Idea Survivor Gifts

"Just got back from the client meeting and great news. . . your work isn't dead. It's beaten senseless and run over by a dump truck...but still very much alive."

'Williams, we're not used to receiving such excellent ideas as these, so we'd like to tone them down a bit.'

' A good idea '

Bright idea

"You're a genius, Shaw. This is an idea whose copyright has expired."

'Here's another one that'll make you blow your stack.'

Blue sky thinking

"Ideas that jump from noggin when head not yet screwed on."

Soldier armed with a pen.

"I find it so stimulating to learn new software."

'Ideas.com' desk with a 'come' tray and a 'gone' tray.

GPC needs to make its new formula foolproof.

A balloon seller is selling thought bubble balloons

Boom

My phone is synced with my tablet, my tablet is synced with my laptop ... but none of them are synced with me."

Elevator Pitch

"Oh, puhleeese. No one's going to steal your idea."

"The Internet startup had only enough cash for one more day. But, miraculously, the money lasted for eight days, until more venture capital could be raised."

"Scientists confirmed today that everything we know about the structure of the universe is wrongedy-wrong-wrong."

"People were steal his ideas"

'Okay, let's go over this again: You tell me your great ideas, I repeat them back to you, then you tell me I have a great idea and I get all the credit for it!'

Lateral Thinking - Not Out & Not In trays.

'If we can't come up with better ideas, at least we should have better excuses.'

Patents office.

Caricature of Noam Chomsky

"Actually, I worked my way up from ideas and you can too!"

"I'm really great thanks. The boss loves my ideas, he says I'm ahead of my time!" "Hi John, how are you? Good meeting?"

"This is genius, Ted. We can't use it. Nobody will believe I thought of it."

New Idea

Suggestion and 'outside-the-box' suggestions.

"I'm sorry-you tapped into something no one cares about."

Eureka

'The tests indicate you've been exposed to a new idea.'

'This is a 'million dollar idea', Simms, unfortunately, our debt is two million dollars.'