Vintage Vocabularian Gifts

"I'm impressed! Junior actually asked to use our old-fashioned dictionary!"

"Er – if you young people don't mind, I have a few things to do now. Perhaps you have a hotel or somewhere to go?"

"Smile when you say that, pardner."

"Dad, can we have a bedtime narrative?"

'Ha! Ha! The Wooin' O't!'

'Sorry guys... budget cuts !'

"I found out why we study vocabulary. Last night, my mother told me to ruminate, and I spent three hours in my room."

'Dr Johnson, it's very interstyng, but ov wat use is this Dicshunry of yors?'

"He reports to Grand Central Palace tomorrow."

'Admit it, you've been laughing behind my back ever since 1957 when we went in that hall of mirrors in Skegness!'

"Dad, is there a word that contains all the vowels?"

"Let that breathe a little. But not too much. My last bottle hyperventilated."

A man selling a horse to an older lady

"Sometimes, occasionally, from time to time, now and then, periodically I wish I'd never been given this Thesaurus."

La Dame aux Camelias

"Cassius Clay....Muhammad Ali....was one name his chatroom nickname or user name?"

'Ever think it's a whole new world for us old guys?'

"I hate to sound like a sergeant, Ralph, but it's ten minutes to six."

'The crepes of wrath.' 'Joad's mobile pancake store.'

"Don't panic Daisy dear. You can relax your buttocks, it's not the vet, it's the chimney sweep."

Mr Micawber Delivers some Valedictory Remarks

Gunswinger

'These literary duels really are most frightfully dull.'

A Women Falls Into A Brook.

Not what he meant.

Wordplay: Mind Games.

Thatcher's child

"Hi Honey, I'm Holmes"

Mother Hubbard 2011

"Shaketh."

"What a pity! Mr Grogan took it on the lam not more than five minutes ago."

Trilby - 'Les glougloux du vin a quat' sous...'