The Lighter Side of Banking?

Is there a lighter side to banking these days? In this cartoon, I was trying to find it, but if I were a bank, I wouldn’t be using humor in my advertising just now.

Actually I’ve never been a fan of humor in financial institution advertising. Remember those WaMu TV spots with the fuddy duddy band of bankers? Or the Capital One “What’s in Your Wallet?” campaign? Trivializing personal finance, portraying a loan as a lark or a walk in the park … that’s the wrong message.

Where do you see humor used inappropriately in advertisements and marketing?

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Thanksgiving Cartoons

Happy Thanksgiving from Word Sell!

12 Things Writing and Golf Have in Common

I finally got to play some golf, and I noticed all kinds of similarities to writing. Here they are - some serious, some not so much.

Words for Nerds - Abattoir

Abattoir is a word you may have run across, especially if you fancy fiction or crave comics. What do you think abattoir means?

A. Fashionable, having refined taste
B. A chicken coop
C. A slaughterhouse
D. In a confused or delirious state
E. Excessively humid

Hint: the word comes from the French abattre, to beat down. The correct definition of abattoir, of course, is … C, a slaughterhouse.