Comments on: Twittering Mad Men http://www.polaine.com/2008/10/24/twittering-mad-men/ Uncommon Sense Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:06:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Andy Polaine http://www.polaine.com/2008/10/24/twittering-mad-men/comment-page-1/#comment-6296 Andy Polaine Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:47:20 +0000 http://www.polaine.com/playpen/?p=908#comment-6296 <p>I'm sure part of the success is that they act out what most agency guys still think inside, but now keep quiet about.</p> <p>I've heard some awful (and sadly true) agency cliché stories from recent years though - bowls of coke at Christmas parties, affairs all over the place, lavish gifts to the girls that have been 'had' by the MD... It's real head in the hands stuff.</p> I’m sure part of the success is that they act out what most agency guys still think inside, but now keep quiet about.

I’ve heard some awful (and sadly true) agency cliché stories from recent years though – bowls of coke at Christmas parties, affairs all over the place, lavish gifts to the girls that have been ‘had’ by the MD… It’s real head in the hands stuff.

]]> By: tim http://www.polaine.com/2008/10/24/twittering-mad-men/comment-page-1/#comment-6293 tim Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:21:24 +0000 http://www.polaine.com/playpen/?p=908#comment-6293 <p>oh, i just wrote 1959 for the sake of flipping the digits. i am not the biggest 'mad men' expert, but sme scenes made me chuckle since i keep experiencing the echo of their thinking in today's big agencies...</p> oh, i just wrote 1959 for the sake of flipping the digits. i am not the biggest ‘mad men’ expert, but sme scenes made me chuckle since i keep experiencing the echo of their thinking in today’s big agencies…

]]> By: Andy Polaine http://www.polaine.com/2008/10/24/twittering-mad-men/comment-page-1/#comment-6289 Andy Polaine Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:03:45 +0000 http://www.polaine.com/playpen/?p=908#comment-6289 <p>1960 really - although Marilyn Monroe just died in the episode I watched, so it must be 1962 now. Time moves strangely in that series.</p> 1960 really – although Marilyn Monroe just died in the episode I watched, so it must be 1962 now. Time moves strangely in that series.

]]> By: tim http://www.polaine.com/2008/10/24/twittering-mad-men/comment-page-1/#comment-6285 tim Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:57:25 +0000 http://www.polaine.com/playpen/?p=908#comment-6285 <p>...while it would have been so much more fitting if their website was from 1959.</p> …while it would have been so much more fitting if their website was from 1959.

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