Wednesday Wordplay: Benjamin Franklin’s fear of Santa

Inspirational Quotes

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
            — Dee Hock

Never criticize a man until you’ve walked a mile in his moccasins.
            — Native American Proverb

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
            — Benjamin Franklin

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.
            — Friedrich Nietzsche

If I had my life to live over… I’d dare to make more mistakes next time.
            — Nadine Stair

It is cruel to discover one’s mediocrity only when it is too late.
            — W. Somerset Maugham, ‘Of Human Bondage’, 1915

Everybody is too busy with their own lives to give a damn about your book, painting, screenplay etc, especially if you haven’t sold it yet. And the ones that aren’t, you don’t want in your life anyway.
            — Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 22. Nobody cares. Do it for yourself.

Urban Dictionary – words for the Holidays

Gift Parasite – A person who adds their name to a gift tag in order to claim partial credit for giving the gift.

I’m totally broke so I had to be a gift parasite and sign on that present you’re giving Grandma.

santaclaustrophobia – fear of too many santa clauses

He felt a bout of santaclaustrophobia coming upon him as the holiday season approached.

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Category: Wednesday Wordplay