Romantic Period Buff Gifts

Johanness Brahms

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

Theorbo

'Well, now we know why Dracula's been getting all the girls lately.'

"Where do you think we are in the food chain right now?"

'Harvey, did you notice what a beautiful full moon we have tonight?'

There were originally four musketeers. He said that the pen is mightier than the sword.

"Scotch and water musick."

"Got any bathtub gin?"

'My boyfriend's a Cardiologist.'

"Tonight we are going out to plunder, lads!"

May your Christmas be full of harmony

'It was a play on words...and a bad one at that!'

Edvard Grieg

'If I thought for one moment that you were identifying...!'

If the Brontë sisters wrote science fiction

"Hendrickje, I feel another self-portrait coming on. Bring in the funny hats."

Robert Schumann

Cello player with pencil instead of bow

Verbal Orders

A man and a woman in military uniform salute each other and then embrace

"Remember? I was sitting right up there when you came by and said 'Hi, beautiful!'"

"And, finally, do you, Don, or do you, Allison, have a problem with any of this?"

"Tractors, Sir - thousands of 'em!"

"Don't panic, she'll be back. We lock the washroom windows from the outside."

"And now, Bach's Brandenburg Concerto, Number One, first movement."

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for Music ofnthe Baroque

In the eighties, Americans knew how to be Americans. Big cars. Big radios. Big hair. Everything was big. Unfortunately, I was so buff that all my huge stuff looked tiny in comparison. So I would loan my stuff to the skinniest, wimpiest kid I could find. Hold this. Let me reminisce vicariously through you. (Sigh.) Those were the days. Is it working?

Kit makes an appointment

I am married

"Hamlet today"

"At first, Dwayne's gymnastic prowess had mesmerized Sarah, but now she longed for more..."

Edvard Grieg.

"IS this an unauthorised social gathering?"

Planner at work.