Story-loving Colleague Gifts

"Dear Ask Sadie, I have encountered a 'close-talker' at work who always stands about five or six inches from my face while talking to me. Unfortunately, this close-talker is my boss. How can I get her to stop doing this without shooting my career in the foot? -Charlotte in Austin Excellent question. It takes me back. The year was 1938. I spent months tracking down the elusive grizzly bear of the Ozarks. There was no proof he existed. But there were tales told by campfire of a hapless lumberjac

Men find this shampoo irresistible. It's called 'Gee, Your Hair Smells Like A New Car'.

'Senior management wanted me to raise morale so I made Lionel from accounts 'office jester'!'

'Where was the TSA?'

'You're going to have your future cut out for you, reading bedtime stories.'

Goodnight Moon for the Misbegotten

"Siri, who’s the fairest of them all?"

This is the new Director's Cut version of Hansel and Gretel...with additional scenes and three alternative endings!!!

'I've had the place gob-stopper-dashed.'

'You'll enjoy our staff meetings. We always begin and end with the product.'

"What did Jesus order?"

Jacques et Jille

"It's true, mommy...the chocolate bunny attacked me - it was self-defense!"

'Thank God it's Friday', thought the watercooler.

"Have I complimented you on marketing's renewed team spirit?"

'Wow, I sure got a lot of mail today!'

"Look at them smiling. They've reached their comfort zone."

"I think I see a miscreant in the carpark. There's no time to call the police I must deal with it myself."

Drug Testing Unit: 'Uh Oh!'

'It's from my staff...make sure it's not carnivorous.'

"We started losing money right around the time we decided to just lazily remake old movies with the race or gender of the main character switched from the original." "We're burning through cash and we urgently need to course correct and try something different." "So we're going to make fresh stories with new and interesting characters?" "What?" "No."

Melvin likes to indulge his inner child.

"I was kicked out from another kid's bed. Do you mind if I crash under yours for awhile?"

"What do you suppose Ken Burns will have to say about all this in 30 years?"

'And along with your promotion you get a key to the executive bedroom.'

'Thanks for making it guys. Come on in and pull up a chair.' A square hole in an office floor where chairs can be pulled up from

'And there is where you put the batteries.'

"And in the beginning Mary begat a little lamb"

"I preferred the graphic novel of the origin story of the original prequel."

"... and your great great grand father lost the race but the it was discovered the tortoise was on stéroids."

'This definitely calls for group therapy.'