Fact Twister Mugs

Political Science 101: This semester's topics - twisting of facts, manipulation, power-grabbing.

-Sorry about yesterday, I was ill! -You didn't look ill when I saw you at the races! -You didn't see me after the fifth leg!

"I don't have the lip for saxaphone."

"Still suffering from writer's block?"

"What your memoir really needs is an addiction."

"Okay! Okay! It's a draw!"

"I'm not spinning - I'm contextualizing."

"Dinosaurs are cool!"

Curtsey

'If we are to reorientate our forward facing rhetorical platform we must rephrase our message to cross fertilise the core message..holistically!'

The Cricketer and the Golfer

'Obviously, I know a lot of weasel words, so I would be great in a business development role...'

"I told you we should have had separate trials."

'Washington has wooden teeth? -- how did you find that out?', 'It came out in conversation.'

Funky Facts: Turtles.

"We can't put you in a Witness-Protection Program unless you actually witnessed something."

'I still have time for both work and family - thanks to cloning.'

Mono-Tasking, Multi-Tasking, No-No Tasking and Nada Tasking.

Jack and the Beanstalk.

"No, wait. What if the cop character is the murderer, and the mobster guy is completely innocent?"

Manager. Managing a political campaign and a baseball team are alike in many ways. A campaign is launched with a "first pitch," when a candidate gives a speech selling himself or herself. I change pitchers based on the game situation. In politics and baseball, sometimes it's best to come from the right side and sometimes it's best to come from the left side. We study our competitors' weaknesses and exploit those. In politics we call that "opposition research." And I don't worry about the

"I have a movie plot idea... A girl is kidnapped at birth. She's threatened, oppressed, and lives in constant fear. Here's the twist - the kidnapper is only in her mind."

Did you know a stretched-out intestine can reach all the way to the vending machines> Boy, you learn something new every surgery.

"Well, I was under oath, so I couldn't lie outright, but I'm a weasel of course, so I have a way with words..."

Polo pony

Elevator choices: Up, Down, Different Narrative.

"He'd torch the castle and I'd rescue the damsel."

"Nothing wrong with half-truths...you still have 50% to manipulate."

"It's structured as a set of two parallel stories that no one would ever want to read."

Zoology. Cheetahs can reach speeds up to sixty miles an hour! Amazing, and yet they never win!

'I can't seem to find the 'surprise' ending.'

'We were playing Twister at a party. . . there was a loud popping noise.'

"I agree, Glenn. The first sentence needs to hook the reader."

"I never lie to my parents, but sometimes we do interpret event differently."

"It's the grisly story of the brutal murder of a publisher who rejected a brilliant novel about the brutal murder of a publisher who..."