Copy changeup at The Garrigan !yman Group

Dear co!!eagues and under!ings,

As you may or may not be aware, there has been a change in !eadership in the copy department. How'd we get to this point? It's rea!!y an issue of priorities. !ets take a !ook at the copywriting team:

• Shya: Dude hasn't showed up on a Friday in...we!! I don't know !ong.
• Greg: Greg apparent!y woke up one morning and said, "I'd be more comfortab!e in Factoria. I'm Greg Oberst. I'!! just do wherever I want. Myah, myah myah." Typica! Greg.
• Graeme: Graeme thought that it was more important to pitch Babo!at in person, regard!ess of how many !urches he's !eft peop!e in. Whatever, dude.
• Darren: Can you be!ieve this guy chose a fishing trip in Utah over being here...ok, nevermind--that excuse is pretty ste!!ar.

Even Deb Hoffmann is out today. So that !eaves us with a huge portion of the G!G wordsmiths either unwi!!ing or unab!e to step up to the p!ate. Who wi!! fi!! the !eadership vacuum, you ask?

RE!AX. C!IFF IS IN CHARGE.

Ca!m the he!! down...I've got this.

I'm ready to hit the ground running. Starting immediate!y, you can expect the fo!!owing changes:

• If you see me in the ha!!s, p!ease use the fu!! tit!e I recent!y awarded myse!f (you can find it in my emai! signature be!ow.) 
• We wi!! begin a!! c!ient-facing creative reviews with the fo!!owing statement: "Ok, !et's start with the copy and, if there's time at the end, we'!! take a !ook at the pretty !itt!e pictures."
• I've a!ways fe!t that there hasn't been enough excitement in the copy here. Starting today, in a!! correspondence, p!ease rep!ace every instance of the twe!fth !etter of the a!phabet (common!y referred to as "!") with an exc!amation point. Take that, Reifschneider.

I !ook forward to working over a!! of you!

C!IFF MCC!OE

Acting Executive Vice President of Copywriting, Grammar, Spe!!ing, and Punctua!itude./big red boss

The Garrigan !yman Group

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Larry the Leprechaun: The Answers edition--SPOLER ALERT!

SPOILER ALERT! Answers below!


Here's all the answers! Thanks for playing today. Congrats to Amy Howard, Graeme, Brian K, Norene, and Alex K on being today's big winners.

Puzzle #1

Sing Reveille my brassy boy
Sing in the morning sun.
Sing taps when darkness comes to pass.
And when the day is done.

The bugle by Aly's desk

Puzzle #2

To Garner my Seal of approval,
Trek forward, ye Lone Star Walker!
Where Destiny rises above what ye seek.

The crit board by the Devs

Puzzle #3

Give me the mic,
And I’ll be coy
You’ll see not one
But two great boys.

Yule be great
There’s nothing better
Than to see those lads
In their lovely sweaters.

I’m a leprechaun,
Not some crummy little elf.
You’ll find the treasure
On the very bottom shelf.

Mic (sp?) McIvor and Levi Koi

Puzzle #4

Oh where did you take
Those three lovely sisters,
Who brightly bloom all the year long?

I Carried them, darlings,
You Misses and Misters
O’er the Grey
where they’ve always belonged.

The picture of three flowers over Carrie Grey's desk

Puzzle #5

Betwixt the gold and green,
Two blue twins shine so bright.
And betwixt these two bright brothers
Is a clue beneath the white.

The white board on the third floor (between the blue ceiling lamps--which are between the green and gold ceiling lamps)

Puzzle #6

The case is clear, my lads and lasses
With nineteen years gone by.
That there’s more than just
A sporting chance,
That they had
a peach of a time.

The Olympic display from the 96 Atlanta Olympics

Larry the Leprechaun: Puzzle #6

The Incredibly-Low-Maintenance-Easy-Peasy-St.Patrick's-Day Scavenger Hunt!

It's 4:00 PM. Time for Puzzle #6! Remember, with The Incredibly-Low-Maintenance-Easy-Peasy-St.Patrick's-Day Scavenger Hunt, you can play a little or play a lot. Figure out the video clue, follow the directions in the Youtube description, and you're golden. You don't have to play all day. You can jump in and play whenever you have time.

* Puzzle on the clue a little bit.
* Search high and low on the third and fourth floors.

* When you find the answer to the riddle, look nearby for a St. Patty's day sticker. LEAVE THE STICKER WHERE YOU FOUND IT.

* Send Cliff an email with two pieces of information: 1) The answer to the riddle, and 2) A description of the sticker that you found.

* At the end of the day, I'll put all the correct entries into Larry the Leprechaun's hat. If we pull out your name, you'll win a fabulous(?) prize.

Have fun!

Larry the Leprechaun: Puzzle #5

The Incredibly-Low-Maintenance-Easy-Peasy-St.Patrick's-Day Scavenger Hunt!

It's 3:00 PM. Time for Puzzle #5! Remember, with The Incredibly-Low-Maintenance-Easy-Peasy-St.Patrick's-Day Scavenger Hunt, you can play a little or play a lot. Figure out the video clue, follow the directions in the Youtube description, and you're golden. You don't have to play all day. You can jump in and play whenever you have time.

* Puzzle on the clue a little bit.
* Search high and low on the third and fourth floors.

* When you find the answer to the riddle, look nearby for a St. Patty's day sticker. LEAVE THE STICKER WHERE YOU FOUND IT.

* Send Cliff an email with two pieces of information: 1) The answer to the riddle, and 2) A description of the sticker that you found.

