Glengarry Glen Foo
or: things other than closing that googling thinks you should “ABC: Always Be…” doing.
This is from a scan of the first fifteen or so pages of a google search for “abc. always be” -”always be closing”, sorted into a few categories, looking at how people use the “ABC: Always Be x” template as a snowclone.
-ing forms:
Calling
Canceling
Capturing
Cartooning
Casting
Celebrating
Challenging Yourself
Charging
Clicking
Cobbling
Collecting
Combining
Communicating
Compounding
Conditioning
Connecting
Conning
Constructing Business Models
Contacting
Cosplaying
Crafting
Creating
Crediting
Crouching
Curling
Cutting
Things that aren’t an -ing form:
Calm
Careful
Cautious
Certain
Cheerful
Classy
Clean
Cleared
Comfortable
Concise
Confident
Congruent
Conservative
Cool
Courteous
Covert
Cute
Things that don’t start with C:
Base-Closing
In Control
Promoting
Things that probably weren’t supposed to start with C but who knows really:
Cprepared
Guessing the lattermost is a play on the Boy Scout motto, but you’re right, who knows?
If that’s 15 pages worth, is there any chance of getting a frequency plot?
Ah, I didn’t bother to tally, and I’m not sure the chart would be that interesting. But I can tell you that the ones I noticed recurring included “careful” (popular safety slogan?), “capturing” (flickr group), “charging” (sxsw mantra), “cobbling” (in reference to the SNL Baldwin/Elves sendup I linked), “creating”, “cosplaying” (in reference to the video, I guess, mostly?), and “cool”.