I'll tell him you're out buying authors a drink."
"A bookseller? In with him! Boy, the cigars!"
—Edward Anthony.
CANVASSER—"May I have a few minutes of your time?"
PROSPECT—"Yes, if you will be brief. What can I do for you; I'm a man of few words."
CANVASSER—"Just the man I'm looking for, my specialty is dictionaries."
BOOMERANGS
See Repartee; Retaliation.