Eye Popping Marketing Insights from Scrambled Toast

My original blog, Scrambled Toast, started out as a blog to showcase business cartoons, gradually morphed into a business humor blog, and is now sort of melting away into nothing. All along, this blogging experiment was part of my lifelong ambition to become a pseudointellectual, though try as I might, a few words of actual wisdom occasionally crept in.

Here’s a serving of Scrambled Toast posts with (possible) marketing value and a side of humor. Hope you like them.

INTERESTED IN WRITING FOR SCRAMBLED TOAST? If you want to exercise your comedic writing muscles, give me a shout. I’d love to have…

DUH v. DOH - All You Need to Know

What do you say we have some fun today?

Late one Saturday night, Karen Swim and I were having a little email exchange about Project Confident Friendship. The word duh came up, and it got me wondering about duh versus doh.

Let’s Dissect Duh and Doh

Duh rose to popularity in the 1980’s as one of the four or five words that constituted the Valley Girl vocabulary. At our house back then, both “Duh!” and the rather cryptic expression “No duh!” were heard up to 500 times a day. The American Heritage Dictionary defines duh as follows –

Used to express disdain for something deemed stupid or obvious,…

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.

About Wendy Piersall, Sparkplugging, and Twitter-Uppers

Many thanks to Wendy Piersall for publishing two of my posts on her fabulous Sparkplugging blog. Sparkplugging covers quite a range of topics relating to work-at-home business, and I was excited to cover a couple new areas, on the topics of business cartoons and business humor.

Wendy also organized our recent Chicago suburban Tweetup, which was great fun. Had a chance to meet and get to know some very fine folks, including –

Derek Semmler
Barbara Rozgonyi
Kim Fenolio
Jeff O’Hara
Carloyn Shelby
Jerome Hughes
Karen (@DeafMom) (And her charming interpreter, Katie)
Jim Goodrich
Wendy Piersall

Hope I didn’t miss anybody. Special thanks to Jerome for explaining the ins and outs of…