[BluesDuke]

Click on the link to see the rest of the 101ers...heh-heh-heh-heh-heh

Now, I wonder...could we give them something like, say, a Dickie Award? Named after Dick Rowe, once the chieftain of British Decca Records, who infamously told a certain Brian Epstein, in early 1962, "We don't like your boys' sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out." Subsequently signing the Rolling Stones couldn't save Dick Rowe from eternal ridicule for having turned down the Beatles with a line like that. It nearly erased the memory of the 20th Century Fox executive who insisted no one would bother watching a Civil War film - and rejected first crack at making Gone With The Wind...

Otherwise, enjoy! Nothing like a round of foul-ups, bleeps, and blunders to lighten the load around here...

[altair]

2. A dozen Burger King marketing execs suffer first- and second-degree burns while walking over hot coals as part of a team-building retreat in October.

I wonder what went wrong. I've done firewalking before and it wasn't dangerous.

[Richard Kimball]

Haven't finished reading it, but here's my favorite so far:

40. The Newspaper Association of America names Kmart its "Retailer of the Year" on Jan. 21, 2002, one day before the company files for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11.

Newspaper people and the guys that hired Rosie ODonut and Penny Marshall to sell their clothing!!! This has to be the dumbest combination so far.

[NYCVirago]

Here's how: ZoZa's designers revamp its spring 2001 line, intentionally making their dresses two sizes smaller than labeled. Even the svelte are outraged, and ZoZa's merchandise return rate soars to 80 percent. The company shuts down in May 2001, proving that, if the dress doesn't fit, you must, uh, quit.

How dumb is that? The way to appeal to customers is to do just the opposite -- if a size 12 can fit into a size 8 dress, then that company has gained a loyal customer. Nobody who's a size 12 wants to wear a size 16!

[Husker24]

"New Coke" should have been in there somewhere.

[tubebender]

2. A dozen Burger King marketing execs suffer first- and second-degree burns while walking over hot coals as part of a team-building retreat in October.

Flame Broiled not fried...

[Restorer]

It nearly erased the memory of the 20th Century Fox executive who insisted no one would bother watching a Civil War film - and rejected first crack at making Gone With The Wind...

I strongly suspect this is an urban legend. Gone with the Wind was by far the biggest publishing event of the 1930s, and everybody in America was eagerly anticipating the movie.

[PJ-Comix]

Snapple drops Rush Limbaugh as a spokesman and its sales go down the tubes.

[lilylangtree]

Some of these cracked me up. I'm still smiling as I write this.

[SWake]

90. Houston, We Have a Problem, Part 12: In his testimony before Congress, Jeffrey Skilling claims that he is unable to recall a board of directors committee meeting in which records show that he had approved several partnership deals, in part because "the room was dark, quite frankly, and people were walking in and out of the meeting."

He should have said he was drinking iced tea and had to go to the bathroom a lot.

[Tinman]

Interesting post, Thanks