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CNN Money: "101 Dumbest Moments in Business 2007&q... - 12/18/2007 9:00:56 AM

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From CNN Money

"101 Dumbest Moments in Business 2007"

"Ah, what a dumb year it was! Fortune chose the absolutely dumbest of the dumb that the gods of fate and humor delivered into our laps - and yours - this past year."

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33. Oral B And we just thought our wives were really into oral hygiene Lawyers representing Procter & Gamble send a 66-page cease-and-desist letter to British sex-toy company Love Honey, demanding that it stop using images of its Oral B electric toothbrushes to promote a product called the Brush Bunny - a rabbit-shaped piece of plastic that slips over the top of an Oral B to turn it into a vibrator.
81. 365 Main
Fate's here to see you, and she brought her wire cutters On July 24, San Francisco data-center operator 365 Main issues a press release touting its 24/7 reliability: "In the unlikely event of a cut to a primary power feed, the state-of-the-art electrical system instantly switches to live backup generators, keeping the data center continuously running." That day a power outage hits and three of its backup generators fail, taking down high-profile customers including RedEnvelope, Technorati, and Craigslist.
94. World Toilet Association
Funny, that's what Larry Craig calls stall No. 2 at the Minneapolis airport Sim Jae-Duk, a South Korean lawmaker and the founder of the World Toilet Association, unveils a $1.6 million home built in the shape of a loo. Sim, who claims to have been born in a lavatory, names the house Haewoojae, which means "a place of sanctuary where one can solve one's worries."

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/101dumbest/2007/full_list/index.html

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RE: CNN Money: "101 Dumbest Moments in Business 20... - 12/18/2007 11:11:10 AM

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94. World Toilet Association

Funny, that's what Larry Craig calls stall No. 2 at the Minneapolis airport
Sim Jae-Duk, a South Korean lawmaker and the founder of the World Toilet Association, unveils a $1.6 million home built in the shape of a loo. Sim, who claims to have been born in a lavatory, names the house Haewoojae, which means "a place of sanctuary where one can solve one's worries."

Haewoojae.

Different angle.

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RE: CNN Money: "101 Dumbest Moments in Business 20... - 12/18/2007 12:49:06 PM

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there's a world toilet association?

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RE: CNN Money: "101 Dumbest Moments in Business 20... - 12/18/2007 1:25:32 PM

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Yes there is!!

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RE: CNN Money: "101 Dumbest Moments in Business 20... - 12/18/2007 1:34:30 PM

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there's a world toilet association?

Why is that needed? Everyone knows the shower is the place where it's happening.

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RE: CNN Money: "101 Dumbest Moments in Business 20... - 12/18/2007 5:39:05 PM

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But some people like to read while seated on the toilet!

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