Tag: Freaking Hired!
-
Unfurling the Freak Flypaper
Earlier this year, Boris Johnson’s chief adviser launched a recruitment campaign ‘seeking weirdos and misfits’. He’s patently never worked in the recruitment sector, because that is indeed longhand for ‘launched a recruitment campaign’. Every campaign attracts weirdos and misfits – it’s one of the rules. The modus operandi of the switched-on is that such weirdness…
-
Two’s Company…
While I was largely expecting the lead stories of the last few days be about President Trump’s acquittal or even more coronabollocks, the throbbing headline bulging through the copy of most organs centred on another celebrity-out-of-the-closet disclosure. And that’s newsworthy? I’m straining to find a shit to give. But before the woke and throbbing mass…
-
Burning Books…
Controversial? I don’t mind it at all. Go to amazon.co.uk and start burning…. Flypaper for Freaks and Freaking Hired! The more, the better… unsplash-logoMohamed Nohassi
-
Hitler’s Marketing Woes
Berlin, 1945. And Hitler is optimistic about Amazon book sales. He’s sacked the SS Marketing team, who kept dicking with the prices, and he’s got a new group of marketers on board. At a team meal with them, he explains his vision and his plans to trounce the Russian books on Kobo. But others are…
-
Inglourious Prices
Berlin, 1945. Hitler is stressing again about book prices. Himmler and the SS Marketing Team are dicking with the commercials, and Amazon sales are down… Meanwhile, Stalin is running a stellar campaign and rinsing it on Kobo… What can the Führer do to reverse the trend…? Read what all the fuss is about – Flypaper…
-
Let’s Eat, Grandma…
While we appear to be teetering on the edge of World War III (or at least that’s what you might be led to believe from certain online sources), I have been grappling with a far greater foe. English grammar. Now, I’ve always been somewhat a stickler for grammatical rules. And I’ve previously written in an…
-
A Crisis of Competence
As the dust begins to settle, both Labour and Liberal Democrat parties in the UK are contemplating their imminent leadership changes. So, you can well imagine an army of potential superstars waiting in the wings, right? Wrong. There is of course no dearth of volunteers for both posts, though both parties are afflicted by a…
-
Fake a Line!
Berlin, April 1945. And Hitler isn’t happy. He’s preparing for a news conference to publicise Flypaper for Freaks and Freaking Hired! and he desperately needs a line from one of the books to slot into the slide deck. But Max Frances is nowhere to be found. So, Hitler has an idea… He summons his valet…
-
Adolf Hitler – My Part in His Downfall…
Berlin, April 1945. Deep in the Führerbunker, Hitler is unhappy about the £8.99 paperback price tag on Freaking Hired! He thinks that no book price should exceed £2.99. The trouble is that the Flypaper for Freaks paperback price has already been set at £14.99. The Generals are trying to broach the subject delicately, but Adolf’s…
maxfrances.com 