Wellness Facilitator' kit

Little doctor.

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

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

'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.'

Imagination

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

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

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.

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

"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!!!"

"I tested very high in playing."

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

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

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

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

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

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

'Maggots.' - playing doctor

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

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

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

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

'I'm not playing with Kevin anymore. He's suing me.'

A Masked Ball