Comments on: A sobering view of cause-based marketing. http://beanstalktalk.com/beanblog/a-sobering-view-of-cause-based-marketing/ An Ad Giants sponsored adventure. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:17:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Eric http://beanstalktalk.com/beanblog/a-sobering-view-of-cause-based-marketing/comment-page-1/#comment-22479 Eric Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:27:46 +0000 http://beanstalktalk.com/beanblog/a-sobering-view-of-cause-based-marketing/#comment-22479 Read the article and glad you pointed me to it. A very interesting read and something I hadn't thought about. The following has been classified by Snopes as a false urban legend (a British comedian created the joke based on a commercial bono appeared in), but it makes an amusing read nevertheless: At a U2 concert in Glasgow, Bono asks the audience for some quiet. Then in the silence, he starts to slowly clap his hands. Holding the audience in total silence, he says into the microphone "Every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies." A voice from near the front pierces the silence; "Well, stop clapping your fookin' hands then!" Read the article and glad you pointed me to it. A very interesting read and something I hadn’t thought about. The following has been classified by Snopes as a false urban legend (a British comedian created the joke based on a commercial bono appeared in), but it makes an amusing read nevertheless:

At a U2 concert in Glasgow, Bono asks the audience for some quiet.
Then in the silence, he starts to slowly clap his hands.

Holding the audience in total silence, he says into the microphone
“Every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies.”

A voice from near the front pierces the silence;
“Well, stop clapping your fookin’ hands then!”

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