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"   Miley Cyrus is going to be sore tomorrow because we&amp;#039;re guessing she&amp;#039;s spent the past few days with her foot in her mouth. At her 19th birthday, the singer was caught on camera saying, &amp;quot;You know you&amp;#039;re a stoner when your friends make you a Bob Marley cake!&amp;quot; Then later, &amp;quot;You know you smoke way too much fucking weed!&amp;quot; Her publicist immediately released a statement to Access Hollywood explaining, &amp;quot;The cake was a joke and Miley was being sarcastic. It is all being completely taken out of context.&amp;quot; But the damage was done. Twitter went crazy and gossip rags ran headlines like &amp;quot;Miley Cyrus Suggests She&amp;#039;s a Stoner&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Miley Cyrus is a Pothead&amp;quot;. What&amp;#039;s the lesson we can learn here? No, don&amp;#039;t worry, we&amp;#039;re not going to go all D.A.R.E. officer on you. The lesson here is that even a flip remark can do a number on your reputation. Even if Miley was 100 percent joking and being sarcastic, as her rep claimed, it&amp;#039;s going to take a lot to undo the damage. Some experts are wondering if this could cost her future endorsements and contracts. And while you making an offhanded joke about puffing probably wouldn&amp;#039;t lead you to become a trending topic on Twitter, it does have the potential to mess with your professional life. Plenty of bosses and HR managers Google potential employees and if a video, tweet, Tumblr post, or anything of the like pops up linking you to drug use, you can be sure they&amp;#039;ll be turned off, if not totally dismissive of you. And this goes beyond drugs. Any little comment, even if it&amp;#039;s untrue and a complete joke, has the potential to seriously mar your reputation. We&amp;#039;re not suggesting you stop kidding around altogether, but just remember that what you say could come back around and bite you in the ass. Have you ever been caught saying something that ended up being really detrimental to your career or your reputation? How did you do damage control? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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