Cliché Escapist Pillows

"Bert, I'm confused. What happens after we circle the wagons, tighten our belts and walk a mile in our customer's shoes? Is that when the chickens come home to roost?"

Woman dreaming about being on vacation.

"The cat told me to eat your homework."

'Let's start out with cliches and pithy slogans - and work our way up to wisdom ...OK?'

"And then, when I feel like a rum punch and breaded shrimp, I can just swim to Tony’s Trattoria."

Screen Time vs Book Time

Countervailing Clichés.

"Repeat after me: We are delivering the proactive core value promises and rolling out our real time best practice action plan going forward ..."

"I got tired of 'Moby-Dick' taunting me from my bookshelf, so I put it on my Kindle and haven't thought of it since."

"Water balloons... water balloons..."

The Devil's in the detail!

'It was a dark and stormy night. Also, there was a Catch-22.'

'Here's the good news. 'Happy camper' and 'are we having fun yet' have been added to the official list of banned cliches.'

"Sold For sale Ellie Kopp 1-800-238-7463 Yaffle Realty Stop renting. Buy your boot from a boot."

"Its my letter of resignation. I also turned it into a memoir."

'It's negative attention ... as long as you keep asking why, they'll keep on doing it.'

Steve found himself on his travels.

"Hello darling, what do you do for a living?"

Mystery Writing 101 - Mailbox: The butler did it, the gardener, the chauffeur.

Man sunbathing on the beach.

Good stripper cop / Bad stripper cop

"No, I don't believe youth is wasted on the young. I believe money is."

'This doesn't work as a heart-felt plea for world peace, but with some astute editing, it might be great on a greeting card.'

Reading room

"Thanks for your introductory speech at the conference. By the way, Hibblemeyer, it's 'hard-headed' businessman, not 'thick-headed'."

Gwendolyn found herself deep in the Lake district,

'Lookout, here comes another boatload of cartoonists.'

Homing Pigeon GPS Manfunction

Stopping Time in order to Finish Book

'Too many cliches? Now hold your horses!'

"There are far too many balls in your court, Brintner!"

'Reserved' (presumably for little miss muffet)

Holiday Reading and Back to Work Reading