25.11.11

Great Marketing Fails #116



the 1959 Brussel Sprouts
Marketing Board campaign

























































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22.11.11

Thinking about thinking...









variations on the theme of thinking...
















































































































































 what do you think?







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18.11.11

Irony





this just makes me laugh, every time.














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16.11.11

Worst Inventions in History #7











for some, autumn is a time of reflection on the beauty of nature, the passing of time and the coming of winter. for others, it's a time to fire up the leaf blower and gout out and blow their lawns. 

no other power tool requires so little of the operator, so most people don't even really know how to use it very well- the result being that they spend hours chasing their leaves around the yard before creating anything resembling a pile.















the advent of the leaf blower has meant the virtual disappearance of mildly aerobic activities like raking leaves and sweeping sidewalks.

it has also resulted in a decrease of neighbourly conversation. leaf raking and sweeping and such are quiet activities, but they do take time. few are the neighbours who would mind being interrupted by a "hey, how's it going while thus engaged" and breaking off for a few minutes conversation.














leaf blowers discourage such interactions with a frightening finality. you cannot communicate with anyone using one of these aggressive appliances without a total shutdown and/or risking that the user will turn to face you and blow dirt, small stones, bits of stick, dried dog foeces and anything else not glued to the planet at you and into your eyes, mouth, ears etc.


- if there is a hell, may the inventor of the leaf blower be found there, with one of the high-powered gas-driven industrial models
blowing up his butt, forever and ever, amen.






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14.11.11

Intellectual property!










it's a big deal these days... and no one is more sensitive to it than trans-national corporations. well, except when  they're the ones ripping it off,
of course....

Pippi Longstocking (aka Pippi Långstrump) is a fictional character in a series of children's books by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, and adapted into multiple films and television series.













Pippi was named by Lindgren's then nine-year-old daughter, Karin, who requested a get-well story from her mother one day when she was home sick from school. The first of the series was published
in 1945.


















Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers
(simply known as
Wendy's) is an international fast food chain restaurant founded by Dave Thomas on November 15, 1969, in Columbus, Ohio, United States.


























Thankfully, to date the hamburger vendors have shown no interest in legal action against Ms. Lindgren or her heirs for inventing their logo 25 years before the company existed....















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Thinking about Albert Einstein








































































































































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the Voices of the People



more delicious expressions of fresh thinking, discontent and alternative perspectives...
































































































































































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