AdVent: The Dumbest Things Ad People Have Said

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Ask Wapling over at Ad Land wants readers to “AdVent.” She’s looking for the dumbest, funniest and most idiotic things you have ever heard your client or agency say. Have some fun. Recall those crazy meetings. Remember the time you wanted to strangle someone. Do it all here.

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The quietest people in most families are almost never quiet because they have nothing to say. They went quiet because they said something important once, it was dismissed or corrected, and they decided the cost of speaking wasn’t worth the possibility of being unheard again

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Psychology says staying silent in these 8 specific situations isn’t weakness or avoidance—it’s the most precise form of self-respect that most people only learn after saying the wrong thing one too many times

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