Monday, June 9, 2008

Tell it like it is

Posted by: Jon // 8:00 am

A café I visited last week offered a range of drinks, including a selection described as ‘aerated water’.Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite or Ginger Ale, it seemed, when I asked for a sparkling water, which they don’t stock.

I’m reminded of one of my favourite “worst ever proposal answers”, which addressed the question “Have you ever failed to complete a project of this nature on time?” with the answer:

“We are not at liberty to disclose details of any law suits which may be pending against our organisation.”

(Hey, they had some content from a past proposal. And they had this scary-looking blank sheet of paper in front of them. And it was so much easier to cut and paste than to do any real thinking…)

2 Comments


  1. Helene

    interesting point, adn funny (well, to me since I didn’t submit that proposal!). Though I *have* to ask, in your previous post you closed with the statement “In the next post I will offer you a dozen tips for with developing a proposal for a client where you’re the incumbent.”…so is this it? :)


  2. LOL it’s the *next* post of mine. Promise!!

    (Prize to Helene for spotting the continuity error!)

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