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[Dove with flying pig]
Year: 2000
Names: Krieger, Bob
Part of: Editorial Cartoons Collection
Type: Still Image
Main reason that a watched pot never boils. "You forgot to turn it on."
Year: 2001
Names: Harrop, Graham
Part of: Editorial Cartoons Collection
Type: Still Image
Why it pays to propose next to the genetic engineering lab. "When pigs fly!"
Year: 2001
Names: Harrop, Graham
Part of: Editorial Cartoons Collection
Type: Still Image
Interviews with Stuart Kelly on The Book of Lost Books, and David Crystal on As They Say in Zanzibar
Year: 2007
Names: Crystal, David, 1941-, Kelly, Stuart, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description:
This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Edinburgh writer Stuart Kelly about his idiosyncratic view of literature. His book The Book of Lost Books is sub-titled An incomplete history of all the great books you will never read. From Homer to Sylvia Plath, from Shakespeare to Hemingway, great writers had written - or planned to write - works that are not available to us as readers. Whether lost, unfinished or un-started, these are the texts that tantalise Kelly's…
Part of: Writers & Company
Type: Sound recording non-musical
"What does 'people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones' mean?"
Year: 1955
Names: Norris, Len
Part of: Editorial Cartoons Collection
Type: Still Image
"This 'Luck o'the Irish' you're dispensing ... would it happen to be the illegal kind ...?
Year: 1955
Names: Norris, Len
Part of: Editorial Cartoons Collection
Type: Still Image
"Finally ... to coin that old phrase ... the automobile is here to pay ..."
Year: 1955
Names: Norris, Len
Part of: Editorial Cartoons Collection
Type: Still Image
"Pass the word out ... Sorry, 'but into every life a little rain must fall' ..."
Year: 1954
Names: Norris, Len
Part of: Editorial Cartoons Collection
Type: Still Image
"George ... please speak to Filbert about this business of 'in the spring a young man's fancy' ..."
Year: 1954
Names: Norris, Len
Part of: Editorial Cartoons Collection
Type: Still Image
"... it's a figure of speech ... like 'swallow-the-line', or 'holding-the-bag' ..."
Year: 1956
Names: Norris, Len
Part of: Editorial Cartoons Collection
Type: Still Image
#1 saying of Alberta cattle farmers "Let the chips fall where they may"
Year: 2002
Names: Harrop, Graham
Part of: Editorial Cartoons Collection
Type: Still Image
Sins of commission "You haven't sold anything for months! YOU'RE FIRED!"
Year: 2002
Names: Harrop, Graham
Part of: Editorial Cartoons Collection
Type: Still Image
