The Iroquois, though, had a more creative explanation for shaky ground: the great turtle was stirring.
Republicans have used nearly every excuse in the book to defend Melania Trump's plagiarism of Michelle Obama's 2008 Democratic National Convention speech, but one of the GOP's top strategists came up with a particularly creative explanation by way of "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic". .
The most common creative explanation for why Alice will never get to twenty was to interpret Alice's unusual math with other base systems.
In the same way, the paranoid imagineers of the right will come up with some creative explanation for why Obama, having achieved the nefarious goal for which he was secretly trained, ended up governing only slightly to the left of Bob Dole.
Then again, if manufacturers played it straight, the whole spot-the-shenanigans side of shopping would disappear, as would the pleasure of listening to companies find creative explanations for their handiwork.
Many creative explanations for its decline have been put forward, including simple fashion, multiculturalism and audience fragmentation eroding consensus about what is funny, and (in Britain) the alarmingly high bar set by "The Office", an acute satire about white-collar work that first aired in 2001.ABC's new crop of comedies are what Variety, a trade magazine, calls "laffers".
One of my creative explanations was that I was abducted by aliens and experimented on.
Such questions inspire students to wonderfully creative explanations, many of which are, unfortunately, preposterous.
The video features descriptions of each menu item, including "Cereal with Bananas," with the super-creative explanation that it's simply "cereal and bananas," and "Crispy Fish Sticks" which consists of "rectangular crispy fish fillets with your choice of dip-dip".
(A Creative Strategy is an explanation of how you would sell the product and why).
