Hostesses Cartoons

"We didn't have time to pick up a bottle of wine, but this is what we would have spent."

"Sure, they drank it - but did they get it?"

"I've spent the summer speaking out against violence."

"Smoking or nonsmoking?"

"This is sort of my little homage to the American farm woman."

"Something intellectual-I'm presenting a goddam writing award."

"Just in time. We need ballast."

"And which regional cuisine would you be interested in this evening—Northwester, Southwestern, Southeastern, or Northeastern?"

"When you asked for my recommendations, sir, you may recall that the rognons de veau was not among them."

"Wallace couldn't come, but I brought some of his fussy prose."

"Since we don't do payback dinners, how does eighty bucks sound for the reasonably decent evening I think we've all had?"

"Leave your coats on the bed for collateral."

"And it was so typically brilliant of you to have invited an epidemiologist."

"Now this is a Francis Ford Coppola. We still haven't been here quite long enough to be drinkable ourselves."

A restaurant with a "Main Dining Room" and a "Room for Dessert".

"Your party just totally blew us away."

"Fiction or non-fiction?"

"Thank God you're here. Walter has been Barry Manilowing us to death."

"Veal or non-veal?"

"One of the big reasons for our success here is the unending source of cheap labor."

The Imperfect Hostess

"There are no seats left together on the flight, but maybe if you make pouty faces at me I can magically add more chairs to the airplane."

"When my mother asks if you want anything to eat just say no."

"Er – may you?