Scribes' Admirer Gifts

"I've just invented the question mark."

'Look, several prisoners in my client's facility have reported finding God in their cells! Yet you claim you've never broken in one time?'

Alexander Pope

"I'm not a food critic I'm a literary critic and I've found the prose on your menu to be second-rate."

Museum of Mediocre Art.

The Milbrook Verney chair in literature. The C.K. Frebish endowment for footnotes.

"For the glory of God Almighty, and in the names of the munificent King and munificent Queen of Spain, I do on a day—either a Friday preceding or a Monday directly following a weekend that is earlyish in but toward the middle of October—in this year of our Lord, 1492, claim this land."

Ian Fleming

'Hey! When did you learn cursive?'

Forrest Gander

"That's the problem with you - no sense of perspective."

'Chief, this could be anyone!'

'Well, I don't WHAT this x-ray is showing us...but I'm seeing Picasso.'

'It's the new directive from Brussels. We're to steal from everybody and give directly to the banks.'

Poking gentle fun at the company in the blog wasn't meant to include saying that the chief exec had a face like a baboons bottom.

Man met with a horse instead of a carriage at the railway station

Romeo goes to the Chemists

Shakespeare in the park Mickey Spillane in the alley.

'Let's go upstairs and make love. I can't do both.'

"I've tried seated and crouching but you really can't beat a sleeping nude."

'I've read all of Shakespeare unless he's written anything recently!'

Don't forget to make a back up copy!

"Of course - I believe in the Great Spin Doctor in the sky!"

'Precise, analytical and beautifully reasoned address. Now condense it down to a snappy sports metaphor.'

Picasso and one of his favorite models

The Beggars' Opera Burlesqued.

The Tetterbys

'I knew I shouldn't have come. That Maximus, throws the worst orgies!'

Mr. Punch's Illustrations to Shakspeare