Birds of Manhattan
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writer, writers, author, authors, novelist, novelists, balloon, balloon, deflated, deflation, deflated balloon, deflated balloons, publish, publishers, fail, failed, failing, writers block, writer's block, uninspired, inspiration, depressed, depression, depressive, depressives, failure, failures, let down, let downs, let-down, let-downs"Don't think of it as getting fired. Think of it as finally being recognized for your incompetence."
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incompetence, incompetent, fired, laid off, let go, made redundant, redundant, redundancy, unemployed, unemployment, lost job, boss, bosses, manager, managers, management, hiring manager, hiring managers, outsource, outsourcing, outsourced, recognition, fail, failure, failed, failing, bad employee, employee, employees, ex employee, ex employees, employer, employers, making cuts, budget cuts, office, offices"Once, years ago, I gave a sucker an even break, but it didn't work out."
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business, businessman, businessmen, boss, bosses, executive, executives, exec, execs, manager, managers, management, sucker, suckers, chance, chances, opportunity, opportunities, failure, failed, social status, elite, elites"The Sudden, Sure Knowledge That One's Best Efforts Have Come To Naught."
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effort, efforts, death, deaths, die, dies, deadly, escape, vaudeville, song-and-dance, grim reapers, grim-reapers, grim reaper, grim-reaper, audience, audiences, dying, dies, cheating death, cheats death, performance, performed, barbershop music, barbershop, disappointed, disappointed, fail, failed, effort, efforts"I'm listing my deadlines by due date so I can miss them in chronological order."
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deadline, deadlines, paperwork, due date, due dates, procrastinate, procrastination, procrastinating, lazy, laziness, chronological order, shirk, shirking, irresponsible, irresponsibility, business woman, business women, businesswoman, businesswomen, businessperson, businessperson, business people, modern life, modern attitudes, fail, failed, failingEd's Restaurant - Closed. Get Over It
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sign, signs, signage, door sign, closure, closed, close, fails, fail, failed, failure, failures, bankrupt, bankruptcy, economy, economic, recession, small business, small businesses, dining, diner, diners, restaurants, restaurant, shut down, shut-down, shutdown, food, eating, eatery, cafe, rude, rudeness, frank, frankness, brusque, school of hard knocks, hard knocks, service, service industry, catering"I thought he was a genius, but now I find out that he was self-proclaimed."
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executive, executives, business, businessmen, businessman, businesses, office, offices, corporate, corporations, corporation, work, workers, working, working world, market, marketing, markets, profit, profit boost, profits, profitable, profitability, train, training, trained, trainer, genius, geniuses, resume, resumes, ego, egotist, egotistical, failure, failed, failures, recoup, recouping, trust, trusting, trustworthy, reliable, rely, relying, running away, run away, runawayStill hemorrhaging; NBC cancels "The Cheeseheads"
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cheesehead, cheeseheads, cheese, cheese, entertainment, entertain, entertaining, cancel, cancelled, cancelling, tv, tvs, television, televisions, tv show, tv shows, television show, television shows, fail, failed, failure, failures, food, foods, family, families"Oh, by the way, as you were on your way down here your lottery ticket won seventeen million dollars."
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hell, welcome to hell, devil, devils, demon, demons, satan, fire, flame, flames, new arrival, death, dead, money, gambling, gambler, gamblers, lottery, lotteries, playing the lottery, lottery ticket, lottery tickets, game, games, won, winning the lottery, million, millions, million dollars, fortune, unlucky, lucky, fortunate, unfortunate, good luck, bad luck, bad day, worst day, rich, wealth, wealthy, riches, poor, man, men, psychology, failure, failed, stress, stressful, unfulfilled dreamsGodzilla vs. The Angry Movie Executives
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kaiju, kaijus, monster, monsters, giant monster, giant monsters, battles, talking animal, talking animals, actor, actors, big budget, budget, exec, executive, executives, movie, movies, film, films, cinema, cinemas, box office, flop, box office flop, box-office, entertainment, failure, failed, battle, battled, argue, argued, antagonise, antagonise, threaten, threatened, versus, vs, anthro, anthropomorphic, anthropomorphism, hollywood, director, directors, producer, producers, sales, profit, profits, overwhelm, overwhelmed, gang up, ganged upYou Are Here
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business man, business men, business person, business people, businessman, businessmen, businesperson, stock, stocks, stocks and shares, stock market, stock markets, stock market crash, stock market crashes, bond, bonds, recession, recessions, double dip recessions, charts, charts, graph, graphs, stats, statistics, crash, crashes, fail, failed, failing, doing badly, you are here, locate, locating, location, locations, maps, map, city map, city maps"I know he's in here somewhere!"
