Contingency plan
If you ever find yourself in a sales meeting and you unwittingly refer to a marketing plan that your client is seriously considering as being "slimy" (Ex., sending a mass email to a list of purchased addresses belonging to people who did not opt in to be spammed by a third party):
Do yourself a favor and let somebody else talk for a while. Once your ears stop burning, get back on the horse. If you happen to hear their marketing director say something to the effect that the company president is getting 20 - 30 penis enlargement emails a day (ergo, certainly their product would get past the average spam filter), in the driest and most professional tone possible ask if there is any chance that he opted in to receive those emails.
Depending on the client's sense of humor, this will either redeem you or else it will just shovel more dirt on your grave. Either way you've already screwed up anyway, so why not take a chance? Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!
"Remember, I'm pullin' for ya. We're all in this together."
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