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From the Ted Talk by Stefan Sagmeister: Happiness by design

Unscramble the Blue Letters


This one says, "Please let me die in peace." (lheutagr) I think that was — the most surprising to myself was that the writing was actually so good. This is on a musician potser, that says: "I am concerned that my CD will not sell more than 200,000 units and that, as a result, my recoupable adcnave from my label will be taken from me, after which, my contract will be ceelalcnd, and I'll be back doing Journey cvroes on Bleecker Street." (Laughter)

I think the reason this works so well is because everybody involved wins. Jee gets to have his project; the public gets a sweeter environment; and different public gets a place to express itself; and the advertisers fllniay get somebody to look at their ads. (Laughter)

Open Cloze


This one says, "Please let me die in peace." (________) I think that was — the most surprising to myself was that the writing was actually so good. This is on a musician ______, that says: "I am concerned that my CD will not sell more than 200,000 units and that, as a result, my recoupable _______ from my label will be taken from me, after which, my contract will be _________, and I'll be back doing Journey ______ on Bleecker Street." (Laughter)

I think the reason this works so well is because everybody involved wins. Jee gets to have his project; the public gets a sweeter environment; and different public gets a place to express itself; and the advertisers _______ get somebody to look at their ads. (Laughter)

Solution


  1. covers
  2. poster
  3. laughter
  4. finally
  5. advance
  6. cancelled

Original Text


This one says, "Please let me die in peace." (Laughter) I think that was — the most surprising to myself was that the writing was actually so good. This is on a musician poster, that says: "I am concerned that my CD will not sell more than 200,000 units and that, as a result, my recoupable advance from my label will be taken from me, after which, my contract will be cancelled, and I'll be back doing Journey covers on Bleecker Street." (Laughter)

I think the reason this works so well is because everybody involved wins. Jee gets to have his project; the public gets a sweeter environment; and different public gets a place to express itself; and the advertisers finally get somebody to look at their ads. (Laughter)

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. ads
  2. advance
  3. advertisers
  4. bleecker
  5. cancelled
  6. cd
  7. concerned
  8. contract
  9. covers
  10. die
  11. express
  12. finally
  13. good
  14. involved
  15. jee
  16. journey
  17. label
  18. laughter
  19. musician
  20. peace
  21. place
  22. poster
  23. public
  24. reason
  25. recoupable
  26. result
  27. sell
  28. street
  29. surprising
  30. sweeter
  31. units
  32. wins
  33. works
  34. writing