Gnaw Bone
(chew on that)

Our latest list of inane musings from the Brainstorm office white board:

Top 20 Vacation Hot Spots in Indiana

1. Chicago – It’s ours, it’s ours I tell you!
2. Columbus – Top-rated U.S. city on NatGeo Travelers list of Historic Places (#11 worldwide)
3. Notre Dame (Yes, The Notre Dame)
4. Brown County (Nashville) – It’s really green
5. Santa Claus (No, not him)
6. Madison – The place, not the donut girl
7. Um, Indianapolis – By and large, clean, safe, historical, sports-oriented, prospering…
8. Wauwausee (once you see it you’ll whine until you see it again)
9. Bloomington – sporting a campus ranked among the most beautiful in the U.S.
10. Turkey Run, Shades Park Combo
11. The Dunes – Sandy, but good
12. Bean Blossom – Boogie
13. Hoosier National Forest – You can see it for the trees
14. The oddly named Holiday World and Splashin’ Safari
15. Rose Hulman (Take that M.I.T.)
16. Lake Max (Like a Great Lake, but smaller)
17. Pete Dye – designed golf courses @ Purdue
18. Spencer County – Home of Abe Lincoln’s boyhood abode
19. French Lick (No, really)
20. Peru – Circus City
21. Gnaw Bone (Chew on that)

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Aging (no offense, Ed)

Our latest list of inane musings from the Brainstorm office white board:

Top 20 Stimuli

1. The Thorny End of A Red Rose
2. A Sharp Stick in the Eye
3. Prunes
4. Starbucks
5. $Trillion
6. Reminder Emails from Sparkpeople.com
7. C₈ H₁₀ N₄ O₂
8. Tax Evasion
9. Nancy Pelosi – She’s got the whole package working for her
10. A Soft Touch
11. Protein [?]
12. Barb
13. Mountain Dew
14. 24 Hours to Live. WWYD
15. Blatant Threats
16. A Good Goad
17. Global Cooling
18. Global Warming
19. All Your Friends are Doing It
20. Aging (no offense, Ed)

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Avoid depression. :)

Our latest list of inane musings from the Brainstorm office white board:

Top 20 Things You Could Do With $700 Billion

1. Buy a house of cards
2. Socialize a bit more
3. Avoid depression. :)
4. Buy a better bowling ball
5. Impress the ladies
6. Look to AIG for alternative answers and assurances
7. Y’ought to be able to buy a yacht for that;
   join the U.S. CEO Flotilla
8. Not solve the financial crisis
9. Buy buckets and barrels of French wine!
10. Fund golden parachutes, Wall Street style
    (10.5: Give everyone in the U.S. $2,300)
11. Purchase the means to produce more, consume less.
12. America
13. 700 trillion pieces of Bazooka Joe (I think)
14. 1.4 trillion McDonald’s Apple Pies
    (of course on sale buy 1 get 1 free)
15. Fund AIG executive retreat
16. Pay off 1/1000 of U.S. debt to China
17. Buy a decent-sized island; launch America 2.0
18. Provide alternative energy sources to entire U.S.
19. (buy) Houses for people to live in
20. Live like a Buffett – Buy Iceland

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My thoughts
(Hey, inflation is affecting everything)

Our latest list of inane musings from the Brainstorm office white board:

Top 20 Things You Can Buy for ¢.50

1. 40 minutes of parking downtown
2. ½ a Redbox Rental
3. Movie tickets circa the Cambrian period
4. ½ an iTune
5. Not one, but two, bear claws
6. 1/8 of a gallon of gasoline
7. 50 pennies on the open market
8. Today’s newspaper
9. 1.2 inches of a Subway® footlong (upgrade now to new 16.5)
10. 2 bits
11. My thoughts (Hey, inflation is affecting everything)
12. Some orbit gum for his dirty mouth?
13. 50 rides on the pink pony at Meijer
14. 2 ½ text messages once you’re over your limit
15. 2 bags of Top Ramen
16. Large, spirally-delivered gumball
17. A new moral compass
18. A bling diamond ring
19. Shave and a haircut
20. This board – finish it and I’ll give you $.50

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