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It is also BRILLIANT marketing! My thought for this Thursday is: Could you create a short video with with such simplicity and humour? Doubt it!\u00a0 Go on, surprise me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[78,41,47,40,62,66,58,86,85,90,25,65],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DQGK-g3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":382,"url":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=382","url_meta":{"origin":995,"position":0},"title":"You Just Have to Laugh!","author":"Lorne Mitchell","date":"21\/01\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"A good friend of mine, Tom Gilb, just pointed out this brilliant bit of British Comedy which was screened just before Christmas: We are an industry of fruit and nut cases! 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