Idea Snatcher Gifts

Plagiarism...

The Department of Really Stupid Ideas: 'Most people think they just appear out of thin air! But the truth is, there's a great deal of very hard work involved!'

'Dr.Sall Thompson got so excited over the new spring design she took a quantum leap!'

World Tour.

"Ah, ha! The universe IS expanding! I can't find my glasses anywhere!"

'Truth is fine, but I really need marketable ideas.'

Music downloads

"Your editor called again to see if the well was still dry."

An idea box in a shower

'...And as suburban sprawl continues to grow, many people are finding themselves living uncomfortably close to their wildlife neighbors.'

Stupid ideas rewritten to sound like brilliant concepts.

'I'm exhausted from too much enlightened skepticism, fresh perceptive thinking, intellectual challenges and independent ideas. What I need is some simple cliche living!'

Thought Cloud

"It's such a nice day. Why don't you go outside and plagiarize something?"

'Quick, Ted, get that one down on paper before you forget it.'

Before and After Thomas Edison

"You want me to explain how there were two doughnuts in the larder and now there is only one? Easy, it was too dark in there to see the second one."

"Well...at least you don't s**t on my ideas."

'This week's column is going to be about Writer's Block, and it's...'

Inspiration

Invention of the 3-Way Light Bulb.

'I've invented copyright.'

Chasing the one big idea

"Hey, Federson. Did you hear that someone around here has been stealing everybody's ideas?"

"Vince prides himself on his open mind, and you'd be suprised at some of the things that crawl into it."

"I'm just sitting here waiting for an idea who's time has come...but apparently it's running late."

Writer Will Work For One Good Plot Idea

"To give it credibility let's tell the boss we stole our business idea from the Japanese instead of thinking it up ourselves!"

Business cartoon about a businessman looking in the wilderness for new ideas.

"The magical time of night when the artist awakes, not with any idea, but with the murky recollection of an idea from the previous day that was not written down and is now lost forever."

"Must...get...fresh...ideas."

"I'm keeping it really simple!"

My novel was about a man who constantly experienced a sense of deja vu...but then I realised someone had already written one!

"Not you, Hobson."

Leonardo Da Vinci has another day of constant a-ha moments.