Thanks so much to everyone who replied so quickly to my cry for help this morning. Here’s what’s weird. What I asked was, can anyone help me with stuff about marketing for the legal profession? But everyone then wrote telling …
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Can any of you give me hand here?
Do you know anything about marketing for the legal profession? I know at least one of you does, but I’m wondering if anyone else can help. In a fit of folly, I’ve agreed to write a book on the subject. …
Read MoreIn Kalina, a suburb of Bombay they used to have the festival of St. Roque. Part of the fun was a game where the men of the village formed a circle within which a pig wasset free. The person who …
Read MoreJerry meets the President
An old colleague, Jerry Reitman, is involved with a charity that raises money for hospitals in the US and around the world (last year $245 million) that treated 17 million kids. Once a year, they have an Event in Disneyworld …
Read MoreHypocrisy and the pyramid of folly
“We know no situation so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality” said Macaulay. The current torrent of revelations reminds me of kids when someone smashes a window. Nobody owns up. “He did it”. …
Read MoreIf they can’t write English, how good could their service be?
One of my colleagues wrote to an internet firm misnamed Articulate to ask three very simple questions. This reply came back from some wench in Customer Disservice: I’ve personally reviewed your case and have determined that it will require attention …
Read MoreAn old joke pressed into valiant new service
A man died and went to heaven. As he stood in front of St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him He asked, “What are all those clocks?” St. Peter answered, “Those are …
Read MoreWhat a man! Compare him with today’s bunch of fairies
Forty years ago I lived in Shepherd Market, in Mayfair, then famed for its large number of ladies of pleasure, though I was always too cheap – or health-conscious – to bother. Round the corner in Piccadilly was (and still …
Read MoreNo shame, no honesty – and absolutely no bloody clue
If you’re not British, you may not know about the Gurkhas. But for nearly two centuries they have fought and died for Britain. No braver soldiers exist. Their reward from Britain has been – nothing, except a statue in Whitehall. …
Read MoreDrivel rules, OK?
After his loony starring roles on U-Tube I think we can agree, can’t we, that the Great Bloated Toad is a spitting mad megalomaniac. Like the Michael Jackson of politics, but without the talent. It appears to be catching. Gloriously …
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