(No, not that Washington – Ed.)
The Washington Post has just published the winning submissions to its annual neologism contest, in which readers are asked to submit alternative meanings for common words.
The winners are:
1. Coffee (n): the person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted (adj): appalled over how much weight you have gained.
3. Abdicate (v): to give [...]

Helene set off for a meeting at 9.00 this morning and came back five minutes later having forgotten the Pantone book she needed for the meeting.
“When you’ve got no head, you’ve got legs; as  my Dad always says” she declared, happy as Larry.
Right.

Hot off the press, the latest in our “Austerity” series appears in the Scotsman today in all its full page glory.  (We know, we were up early excitedly thrusting our 75p in the general direction of the poor, beleagered newsagent across the road.)
We sent out a preview copy to a few friends and clients yesterday and the response [...]

We’ve had a great reaction to the first ad in our austerity series – Squander Bug - and lots of comments.  Those helpful people at the Scotsman even got into the spirit by throwing in a free insertion last week (thanks, guys!).  
Onwards and upwards with a fresh execution in this morning’s national newspaper.  Ration books?  Powdered Eggs?  Chicory [...]

It had to happen.  In the midst of local government panic, media hype and mass public hysteria…a wee cartoon to bring the whole thing down to earth…
 

 
When things get tough we all need to dig deep and try that little bit harder.  Minimising waste is a priority and the war messages of the 1940’s have been the inspiration for our latest crunch busting house advertising campaign.  Starting tomorrow our four press ads will hit the Scotsman in full page format.  We [...]

My good pal and ex-art director, Rodger Stanier, came up with a brilliant fundraising idea for Comic Relief.  If you send him a picture, he’ll do you a Red Nose Day  caricature of you, complete with comic red nose (That looks just like your comic real nose, Pete – Ed). 
And all for a measly ten [...]

 
Any of you who know Helene, bless her, will know that English is not her mother tongue and we do have the odd Franglaise moment in the office. Sometimes she joins in our amusement over these and at other times, well, she just, like… doesn’t. Telling a colleague not to put the ‘bull before the [...]

We like this creative form of intruder prevention and feel sure that it’s the sort of grumpivity (creative grumpiness) that Hawkeye aspires to.  It’s a story we found in The Times…

A businessman fed up with being targeted by vandals has installed a 30-foot Roman-style catapult on his premises to hurl bucket loads of chicken manure [...]