"Colin, it was his brainchild," Etherington told me in his midtown office, "he told me about a city competition to reinvent the pay phones and we entered it and pitched it together".
And waiting in the wings, there's Throw Me the Statue, the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Scott Reitherman, offering a breed of ludicrously melodic synth-driven pop.
In some cases, however, up to three years had passed before I uttered my riposte, which originated not with me but was the brainchild of a team of highly paid writers.
The brainchild of Leo Burnett/ Arc Worldwide, Tune in to Me is the first of its kind initiative in Malaysia that brings together multiple platforms for a single purpose to champion children's rights, particularly Article 12 of the CRC – children's right to be heard.
Bernstein told me that he wants their next brainchild to become the friend you call on to listen to your problems or help with your homework.
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CouchSurfing was the brainchild of Casey Fenton, who is thirty-four, and who told me over the phone from San Francisco that, as a boy growing up in Brownfield, Maine, he'd become fascinated by the concept of free will, cherishing the hope that someday he would have the existential wherewithal to escape his home town and explore the world.
What's exciting to me is that The Double is the brainchild of running visionary and innovator Bob Anderson, founder and former publisher of Runner's World magazine, and an avid runner for 50 years.
My friend Havi Hoffman, who's part of the influencer marketing group at Yahoo, emailed to tell me about the blog, writing "The blog is the brainchild of Nicki Dugan, Senior Director of Corporate Communications.
For me one of the most striking experiments in AI is the brainchild of the director of the Sony lab in Paris, Luc Steels.
