Thunderclap New Man?

In 1704, dramatist John Dennis invented a method for simulating the sound of thunder to punctuate moments of high drama in his play.
Unfortunately, the play itself never found an audience and closed early; leaving someone else to steal his idea for a new production of ‘the Scottish play’ (I’m not allowed to mention its name because I have kids in the theatre).
And that’s where we get the expression ‘to steal someone’s thunder’.
Three hundred years later and the sensation of someone else taking the glory is still just as frustrating as it ever was. For some reason, people need their name attached to an idea, like a label sewn into a gym kit, even when it didn’t necessarily originate with them.
As Robin Fielder of LDL someone I’ve been working with for over 25 years (sorry Rob!) says” if you want to find someone to blame look in the mirror – if you want to find someone to praise, look out the window.”
If love means never having to say you’re sorry, greatness means never having to say “That was MY idea.”