In fact, In an Alice of Wonderland world, because it takes more billable hours to get a bad idea revised before it is brought up front to customers, Advertisers actually reward an agency more when it comes up with a bad idea.

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He says they may guess what an employer wants in order to get the job - a bad idea that can land both employee and employer in a bad situation.

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Their addition to the story was to phone up a nutritionist (not a bad idea at all) and get a quote on how many calories this was.

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But wait, getting teenagers that are juniors in high school to work in the school and get paid for it might not be a bad idea.

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Don't get the idea that the exuberant 1990s were a singularly bad decade of economic forecasting.

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But considering some of the politicians who manage to get themselves chosen by human electorates, maybe it would not be such a bad idea.

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Not a bad idea, considering the fact that over 70% of all applications get no response at all.

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