desidioms

learn yer PLS + TY's

you don't talk with your mouth full. you hold the door for the elderly. and you say your "please"s and "thank you"s whenever appropriate.

but your texting, instant messaging and even your myspace manners are atrocious. you should check out the mobile user's guide to the new social etiquette. from helio. apparently, these little booklets, which have been placed in magazines, are being taken out of the magazines, without that mag being purchased. if you don't like to steal, you can go to helio's social manners site.

idk about you, but i'm sfete about the fact they've created rules for the world of virtual communicating.

sour telegram

in grade school, everyone puts a valentine in everyone else's heart decorated bag. in high school, you get val-o-grams with carnations. in college, you get nothing, really.

but what do you get when you're working? an altoids singing telegram. it's kinda long, and sort of heartbreaking. so make sure to preview it before you send it out to your special someone. i mean, it is for sour mango altoids.

smoke'm if you got'm

ad age published a story on r.j. reynolds new efforts to glamorize cigarettes. with a new premium line of smokes called, "marshall mcgearty," and the posh chicago lounge created around them (it is in fact the only place you can purchase them), r.j. reynolds is pioneering a new approach to selling a taboo product.
of course, it has its opposition, but the lounge complete with food, drink, fresh tobacco leaves and a tobacconist who hand-rolls the mcgearty's (named after the creative director of rjr''s agency) is sure to gain more than a few supporters. especiallly since it offers them a place to come in from the cold.
the ads can be seen here and here.