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guaranteed to be seen by as many as three bats, Hip Hop market, but in spite of that I am now Puppets at Bum Fluff College Oxford. He’s got
and a spider’ referred to as Blood, and an honorary member of hold of his Mum’s credit card and he’s launching
What an exciting offer – your heart will be The Peckham Massive…tru dat. a new fashion range. Interestingly, although his
beating like a whippet in a bowler hat. But I paint Your in-depth knowledge of the ranges from email states that he’s the CEO of Global Big
a muddy picture – nothing wrong with the Ideas Inc, his delivery address is Aunty Maureen,
chariddy sector. It can mean large print runs, at Meat Pie Cottage, Rotherham…. and he will take
sensible prices (they still want a nice T that people
will want to buy and wear), and you get to be all
carey sharey fluffy and go home feeling clean and
decent. Plus, and it’s a big plus, if you’ve just done
“
at the moment -
up enough of your time to wipe out an entire
year’s profit.
people would rather
Conclusion? I’m not sure it matters – pick a
a job for the Reverend Doogood at the Church of
receive a bad news call
sector, pick any sector, but most importantly
perhaps we need to make sure that as a
Lovely, you should get paid.
Which brings us finally into the fur lined
from the clap clinic
company, we entirely look like we belong in the
sector we’ve chosen. Especially at the moment –
changing cubicle of a sector I hope I am allowed than a telephone sales people would rather receive a bad news call from
to comment on - fashion. Allegedly it’s all my fault
that as a company we stumbled through this
pitch, a brochure or an
the clap clinic than a telephone sales pitch, a
brochure or an eflyer. With that in mind, is the
particular tradesman’s entrance. For a
eflyer.
heterosexual, my work mates tell me I’m over
sensitive to the incorrect use of soft furnishings,
have an unhealthy relationship with fine gauge All Saints to Zev Couture should
”
easiest way to sell to really look like who we are,
and gradually the business will come to us?
Sounds obvious, but we certainly got that wrong
mean you’ll be for years. We looked like a bunch of failed
knitwear, and can be too appreciative when able to charge a touch more for knowing who mechanics trying to bake a cake – messy, and no
receiving fresh flowers. Nonsense, and they can say needs the softest of prints and who needs a one believed in us.
what they like, thanks to me the cravat will make bullet stopping plastisol; as brands grow (and But not any more – I’m off to buy some fresh
its triumphant return. pigs fly) you should see increasing order sizes, flowers, and please send all your un-wanted
But is it a sector you want to be in? On the and hey, you get to see your T-s worn by guitar silken fripperies to the ‘Paul Stephenson
up-side you can learn to speak a very specific bands with burst mattress hair do’s and spotty Home…..for Retired Cravats’.
language to all the niches in the field. My soap stars – what more do you want?
inability to start sentences with ‘Whappen’ and There is only one down side – expect a lot of Cheers, Paul
finish with ‘Word’ or ‘Peace’ was a barrier to the calls from Tristram, who’s been studying Finger
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