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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 08:22 PM
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Has anyone ever been motivated by a Successories product?
I ask this question with abject sincerity. I was leafing through the Sky Mall catalog that flamingyouth left here and I came across the section advertising Successories motivational products. As I read through them, I couldn't help but notice that I did not feel motivated by them. Instead, I felt moderately amused by the trite and clichéd sentiments of these semi-tacky, overpriced office wall-coverings. It then occurred to me that the mall in the city I grew up in had a Successories store in it when it first opened. It folded, of course. That seems ironic in a way.

Has anyone ever felt motivated by a Successory?



http://www.successories.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/home.home/home.cfm
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 08:25 PM
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1. "Plastics are the future" that one always gets me
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 08:27 PM
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2. Have you seen the reverse of them? Demotivational posters.
http://www.despair.com/

They're hilarious!

http://us.st5.yimg.com/store1.yimg.com/I/demotivators_1836_6834855

http://us.st5.yimg.com/store1.yimg.com/I/demotivators_1836_5255779

http://us.st5.yimg.com/store1.yimg.com/I/demotivators_1836_5792571
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 08:28 PM
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3. Hilarious!!! I'll use one for the mission statement of my company.
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 08:30 PM
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5. I know-they're pretty funny.
I hate those motivational posters-they're assinine.
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 08:29 PM
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4. ROFL! Here's one for Fearless Leader!
http://us.st5.yimg.com/store1.yimg.com/I/demotivators_1836_2192319
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 08:35 PM
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7. I was gonna post this!
Ya beat me to it, they are hysterical!! :D
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 08:59 PM
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10. Those do far more for me than the irrational optimistic crap.
Nice photos. Even I could do better.
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MrModerate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 12:04 AM
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19. Actually, I think the motivational photos are great!
They motivate me to take another Photoshop class, or a day off from work to go play, or a long vacation river-rafting.

Maybe not what the publisher intended.
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 09:12 PM
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16. I LOVE the Demotivators.
I knew my company is either extremely cool or extremely fucked up when all of the MANAGERS posted those. :7
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 08:31 PM
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6. I was once motivated to tear one off the wall, if that counts
:evilgrin:
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 08:49 PM
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8. Ah, the SkyMall catalog
I'm a little shocked, frankly, that you didn't post the George W. Bush commermorative coin. :D
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 08:53 PM
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9. Skymall has a Bush commemorative coin?
:puke:
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 09:00 PM
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11. Fortunately, the SkyMall catalog is next to the airsickness bag
So I didn't have to soil the aircraft. :puke:
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 09:03 PM
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12. I bought seven!
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 09:08 PM
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13. Imagine what they'll be worth in the future!
Will they take tawdry commemorative coins after the Apocalypse?
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 09:10 PM
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14. I'll need those to get into heaven!
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 09:11 PM
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15. How sweet - one for you, one for me
And one for each of our five children! :D
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 09:14 PM
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17. I remember that store.
Edited on Thu Mar-24-05 09:16 PM by Pithlet
There used to be one in a mall where I worked. I've seen parodies of them, too Edit: just like in this thread.
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Melynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 11:48 PM
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18. They both annoy and amuse me, depending on my mood.
Stupid HR departments in companies buy this crap and put it on the walls of major corporations to "motivate the troops". Unbelievable.

I just wish I could come with mindless gimmick like this and make a ton of money. Of course, I would sell this garbage to Freepers and neo-Freeper types and give the money to leftist causes like DU. Or so goes my fantasy.
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Bamboo Donating Member (258 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 03:24 AM
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20. Put the US in USA
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