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  1. HOT HEADLINE: Jr. Art Director Assumed Advertising Would be "Way More Fun" Than it Actually is.
  2. BREAKING: Agency Sets Record in Amount of Time Taken to Break Every Promise Made to Client During the Pitch.
  3. BREAKING: Client Baffled By How Agency's Proven Strategic/Creative Process Resulted in "Shitty Fucking Campaign."
  4. NEWS: Agency's Revelation to Client "You're Not Selling Tortilla Chips, You're Selling Togetherness" Met With Blank Stares, Silence.
  5. BREAKING: Agency Changes Philosophy From "Ideas Can Come From Anyone at Agency" to "Ideas Can Only Come From Creative Dept. Period."
  6. HOT HEADLINE: Agency's New Scope-of-Work Proposal Considers Pretty Much Any Client Request to be Out of Scope.
  7. HOT HEADLINE: Client Responds to Agency's Claim of "Not Having Silos" With "Big Fucking Deal."
  8. HOT HEADLINE: Agency Revamps New Business Strategy, Credits $20 Million Account Win To "A Few Good Old-Fashioned Hand Jobs."
  9. HOT HEADLINE: Account Planner Can't Understand Why Groundbreaking 22 Page Creative Brief Isn't Taken More Seriously By Creative Team.
  10. HOT HEADLINE: Jr. Planner Spends Entire Sunday Afternoon Critiquing Super Bowl Spots On Facebook As If Anyone Actually Gives A Fuck.
  11. HOT HEADLINE: Study Shows Majority of Super Bowl Watchers Don't Give a Shit About Ads Anymore.
  12. HOT HEADLINE: Copywriter Casually Asks AD Partner If She Shaves Exactly 12 Minutes After Completing Online Sexual Harassment Course.
  13. HOT HEADLINE: Copywriter Spends Last 4 Weeks Writing Google Words, Wonders If He'll Ever Work In Advertising Again.
  14. HOT HEADLINE: Douchey ECD Forces Account Supervisor To Wear Douchey Biker Boots, Vintage T-Shirt For Incredibly Douchey Agency Staff Photo.
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  16. HOT HEADLINE: Client Responds To ACD's Continuous Stories About "The Time I Shot With Pytka" With Blank Stare, Uncomfortable Silence.
  17. HOT HEADLINE: Restaurant Account Awarded to Only Agency That Didn't Send Lame, Ass-Kissing Photo of Principals Eating at the Restaurant.
  18. HOT HEADLINE: Agency Staffers Encouraged to Ride Razor Scooters Through Office to Appear Hip and Cool During New Biz Pitch.
  19. HOT HEADLINE: Tostitos New "Spokesbag" Commercials Seemed Like Good Idea on Paper, Admits Agency Copywriter.
  20. From The Editor: Enjoy Your Holiday Break. Because 2012 Promises to be Full of the Same Shit as 2011. Only Worse.