Do not demean your crystal and silver!
Did you get your crystal ball from the pound shop?
So consult your crystal ball, or at least your calendar, before proceeding.
We asked you to dust off your crystal balls and tell us what you're expecting from the world's largest company.
"It's easy to look into your crystal ball in 2011 and see exactly where the quail are headed," Petit said.
It'll apparently also be available to take your crystal to a friend's house and use it on their version of the game.
Or, "get drunk at our gala wrap-up meeting, drop your crystal wine glass into the pool, and throw up on the host's custom-painted powder room walls".
PREDICTING the future is a tough business, particularly when unexpected events make your crystal ball look more like a snow globe.
When a reporter raised that possibility, Stern responded with cutting sarcasm, saying, "I don't have your collective bargaining expertise or your crystal ball".
"Comets, importing change of times and states, brandish your crystal tresses in the sky," Shakespeare wrote in Henry VI, Part 1, in a nod to the age-old belief in the divine influence of the small, icy bodies.
And yet, if you were lucky enough to leave your crystal, it would soon become clear that the special direction that governed the physics of that world is an illusion.
