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Perspective

By Brad Shorr | Published: February 12, 2010
Is This the Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning? Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Sir Winston Churchill, Speech, November 1942. We don’t have anything looming as large as the outcome of World [...]
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Design Flaws

By Brad Shorr | Published: February 5, 2010
Friday Fun and Link Love How come diners always put a box of toothpicks at the cash register, but never have a trash receptacle for the wrapper? When I was on the road every day in sales, I’d reach into my coat pocket from time to time and pull out 10 or 15 toothpick wrappers. Design [...]
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Friday Fun and a Little Link Love

By Brad Shorr | Published: January 21, 2010
Being the dead of winter, I don’t know what possessed me to run this cartoon about Bermuda shorts, but there it is. I wonder what brain master Robyn McMaster and innovation master Fred Schlegel will make of this little known incident from King Solomon’s court. Speaking of little known incidents, my sister recommended The [...]
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Job Search Cartoon

By Brad Shorr | Published: January 14, 2010
It’s a bear job market, even for bulls. Have a nice weekend, and best wishes to all the job seekers. Let’s hope things turn around soon… Continue reading
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A Collection of Funny Word Sell Posts

By Brad Shorr | Published: September 10, 2009
Robert Hruzek asks us to focus on laughter in his latest group project. This gives me a good excuse to compile a list of my more lighthearted posts, something I’ve been meaning to do anyway. Robert’s projects are always fun – please join in. [/caption]Shakespearean SEO and Writing Tips – Who knew the Bard was [...]
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Funny Marketing Photos

By Brad Shorr | Published: July 24, 2009
These photos might give you a few marketing ideas … or not. This is a popular ice cream stand that recently re-branded. Don’t let the cow that looks like a liquored up horse with a 5 o’clock shadow fool you – the ice cream goes down singing hymns. But you can barely see the best [...]
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Eye Popping Marketing Insights from Scrambled Toast

By Brad Shorr | Published: October 10, 2008
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 [...]
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DUH v. DOH – All You Need to Know

By Brad Shorr | Published: August 27, 2008
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 [...]
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