Tag: SignPosts
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Kids today don’t know
There are certain generational litmus tests. Did you create your mixtapes on cassette, CD, MP3, or Spotify?
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Everything that guy said…
A fitting sign for Jury Duty Week. Another My Cousin Vinny sign. This time taken from Trotter’s opening argument in My Cousin Vinny (1992) See the other My Cousin Vinny references:
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I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) It’s one of the defining films of Science fiction, and of the film industry at large. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, and written by Arthur C. Clark, it’s an entire experience. This is one you must watch in your life. Do it in a proper setting. A big screen, a giant…
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Tell me when the boys get here
“Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting)”. From Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album (1973).
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Tonight, On Top Gear….
From 2002 to 2015, Top Gear was one of the BBC’s most popular shows across the world. What started as a ‘serious’ show about cars and car reviews slowly morphed over time into what is best described as “Monty Python meets Motor Trend.” One of the continuous gags throughout the show was that of their…
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The one with the whales.
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986). Captain Kirk’s last words before setting off to save the galaxy once again.
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year.
Ah, the first week of January. In which we must face the demons known as “all the stuff we didn’t bother doing since Thanksgiving.”
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Not everything can be fixed.
Learning this Leadership Lesson changed my stress levels as a developing middle manager. I’m naturally a fixer. I want to improve things. I want to take what’s broken and make it right. I want to look at every bad situation and find a way out. I don’t like losing, or taking the lesser path. I’m…
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We have all met a champion.
This quote is actually from the Dedication of the poem “The Traveller”, by Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774). It is important to remember that whenever you come across an absurd thing in effect, there was at least one person who thought it was a good idea. And those people think your ideas are absurd.