13 Yiddish Curses for the Modern Ad Agency.

Yiddish is nearly a dead language. But when it comes to curses, it remains a vibrant one. I was the butt end of a lot of these when I was growing up. It's surprising I didn't grow like an onion.

In any event, I thought it made sense to update those curses for today's eminently curse-able ad industry.

1. May your agency be bought by a French holding company that only one day

earlier merged with a colony of fire ants.*

* A tip of the Yarmulke to Josh Tavlin for this one.

2. May the client remove everything good from your copy

except for one line, and may that line no longer make sense.

3. May you be sent to a two-day offsite and attend so many meetings

that you shit Powerpoint decks in the morning and vomit Excel at night.

4. With each powerpoint that you sit through,

may your nose grow another hair.

5. May the agency’s food co-op run out of kale.

6. May you grow like a deck, getting

fatter and more meaningless by the minute.

7. May your office be open plan,

and may everyone each lunch at their desk,

and may every day they eat liverwurst.

8. May your client get two months to do research,

may your planners get two weeks to read the results,

and may you get two days to do the creative.

9. May your client realize the disparity between social media hype

and reality and may you be held accountable for it.

10. Let there be a creative department shakeup,

and may the new head have won awards only for ads that never ran.

11. May the wool hat you wear inside all summer

grow tighter each time you talk about user experiences.

12. May your beard grow lice and may each of those lice

tell you what’s wrong with your design.

13. May your holding company announce large bonuses
but may they be exclusively for people who don’t need them.