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Rules

These are the rules at wieden + kennedy. Famously found in a desk drawer by David Kennedy when clearing out his stuff to leave his old job and start the new agency. He and Dan Wieden said, 'These will do as the rules for the new place.' And it has been so ever since.
Interesting to compare with the rules of nightclub security as explained by big-haired Patrick Swayze as Dalton, the world's best bouncer, in the brilliantly bad movie Road House, which I was watching the other night.  Dalton's rules are:
1. Never underestimate your opponent
2. Expect the unexpected
3. Be nice
Wise words.
The movie ends with the classic closing line, 'A polar bear fell on me.'

whither agency blogs?

Ben at Lunar has announced his withdrawal from blogging.
And now Scamp's blog seems to have been suspended. According to the site it's for 'violation of Blogger's terms of service'.
It's a real shame that two of the industry's liveliest (or bitchiest, depending on your POV) fora for debate (and slagging) have shut up shop within a couple of weeks of each other.
Anyone out there know what's happened to Scamp? Has he failed to pay his subs to the site host? Or has The Man shut him down?

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