Compo rationale and prize
And now for something completely different, a little competition to help sharpen your alcohol-dulled wits - Complete That Press Release.
All you have to do is write two further Top Tips to Beat the January Blues - rounding off the eight that the Association for Coaching lists and helping it reach the number it must have originally had in mind but simply couldn't contrive.
The idea is to to make your fellow HEXITES laugh louder than the original press release does.
Naturally, the person who draws the most belly laughs will be awarded a prize - and everyone gets a chance to vote on exactly who that should be.
But quite what the prize will be is going to remain a mystery until the winner is announced.
Be assured, though, that it will be utterly valueless and no less banal and useless than the AC's original eight tips.
So, clearly, there's ample reason to go off and, instead, have another drink or three.
However, the great thing about booze is that it gets you doing pointless things you'd otherwise never bother with, so we're expecting a big response.
To help you get your head around the task, we asked a public relations professional to come up with examples.
Rather foolishly, though, we turned to John Hill who, as well as being a worryingly effective PR man and an inveterate European day-tripper, is also a master motorbike-crasher and a failed playwright.
This being a family-orientated site, we're unable to publish John's example Top Tip No. 10, so are left only with:
9. Kill anyone involved in
pedalling this kind of bollocks, especially anyone who wants to charge
you money for doing it.
Now, while implementing that one tip all on its own probably would completely banish our January Blues, we actually had in mind something a smidgeon more seasonal, soft and subtle.
So, assuming you've got the idea, get a couple of stiff drinks down you, dive over to page two and read the original release (noting, especially, the constructive use of exclamation marks), then tell us in this thread in the HEXUS.lifestyle.news forum your suggested ninth and tenth tips.
Good luck!
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