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Having written a story myself that combined the motif with OK Go, I admit I always get a real chuckle out of the "lessons learned" posts that folks write.

Nevertheless, the headlines below, I'm afraid, are for "lessons learned" stories that will forever remain as drafts:

1. Never Have a Sit Down in the Basement: What Inglourious Basterds Can Teach You About Your Next Investor Pitch

2. "The Casa Bonita Episode": What South Park Can Teach Us About Eliminating the Competition and Getting What You Want

3. "Greedo Shot First"and Other Crappy Excuses For Making Unnecessary Changes to Your Product: Lessons Learned from the Re-release of Star Wars Episode IV

4. "We Didn't Test in Internet Explorer and It Was Still Okay" -- Lessons from a Launch Day

5. 400 Million Users Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry

6. Sue's Famous "Rat Versus Snake" Speech: Survivor-Based Inspirations for a Good Ignite Pitch

7. Building Green Technologies or Mean Technologies?: Lessons Learned from Watching Captain Planet and GI Joe Cartoons Back-to-Back

8. Lemonade Stand: What I Learned About Entrepreneurship from my Apple II Computer

9. The Grateful Dead at the Cap Centre, March 9, 1992: There Were Lessons Learned. I Think

10. "Justin Bieber Meets Lady Gaga Chatroulette" Blog Headlines and Other Ways to Use SEO to Rule the World

11. Sometimes You Just Can't Pivot: What Nicholas Cage Can Teach Us About Being Consistently Bad

12. Duct Tape, Lesbian Jailyard Kissing Scenes, and Product Placements: What Lady Gaga's "Telephone" Can Teach You About Making a Viral Video

13. Removing Vowels and Using Lower Case i's: How to Name Your Web 2.0 Widget

14. "A Friendly Pubic Interface" and Other Reasons Why You Should Have Someone Copyedit Your Press Releases

15. CAPSLOCK WINS and Other Lessons You Got Wrong

16. "Blow Me": What the Vuvuzela Can Teach Us About Respecting Global Markets

17. I Am Always the First to Go Bankrupt At Monopoly and Other Reasons Why You Probably Shouldn't Take My Business Advice

18. Maybe You Should've Made More Explicit Sexting Ads: Lessons Learned from the Failed Microsoft Kin

19. Morose Girls Like Sparkly Vampires and Other Things Twilight Can Tell You About Marketing to Teens

20. Google Reader Play, StumbleUpon and Other Sources for "Lessons Learned" Inspiration

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