With all due respect to the incredibly athletic people in the video, this short clip made me chuckle as it reminded me of performing animals like those you’d find in Underwater World or something – where the stunt would eventually be greeted by polite applause and a little treat from the trainer.
But 14 people is really quite a long distance.
Every year, the premature baby unit at Edith Cavell hospital sends cards to the other departments as well as to ex-patients. This year, they sent this card in mid-October. When you open it you see the message:
It’s a little premature, but Happy Christmas.
If I were them, I’d probably use the word “early” instead of premature. Premature has just too many un-Christmas like connotations (what were you thinking?).
Judy Rose posted a list of hilarious analogies used by high school students in their essays. I wish I was this brilliant in English. I never seemed to be so creative. Some of my favorites:
1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a ThighMaster.
3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.
16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.
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You know how it is: clients give you business, and so they’re always right. Even when they aren’t. And sometimes, they just give such unexpected but firm demands that you don’t know whether to laugh or to cry. AdVerbatims has an excellent collection of amusing exchanges and idiosyncrasies exchanged between clients, art directors, copywriters, account executive etc. in the colorful world of the advertising business. It seems like all these exchanges could only happen in the advertising world too.
Here are 10 of my favorites:
#200- “Can you make the design 17% better?”
(Client, giving feedback to Account Executive)
#191- “Can we make the whites whiter?” – “Not really, its NTSC white is 255 255 255.” – “Yes, but can we make the Whites Whiter?”
(Client)
#179- “We need to send the client a .jpg of the image as soon as possible.” – “Sure. Do you think the .jpg will fit in this size envelope?”
(Agency, Intern to another intern, who was holding up an actual 6×9 envelope)
#171- “I went into photoshop, I just bought a copy, and I increased the image size to say 300 dpi, what do you mean it’s not high res?”
(Client, after beeing asked for 5th time for a high res version of the image)
#162- “What we give you is what you get.”
(Agency, Manager of graphic department, to a client)
#156- “This sky is too much of a dusk and too little of a dawn. Are we sure this is the dawn we saw yesterday?”
(Client, Brand Manager who was present on a shooting at 4 o clock in the morning)
#152- “If you can’t tell me exactly what you want the poster to look like, how am I supposed to design it?”
(Design House)
#118- “It’s amazing how well you interpreted the brief. This piece is exactly what we wanted, you could not have made it any better, I love it. But I also think it’s too good. This is for a bigger client, a more international one. We’re not like that. See if you can do something shittier that we can use.”
(Client, same Marketing Manager)
#116- “Can’t you make that dog smile? Don’t you have a smile filter on this expensive machine?”
(Agency, Owner)
#113- “We need your help. According to what I understood from the client, we have to put subtitles on the radio spots. Is that doable?”
(Agency, Account Assistant)
This is pretty classic. A woman calls 911 because she got the wrong burger from a Burger King drive through. “I want my Western burger done right. Now is that so hard to do?”
That looks about right.
As I post some of the more recent contents, some old classics sprang back into my mind. Even after viewing them for a few times, they’re still cool and I guess that’s what makes them gems.
If all my trivia-gathering and Internet-trolling could lead to one good thing, this would not be it. A contestant on the Who Wants to be a Millionaire show, Chase Sampson was in the hot seat, ready to answer the first question. How will he fare? Watch it!
(Contrast with my idol, John Carpenter)
Office supplies get creative! Viking and 3M, suppliers of office stationery, has come up with an interesting website campaign. Using various office supplies like papers, staplers, scissors, post-it notes etc, they have composed cryptic images like the one above that represents a movie. Unfortunately, it seems the web site is now offline.
