We all usually mean exactly what we say. We just might not know it yet.

I've found that parties that smell like Downy Wrinkle Release are more fun than parties that smell like Static Guard.

Suzy Bogguss just tried to sell me a neti pot on TV.

It seems to be some odd device with which organic types perform waterboarding on themselves. I think I'll just stick with letting the Dr. Pepper go up my nose.

Paper? Plastic? Invest in the reusable you may or may not remember to bring next time? I have the answer.

Edible grocery bags.

If you buy the MacBook Air online, do they send it to you in an interoffice envelope?

I like The Sign of Peace at church.

It gives me an excellent opportunity to turn around and gauge how likely the people behind me are to call DSS on me as soon as they get home.

I wonder who Monica Lewinsky is voting for.

Step 1. Put down the instruction manual.

I've heard it said that the world is evolving so quickly that if you stop to read instructions, what you are trying to learn will be outdated by the time you finish reading.

This is exactly why I don't think everybody has to go to college.

When my 8yo son told me over breakfast that he knew what sex was, there were many appropriate responses:

 1. Where did you learn about that?

2. How do you feel about it?

3. Do you have any questions?

Me? I chose:

4. Well, don't tell your brother.

Never let them put the printer near your desk.

No matter what your title (art director, head of catering, CFO), if you sit near the printer people will ask for help with it. It's as if they think proximity gives you printer wisdom. As if, while the rest of the office toils in isolation, the printer is silently sending you the untold secrets of the printing world.

I know. I'm one of those people. Where's the 11 x 17 paper?

Tact is when you remain popular even when your opinions are not.

It's Good People Day 2008! (click for details)

And I'm honoring Max Pfennighaus at Digital Influence Group! Besides being an all-around great guy, he was the first to send my blog to a bunch of Social Marketing people thus garnering me the first followers who weren't my mom. Thanks, Max! And happy Good People Day! (And thanks to Michelle for sending it to Max. You rock, too!)

You invent it. I'll promote it.

I'm starting a new feature on this blog. If you invent the products of my dreams for me, I will promote them on my blog for you.

Today's product: Face Spray.

Like hairspray only it keeps your makeup in place. (Even on the windiest of days!)

It's time once again for: What People Googled to Get to my Blog.

Welcome to you who Googled:

Picket signs sayings

If you could spend a day with somebody, who would it be

You should Google yourself

I don't want to die blogs

Who needs Waldo

Quesclamation

Tattoos

Exhibitionist

Clever sayings for bathroom walls