Creative Economist Gifts

Why Doesn't Rent Want to be Free?

"I found a way to pay the mortgage. I sold the naming rights to the house."

Shhh. He's creating the Great American Emoticon.

"So you're a poet? I don't get exposed to much poetry these days, unless you talk about the poetry of price-to-earnings ratios."

'The wheel was great, but what have you done for me lately?'

Young Frank Lloyd Wright

'Let's not go by the book.'

Copycats

I've been teaching art history for decades. Students today ask new kinds of questions. No, I doubt a gluten-free menu option was available that evening. Nope, the artist was not making a statement about climate change. No, despite the umbrellas, this is not about sun exposure safety. Well, yes, I suppose you can say it's a selfie.

"No, I didn't steal your content. I just have your content's doppleganger."

'The creative process works best with a relaxed brain, so I'm letting my mind wander to let a solution drift in.'

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

"I call it 'Bad Dog.'"

' A good idea '

"Of all the buildings I've designed, it's probably the most handsome."

"She's been so creative lately."

"Either that's Marmaduke with a lizard's head in front of us, or I really mixed up my meds."

What can I do? He says it's his thinking cap.

'The secret to doing a book report is only picking books that have been made in to movies.'

"I just love the way you're so endlessly inventive in the bedroom."

"What do you think I can get for it on the blackboard market?"

'Assuming their porridge was poured at the same time, how could it then be too hot, too cold and just right?'

Empty box of ideas

"Wait 'til my Dad hears about this!"

"Just because I can deliver toys around the world in one night, doesn't mean I understand the tax code."

Eureka!

"If I can't ask for more wishes, how about more genies?"

'According to creation mathematicians, all of Euclid's theories were originally found etched into rocks.'

Problem Solving: Man rows desert island to land.

Deep in the heart of the RAND think tank, the world's greatest scientists would gather to brainstorm Batman's fight sounds.

"Seth, here, is one of the best young creative compromisers in the business."

A resourceful girl, Cynthia hoped to get credit in both Earth Sciences and Culinary Arts with her ozone layer cake.

Edison: The Early Years,

'You're a genius, Hoppy!'

Good idea.