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In association with Diary
So, two weeks into Lent and us girls still
haven’t had a drink. Well, nor would you if
you had behaved as badly as we did at The 3pm
Where are they now?
the WWAV ‘Christmas’ party.
You may think that the sight of
managing director Sam Nolan pole
dancing in front of the whole agency and girls...
its top clients was hard to beat, but
suffice to say we were lucky no-one had
their camera trained on us. Oh the WeightWatchers for weeks. Tournament pub just around the corner.
shame. Luckily, WWAV Media chief Pete One place which did gain our Who could forget it? Oh yeah, when
Mitchell was the only one to spot our undivided attention, however, was the we said we hadn’t had a drink for a
antics, but that’s fine, we have enough Technology for Marketing & fortnight, that was obviously a lie.
dirt on him to write a novel (yes Pete, we Advertising show. So many people, so Come on, you didn’t really think us
too were at that infamous party years little time. girls could go 14 whole days without a
ago). Of course, the fact that there was a sneaky bottle of pink champagne did
Still, this giving up alcohol malarky networking bar right in the middle – you?
does have its benefits. At last we can get sponsored by those lovely chaps from
into those clothes we bought in the Alterian – did make the event so much Got any news that could raise an Nick Dixon gets serious
January sales without having to resort to more attractive. And who could forget eyebrow or a pulse? Email (above) and letting his
a shoe-horn. And we haven’t been to the exhibitors’ lock-in at the 3pm_girls@centaur.co.uk hair down (left)
This photograph of a young Nick Dixon
could almost be a homage to Carol
Reed’s much celebrated The Third Man.
With the black and white styling, the
lingering shadows, the Brylcreemed hair
and the sharp suit, it’s quite possible to
imagine Dixon Jr haunting the streets of
post-war Vienna in much the same way
as the legendary Orson Welles. Fast
forward several years and we find a
more relaxed Dixon using any excuse to
grab hold of the ladies. What’s more it
looks like he’s put on a few pounds in
the intervening years – not quite as
many as Welles, but he’s getting there...
Soundoff Hunter’s tale
So, now he’s turned poacher, he can After the past few weeks, I have
The gloves
afford to act more like himself, even
‘‘
The hypocrisy been egged on to continue mention of
when speaking on behalf of one of the
puts me in mind of the
Kitcatt Nohr in these columns and,
many industry bodies of which he this week, especially to talk about the
are off
serves as director…hence why we
furore surrounding
‘‘ rumour they’re being courted by the
heard him saying the MPS would be acquisitional Photon Group, and the
buggered if threats to Asbof come ups and downs of Kitcatt Nohr’s
jack.woolfe@killershark.co.uk
true. I bet it brought a smile to Emily Dwain Chambers declared accounts in light of this – but
Cubitt’s face. I think I’ll resist the temptation…
As one of the nicest and smartest While we’re at it, what’s all this fuss Oh, and as for Greystone Telecom –
chaps in the industry, one got the about Egg buggering its least Midlands-based building society, when ha-bloody-ha – nice joke with that
feeling Charlie Ping’s frank and profitable customers? The hypocrisy the discussion was about moving sales pitch disguised as a Valentine
succinct opinions were always held in puts me in mind of the furore people through the Boston Matrix, and card. Are they members of the DMA? I
check by the shadow of The Guardian, surrounding Dwain Chambers. I’ve sat ‘constructively’ dumping whoever was think there are rules about this kind of
and the repercussions of a renegade through data segmentation and left. And every single finance group misrepresentation… one’s man’s
“senior newspaper executive” quote. ‘planning’ meetings at a certain has exactly the same discussions. creativity is another man’s litigation.
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