OT: The What Were They Thinking Game

[RockyMTblue2]

My entry into the how do we while way the off season. Come up with your best recollections of blunders that should have been seen from a mile away-at least! Like the Edsel or whatever. Couple of my recent favorites: (1) Florida taco restaurant known for inventive ingredients for its tacos comes up with (Ta Dah) lion meat tacos! Death threats. Assault and battery against manager. Have had to take Facebook page down 'cuz of, well you know. (2) Foreign car company creates a commercial to feature a new sedan with technology giving it zero emissions (water vapor, that's all). So the commercial involves a guy getting in the car and starting in his garage and ... and this is just so good...waiting to die of carbon dioxide poisoning!

You have any to share?

 

[meyers7]

New Coke. Were they idiots or brilliant?

 

[reno tony]

Opening a pig farm in Churchill, Alaska directly in the migration route of the Polar Bears.

 

[meyers7]

Opening a pig farm in Churchill, Alaska directly in the migration route of the Polar Bears.

mmmmm, breakfast, lunch and dinner.

 

[alexrgct]

Lots of presidential campaigns were tactically and/or strategically stupid (simply regarding how to win, nothing political), but I won't go there.

Nothing disastrous has happened because of it yet, but building a nuclear reactor on the San Andrea Fault (Diablo Canyon) never seemed like a good idea.

 

[TDiNozzo]

I always liked how they wanted to park a zeppelin off the tip of the Empire State Building....

The Art Deco spire of the Empire State Building was originally if impractically designed to serve as a mooring mast for Zeppelins and other airships to dock at...

The building's distinctive Art Deco spire was originally designed to be a mooring mast and depot for dirigibles. The 102nd floor was originally a landing platform with a dirigible gangplank.[61] A particular elevator, traveling between the 86th and 102nd floors, was supposed to transport passengers after they checked in at the observation deck on the 86th floor.[62] However, the idea proved to be impractical and dangerous after a few attempts with airships, due to the powerful updrafts caused by the size of the building itself,[63] as well as the lack of mooring lines tying the other end of the craft to the ground.[64] A large broadcast tower was added to the top of the spire in 1953

 

[geordi]

All winners of the Darwin Awards.

 

[TDiNozzo]

One more... The guy that tied a bunch of helium balloons to his lawn chair... the second time he remembered to bring a BB gun....

 

[Zorro]

The guy who wrote a bank holdup note on one of his own deposit slips.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

From today's news - a prominent Japanese politician considered the "sex slaves" that serviced the Japanese Army in the WWII era "necessary" and apparently also suggested to the US Military that they need to encourage their men to use the legal means available in Japan to relieve their sexual frustration.

And he thought it was a good idea to say this?

 

[wire chief]

From today's news - a prominent Japanese politician considered the "sex slaves" that serviced the Japanese Army in the WWII era "necessary" and apparently also suggested to the US Military that they need to encourage their men to use the legal means available in Japan to relieve their sexual frustration.

And he thought it was a good idea to say this?

As a people the Japanese are not raised in a guilt dynamic. Shame, yes, but that's melting away.

 

[katiecrum1992]

Basketball-related, when the game was first invented peach baskets were used as hoops, but no one figured out to cut a hole in the bottom until a few years later. So every time a basket was made they had to use ladders and take the ball out.

 

[Phil]

New Coke. Were they idiots or brilliant?

There's a line from a Coke exec who was asked whether the new Coke was a foreseeable disaster or a brilliant campaign.


He responded (paraphrasing) "We're not that dumb, and we're not that smart.

 

[geordi]

One more... The guy that tied a bunch of helium balloons to his lawn chair... the second time he remembered to bring a BB gun....

That was always my favorite. Lawnchair Larry. Started to drift over the approach at LAX. Can you imagine the look on the faces of the pilots of the 747s coming into LA???

 

[meyers7]

There's a line from a Coke exec who was asked whether the new Coke was a foreseeable disaster or a brilliant campaign.


He responded (paraphrasing) "We're not that dumb, and we're not that smart.

Yea, I remember that.

 

[Zorro]

How about whoever decided to name the Baylor Women's Basketball Forum "Got Mulk?". Not as spectacular as most of the above, but WAY dumb!