Exercises in the higher banter with One of 26. Elsewhere called 'poet of adland'. By a whipple-squeezer.
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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It takes a special skill to go from this:
to this:
and in the process, not just rip the idea off, but make it worse. Oh dear.
Not all of you - and I suppose you're right, it's not the 'borrowing' of concept, but more the...downgrading of awesomeness, if I can say that and live with myself.
I saw that! I was shocked that they had completely lifted the concept so barefacedly.
ReplyDeleteAdvertisers, huh eh? We should be strung up, I tell ya.
ReplyDeleteNot all of you - and I suppose you're right, it's not the 'borrowing' of concept, but more the...downgrading of awesomeness, if I can say that and live with myself.
ReplyDeleteIt just reminds you how tricky it is to find something that truly is new under the sun.
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