Comments on: “gets it” http://gapingvoid.com/2005/01/06/gets-it/ "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" Wed, 23 May 2012 20:07:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Corante New York http://gapingvoid.com/2005/01/06/gets-it/#comment-3573 Corante New York Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:22:44 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1155#comment-3573 <strong>Carcasses and vultures</strong> When not writing about the "new, happy, fun, grim meathook realities of marketing and advertising," Hugh Macleod at Gaping Void continues to crank out a series of cartoons that are often illuminating, disturbing and just plain laugh out loud funny... Carcasses and vultures

When not writing about the “new, happy, fun, grim meathook realities of marketing and advertising,” Hugh Macleod at Gaping Void continues to crank out a series of cartoons that are often illuminating, disturbing and just plain laugh out loud funny…

]]> By: John http://gapingvoid.com/2005/01/06/gets-it/#comment-3572 John Fri, 07 Jan 2005 03:07:14 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1155#comment-3572 So, its... a popularity contest? And the winner gets there by perpetrating a language variant. I get it! So, its… a popularity contest? And the winner gets there by perpetrating a language variant.
I get it!

]]> By: hugh macleod http://gapingvoid.com/2005/01/06/gets-it/#comment-3571 hugh macleod Fri, 07 Jan 2005 02:12:09 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1155#comment-3571 It "gets it" in a good way. For now ;-) It “gets it” in a good way.
For now ;-)

]]> By: folby http://gapingvoid.com/2005/01/06/gets-it/#comment-3570 folby Fri, 07 Jan 2005 00:38:48 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1155#comment-3570 So is it innappropriate of me to say things like "They just don't fucking get it, and because of that, they will die." when discussing this new crazy strain of marketing that I enjoy reading about so much? If so, can you suggest another phrase? So is it innappropriate of me to say things like “They just don’t fucking get it, and because of that, they will die.” when discussing this new crazy strain of marketing that I enjoy reading about so much? If so, can you suggest another phrase?

]]> By: rob burke http://gapingvoid.com/2005/01/06/gets-it/#comment-3569 rob burke Fri, 07 Jan 2005 00:27:48 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1155#comment-3569 I don't get it! Sorry, couldn't resist. Hugh, would you say that the expression "gets it" gets it in a good way or a tired, "this is a win win synergy" sorta way? I don’t get it!
Sorry, couldn’t resist. Hugh, would you say that the expression “gets it” gets it in a good way or a tired, “this is a win win synergy” sorta way?

]]> By: hugh macleod http://gapingvoid.com/2005/01/06/gets-it/#comment-3568 hugh macleod Fri, 07 Jan 2005 00:13:17 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1155#comment-3568 No, Hamish, "The A-List" ;-) No, Hamish, “The A-List” ;-)

]]> By: Hamish http://gapingvoid.com/2005/01/06/gets-it/#comment-3567 Hamish Thu, 06 Jan 2005 23:42:24 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1155#comment-3567 I got it. What I need to do now is pass it on. Viral marketing. (Some of the terminology is a little, hmmm... off-putting.) But the old meme ideas do work well in this kind of conversation. There used to be a show on the BBC in the 1970's (I'm ancient and from the UK, though I do not live there anymore) called the "Old Grey Whistle Test" which was how you could tell (as a record industry person) if you would have a hit record or not. You played the record to a bunch of people that you would be hanging around with, and if you heard them humming or whistling it, then hey presto, you had passed the old grey whitel test for it sticking in people's minds, and you were off. What is the modern equivalent? Trackbacks? I got it. What I need to do now is pass it on. Viral marketing. (Some of the terminology is a little, hmmm… off-putting.)
But the old meme ideas do work well in this kind of conversation. There used to be a show on the BBC in the 1970’s (I’m ancient and from the UK, though I do not live there anymore) called the “Old Grey Whistle Test” which was how you could tell (as a record industry person) if you would have a hit record or not. You played the record to a bunch of people that you would be hanging around with, and if you heard them humming or whistling it, then hey presto, you had passed the old grey whitel test for it sticking in people’s minds, and you were off.
What is the modern equivalent? Trackbacks?

]]> By: hugh macleod http://gapingvoid.com/2005/01/06/gets-it/#comment-3566 hugh macleod Thu, 06 Jan 2005 23:31:13 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1155#comment-3566 Hmmm... how 'bout I leave you guessing, Johnnie? ;-) Hmmm… how ’bout I leave you guessing, Johnnie? ;-)

]]> By: Johnnie Moore http://gapingvoid.com/2005/01/06/gets-it/#comment-3565 Johnnie Moore Thu, 06 Jan 2005 23:25:57 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1155#comment-3565 Smarter Conversations is a great concept.You knew that already. I'm confused about what you mean by "owning" language. If you mean something like, take responsibility for the way you talk, Rock On. Hopefully don't mean Own in the way the agencies often do... like you can somehow claim dominion over the way people talk. Hugz, Johnnie Smarter Conversations is a great concept.You knew that already.
I’m confused about what you mean by “owning” language.
If you mean something like, take responsibility for the way you talk, Rock On.
Hopefully don’t mean Own in the way the agencies often do… like you can somehow claim dominion over the way people talk.
Hugz, Johnnie

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