Cisco puts its nerdy spin on Old Spice clips

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The Old Spice Guy hadn't even hung up his towel before there were predictions of a rash of copycat campaigns. Cisco got a jump on the pack by literally copying the idea yesterday, only subbing in "Ted from accounting" as its nerdy star. Throughout the day, Ted responded to tweets coming to the #CiscoSPice hashtag with dorky humor that one can only assume goes over well with the BlackBerrys-in-belt-holsters set. Ted (who's actually Cisco marketing manager and occasional comedian Tim

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