Isn’t it well for you?

3Xe Digital, the Mobile marketing conference kicks off tomorrow in Croke Park.

Guest speakers include Ed Melvin, Digital Strategy Director of Publicis, Dublin (they dreamt up the Murphy’s pint when it shines app) Tom Farrell, Senior Director of Marketing at Swrve, and Ronan O’Hallaron, Practice Director, Storm Technology.

We have two, YES TWO, tickets (worth €295) to give to mobile loving marketeering Muskateer.

To enter complete this sentence.

“My first EVER mobile phone call was to_____________________on a_________________’

Lines MUST close at 9pm 10pm.

Winner will be emailed tonight.

Update:

Winner

Serveandreturn: My first EVER mobile phone call was to set up my voicemail. My SECOND ever mobile phone call was to the same phone on the same day (it was a deal the AIB were doing in UCD). This story is a vehicle to tell everyone my mother and I started the same Orts degree in UCD at the same time, which is a strange little factoid. It is also a good example of bad communication, as I haven’t delivered an on-point answer via digital communication. Now if there was only some course I could go on to rectify this…

Thanks all

3xedigital. com.

And other gear!

Further to outrage at ‘Selfie smart poles’.

Duke writes:

Mobile Fun, the online mobile accessory retailer would like to give ONE Broadsheet reader the following: A Olixar Qi-Tone Alarm Clock; Olixar X2 Pro Bluetooth Stereo Headphones; PowerCard Ultra; Slim Credit Card Sized Power Bank; Lightning and Micro USB Charge and Sync Key Chain  And a Olixar Selfie Smart Pole for Android and Apple Devices
A total Value of €210.45. THREE runners Up will get a Olixar Boombrick Wireless Bluetooth Speaker. To enter, Just complete this sentence: ‘I deserve all this gear particularly this week because__________________________’

Lines MUST close at 1.45pm

Mobile Fun

Mobile Fun (Facebook)

UPDATE:

Runners up:

Russell Steed: “I deserve all this gear particularly this week because I have a massive head and really short arms, my selfie game is poor. Also, come on! It’s my birthday!”

Achille:‘I deserve all this gear particularly this week because I’ve just been made redundant and I’m very hungover’

3. Caitlin K: 

“I deserve all this gear particularly this week, because it would leave me looking so sheek.
My mates would be jealous of my top of range gear, a techie windfall, the nation would hear!
An alarm clock and headphones, the perfect pair, to wake up the other half, then give a smug stare,
Rolling over for a snooze, powered up to the gills, time for a selfie while she is stood still,
From the background she looks, at my tech laden pile, I set up the stick and ask her to smile!
She’s late for work, and has to run, while I stay at home and have mobile fun!”

The Winner:

ZeligIsJaded: “I deserve all this gear particularly this week because I slept in today after staying over at my GF’s due to a poor alarm on my phone, and when I finally awoke one of my arms was dead from sleeping on it. Finding myself in such a situation, I wanted to take a selfie and tweet it to the world because they’re interested in that kind of thing, but with my arm so numb, I had to wait for it to recover. By the time it did, my phone’s battery was dead, and I had no way to charge it as my only charger is too bulky to carry around. I’d promised my girlfriend I’d move her car to avoid clampers, but was too late. When I told her what happened she didn’t believe me, and I had no selfie to prove it. The whole morning was a disaster, all because I didn’t have an Olixar Qi-Tone Alarm Clock, a PowerCard Ultra, a Slim Credit Card Sized Power Bank, a Lightning and Micro USB Charge and Sync Key Chain and a Olixar Selfie Smart Pole. The bluetooth headphones would just be a bonus tbh”

Thanks all

Update:

We intend having a ‘qiuet word’ with MobileFun (see if there’s any spare bluetooths knocking about) for the following entrants: because they made Karl us cry…

Jimmy the Head: “I deserve all this gear particularly this week because… its genuinely my 33rd birthday on Sunday, booked Monday off work and would love to spend the day taking duckface selfies with the dog on Dollymount beach (will post a photo if I win)”

Shiela: “I deserve all this gear particularly this week because going into hospital on Monday for an op… poor me :’( Nothing serious, run of the mill procedure etc… prepare for the shitty hospital food pics – its a disgrace Joe :D

Tk Ickle: “I deserve all this gear particularly this week because I am “recovering” after being hit by a van while cycling to work. I believe it’s called being T-boned :( Considering the amount of traffic, including buses, that past while I was sprawled out on the road, I was quite surprised a pic of me didn’t end up on here. I could really use a power bank too.”

Prizw winners will be contacted by email.

Two €50 vouchers to Rocket’s by Eddie Rocket’s (at the IFSC and Jervis Street Shopping Centre, Dublin) were on offer.

We asked: what was your most memorable Eddie Rocket’s experience.

You answered in your dozens.

Runners up:

Schweddy: “My most memorable Eddie Rockets moment was when I woke up after a session in Whelans with yellow fingers. Took me a few hours to remember that we’d ended up in Eddie Rockets and that I’d absolutely destroyed a bowl of cheese chips.”

SB: “My most memorable Eddie Rocket’s experience involved my daughter not realising it was sugar she was pouring over her chips. She had never seen one of those salt-shaker-like sugar dispensers before. Sweet!”

Gina Tonic: “My most memorable Eddie Rocket’s experience involved an evening meal with my Jewish friend. She rang her mother to say she was home before sundown on the sabbath, but she was actually in Eddie’s with me tucking into a hot dog. Oy vey!”

Cloflo: My most memorable Eddie Rocket’s experience involves every Christmas eve for the past few years meeting my best friend in town, we both live abroad and meet up to traipse around getting all of her Christmas shopping, then hit Eddies for the long overdue catch up.

