Happy Christmas, and HELP

Thursday, December 16, 2010 | 2 comments »

If your office is on fire, don't call the fire brigade, send a nice card...

Someone might need to check on the poor souls at Hill & Knowlton's Brussels office.

Have a look at their Christmas e-card...







Do those people on the top floor look as though they're wishing us all the best for the festive season, or roasting alive in a terrifying inferno?

The original 'flash' animated version is even creepier, with a laid-back xylophone jazz trio drowning out the bloodcurdling screams of the incinerated account executives and accompanying them to a premature, involuntary cremation.

They clearly didn't heed this warning from the European Commission this time last year, about the dangers of badly-wired tree lights.

Makes you feel all festive.

As Nat King Cole might have sung it: "Lobbyists roasting on an open fire..."



Happy Chanukah,

BM

(any other shocking corporate Christmas cards? Feel free to email them to the 'Monster)

Google, whacked

Wednesday, December 01, 2010 | 0 comments »

In BM's inbox this week:

The EU giveth ....

11:42 Munich/Paris, 30 November 2010 - European Patent Office and Google sign memorandum on translation of patents

And the EU taketh away ...

11:45 Brussels, 30 November 2010 11:45 Antitrust: Commission probes allegations of antitrust violations by Google