Lucky Ducks

While we are on the subject of bird brained ideas I should tell the marvellous magical story of the Novodevichy Ducks.

Once upon a time an important man called the President of the USA gave a statue of some ducks to Russia. They were from a famous story about some ducks which was very popular in his country. In a town call Boston there was a statue of these ducks to celebrate the story. And all the children loved them.

President Bush Senior gave a copy of these ducks to Russia to show peace & friendship between the two countries now that their long cold war was over. Many Russian children now played on these ducks & everyone was happy.

But then one day, many years later when Mr. Bush's son was about to be King, some very bad people stole the ducks. Not the real ducks which paddle in the lake but the statue of the ducks. It was made of a precious metal called Bronze. Now the Moscow children had nowhere to play & everyone was very sad.

Your storyteller called one of his friends & asked if her big rich company would like to pay to replace the ducks. She told me to go forth & multiply with the ducks, although in less words. Her reply actually rhymed with with "Duck" as luck would have it.

But happily another friend from Kimberly-Clark helped to pay for the replacement ducks. He was from Boston & understood how much children loved the ducks. And there was another big party at the lake when the bronze ducks flew back from America.

This time lots of TV cameras came & the smaller client got lots of free press & television coverage that the big nesty client didn't get. So if you go to the Novodevichy Park today you will find the ducks. And everyone lived happily ever after...even the nesty client was forgiven as most clients fail to see an obvious 360 media idea when we present it to them.