Communication Nut Prints

Jungle Communication

Lynching on social media

'When we get there let me do the double talking.'

'How fast can you hype?'

"And isn't it time we replaced the worn-out, meaningless cliches in our mission statement with some dazzlingly new meaningless cliches?"

A Copy Editor and His Dog

This Message Has No Content

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

'What a CV - if you can write memos like this you'll go far in our organisation.'

Even more of what people say (and what they really mean)

"Until we get a bigger chart, we're estimating it's now about up to here."

'Answer these constituents letters. Tell them to go to hell in a nice way.'

"He sits there all day waiting to chase the email man."

Twitter censorship

"Thank God! Someone to network with!"

"You wake up after 100 years and the first thing you do is check your phone?"

"Well, after ad school, our Timothy made a 6-second Ad that nobody saw."

"How's this for transparency: Our product isn't organic but our bullshit advertising it!"

Fred's new phone plan included unlimited Dada.

"Ugh—someone in the group chat must have seen a squirrel."

'I thought people were quite receptive to the change seminar.'

'Can't we handle this through more impersonal channels like text messaging?'

'My ring-tone's inaudible to humans.'

"I thought that modern communications systems were meant to be more efficient...That they would cut down on waste and duplication."

Birds on a wire, "Bernie?...Oh he's gone cable!"

One way only.

'How fast can you hype?'

'To make sure I get noticed I always talk in a big bold typeface.'

"I'm not spinning - I'm contextualizing."

Aluminium Henge

Is there a spin doctor in the house?

"Oh...Hi Bob, listen buddy, I'm in a meeting right now, I'll Caw you back."