Privileged Escapist Gifts

"Do you ever have days when you just don't feel like designing jewelry?"

Businessmen trying to prop up a line-chart with sticks

Woman dreaming about being on vacation.

"I like going to school...and I like coming home from school. It's all the stuff in the middle that gives me trouble."

"By the way, the failing grades you'll be seeing-they won't be virtual."

"I'm just glad we got out before interest rates went up again."

MEDICAL SCHOOL, 'I didn't know you COULD specialize in insurance.'

Tree house.

That's all very well sir, but is it full strength, low fat, high calcium or soy?

Something tells me it's not going to be a good school report!

Rising Gas Prices

'Now then, Simpkins. What makes you think you could become a circus clown?'

"All right, what's it going to take to make this homework go away?"

'Can I go home now, before I get overeducated?'

'-but surely it's unusual to have nightmares with COMMERCIALS?'

SEMINAR CANCELLED: Feel free to doodle.

'Your mother and I want you to know that you wouldn't be hurting our feelings if you decided not to go to University.'

'I pretended to be religious to get a place at this convent.'

"Mr. Jenkins' idea of paradise is a never occupied loo, a big flat screen with hundreds of free sports channels and a fridge that always gets refilled with beer and pizza."

"You know what you're running here, Lou? You're running a haven, that's what you're running here, Lou."

As I understand it, if the ancient Greeks had had television to watch and video games to play, we wouldn't be stuck with all this stupid geometry.

Man opens front door to find he's up in clouds.

"He went that-a-way." (snail escapes).

External Revenue Service

"Anywhere that doesn't have tvs, computers, radios, ipods,cell phones or video games."

'If you keep running away, son, you'll never make it through your formative years.'

Message in a bottle.

"Do you have any video games that would help reduce my role as a father?"

Teacher's Lounge

"Mr. Cogdill said he won't be in today because it's 'National I Hate My Job Day'."

I've got no cell phone, no computer, no grumbling wife, no stupid boss. Feel free to envy me.

Ramblers Association

"I have no problem with reality. It's just the occasional intrusion of gritty realism that I hate."

Virtual Reality Check

Black belts in the ancient art of avoidance