If Smirking Dave wanted to know what is going on outside the Great Dream Cocoon in which he lives he could do a lot worse than take a walk around Bristol. One feature besides the groups of half-dressed drunken sluts …
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Mindless Meanderings in the Shiny Marketing Wonderland: Who Else Walks on Water? Plus a Mickey Mouse Job Opportunity
I don’t know why but I get invitations to speak in little spurts. You know how these things are – like waiting for buses. You stand in the freezing cold for twenty minutes, then three come all at once. You …
Read MoreA competition to find the biggest crooks and fools. Who would win? And an investment puzzle
I don’t know what quirk in me makes for this never-ending fascination with rogues and fools. Anyhow the funniest things I read on Saturday covered both. First, a headline saying “FTSE settles above 5,900 on Greece optimism.” It is my …
Read MoreA good joke; a bunch of criminally negligent rogues; which way to turn?
I do not know who coined this definition of the stages of a project, but I have seen several variations. Like all good jokes it works because we recognise its truth. The stages are: Wild enthusiasm Disillusionment Confusion Panic Search …
Read MoreCorporate bollocks Down Under. And who, pray, pays your wages? Plus a good Kelvin McKenzie joke
Kim Williams: “I bore for Murdoch” More years ago than I care to remember a big cheese at American Express came into our offices in 20, Soho Square to give us – rapt and breathless with excitement, oh yes – …
Read MoreA week or so late for the great man’s birthday … this seems appropriate
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Read MoreAt the risk of boring you, this is what is happening to your future
In one of my helpful marketing ideas I quote the French Artist, Writer and Film Director Jean Cocteau who once began a speech by saying, “I have said this many times before, but nobody listened, so I will say it …
Read MoreWhat goes around comes around. Why GroupOn is the kiss of death – or something damn close
About 1,100 years ago, a little before my time, this country was ravaged by Vikings who would sail over from Scandinavia each spring and rove around burning, looting, killing, raping, enslaving and generally having a good time. The inhabitants, whose …
Read MoreA little gentle chauvinism for you. Advice from a retired husband
It is important for men to remember that as women grow older, it becomes harder for them to maintain the same quality of housekeeping as when they were younger. When you notice this, try not to yell at them. Some …
Read MoreWhere did I go wrong? Where did they go right?.
About 24 hours ago I got an email from Sydney, with these two pictures. The writer was the spiv in the white suit, my old partner, Glenmore Trenear-Harvey. The other two old geezers are a pair of ornaments of the …
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