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RI_Goddess
12/18/2007 5:43 amLast Read: |
I read a very interesting and somewhat comical article this morning about the 101 Dumbest business decisions made during the past year. I had to share a couple of the more interesting ones: 1. It's Gone to the Dog, Literally: Leona Helmsley leaves $12 million to her white maltese named Trouble. And just what is this dog going to do with this much money?? 2. It's a Fat World, After All: Disneyland announces plans to close the “It’s a Small World” attraction to deepen its water channel after the ride’s boats start getting stuck under loads of heavy passengers. Employees are now asking larger passengers to disembark—and are compensating them with coupons for free food. Sure, let's just exacerbate the problem by giving them free food! 3. A New Meaning to Getting Buff: The Fitworld gym in Heteren, the Netherlands, introduces Naked Sunday. I would imagine only the buffest of members are now going on Sundays!! 4. We Seriously Mistrusted Those Sprinkles: Just one week after unveiling the world’s most expensive dessert—the $25,000 Frozen Haute Chocolate, 28 cocoas infused with edible 23-karat gold served in a goblet with a diamond bracelet at its base— New York restaurant Serendipity 3 is shut down for failing its second health inspection in a month. Inspectors find a live mouse, multiple piles of mouse droppings, fruit flies, houseflies, and more than 100 live cockroaches. Makes me not want to eat out at a restaurant again!! 5. It's Not As If Their Doing Brain Surgery or Anything: The state Department of Health fines Rhode Island Hospital $50,000 when, for the third time in less than a year, one of its doctors operates on the wrong side of a patient's head. This one hits way too close to home considering I live in Rhode Island. I can honestly say though I have never been to Rhode Island hospital. Once is bad enough but three times!!!???!!! 6. Virginia is for Bangers: The Virginia Tourism Corp. scraps an ad campaign featuring people making heart symbols with their hands after it's noted that the gesture is also the gang sign of Chicago's Gangster Disciples. 7. On the Bright Side, Their Learning a Lot About Anatomy: Nigerian schoolchildren receive $200 computers under the U.N. One Laptop Per Child program and quickly learn a few things nobody expected - such as how to find adult websites and how to store their favorite images on the computers' hard drives. Program leaders say future laptops will be fitted with filters. Wonder if any of them happened upon A*F*F!! 8. Fly the Not-So-Friendly Skies: A Southwest Airlines gate agent tells Kyla Ebbert - a 23-year-old college student and Hooters waitress wearing a denim miniskirt, high-heeled sandals, and a sweater over a tank top - that she's dressed too provocatively to be allowed on a flight from San Diego to Tucson. Though the agent ultimately relents and lets her onboard, an indignant Ebbert goes public, appearing on the Today show. Southwest takes a massive publicity hit; Ebbert is hired by Richard Branson to promote rival low-cost carrier Virgin America and by Playboy to pose for a pictorial. I think Ebbert owes the gate agent a huge debt of gratitude because without the gate agent, Ebbert would still only be a college student working at Hooters. 9. Fly the Don't-Get-To-Friendly-Skies: Singapore Airlines inaugurates the Airbus A380, the world's largest jet, with a seven-hour flight from Singapore to Sydney. To the chagrin of those who forked out $15,000 for one of 12 private, double-bed-equipped suites, the airline asks its passengers to refrain from having sex. Says first-class passenger Tony Elwood: "So they'll sell you a double bed, and give you privacy and endless champagne, and then say you can't do what comes naturally?" Heck, save the $15,000, fly coach and become a member of the "Mile High Club" the way many others have!! 10. Fly the Didn't-You-Learn-Anything- from-the-Kyla-Ebbert-Fiasco Skies: A man boarding a Southwest Airlines flight in Ohio is ordered to change his T-shirt, which depicts a fictional fishing shop with the words MASTER BAITER. The airline is again forced to apologize. Hmmmmmm, wonder why he didn't get an add promotion deal with another airline and a contract to model in Playgirl???? 11. This One is Just Morbid: On a British Airways flight from New Delhi to London, first-class passenger Paul Trinder wakes up from a nap to find the corpse of a woman who had died in the economy cabin being placed in the seat next to him. Upon complaining about the incident, Trinder - a gold-level frequent flier who logs 200,000 miles a year with the airline - says he is told he will not be compensated and should just "get over it."     |
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 12/18/2007 10:34 pm |
These were good and interesting...but number 11 just blows my mind    Great post! Hugs   
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12/19/2007 11:44 am |
What is up with the airlines??!!?!  
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5/27/2008 5:14 am |
hiiiiii, i wanna fuck u my id youthvickey at the rate of rediffmail.com
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