Some things, unfortunately, once heard cannot be unheard. “You know what my favorite Star Wars movie is?” an accomplished and intelligent person said to me last week as we were making polite chitchat before a meeting got underway. “It’s The Phantom Menace. I just love that one.”

“This meeting is over,” is what I did not say in response, but boy did I want to.

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