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What’s Up With Those Kleenex Commercials?
By JLP | December 17, 2007
Imagine the following managment meeting at Kimberly-Clark, the makers of Kleenex:
Vice President #1 - “How can we sell more Kleenex?”
All the other executives sit there in silence, scratching their heads.
Vice President #2 - [with a shrug] “If only we could get more people to cry.”
Sighs and shrugs all around the table.
Vice President #4 - “Hey! What makes people cry?”
Random answers throughout the room:
“Death!”
“Divorce!”
“Sad stories!”
Vice President #2 - “THAT’S IT! Sad stories! All we need to do is get people to start telling sad stories. They’ll talk, get emotional, and need a…”
Vice President #s 2, 3, 4, and 6 - [in unison] “KLEENEX!”
And that, my fellow readers, is how we got those stupid Kleenex commercials!
Topics: Humor |
December 17th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
thats only step 1. The next step is to release a super strain of the flu…if everyone has a runny nose, then everyone will need a ….. “KLEENEX!”
December 17th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Oh no, Jordan! Surely they wouldn’t!
September 14th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
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