Bob Garfield

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Advertising is not a rifle; it is a shotgun, and any campaign featuring outdoor boards of a cartoon animal inevitably will catch children in its spray.
- Bob Garfield
Collection: Children
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What happens when you combine blogs, Google and millions of dissatisfied customers? An e-mob.
- Bob Garfield
Collection: Business
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Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.
- Bob Garfield
Collection: Letters
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I can hardly believe that I even know this, but I am aware that Noah Webster's original dictionary, apart from being the first truly American lexicography, was a kind of line in the sand. It claimed a very discrete, American form of the English language, explicitly to compare it to the English of our erstwhile colonial masters who had been operating under Dr. Johnson's dictionary rules for well over a century.
- Bob Garfield
Collection: Believe