Marketing 101

Nkiru Oh


Below is one of the most hilarious jokes I ever read on the world wide web. I saw it on a wall... laughed so much that I figured it would be great to share it with all my friends. Won't be nice of me to keep a juicy fun as this to myself. Naaaah...wasn't raised that way. Laughter is said to be the best medicine. So come read with me and  let's have some fun:


 A Professor explained Marketing to Some Management Students at an evening class thus :

1) You see a gorgeous girl in a party, you go to her & say, "I am rich, marry me..."
... - That's "Direct Marketing"

2) You attend a party & your friend goes to a girl & pointing at you tells her:
"He's very rich, marry him..."
- That's "Advertising"

3) You are at a party & a girl walks to you & says, "You are rich, can you marry me...?"
- That's "Brand Recognition..."

4) You see a cute girl at a party and you go to her & say, "I am very rich, marry me..." & she slaps you...
- That's "Customer Feedback...."

5) You see a girl at a party. You go to her & say, " I am very rich, marry me... " & she introduces you to her husband..
- That's "Demand & Supply Gap..."

6) You see a cute girl at a party. You go to her & say, "I am rich, marry me...." & your wife arrives.....
- That's "Restriction from entering new market...!"

  Hope u understand marketing better now..

Hello Sexy!

Nkiru Oh

Hello y'all! Just wanna share this with you. Can't keep such fun without sharing! Won't be nice of me, you know. Now tell me, have you ever laughed so hard that your stomach hurt for days? I mean, kinda laughed so 'laughiously' that you almost peed in your pants or shed tears? That was no ordinary laugh right? By the way, who cares whether 'laughiously' is an English word or not! At least, it serves its purpose to quantify the kind of laughter I am talking about! The 'rolling on the floor' type of laugh!

Well, my friends and I did all of the above few weeks ago! My co-worker and friend, Becky (not real name) made us almost 'laugh our heads off' as one of my Ghanaian friends would say! We were in a party. I implore you to close your eyes and imagine the scene as we go along! You may turn off the lights too if that helps to conjure a better imagery! My friend Becky is the kinda person that lightens the room with her personality.

So, we were in a party! Becky wore this gorgeous wrap-around skirt. That day she dressed to kill and she wanted the world to notice! Here we were on the dance floor; Becky in her 4 1/2 inch high heel shoes parading the length and breath of the hall, swinging, flinging, wriggling, wiggling, twisting, taunting, and flaunting her assets in her well-rehearsed manner! You know what I mean, right? Lo and behold, the unexpected happened: Becky was all the way near the high table in the front when someone hushed, Oh my Gawd wha da heeell...!" We looked ahead to find Becky's skirt lying on the floor, a good ten feet away from her, while she was busy cat walking and mingling!!! Holly Molly! With one accord, the whole house roared and roared and roared! That day made me realize that we laugh in various languages! I heard myself laughing in English, Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba and Ijaw! I heard some laughing in Chinese, Deutsch, Arabic, Swahili, German, French, Creole and other languages I did not know! And that was when Becky turned...saw...and...temporarily froze!

Are y'all still with me? What happened was that Becky wore a black, tight boy short underneath the skirt. Thank God it was clean and not torn too! (Please remind me to tell y'all the story of the man with a torn underwear). So, because of the way the short clung tightly around her, she did not feel it when her skirt wriggled off while she continued with her 'notice me' behavior! I believe her skirt wanted to prove that 'what a woman can do, a recalcitrant skirt can do better?' Thank God for the gentleman who quickly picked the 'notice-me-skirt' and gave it back to the rightful owner! Becky nicely put it back and the fun continued uninterrupted! Becky almost 'laughed her head off' too! And everyone was happily ever after!