Robinsinian Gifts

"Yes, I'm alone."

"My political platform focuses on more ice cream and more frisbee chasing, with less chores and fewer baths."

A Copy Editor and His Dog

'That'll be four twenty for the beers and sixty quid for the Xmas decorations.'

"Now you can send it."

Mozart's very good, but can't beat Rossini for sandbox activities.

Editor.

Berta screams out!

His last words were, "Stop correcting my grammar!" Here Lays Fred P. Smink.

Publisher to writer: 'It was a great read, except I collided with run-on sentences, tripped over broken English and got knocked about by a dangling participle.'

Alfred Marquez, Probate Attorney - Heir club for men.

Oliver Twist - Oliver Introduced to Fagin

"I was a gainfully employed copy editor. Suddenly, one day, I couldn't tell an em dash from an en dash."

Child doing the washing up

"So you dreamed you were an adult?"

"It's a sequel to 'The Thinker'. It's 'The Blamer.'"

'It's called playing. Provides one with a sense of accomplishment - without actually accomplishing anything.'

Sticking out tongue

Arabian island

"My parents didn't write it--they just tweaked it."

Bird watching in Bolivia

Retrospection.

"...maybe I'll go to the Rodin Museum..."

'Rodin's wet blanket'

War and Peace

"I translate books from English into better English."

Singing of Love

Serenading with a guitar

"Yeah, but before he snapped he wasn't having any fun at all."

Music Lesson

"Matsuzaka has an ERA of 3.88, yet Francona’s starting Schilling. Doesn’t that seem counterintuitive to you?"

"That completes the reading of her will. She also left an S.O.P. for how to live with you, should you ever remarry."

The Singer

'How many times do I have to tell you kids? When you've finished playing with your grandad tidy him away!'

There is bliss. And then there is pure bliss.