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Diary: On the QT ..

Richard Pierson, the new-business director at Bartle Bogle Hegarty, has had enough of the industry and is quitting to train to become, of all things, an acupuncturist.

No doubt, upon telling his colleagues of his decision, he was expecting some kind words and warm wishes. What he got from Kevin Brown was the line: "Well, you've always been a little prick." We're sure he's going to miss the witty banter ...

It seems like Ogilvy's Emma Poole has a bit of a crush on one of the hunks from the agency's latest viral campaign for Cancer Research UK. Not only does she spend an inordinate amount of time on his Facebook page, she has also turned up in the background of a couple of pictures of the guy. The Diary hopes he doesn't have a bunny he's fond of ...

We wonder if the team at Miles Calcraft Briginshaw Duffy knows that the song Golden Brown, which accompanies its latest Waitrose ad, is all about taking heroin? And, if so, does this mean the supermarket is moving into a new product line? ...

A somewhat odd e-mail from Dentsu's spokesman Yukihiro Oguchi to Campaign's question asking if it was true the group was about to kill off the CDP name in London. "The other day I went to the John Everett Millais exposition," he told us. "It was just great." Glad you enjoyed it. But what about CDP? "I'm afraid that I decline to comment." Seems like a case of lost in translation ...

Karmarama always knew its planner, Jono Holt, was a bit useful with a hockey stick. Now it knows how useful. Holt, an attacker for the unfancied Hampstead and Westminster, scored a hat-trick to put Surbiton - whose team includes two Great Britain internationals - out of the EH Cup on Sunday ...

The Walkers campaign through Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO inviting people to suggest new crisp flavours has produced some extraordinary results. We can certainly understand the popularity of fish and chips. But why on earth do the Welsh opt for pineapple?

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