Look who's talking.

The Parrots will outlive them all.

It's a bird-brained idea at best.

On the eve of extortion.

Veiled threats will get you somewhere.

Mob tactics adapted to frivolity.

Anglais spoken here.

Why do we translate other languages into English?

Obviously, to give work to translators.

Off the Beeton path.

Heavy metals are about to make a comeback.

Bleeding and leeches are right up there with magic spells.

Self-checkout.

The store's slogan is "Help Yourself."

Take one, get one free.

Open house.

Come in and browse as much as you like.

Move on. Nothing to see here.

Brain transplant.

You really should delete your cookies.

Not to mention your history.

Play it as it lies.

A sleeping dog dreams of electric sheep.

Better to let them lie when sleeping than when awake.

Snow White-out.

Mirror, Mirror on the wall,

Who's most neurotic of them all?

Freeloading.

The fistful of knuckles is also free.

Swallowing his teeth will be filling.

The perpetual cycle.

It only stands to reason.

If he won, there must have been fraud.

There once was a man named Taylor.

 The Boy named Sue might not be real.

Taylor Camp, Kauai. on the other hand, was real.

Judge not.

That only works in theory...

But real life is an education in itself.

Play ball.

He is having a ball as it is...

Just playing dumb.

Contested ownership.

Cats own people.

At least they think so.

Geek Gangs.

Author of CP/M and DR-DOS operating systems.

And founder of Digital Research, onetime rival to Microsoft.

A healthy suspicion.

There is no disputing that cold logic.

Law of the Jungle health care, survival of the fittest.

A case of misunderestimation.

Not exactly the brain trust that founded a nation.

The simplest explanation is always Congress.

Treat them like cattle.

Welliver? Sounds rather "Lost."

Hitchcock had that attitude regarding actors.

Not in the cards.

 Or perhaps a card saying, "Get over it soon."

Now who's begging?

The Church of the Profits.

 Mammon requires constant offerings.

The love of money is the root of all.

Pygmalion.

 Just you wait, "Enery "Iggins.

Just you wait.

Sure-footed.

 Yes, but which is the right foot?

And is there a wrong foot?

Bordeaux on the absurd.

 He is a bon vivant and man of the world.

And knows his way around a liquor store.

Special delivery.

 When it arrives on time, it is very special.

The latest in lateness.

The lengths to which we go.

And that is the long and the short of it.

Broadly speaking, of course.

Slave to the clock.

 He is offering him therapy on the cheap.

Time is a-wasting.

When fashion meets function.

 The latest in avoidance couture.

If you could read her mind.

Salt, the deadly weapon.

He might have felt compelled to...

Be part of the kleptocracy.

Book of secrets.

 Sometimes the habitually dishonest...

Are the most gullible and susceptible.

Reality strikes back.

 Everything is Quantum Theory at the betting window.

It is a paradoxical time of the year,