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Demotivational Messages for These Troubled Economic Times

By Jacqueline Lipton

My brother just alerted me to a series of "demotivational posters" available online from Despair, Inc.  While my technological prowess is failing me, and I'm having trouble downloading the images, I'll  set out some of my favorite taglines below and hyperlink to the posters:

LEADERS:  Leaders are like eagles.  We don't have either of them here.

MEETINGS:  None of us is as dumb as all of us.

and who could ignore....

BLOGGING:  Never before have so many people with so little to say said so much to so few.

I hope the links don't infringe any copyrights because Despair Inc's FAQ on copyright ownership certainly gives me pause:

"I want to put your images on my homepage without crediting you or acknowledging you in any way, so that I can do my small part to violate the copyrights of your photographers and whoever else might have a commercial interest in your intellectual property. How cool is that?
It is okay with us provided you promise to throw an online tantrum when we ask you politely to stop. "

They also have an interesting attitude to online trademarks here.

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on June 29, 2009 (boomark / email).