Most of this will only interest you if you’re in business and you want to do better, so scroll down if you just read my stuff for laughs. The first part of today’s heading comes from Rowan Gormley’s talk yesterday …
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The Brighton frolics: my mole reports on the Jovial Toad and other assorted loonies. And is our Harriett as mad as a box full of frogs, or what?
Would you like to know what all the people who are busy ruining your life are really like? Now’s your chance. My mole in Whitehall sent me a report from behind the scenes at the Labour Party shindig last week, …
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Glenmore keeps sending me great jokes, and this is the latest – in the best possible taste, naturally. I need all the jokes I can get today, , as I’m pretending to be serious: our EADIM students are doing their …
Read MoreGuess what – advertising is going back 150 years – and am I happy!
Oh frabjous day, calloo, callay! He chortled in his joy – Lewis Carroll I got two VERY interesting messages in the past 48 hours.. One was about a pay by results marketing system that lets clients see clearly what they’re …
Read MoreTesco Medicine – another gem from the buffoon’s treasury
One of my oldest, best friends is an eminent lawyer. He warned me. “1. Solicitors do not understand marketing. 2. They believe they understand. 3. It is difficult to convince them of anything to the contrary.” Naturally, they HATE the …
Read MoreA few more jokes
I bet that fooled you. You thought I was going to talk about the Demented Toad’s idea of filling workhouses with teenage mothers — but no, not yet. I got this old faithful which still makes me laugh from my …
Read MoreWhat’s all this “we” shit about, SuperToad?
I have two good jokes for you today, gentle readers. It is now 12 years since the Bliar promised to be tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime. Today, like a dog returning to its vomit Gordon …
Read More“Madonna to wed Jesus”. Er, isn’t that incest?
70 years ago the sub-editors on The Times used to have a competition to see who could write the most boring headline. The only one I can remember was “Small earthquake in Chile. Not many dead.” At the other extreme, …
Read MoreFondly dedicated to every designer and copywriter around
Graphic designer versus clienthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfprIxNfCjk That was sent to me by Ian Dewar who besides being a connoisseur of jokes also has a keen eye for the ludicrous. So he was kind enough to draw to my attention that the idiots …
Read MoreMeanwhile, back in the real world, O Mighty Toad
Fresh from his Bono-Hugs at the Let’s Reward Failure Oscars SuperToad claims that “international action”- one of those specious, vague phrases he loves – has saved 7 million jobs world wide. Even viewed through the distorted lens of official statistics …
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