Brian: “My most memorable Eddie Rocket’s experience involved what I thought was a closed bottle of ketchup, followed by me shaking it vigorously. Ketchup all over me and people in the booths to my left and right. Shake it off shake it off!!”

realPolithick: “My most memorable Eddie Rocket’s experience was when some bo**ix in the booth next to me shook his fu*king bottle of ketchup with the lid off and it went all over me and my mates. €50 is the least I deserve!”

Winners:

Selina Vav: “My most memorable Eddie Rocket’s experience involved taking a trip down to Killarney and we popped into Eddie Rocket’s for a bite to eat. As we waited for our food, we decided to give the Juke box a go. Not really sure why cause never usually works…But low and behold the minute we selected our song IT CAME ON!!!”

pmc: “My most memorable Eddie Rocket’s experience is being gee-eyed and trying to score with my hot Film Studies lecturer – following him into the toilets and everything. He’s not gay. I am. Morto.”

Thanks all

Eddie Rocket’s

Previously: Love And Rocket’s 

Rocket’s by Eddie Rocket in the IFSC

Rocket’s.

A jukebox-less Eddie-on-the-go.

Sez Frankie:

Rocket’s At Eddie Rockets is now open at North Wall Quay, IFSC [Dublin] and will open at Jervis Shopping Centre [Dublin 1] later this week [with the appointment of 50 new staff]
The new concept  serve up Eddie Rocket’s best sellers but will also include made-to-order salads and delicious combinations such as Bubble dog (hot-dog and prosecco), Egg E Muffins and ‘little’ versions of Eddie Rocket’s famous hamburgers. Also We have two x €50 vouchers for Rocket’s by Eddie Rocket’s for two Broadsheet as perfect stocking fillers to giveaway…..

To enter, please complete this sentence.

‘My most memorable Eddie Rocket’s experience involved_______________________________’

Lines MUST close at 4.15pm MIDNIGHT

Eddie Rocket’s

No cash, favours, prosecco-smeared ‘dogs’, etc. given for this post

A copy of D’You Remember Yer Man? (By Ruan Van Vilet and Bobby Ahearne) to the first reader who can NAME all the Dublin characters above.

Ruan’s drawings and Bobby’s text explore the city’s  “lovable oddballs, quirky miscreants, out-and-out chancers and the certifiably insane”.

In the case of Billy in the Bowl, all four.

A perfect Xmas stocking filler for the daycent skin close to you.

So.

Name those characters.

Lines MUST close 4.45pm

D’You Remember Yer Man? (newIsland) 

From left: Jessica Campher, Dearbhla Mitchell, Katie Cahlain and Jane Redmond from the Monica Loughman Ballet Company at ODEON Blanchardstown to highlight the live screenings of Alice in Wonderland from the Royal Opera House, London.

READ on.

Joanne writes:

Odeon cinemas are pirouetting into Christmas showing live from Royal Opera House in London Alice in Wonderland on Tuesday 16th December at 7.15. It will be shown in all 10 Odeon cinemas nationwide. We have a family ticket for any Odeon location to give away to a loving Broadsheet reader. To enter, simply nominate a ballet lover of your acquaintance and why they deserve the tix.

[Name of relative, friend]____________________deserves the Odeon Royal Ballet tickets because__________________’

Lines MUST close at MIDNIGHT

Full list of Odeon Royal Ballet screenings here

It’s just what I’ve always wanted.

With two Irish-flavoured Christmas tees from the excellent Savage Christmas Tee range on offer we asked:

What was the worst gift you have ever given?

You answered in your tens.

Runners up:

Nessy: “The worst present I have ever given was a bunch of garlic to my friend who was moving to France to study. If I win, I would redeem myself by offering the t shirt to them.”

Gary Byrne: “The worst present I have ever given was a onesie to my dad. Not sure what i was thinking.”

ReprBertie: “The worst present I have ever given was a copy of Magnolia  to my very strict Catholic father. I meant to get Memento and can just imagine his face when Tom Cruise started his ‘Respect the cock’ presentation.”

Frilly: “The worst present I have ever given was a giant stick of rock (Blarney) to me Nanna Lulu. She hadn’t a tooth in her head. The noise it made off her dentures has me laughing like an eejit here. T’was like a set of castanets …The oul’dote was drunk as a skunk and didn’t know what she was doing.”

Schweddy: “The worst present I have ever given was a cheap plastic onion dicer gizmo to my mother. And of course it didn’t work.”

Mr T: “The worst present I have ever given was a William Shatner spoken word version of Eminem’s Marshall Mathers LP to my office Secret Santa.”

i, scooperman: “The worst present I have given was a smashed delf teapot to my mam. I got it in a pound shop and broke the spout off. She also knew my dad had given me 20 quid to buy her a present. She was genuinely upset. I was a little sh1t.”

Janet: “The worst present I ever gave was to my Da. A classy hand-made (by me) lumpy, ceramic swan ashtray every year for 10 years, God bless his patience.”

Clifford Killeen: “The worst present I have ever given was a creme egg to my mother for her birthday, because I had bought the egg for myself, come in the door to be reminded about her birthday, and just handed it to her, cool as cucumbers.”

Shane: “The worst present I have ever given was a mint-flavoured rope bone to my ex-girlfriend’s dog. The dog swallowed the bone and had to have his stomach pumped.”

Winners:

Tommy: “The worst present i have ever given was a yearly gift of pound shop aftershave to my brothers in law. Classy stuff called “Ferrari” and “Musk”. The lads dutifully took them home before binning them, apart from Alan, bit of an asshole to be honest.  My sister divorced him last year, unrelated to my sad tale I think.”

Inopro: “Soaps to my mother before I knew what a sound one she was.”

Thanks all

Savage Christmas Tees

Previously: Oh Christmas Tee