Weekend Tids and Bits

Best Little Whatchacallit In Texas? – The brass at the Dallas Morning News are at pains to make us understand that just because some editorial section leaders will now report to advertising/sales “general managers,” it doesn’t mean that the editorial product is for sale. Oh, no, not indeed. Why that’s just as obvious as noting that women who wear skimpy outfits and  congregate in houses are just trying to avoid heat stroke, or that flashy-dressing guys who seem to know lots of girls looking for dates are just crusaders against loneliness. Those journalists who object to the fate of this once-proud newspaper are just stuck in the old-fashioned, anti-marketing thinking that if it looks like a skunk and smells like a skunk, it’s probably a skunk. Shame on them! (Subject to marketing approval, of course.)

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More Marketing Tips and Tactics –  Prostitutes in Copenhagen were upset when officials sent mailed warnings to hotels. The warnings advised attendees at the United Nations Climate Change Conference not to patronize the ladies.  So the ladies let it be known that any delegate to the conference that starts Monday who shows up with one of those warning cards, credentials  and certain needs will have those need met – on the house, reports Spiegel Online.

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Guys never had to worry about the issues addressed by Ogden Nash in his famous couplets titled “What’s the use?”

Sure, deck your limbs in pants,
Yours are the limbs, my sweeting.
You look divine as you advance . . .
Have you seen yourself retreating?

But the New York Times is reporting on a company, Bonobos, that wants to make the male rear-view fit, well, uh, fitter. Read the Times article here.  Possible upside: At last, a way for a guy to pose the question “Honey – do these slacks make me look fat?” Possible downside: A straight answer.

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Look For The Silver Lining Award Nominee has got to be the news that burglaries are down. Are citizens still getting chewed over by the recession maintaining their honesty anyway? Or are their fellow citizens staying home more because they’re also out of a job, thus denying more burglars the privacy they need to work?

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Have a great weekend!

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