Town Criers and the Art of Voicevertising
So the big news on this otherwise slow day is the bit about a guy who put up on eBay a week's worth of shouting and about Halls Fruit Breezers who bought it. As one blogger aptly commented earlier, we are running out of body parts. Here's a page on the history of town criers (do you know what "stentorian" means?), and here's an Australian company that promotes "you and your business through a diverse selection of mediums from the Ancient and Honourable art of Town Crying to the limitless possibilities of Web Page Design." Quite a few town criers are available for your next promo gig: in Britain, in California, and worldwide. If you want to launch a town crying career of your own, do yourself good and buy this amazing, truly stentorian, Gigaphone.