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We weren't sure when to put this up, but now seems as good a time as any! Not been able to watch this new one yet, so no idea how it follows on. But either way we give you our episode three in the Chronicles of Campbell Lace. (Hopefully that's the last we'll hear from them)

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Matt Winn gets my vote hands down. The girls are trying too hard now.

I always loved Downfall parodies - but is it too late to crash this pitch?

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Thanks for your comment paul. Just felt some sort of follow up was expected of us! agree it's getting old.

As 'the great man in the sky' says, we've got "real" work to be getting on with now. May the best comment win.

Some sort of follow up? Getting old? Man in the sky?

Ladies. Don't fall between two stools - apologies Gary, Robert.

Despite the catcallls and the Whinge my motive was simply to help make Bob and Gaz famous with their own Netsoap. The politics of plaigarism has become a blogject amonst those unsure of the difference between idea and execution, annoyed about dirty monetary award we all claim not to claim and upset in general that they never knew about text to picture. Spite or respite? Who knows?

So stick to your guns. Beautiful riposte. It's a general election so you have my vote.

Who knows, we may see CCLB4 before the witching hour, but currently I'm in a different timezone so I may be late.

Much love to The Lol and The Nat, you deserve it! I'll be sculpting a pumpin tankard to hold the foaming ale you're buying me in that back alley. Let's hope it clears customs, maybe I can fashion a Gary Lace face onto it to lend some authenticity.

X

Btw Robert, in answer to your question, I worked with you at two of your agencies.

X x x

Cool your boots Danny.

I too was fashioning a cunning effigy of Gary, it required a lot less detail than Robert's pic.

I can't believe you nicked my idea. Pumpkins!

M

Might post the Pumpkin. Its fascinating.

But my vote is 0.5 Lol and Nat, 0.5 Danny Walsh.

If it comes to a punch up it has to the Nat and the Lol.

The arising tension has helped the productivity it seems.

My vote is for the (faux) blog - hands down, worringly believable perhaps? I don't think that can be bettered in a day or two, but props to Lol and Nat's original effort a close second. Third is Danny for his eloquent riposte despite Roberts' lack of memory and also his suggestion that the money is split. Good show people, thoroughly enjoyed.

Adam. It is not my lack of memory. Danny is a pseudonym. But I have my suspicions as to who Danny is. And he is not Jim Kelly! Can't wait till Saturday night at the witching hour to close the competition and complile our final shortlist. Stay tuned.

OK

I resign - Nat and Lol are surely the winners.

But we have to have CCLB4

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Apologies to Mr Lace, who's head is obviously nothing like a pumpkin. Let's look forward to Nov 5 when Robert becomes Mr Fawkes.

Apologies to you both. You started this.

Jesus.

I've dumped the pumpkin. Buying fireworks as we speak.

What’s that, a couple of old men have reignited the concept of a good old fashioned copy pitch, bring it on I thought. But hang on a sec, appears a couple of babes have only gone and moved the goalposts. Things just ain’t what they used to be, are they chaps? And perhaps, deep down, that’s the real point isn’t it?

I mean Garry, you remember those days don’t you. Back when the toilets were a place to recharge your batteries, not to mess around putting ads in. I’m talking about the glory days, those halcyon years, you know, before that bloody email nonsense – which you were definitely not involved with by the way. Presume you’ve still not shopping at Tesco though.

But back then, for a moment of three, life was bloody good wasn’t it? The world was your playground, and boy did you play. Where did you get all that energy from? There were no aches or pains then.

Rob you remember don’t you? That feeling of being bulletproof. And boy, were you good. Marketing to the over 50s is all very well, but there’s always gotta be room for a Virgin or a Bacardi hasn’t there?

But while that Boomtown Rat gets knighted your coke coop hardly raised an eyebrow. How can that be right?

Yes rest assured, we all understand why you both decided to change the median age of a startup by 20 years. No one blames you.

And you know what, those old connections, your old gait that will still stand you in good stead. Although you don’t really know your SEM from your ARSE or that augmented reality and mashups mean entirely different things to you, don’t fret it.

At first I had my doubts to be sure. The thought of you both sitting in the Electric like a pair of washed up thesps, desperately trying to re-enact that first scene. But then, an amazing thing happened. You reminded me, that Joy really is timeless. Joy is innovation, and joy is freedom.

