I once worked at a big company, supporting litigation from the business side. When a CRITICAL conference call concluded, and the tide in the litigation had shifted favorably, ... due to my boss's AWESOME performance in the call. I thought ... "I need to say something he will never forget, to compliment this moment and him." and then I remembered a compliment I had heard a female colleague in a previous job make of a job interview candidate who was off-the-scale-good: "Would I be out of place if I offered to bear him a child?" I stole her idea (despite being a male) and said "Jim you did so well, would I be out of place if I offered to bear you a child?" and all in the room laughed for 5 minutes enjoying the victory, and the aptness of a nicely played selfless (stolen) compliment. Nice job identifying distilled essence of compliments Rands!