A Totally True Spooky Startup Legend
Submitted for your consideration during this Halloween season.
A true spooky startup legend.
A teenage boy and his girlfriend were enjoying the October moonlight shining on a pond at a park just outside of town.
The radio was playing their favorite song when it was crudely interrupted.
It was a special bulletin and an almost frantic announcer exclaimed: “State police report that a crazed one-armed entrepreneurial maniac has broken out of the lunatic asylum. She was last seen with a pencil behind her ear, a stack of business cards, and a Blackberry. She should be considered armed and persistent. Almost pushy.
That’s all the couple needed to hear. The boy locked the doors, jammed the car into gear and hit the accelerator.
As he did, a metallic scrape shrieked against the car.
They kept driving. And they didn’t stop driving until they were right outside of the girl’s house.
They were almost afraid to look, but when they did… they saw… stuck in the driver’s side door… a bloody stump with a hook attached!
And in the hook, still wet with blood, was a flyer announcing the homicidal maniac’s new business.
“Oh, my God,” the girl screamed. “A marketing hook!”
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October 30th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
That is too cute! I see analogies. Did you mean for them?
I see the fear people have of marketing and getting more unwanted messages. I see the scraping as the message creating noise that people push to drive through. Yet the message is inadvertently taken it with them whether they want to or not. The message has the blood that marketers shed trying to get people to see their product over the masses.
Cool story. Too much analysis? Thank my high school English teacher! Was this just written for fun?
October 30th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Oh my God, I may just be deeper than I thought.
Well, I think Mel Brooks said that humor is just the truth with a curlycue on the end.
So…