You have reminded us all of something we forgot along the way. That what you make people feel, is just as important as what you make. With the economy turning to *** and the industry on its knees, perhaps it is time to hate something and change something, again. Hell you can make something better.

Just to be clear - I def submitted with seconds to spare. x

blimey.. you go away for a few days, and all hell breaks loose!

(then i guess it is Halloween :)

it looks like the blogs have been cross breeding, and now we've got inblogs!

Matt you picked a brilliant clip of film, you're a very dark man and you write very well, but you're more random than relevant.

and we all know it's about radical but relevant.

Danny you're just bloody crazy, what ARE you taking over there in Columbia!

(can you send some over please :)

my vote is still with Nat&Lol, not coz they're girls - coz they're brilliant and on brief.

sorry about the black eye Garry (ouch), but it's a sisterhood thing :)

my vote is with Nat&Lol - i can see eveything from up here... Cupcake! ;)

Since there's no way to preview mine, here are some excerpts:

"Well Garry, this is it. I meant what I said when New Year’s came, as I held your cravat out of the way with you crouched over that toilet in Soho. Us Life On Mars D.C.I Tyler-style admen have to stick together in this new world of retweeting and Sky Plus. And that Web Twenty thing I keep reading about" - Robert.

"Here you go, partner! It's a little thing I like to call The Media Maypole. There are other round, fun things out there but I don’t think any alliterate with ‘media’. Not in my rhyming dictionary, anyway.

-Garry xx"

A a bonus easter egg, your very own downloadable Colour-Me-Garry; www.mediafire.com/imageview.php

Matt has my vote. But whatever happens, you guys brought back long, indulgent copy for the sake of humorous industry gags. Bless you for that :)

hahahaha

Jayne, really....

Robert, I spotted you marching masterfully around the Mount Nelson last night - did you see me? I doubt it.

Have you noticed that all these bloggers who are 'too busy' to create an elegant riposte can't hit the keys on a weekend? Pitching I guess.

What are you doing on bonfire night?

btw

I voted for Lol and Nat, I suggest everyone does. Massive cheque? Silver suitcase? Or a huge penny jar?

I'll bring my pumpkin Toby/Garry jug.

Lolly & Nat - the original and the best - they get my vote... Good luck ladies. Is the Grosvenor House booked for the awards night? Great excuse for a party. Meanwhile, when are you two (R&G) going to begin meeting people who can make your lives just that little bit easier! Let me know... ;-)

Yes. That was me you saw in the Mount Nelson.... I am everywhere, and no where.

F**k me - I hope some of your existing clients read this, realise you can't possibly have time for their work, and fire you.  You are a shower.  Go and make an ad you self-promoting twallocks.  Can I say those things on this blog, not sure, oh well, too late.

So who did you vote for Niall?

A while back I suggested that this whole process was humiliating and that to resolve this rather undignified sight we should donate the money to Children in Need. I'm sure they would make a story of it and thus attract the attention that Rob and Garry are seeking. I myself was brought up in a local authority care home and with foster parents so know how much difference a thousand pounds could make. I recall the Christmas when I was fifteen and back in the home when Christmas presents came from a charity with our names on them. That had never happened before. I still don't know how they got the names or matched the presents. They were just usually generic, sweets, annuals and things. I opened my present after lunch on Christmas Day. It was a coat, now it would be called an anorak. It was red and blue. To me it was the most beautiful coat ever and, unlike anything else I owned, it fitted me. I slept in it and the next day got special dispensation to go out on my own. I just wanted people to see me in my coat. I walked into a lamp post staring at my refection in a shop window. I had never cried, not once whilst in care...

All I ask is that Rob and Garry allow Children in Need to be on the shortlist so that you can vote for them if you want to. That's all. Thanks

oh no... what do we do now? how can you argue with that?

Has to be Lol&Nat for moving the goalposts doesn't it?

But hard to argue with Jack and his conscience prodding suggestion.

Thank you for your kind words Jayne and John-Paul. The question is will Rob let Children in Need be a category that you can vote for? Or, as I suspect will a winner be rapidly announced so that the issue can be side stepped. We will see. Thanks