Sky-high Strategist Gifts

Air Billiards

'I like to relax before my business flights.'

"Now, suppose some guy comes at you balanced between two blocks."

'You should have taken up the game earlier.'

'Tomorrow's special is fish, so wear the flounder suit.'

'At least we don't have to accomplish anything in order to go to a bowl game.'

"Or we could raise your profile by coming out with that pimple on the end of your nose."

"My computer beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick-boxing!"

"My favorite tea: hot daffodil-infused chamomile with a hint of whiskey. Are you serious? Of course I'm serious! I've been dosing myself with small quantities of poisonous daffodil ever since 1931. You have to build up an immunity if you want to survive in the cutthroat world of Scrabble tournaments."

"All I'm saying is now is the time to develop the technology to deflect an asteroid."

'It looks to me like they come in peace.'

"Anyone can dream the impossible dream. We need to sell the impossible dream."

"Saturn. No contest. A deadly, treacherous gas giant ringed by a gossamer halo of ice. It symbolizes both death and life. Both evil and good. It symbolizes existence itself."

"My mommy suggested I try a different advertising approach."

"And when conventional theories don't work, we've got Charnier here to do us a spot of voodoo marketing."

Businessman at the deep end.

"Terri and Kip make up our crazy dreamer imagineering department. Al is our get-realinator."

". . . and that dumb Mrs. Parker could have figured I had the Ace, King and Jack, but no, she goes ahead bidding in hearts. . ."

'Boy, look at his personal space!'

"I'm in advertising. . ."

'Governor game change and his replacement debate moderators...'

Builder follows an architect's blueprints exactly, including the smudges.

"The answer isn't more troops—what you need is an antibiotic."

'You really have no idea what you're doing do you?'

"Timing is everything. I recommend that you act now before the authorities discover I've escaped."

"Phew! I narrowly avoided a near miss!"

"Of course he looks superior - he's the line manager!"

"If he could put a horse up his sleeve, he'd probably win at that too."

"Who do you think you're dealing with, Smith? Does it say 'stupid' on my office door?"

"The building code says we can use structural steel and poured concrete, and we can go 40 stories high - it doesn't say we have to!"

'After all these years of purposely losing to the boss, I beat the pulp out of him and turned in my resignation.'

"I'd fire him in a minute, but the old man thinks we need his unique perspective around here."

'Of COURSE we appreciate having someone with your expertise in mergers and acquisitions, but offhand I can't think of another corporation that would match up with ours.'

'Are you sure this is the best strategy to find new customers?'