Soft and fuzzy Internet links, with occasional sides of commentary. archiveaudiorsscontactTumblr (3.0; @polarfleece)http://polarfleece.tumblr.com/<p><a href="http://clientsfromhell.tumblr.com/post/454377504/the-bbc">clientsfromhell</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Client:</strong> “We would like our commercial to run on BBC1.”</p> <p><strong>Me:</strong> “The BBC are not a commercial organisation.  They don’t run ads.”</p> <p><strong>Client:</strong> “Well you are supposed to be the big media-man, you need to get us on BBC1!”</p> <p><strong>Me:</strong> “No one can run commercials on the BBC, they don’t show commercials.”</p> <p><strong>Client:</strong> “So we can totally own the BBC if there are no other advertisers!  This is going to be great.”</p> <p><strong>Me:</strong> “No. It’s not.”</p> </blockquote> <p>Ah, that crazy BBC with all their commercial-free channels.</p>http://polarfleece.tumblr.com/post/454602989http://polarfleece.tumblr.com/post/454602989Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:45:01 -0400