What the....?

Lucy Lawless and Robyn Malcolm "Talking Dirty"

Gerry Brownlee eat your heart out.... Lucy Lawless and Robyn Malcolm have come up with a classic response to his "Sexy Coal" comment this week.

Yes it is a bit of a proverbial P!ss take but does Gerry Brownlee deserve anything else?..........

 

 

3 Billion Dollar Merger To Create the Worlds Biggest Airline

Seems like Airlines are all keen for closer economic relations. Air NZ and Pacific Blue announced today that they are looking to work together on the Trans Tasman route (pending commerce Commission approval) and the BIG story just coming out is United  Airlines and Continental Airlines agreed Sunday to a $3 billion merger that would create the world’s biggest airline, according to people briefed on the negotiations.

See Todays NY Times article

 

Classic Tweet about Kiwi Gossip "Queen" Rachel Glucina

For those that don't know Rachel Glucina is slightly larger than her media shots in the "Spy" section of the Herald on Sunday (to say the least). This Tweet I saw today is a classic case of Karma coming back and biting her in the big but and I couldn't help but have a laugh.

Note: Please start at the bottom and read up to top to get full enjoyment of multiple tweet narrative...

Classic Tweet about Kiwi Gossip "Queen" Rachel Glucina

For those that don't know Rachel Glucina is slightly larger than her media shots in the "Spy" section of the Herald on Sunday (to say the least). This Tweet I saw today is a classic case of Karma coming back and biting her in the big but and I couldn't help but have a laugh.

Note: Please start at the bottom and read up to top to get full enjoyment of multiple tweet narrative...

16year old Jessica Watson signs $700,000AUD deal for her story

Jessica Watson is th 16yr old Australian girl just about to complete her solo round the world sailing adventure and will be the youngest on record to complete the journey.

I love this story and it reminds me of a quote from Sir Edmund Hillary "People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.”

Jessica Watson is no doubt going to go down in history as an extraordinary person yet I am sure both she and her parent feel that she is an ordinary girl that has had extraordinary goals and the support and motivation to achieve them.

Last month her agent reportedly signed a $700,000 deal with News Corporation for her story. 12 months ago her parents had spent around $300,000 of their own money getting the campaign underway and were facing ever mounting costs with little support. 

5 Oceans Media got behind the campaign and quickly brought sponsors on board so it looks like Jessica will be set up for some time with good people behind her. I am sure that with such drive at such a young age Jessica will continue to do great things and will have a great career ahead of her no matter what path she chooses.

Check out her website and send her messages of support here.

NZ Scientists playing God - genetically modifying cows and failing - these stories make me a little sick! http://nzh.tw/10642031

First Glimpse of the $30,000,000 NZ Expo Pavillion (Shanghai World Expo 2010)

The NZ Pavilion has been such a hit already that they have apparently had to build a barrier around the 12m high Pohutakawa tree in the thirty million dollar showcase of NZ.

Here is a clip with highlights of the opening ceremony of the NZ pavilion and a few glimpses of the amazing set up.

The pavilion features an 1800kg pounamu boulder, and a rooftop garden complete with bubbling mud pool, alpine grasses and a beach. There is also an upturned hand carved waka out front.

Lets just hope the $30mill of taxpayer money will be worth it!

 

 

 

 

Banned Funny TV Ads - Warning some graphic content!

Sometimes ads are just soooo bad they are good.

Here is a collection of some funny (and some a little sick) Adverts that probably will never make it back!

The "I want to F*@K You in the Ass" Language School Advert

The I Don't think it was an ad but sooo bloody funny anyway ad!

 

 

The Secretary spitting in your coffee Avert

 

The Pot Noodle "Slag of all Snacks" advert

And the xcite "avoid dog breath" ad that got 700 complaints in the UK

 

Ambush Marketing Success

We have just had success in selling our home and had to use a bit of initiative and some ambush marketing to combat a bit of a rouge agent.

Here is how it all came about:

We live in a townhouse, the rear house in a block of three. Our neighbour at the top of the drive had tried unsuccessfully to sell his house earlier in the year so when we put ours on the market (sale by auction) I did the decent thing and let him know prior to the signs going up. He said he was going to go to auction as well but would wait until we had finished our campaign.

Two days later a sign went up next to ours promoting their home for sale as well. No knock on the door, no phone call saying his agent had advised him not to wait, nothing. Not only that but his agent had set the open home times before ours. That is his prerogative of course but in effect it meant that if people wanted to view both properties they would have to go through the top house then come back a few hours later to come through ours. The natural thing for many people to assume would be that both homes would be similar so many wouldn't have bothered to come back to see our home.  

What was really dissapointing was that we found out the other agent was also making disparaging comments about our home which shows just how unethical the guy was.

So, the ambush marketing plan was hatched. While the other open home was on we put our open home sign out in front of our home and I nonchalantly pretended to work in the garden on the driveway. As the prospective buyers left the first open home I told them that although our agent wasn't due for a couple of hours for the official open home, they were more than welcome to have a wander through to save a trip back later in the afternoon. Anna was inside taking their details for the agent and did such a fantastic job wowing them one of them actually said to me on the way back up the drive that she should get into realestate as she was better than most the agents he had dealt with in the last few months while he had been looking for a home.

The result? We ended up having 26 groups come through our home over the second weekend of our campaign capitalising on both advertised open homes. Had three offers in the following 4 days leading to the auction being brought forward.  

The eventual buyer originally came to view the top house and stated they wouldn't have bothered coming back to view ours after seeing the other home as they were so disappointed in its condition.

 

Needless to say our agent gave us a healthy discount and everyone was very happy with the result (other than the agent for the other property).