Clique Member Gifts

Lady to lady about disguised lady: 'She's new to our Secret Sister program.'

"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?"

La Table

"The cat told me to eat your homework."

Suzie would later win a Nobel Prize for her Law of Special Social Relativity.

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

"That's Brian Eggleston, de facto leader of the playground intelligentsia."

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 ..."

Maybe we should stop calling it 'The Masters.'

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.'

Are you interested in UFOs? Advanced life forms? Free medical screenings? Alternative underwear? Snacks and refreshments? Non-sexual turtles? Reverse pound cake? Science? Join us.

"You'll learn a lot at our book club...like how to read between the wines."

Alfred Marquez, Probate Attorney - Heir club for men.

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

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

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

Good stripper cop / Bad stripper cop

"Which should we go see: the straight romantic comedy where the heroine's best friend is a gay man, or the gay romantic comedy where the hero's best friend is a straight woman?"

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

Niche Extracurriculars

"If all you have is a whatchamacallit then every problem looks like a thingamajig."

'Lookout, here comes another boatload of cartoonists.'

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

Leopards do change their spots

'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.'

'I'd like to push the envelope, go the extra mile, and think outside the box to facilitate a win-win solution to the over-utilization of buzzwords.'

'Too many cliches? Now hold your horses!'

Men drinking

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

"There is such a thing as a free lunch-it just tastes bad."

'Reserved' (presumably for little miss muffet)

Clancy: Hard Work Never Killed Anybody