Campaign

WARNING. IMPOSTER BLOG!!!!

A late entry comes from James Mitchell, with his Campbell Lace Alpha blog

Very amusing. Definitely on the short list.

http://campbelllacealpha.blogspot.com/

NAT AND LOLLY BACK ON TOP!!!

Just when we'd drawn up our shortlist, Nat and Lolly smash it out of the park with 'Water Cooler.'

Its scary. Nat and Lolly's hold on the stuff we actually talk about is too accurate to be true. How did they know that Garry's pet name for Robert is 'cupcake?' We're having Carnaby Street swept for bugs.

So we're adding 'Water Cooler' to our shortlist. The people's vote will start on 1st of November and last for four days.

Here it is. Enjoy.

p.s. For those of you who think the idea of Robert as a transvestive is absurd as suggested in 'Watercooler'...Unfortunately we have no pictures of when Robert turned up at the WACL Valentines Day Dinner Blind Date competition dressed as a woman. (1998?) But that night he saw off both Brett Gosper and Andrew Robertson to win a 'blind date' with Rio from the then very hot tv series Gladiators. My goodness she was big and strong.  Has anyone out there still got pictures? Those were days. 

DANNY WALSH, COME ON DOWN.

First came the supremely witty Claire Beale with Garry licking his own balls. Then came Nat and Lolly's excellent viral.

 And now, Danny Walsh - whoever he is - with his razor sharp parody of Nat and Lolly's viral.

Danny. You are currently front runner for our £1000 prize. Congratulations, mate. p.s. Who are you?

BEDTIME ANTICS

As Robert slowly sank into his bed after an exhausting but highly enjoyable birthday, he only had one thing on his mind. In bed already was the love of his life and mother of his children. It was, after all, his birthday he thought to himself.

Time was of the essence since at 51,you're not quite as up to it as you used to be. Undaunted by this prospect, Robert decided to get straight to the point. "There's something I'd really like", he said starting to move closer to the beautiful woman he had met on that fateful night in New York all those years ago. Buoyed by the fact that he had not been given the immediate cold shoulder, he continued. "And, I've been thinking about it all day".

"I'd really like your hand in marriage"

Yes, we have our first agency engagement. Our resident rocker Robert is getting married to our artist in residence and all round beautiful woman, Gurmit. We are all thrilled and have spent the only profit we've made so far on new dresses in anticipation of the big event.

Secretly, we all think that Robert's done it to allow the last ten days of our blog competition to focus around everyone's views of this happy event. So, get replying, get commenting and get congratulating and you could still win that £1000. If you do, you'll be able to buy yourself a new frock. 

NAT AND LOLLY. NUMBER ONE WITH A BULLET....

So, another week of our fabulous £1000 blog giveaway has passed.

Many tried to knock Claire B off the top slot, they all failed.

Except for two: Nat and Lolly.

We love their viral taking the piss out of Garry and Rob's discussions about closing for new business. It's currently rocketing to the top of the 'most viewed' ratings on youtube.

But please do not confuse Nat and Lolly's handiwork with this  promotional video that is tagged 'Lace Campbell' on youtube.

Wow. Doesn't Robert look foxy in a wig?

Congratulations to Nat and Lolly. Commiserations to Claire B. And 'must try harder' to all the other entrants. Keep 'em coming, folks. Keep 'em coming.

You've got two weeks left to dazzle us.

SMARTARSES WANTED. £1000 REWARD.

Numbers of comments on our blog took a dramatic upturn last week. 

The witty, the poetic, the controversial, the wise, the bitchy all threw their hats into the ring to win our £1000 'comment of the month prize.'

Fartacus opened the batting with 'I like Lemons.' Possibly not the wittiest comment, Farty, but certainly the shortest.

Bob Ashwood proved to us that long copy is not dead. Just a little bit senile. Ironic, given that on Bob's  blog he declares 'Lifes too short. A sentence can't be.' We have a one word brief for you Bob. Haiku. 

Martin Thomas neither confirmed nor denied that he wears stockings and suspenders.

Mark Hurst invited us out to lunch. Be very, very afraid when you go out to lunch with Mark.

Jaqueline De Steele was front runner for a moment with her poignant poetry about her beautiful son. Until someone spotted Jaqueline was actually Robert's mum and it was all getting a little too Oedipal.

Antoine De Git shamed us. 

The Original Man in the Sky penned a very well argued critique of Albion.

Jonathan Durden agreed, eventually,  it was not wise for Beta to mindlessly pitch for new business. We love you Jonathan.

Richard Huntindon, sadly. declined to comment. 

But the comment of the week, by a country mile, and therefore the current £1000 front runner, wasn't even on our blog.

It was in Campaign. And it was written by none other than Claire Beale.

'ASKING GARRY LACE TO STOP CHASING NEW BUSINESS IS LIKE ASKING A DOG TO STOP LICKING ITS BALLS.'

Laugh? In the words of the late, great Peter Cook, 'we nearly shat.'

Claire. You are currently in line to win £1000.

So who's gonna knock Claire off the top slot?

WE'RE CLOSING.

We've had a fab five months. We've got a great bunch of people working here, and a client list that we're very proud of....

Thomas Cook. Jackpotjoy. The Outdoor Advertising Association. BUPA. Ealing Studios. A major charity who we have to keep secret. A web build for some celebs who wish to remain anonymous.

We're waiting on the result of two major pitches.

And we're getting nicely stuck into a couple of 'non conventional' ventures.  (We've always promised ourselves that we'll develop our own IP as well as working for clients. And although we're not really ready to talk about this side of our business yet, so far so good.)

We're having fun. We're doing good work (fingers crossed). Why screw it up by pitching mindlessly?

So we've decided to close our doors to new business for a while. Give our existing clients the attention they more than deserve. Do some housekeeping. Persuade Campaign to take a picture of us that doesn't make us look like dodgy rozzers, etc.

Oh, and we feel we've been neglecting our blog.  So to get things going again and to celebrate our good fortune so far we're going to give a prize of £1000 to the most interesting, amusing, useful, useless, outrageous comment posted on our blog during the month of October.

Garry and Robert's decision will be final. Competition ends 31st of October 2009.

Bon chance!