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baptism, baptize, baptise, baptising, baptizing, christening, christening, drown, drowns, drowning, drop, dropped, awkward, baby, babies, child, children, infant, infants, drop, dropped, church, churches, christian, christians, font, fonts, failed, failing, baptismal font, baptismal, christened, religions, religion, christianity, priest, priest, vicar, vicars, reverend, reverends, lost, losing, loses"Yeah? Well, tell him that in this company Gandhi-like resistance wouldn't have worked for Gandhi, either."
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business, businessman, businessmen, boss, bosses, executive, executives, exec, execs, manager, managers, management, office, offices, office life, employee, employees, worker, workers, resisting, resistance, activist, activists, activism, non-violent, nonviolent, peaceful, protest, protests, protesting, civil disobedience, union, unions, strike, strikes, striking, floppy, failing, failure, failed"I'm a wunderkind slash flop."
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wunderkind, wunderkinds, child prodigy, child prodigies, fail, failed, failure, failures, party, parties, introduction, introductions, success, successful, genius, geniuses, children, child, kid, kids, smart, intelligent, flop, flops, psychologyA panhandler holds a sign that reads "Followed my bliss".
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homeless, homelessness, homeless person, homeless people, living on the streets, hobo, hobos, street person, street people, beggar, beggars, begging, panhandler, panhandlers, panhandling, sign, signs, follow your dreams, follow your bliss, follow your passion, happiness, bliss, life, philosophy, passion, millennial, millennials, entrepreneur, entrepreneurs, startup, startups, start-up, start-ups, small business, small businesses, failure, failed, bankrupt, bankruptcy, modern life, catchphrase, catchphrases, wordplay, word playPlaypen escape hatch.
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toddler, toddlers, infant, infants, prison, prisons, prisoner, prisoners, escape, escapes, escape hatch, escape hatches, trapdoor, trapdoors, playpen, playpens, terrible twos, terrible 2s, parent, parents, parenting, parenthood, growing up, child rearing, kid, kids, child, failed, failure, failures, escape attempt, escape attempts"Dumb it up."
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writer, writers, publications, publication, publisher, publishers, editor, editors, insult, insulting, insulted, dumb it down, dumbing it down, dumbed down, incompetent, incompetence, agent, agents, bad writer, bad writers, proof, proofs, proof reading, proof reader, proof readers, book, books, unintelligent, manuscript, manuscripts, notes, getting notes, failed, failing, failures, failure"All right, spit it out and let's try again."
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lion, lions, tamer, tamers, lion tamer, lion tamers, lion-tamer, lion-tamers, circus, circuses, head, heads, decapitate, headless, danger, dangerous, train, training, trains, trick, tricks, entertain, entertainment, practice, practise, try again, fail, failed, show, shows, travelling showThe Adventures Of Normalman
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superhero, superheroes, super hero, super heroes, hero, heroes, heroic, heroically, adventure, adventures, adventured, fall, falling, falls, fail, failed, fly, flies, flying, normal, average, everyday, every-day, normal, failed, failure, failures, normality, fail, fails, banal, bored, boring, unusual, play on words, word play, word-play, underwhelmed, underwhelming, realism, realistic, slapstick, slap stick, prat fall, prat-fallNATURE WALK
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walk, walking walks, treadmill, tread mill, running machine, running machine, plant, plants, nature, natural, nature walk, natures, fail, failed, doing it wrong, misguided, misunderstood, treadmills, tread mills, inside, indoors, plant, plant pot, pot, plants"So much for that publicity stunt."
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tree, trees, forest, forests, if a tree falls in the forest, though experiment, thought experiments, philosophical, publicity, publicity stunt, publicity stunts, promotion, promotions, self-promotion, promotional stunt, promotional stunts, public relations, pr, audience, bad idea, pointless, useless, failed, failure, failures