The Iroquois, though, had a more creative explanation for shaky ground: the great turtle was stirring.
With "Bad as I Wanna Be," a docudrama made for ABC that will be broadcast on Sunday night at 9, the world is invited to peek past the highly decorated veneer and consider a creative explanation of where Dennis Rodman comes from, who he really is and what he really cares about.
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.
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". .
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".
However contrite or creative its explanations for past acts, this is the time for NewsCorp to build a new corporate conscience.
Despite their widespread use, most research finds that incentives are terrible at improving performance in the long-run on anything but mindless rote tasks, because the fixation on prizes clouds our creative thinking (video explanation below).
