# Good advice if anyone can use it

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**Created:** [July 7, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/good-advice-if-anyone-can-use-it/39869 "2010-07-07T17:18:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/good-advice-if-anyone-can-use-it/39869/1 "2010-07-07T17:18:06Z")

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“If only more of us would follow the advice of 1950s-era humorist Sam Levenson. _“It’s so simple to be wise,” he once said. "Just think of something stupid to say and then don’t say it_.”  
The recent foot-in-mouth moments offer helpful lessons for the rest of us. In our own homes and neighborhoods, we’re often sheepishly attempting to take back what we said. And now, with cell-phone video cameras and the Internet able to carry once-localized stupidity to the ends of the earth, it’s even more vital to think before we speak. Private comments can go public in an instant. "

“That girl was like crack cocaine to me… It was like napalm. Sexual napalm” Singer John Mayer on ex-girlfriend Jessica Simpson  
[How to Prevent Verbal Gaffes - WSJ.com](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704178004575350940170440292.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_RIGHTTopCarousel_1)