Odds of failure – 100%
“Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offering to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so exciting.” – – Bill Gates
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Once again, FedEx has been testing out new delivery systems
“An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.” – – Queen Victoria
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For the love of God, will the real sucker please stand up?
“If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.” – – Woody Allen
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The new plans for the military are both creepy and
freakishly out of touch with the enemies they will be fighting
“Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.” – – Brendan Gill
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Yes, cell phone radiation is a problem, but the damage will stop after the flesh is gone
“Life’s greatest question…. which I have not been able to answer… is, “What does a woman want?” – – Sigmund Freud
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When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat
“I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.” – – Joan Rivers
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Few people realize the Smurf’s cartoon series was based on
an actual race of tiny blue people living in Cleveland
“I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want – an adorable pancreas?” – – Jean Kerr
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Wouldn’t it be more fun if every 100th egg came with a surprise creature inside?
“Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.” – – Samuel Goldwyn
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Playing poker is really a thing of beauty… well, maybe not
5 idiotic marketing disasters
Marketing can make you or break you.
We’ve all heard a marketing campaign at some point and thought, “that is just stupid,” but most bad advertising strategies just result in a few less sales than a successful campaign would have brought in. Sometimes though, a company will run a campaign that’s so idiotic that the company ends up losing thousands, if not millions of dollars. Take, for example, the Silo marketing campaign that said customers could get a new stereo for only “299 bananas.” When customers started actually showing up with bundles of bananas, the store had no choice but to give them stereos in exchange for fruit…
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An in-bred mouse
“‘Always’ and ‘never’ are two words you should always remember never to use.” – – Wendell Johnson
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Every piece of food has its own personality, so its best
not to select the high maintenance fruits and vegetables
“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.” – – Leonardo da Vinci