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I have been thoroughly entertained for the last half hour reading the game in the Quotations Forum called: Now It’s Your Turn. You can see it here:

• Quotations Page and Literature Page Forum: Now It’s Your Turn

This is the description of the game from our inventive QuoteMaster, libra&libra:

Hello Friends;

It is a real funny and interesting game that I am inviting you all to share with me.

We know that words are infinite, so the game is to pick up any word at random that passes by your mind and the one who follows has to construst a meaningful sentence using the word that you suggested before.

After typing the sentence, he has to leave another random word for the one who follows and so on….

For example: I will suggest the word “Schools” and the one who follows has to use “Schools” in a sentence of his own for instance: “Don’t let schools stand in the way of your education.”

Once you post your quotation, you get to choose the next word. They have been playing this game for seven months and the range of words have been funny, inspiring and just plain enjoyable.

The last word looking for a quotation was posted today: Strength.

Know any good strength quotations? If you do, log onto our forum and play the Now It’s Your Turn Game!

I’m sure this quotation was meant to mean, touch your customer emotionally, but my first instinct was the physical interpretation. It’s true. If you physically touch people, they respond positively as long as it is a minor touch, not some personal-space intruding touch.

Either way, you have to reach your customer. Don’t just tell them that you exist. Tell them how you’ll help them exist.

For more customer oriented talk, see Kathy Sierra’s website:

Creating Passionate Users

Sometimes I feel like this. I feel like I will never be fit for real work. I tried. I really don’t know what my problem is. I guess the kind of company that is worth my devotion is rare. I work hard and I relax hard. Sometimes I work so hard that I can’t do any work for weeks on end. A 9 to 5 job just doesn’t let me work in spurts like that. They need me to come in every day.

Working for myself is harder than working for someone else, but I’ve finally found that company that is worth my devotion: my own.

Every week I bring you the quotations used in the CBS series Criminal Minds. This week’s episode featured a recent quotation by Cory Doctorow:

Note to the producers of this show: I’m sure you’re getting at least some of the quotations you use from our site, and I’m flattered. But please drop me a line and I’ll see if I can verify the ones you plan to use. It will avoid embarrassment in the future….

While this was the only quotation used in the narration, there was also a quote mentioned by Dr. Reed halfway through the episode, from Sherlock Holmes:

This one is probably paraphrased from either “The Sign of Four” or “A Scandal in Bohemia”—I haven’t verified it yet.

Criminal Minds airs Wednesday evenings on CBS. Check your local listings for airtimes, and check our TV category for our previous posts about the show.

I’ve been a bit behind on posting the quotations used in CBS’s Criminal Minds. To catch up, here’s a brief look at the quotes in the episode that aired last week. This time we have two parallel quotations from T. S. Eliot:

While the quotations in this program aren’t always accurate, this episode is a pleasant exception. Both are excerpts from the poem The Hollow Men. They also partially quoted the last lines of the poem, which may be familiar:

Criminal Minds airs Wednesday nights on CBS. See our TV category for previous Criminal Minds quotations.