tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8193636064979359174.post2344011850786448139..comments2023-10-11T10:44:43.396+01:00Comments on Bill Blunt: The Wasted Money of MarketingBill Blunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15395505727397010185noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8193636064979359174.post-12908016671666423992007-05-01T15:40:00.000+01:002007-05-01T15:40:00.000+01:00The reason for the drop in tripe sales in the UK s...The reason for the drop in tripe sales in the UK stems from an story I wrote when 16 at Blackpool Grammar School. It was about an imaginary firm called United Oceangoing Tramways and Tripe Tanneries. My whimsy was that this was the first of the great international trading conglomerates which had become big on the heels of a discovery of a method of tanning tripe so that it could be used as a miracle fabric, Tripon, which was taken up by fashionable ladies. Tripon could be spun so finely that it could be used to make unladderable stockings. I was very interested in ladies stockings [preferably with legs in them] when 16.<BR/>Please do not say this must have been an offal story.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com