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I definitely think Dons biggest gift was being a good bullshyt artist. He started out as a salesman and he basically just sold the shyt out of his pitches. Im not sure how many awards he won prior, but the one award we saw him win was from an idea Peggy had.
 

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i dont even remember the first one. i'd have to go back thru the series just to catch it. the carousel one was just a rare moment where he had a revelation on his family but i'm sayin. most of the pitches don has mad wind up with the client not likin it and he plays that bytch fit, "fine, i don't wanna work with you now :mad:" shyt and makes it work somehow. his talent has almost always been manipulatin a failed pitch, not selling it. with ginsberg scdp has somebody that can actually make a good pitch from the jump. and unlike peggy it's a man who has potential to move up. don saw that and got on defense.
"When a man hates another man very, very much, sometimes he wants to know that something is his, even if in the end he has to give it up." Not the pithiest turn of phrase, but a sentiment flexible enough to be applied to a coveted wine account or a recently discarded trophy wife who got a little too flirty with a prospective client's handsome son.

:leon: Didn't even catch thta
 

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"How Jewish are they? 'Fiddler on the Roof': audience or cast?" :laugh:

Roger was the only one who cared that he was fukking with someone, smh@ Betty trying to use her daughter like that... and getting ethered in return.

Pete's fantasy was hilarious, ''I saw you in the New York Times Magazine''

Toxic smog :huhldup:

There was an actual feature about the ad industry in that magazine back then, same way they took the protest from the first ep from history:ehh:

''Sick of her sticking her FAT nose in'' :smugdraper:
 

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"How Jewish are they? 'Fiddler on the Roof': audience or cast?" :laugh:

Roger was the only one who cared that he was fukking with someone, smh@ Betty trying to use her daughter like that... and getting ethered in return.

Pete's fantasy was hilarious, ''I saw you in the New York Times Magazine''

Toxic smog :huhldup:

There was an actual feature about the ad industry in that magazine back then, same way they took the protest from the first ep from history:ehh:

''Sick of her sticking her FAT nose in'' :smugdraper:

I didn't get that line. :skip:
 

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I didn't get that line. :skip:

Well the cast of Fiddler are like ... really Jewish but the audience would be... a more assimilated form of Jewishness. Trying to put that in an inoffensive way :laugh: That's how I took it anyway, Roger was trying to find out how exactly he would talk to them or whatever.

There was some toxic smog in 1966 that killed 169 people:

Flashback: The City's Killer Smog: Gothamist

Show teaches me something evey week :win:
 
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Y'all really taking Don to be intimidated by\worried about Ginsberg rising?

Don just did that to show (to himself) that he still had it. He was offended that Ginsberg's idea was better, but he would've left it in the car if it was Peggy's, too.
 

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Y'all really taking Don to be intimidated by\worried about Ginsberg rising?

Don just did that to show (to himself) that he still had it. He was offended that Ginsberg's idea was better, but he would've left it in the car if it was Peggy's, too.

Yea, I don't think he feels threatened by Ginsburg. He stumbled into Ginsburg's work—which is pretty good—and it reinvigorated his passion for copywriting. The offense he took when his colleagues liked Ginsburg's work over his was just pride taking over.
 
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