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Humor in Marketing: Some Funny Links

Humor and marketing... go together... But sometimes it's a pretty cynical humor. Here are two sites I've come across lately that are pretty funny and have some relationship to marketing...


Site #1 - Tom Fishburne: Marketooner


Mr. Fishburne is a very funny cartoonist, and he takes his wicked wit and points it at the hypocrisies of the marketing profession. I especially like his latest spin on the ALS "Ice Bucket" challenge - 


@ http://tomfishburne.com/2014/08/icebucket.html


Google Poetics


Another website that's pretty funny (but apparently died in June) is Google Poetics at http://www.googlepoetics.com/



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