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."

Editor.

Berta screams out!

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."

"So you dreamed you were an adult?"

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

Child doing the washing up

'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

War and Peace

'Rodin's wet blanket'

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

Retrospection.

"I translate books from English into better English."

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

Singing of Love

Serenading with a guitar

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

Music Lesson

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

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

The Singer

"I'm beginning to think he doesn't want to go back to civilization."

There is bliss. And then there is pure bliss.