Classic ad-agency memos: D-grade toilet paper and early-morning pot smoking

TBWA\Chiat\Day’s battle against the elusive and disgusting Toilet Boy (see below) has brought back memories of other classic ad-agency memos. One of them, concidentally, also involved toilet paper. It was sent by Brendan Ryan to all staff at Foote Cone & Belding in New York after the agency’s 2003 move to West 33rd Street. In an impressive 1,600 words, Ryan mused on everything from the gritty charm of the new neighborhood (“kind of like NYPD Blue ‘live’”) to the bathroom amenities (“little shelves will be installed in all the stalls, thereby significantly reducing the number of cell phones tumbling into toilet bowls”).