Wordplay Runaway Pays a Hi-price!

So in the (in)famous words of PCK,
DON'T PRAY, PRAY...
I know it's ThankGodIt'sFriday
When BIg boys like thee are young&gay
Behaving like every month's May.

One mGf's PC is called Primpy
I just named mine Matey
Now should they engage in wordplay
I caution my knotty one
Don't do so in the sun
Cos when you engage just in foreplay
The local PCs may getya for being gay

What this IN(X)pired nonsense pOme comes from my friend
Is from a guru from Ad land
He thought some words might be funny
It landed him hi-and-dry, without the BIG 'oney


If I.Cowws steal don't guess what Desi meAns
I don't blame you
I once gave some Gorgeous one a fly kiss
When (s)he with flowing hair, turned
My face turned red, RedIndian red, like lobster burned
That (s)heila 'as NOT a miss


Ad Guru Resigns Over Comments About Women

Sun Oct 23, 6:17 AM ET



LONDON - One of the world's most flamboyant advertising gurus has left his job after reportedly telling an audience that women made poor executives because motherhood made them "wimp out."

Marketing giant WPP Group PLC said Friday it had accepted the resignation of Neil French — a one-time debt collector, trainee matador and rock-band agent who served as the group's worldwide creative director.

The firm, which is based in London and New York, told Britain's Press Association news agency that French had offered his resignation, and it had been accepted.

French made the contentious remarks during an industry discussion in Toronto on Oct. 6. According to a report in the city's Globe and Mail newspaper, French said women did not make it to the top because "they're crap."

Nancy Vonk, a Toronto-based creative director at WPP subsidiary Ogilvy & Mather who attended the event, said French described women as "a group that will inevitably wimp out and go 'suckle something.'"

The comments sparked outrage among many women in the advertising industry.

Vonk wrote on the advertising industry Web site http://www.ihaveanidea.org — sponsor of the Oct. 6 event — that "my jaded jaw hit the floor" at French's comments.

"If our greatest leaders are busy quietly persuading girls they're just not cut out for this gig, how far is this group going to get — the brave ones who soldier on in spite of the discouragement?" she wrote.

British-born French, 61, known for his ever-present cigar, worked as a debt collector, trained as a matador and was agent to the heavy metal band Judas Priest before going into advertising.

He was among a generation of innovative admen — including future film director Ridley Scott and brothers Maurice and Charles Saatchi — who made a mark on British advertising in the 1970s and 80s.

Many of French's print ads are considered classics. One of the most famous shows a bottle of Chivas Regal whisky without a label, and the tag line, "If you don't recognize it, you're probably not ready for it."

Singapore-based French — who during the Toronto event was served drinks onstage by a woman in a French maid's uniform — was unrepentant.

In an interview with the Globe and Mail published Friday, French said there were few female creative directors "because you can't commit yourself to the job."

"You can't be a great creative director and have a baby and keep spending time off every time your kids are ill," he was quoted as saying. -- AP


In another AP reportlater spotted in The Star October 25, 2005 (World page 38),
'French denied saying women were "crap", according to a report in Singapore's The New Paper on Sunday.

"I just said that if you can't commit to the job, you're crap." it quoted the British-born French as saying.

"It was a tiny thing and I think it has been blown out of proportion."

French said he did not regret his comments, despite the outrage they sparked among many woemen in the advertising industry.'


DESIDERATA:

This is my advice
If you arent ready for wordplay
Don't play with dice
Cos one fe-mail classmate did say
When caught by the PCs in room with mail
She boldyly asnwered, though frail
"I'm o'lady into adultery
So don't say we can't do it."
The mata-mata's English was good
The burly teenage gal was not misunderstood
It's she herself wanting to say
As one looking so young&gay
She's entered into adulthood.


TGIFrightday CHALLENGIA TO all COMMENTERS!

Hi bruda Imran sisda kyels
Join Desi in word pray pray
Just don wanna be knotty
Or I'll knock thee out
At the end of the day
You may find your mind's goovy
But yet donno wat's all about

Desi's ChAllengia on TGIFrightday
Only Comments in Verse aloud my way
Be it in fun, pun, Light or Terse
I'll censor all prose, pray, play -- only in Verse