Top five rotten jokes on copywriters.

[Paromita]

dig your thoughts for making more jokes?

[JCSaiKrishna]

Hmmm excavation for lateral thinking.

[encyclomedia]

not jokes but some great advertising quotes:



"Give them quality, that's the best kind of advertising. (via Wajeez Articles)"
Milton Hershey
"Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make. (via Warc)"
Bill Bernbach
"Advertising, to be successful, must be truthful or it ceases to be read or believed, and at that point it ceases to be advertising. ( via Warc)"
William A Marsteller
"Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it. ( via Quote Garden)"
Will Rogers
"Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. (via QuoteGarden)"
David Ogilvy
"We've got to know what we've got a choice of. This is the function of advertising. (via Adland.tv)"
Tom Dillon
"Advertising sure brings quick results--last week I advertised for a night watchman--the same night my safe was robbed. (via Adland.tv)"
Anonymous
"I think that I shall never see an ad so lovely as a tree. But if a tree you have to sell, it takes an ad to do that well. (via Texas advertising and public relations)"
Jef I. Richards
"Every time a message seems to grab us, and we think, 'I just might try it,' we are at the nexus of choice and persuasion that is advertising. (via Direct Creative)"
Andrew Hacker
"Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea. (via Direct Creative)"
David Ogilvy
"I know of a brewer who sells more of his beer to the people who never see his advertising than to the people who see it every week. Bad advertising can unsell a product. (via Direct Creative)"
David Ogilvy
"The next time you're in a meeting, look around and identify the yes-butters, the not-knowers, and the why-notters. Why-notters move the world. (via Adland.tv)"
Louise Pierson
"A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter. (via Brainy Quote)"
Nicholas Johnson
"Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.' (via Glowing Embers)"
Jef I. Richards
"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. (via Glowing Embers)"
Stephen Leacoc
"Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art."
William Bernbach
"You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results."
Chuck Yeager
"There is no failure except the failure of trying."
Elbert Hubbard
"I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through."
Edward Rickenbacker
"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."
George Washington Carver
"Enthusiasm finds the opportunities, and energy makes the most of them."
Henry Hoskins
"Ability may take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."
John Wooden
"The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think."
Edwin Schlossberg
"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."
Robert Frost
"A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising."
James Collins
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction."
Charles Francis Adams
"There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it."
Dale Carnegie
"Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
Albert Einstein

[JCSaiKrishna]

Nice ones and my fav. one is: "A good copy is easy to read than to ignore."

[Saumya]

bad joke.

[JCSaiKrishna]

No, that's not a joke at all

[Priyanka]

Hey are you going to revise these jokes!?

[JCSaiKrishna]

Hey hi Priyanka, hi everyone, how r u all?
its been a real long time since I visited DC, starting up an agency has made me a pretty busy with lots of work always, so couldn't really think of working on any creatives (esp these self-promos because I don't think I need them any longer), Priyanka.

[TruthHurts]

so lets see your real work then. Would love to see what your startup is doing...

[shantyarow]

Sai,

Here's my own humble attempt. And it's based on actual reactions I had to face when I got into advertising some eons ago.

Cheers, Shanty

TOP 5 REACTIONS WHEN I SAID I WAS A COPYWRITER.

1. Mom: "Copy writing? So you see something and you write it again?"

2. Fiancee: "Copywriter? Can you explain it to my family when they ask me what you do?"

3. Random dude I met at a party: "Copywriting? Woh kya hai? Oh, Advertising...you work with sexy chicks, haan!"

4. Random dudette I met at a party: "Copywriting? So you write? And you actually used that pick up line? Not much of a writer are you?"

5. When I applied for a UAE Visa: "Mr Shantesh Row, application for UAE Residency Visa under Graphic Draughtsman Category."

Needless to say, when I look back, I do find some of them very funny.

[JCSaiKrishna]

so lets see your real work then. Would love to see what your startup is doing...

Sure, even I am excited to see what I am gonna do

[JCSaiKrishna]

Sai,

Here's my own humble attempt. And it's based on actual reactions I had to face when I got into advertising some eons ago.

Cheers, Shanty

TOP 5 REACTIONS WHEN I SAID I WAS A COPYWRITER.

1. Mom: "Copy writing? So you see something and you write it again?"

2. Fiancee: "Copywriter? Can you explain it to my family when they ask me what you do?"

3. Random dude I met at a party: "Copywriting? Woh kya hai? Oh, Advertising...you work with sexy chicks, haan!"

4. Random dudette I met at a party: "Copywriting? So you write? And you actually used that pick up line? Not much of a writer are you?"

5. When I applied for a UAE Visa: "Mr Shantesh Row, application for UAE Residency Visa under Graphic Draughtsman Category."

Needless to say, when I look back, I do find some of them very funny.

cool, that's a reality show ,

[shantyarow]

The best jokes always emerge from the reality of life.

[diveshmehta]

The best jokes always emerge from the reality of life.

Slightly tweaking required there....Humour emerges from within and makes everyone laugh when you laugh from within at the things that everyone sees but no one laughs....

Learned as a stand up comedian...

Copywriting is an art where one copies his/her idea/opinion and gives it to the 'real' art guy who paints them up after using his/her scissors like a 'modern lingerie designer', it journeys further to someone armed with a toothpick (CS)picking up every syllable for 'screwtiny'...Finally getting 'laid' in front of a suit (client) trying to prove his language major degree is not just a (forged) certificate....what all remains in the end is a writing copied from all opinions and having no opinion at all....

[chatpati]

doesnt anyone make a comic strip for advertising?