* At the end of the day, I'll put all the correct entries into Larry the Leprechaun's hat. If we pull out your name, you'll win a fabulous(?) prize.

Have fun!

Larry the Leprechaun: Puzzle #4

The Incredibly-Low-Maintenance-Easy-Peasy-St.Patrick's-Day Scavenger Hunt!

It's 2:00 PM. Time for Puzzle #4! Remember:

You can jump in anytime! You don't have to figure out all the clues to play!

* Puzzle on the clue a little bit.
* Search high and low on the third and fourth floors.

* When you find the answer to the riddle, look nearby for a St. Patty's day sticker. LEAVE THE STICKER WHERE YOU FOUND IT.

* Send Cliff an email with two pieces of information: 1) The answer to the riddle, and 2) A description of the sticker that you found.

* At the end of the day, I'll put all the correct entries into Larry the Leprechaun's hat. If we pull out your name, you'll win a fabulous(?) prize.

Have fun!

Larry the Leprechaun: Puzzle #3

The Incredibly-Low-Maintenance-Easy-Peasy-St.Patrick's-Day Scavenger Hunt!

It's 1:00 PM. Time for Puzzle #3! Remember, with The Incredibly-Low-Maintenance-Easy-Peasy-St.Patrick's-Day Scavenger Hunt, you can play a little or play a lot. Figure out the video clue, follow the directions in the Youtube description, and you're golden. You don't have to play all day. You can jump in and play a whenever you have time.

* Puzzle on the clue a little bit.
* Search high and low on the third and fourth floors.

* When you find the answer to the riddle, look nearby for a St. Patty's day sticker. LEAVE THE STICKER WHERE YOU FOUND IT.

* Send Cliff an email with two pieces of information: 1) The answer to the riddle, and 2) A description of the sticker that you found.

* At the end of the day, I'll put all the correct entries into Larry the Leprechaun's hat. If we pull out your name, you'll win a fabulous(?) prize.

Have fun!

Larry the Leprechaun: Puzzle #2

The Incredibly-Low-Maintenance-Easy-Peasy-St.Patrick's-Day Scavenger Hunt!



It's 12:00 PM. Time for Puzzle #2! Remember, with The Incredibly-Low-Maintenance-Easy-Peasy-St.Patrick's-Day Scavenger Hunt, you can play a little or play a lot. Figure out the video clue, follow the directions in the Youtube description, and you're golden. You don't have to play all day. You can jump in and play a whenever you have time.


Fun Fact: There's no "coming in first" for this contest. Anyone who figures out the clue can win!

* Puzzle on the clue a little bit.
* Search high and low on the third and fourth floors.

* When you find the answer to the riddle, look nearby for a St. Patty's day sticker.
* LEAVE THE STICKER WHERE YOU FOUND IT, ERIC.

* Send Cliff an email with two pieces of information: 1) The answer to the riddle, and 2) A description of the sticker that you found.

* At the end of the day, I'll put all the correct entries into Larry the Leprechaun's hat. If we pull out your name, you'll win a fabulous(?) prize.

Have fun!

The Incredibly-Low-Maintenance-Easy-Peasy St. Patrick's Day Scavenger Hunt

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Welcome to The Incredibly-Low-Maintenance-Easy-Peasy-St.Patrick's-Day Scavenger Hunt. "What is The Incredibly-Low-Maintenance-Easy-Peasy-St.Patrick's-Day Scavenger Hunt," you ask?

Well to start with it's a scavenger hunt.

"Tell me more about the incredibly-low-maintenance-easy-peasy portion," you say.

With most scavenger hunts, you have to find one clue that leads you to another, which leads you to another, which leads you to you saying, "OHMYGERD! I haven't done any work all day! My project has crashed and burned! Oh the humanity!"

However, with The Incredibly-Low-Maintenance-Easy-Peasy-St.Patrick's-Day Scavenger Hunt, there are five self-contained riddles. You can try all five. Or you can do just one. Or two. Or three. Do I have to keep going?

Every hour, on the hour, a new clue from Larry the Leprechaun will be released. If you want to play, follow these instructions:

* Puzzle on the clue a little bit.
* Search high and low on the third and fourth floors.

* When you find the answer to the riddle, look nearby for a St. Patty's day sticker. LEAVE THE STICKER WHERE YOU FOUND IT.

* Send Cliff an email with two pieces of information: 1) The answer to the riddle, and 2) A description of the sticker that you found.

* At the end of the day, I'll put all the correct entries into Larry the Leprechaun's hat. If we pull out your name, you'll win a fabulous(?) prize.

Ready for the first puzzle? Let's meet Larry the Leprechaun!

Larry the Leprechaun's Offsite Scavenger Hunt

Welcome to Larry the Leprechaun's Offsite Scavenger Hunt, exclusively for you folks not working in the Seattle office today. Here's how it works:




* This video clue will (hopefully) lead you to a specific Accounts folder on the server.
* Open up the folder; if you're correct, you'll see a file named something like "St Patty Treasure"
* Open up that file to find the next clue.
* Leave the file there!
* There's a total of five clues in all. When you complete the fifth one, follow the directions in the attached document.
* You have until 2pm PST to finish. I'll take all the correct entries, put them into Larry the Leprechaun's hat, and pull out one name. The winner gets a fabulous St. Patty's prize!
* You could just go through all the folders until you found all the clues...I guess. But then you'd be on Larry the Leprechaun's bad side. And nobody wants to see that.


Have fun!