The winners for prognostication have to be American automakers.
Fuel-efficient vehicles? Who’d buy one of those? Hey, here’s a giant pickup! HEMI!!!
The marketing was screwy, for sure, but have you ever been on one? It’s so much fun. And convenient. And versatile. And goofy-cool.
Next job, I am definitely getting one.
How is this is easier than typing a URL? You don’t necessarily even have to type the www and the .com parts[sup]1[/sup]. Also, the only person I know who even tried to install the drivers crashed her computer quite thoroughly. POS, and I don’t mean Point of Sale.
[sup]1[/sup] Don’t try this with whitehouse - the real domain is whitehouse.gov .
“So…I can eat all the potato chips I want and I won’t get fat…but I’ll shit my pants?”
Oh, I forgot to mention:
Windows Vista
I knew it would tank.
I’m like InvisibleWombat. If I pronounce it horrible, it’ll take off and be the next coolest thing EVER. So it went with a certain type of shoes. I saw a picture of them on the internet about a year before they hit it big … I think a bunch of pro football players were wearing them. I hooted. “Nobody would every buy and wear something as ugly as that!!”
Crocs.
I still think the iPod won’t catch on.
Hey, I still can’t believe it.
ET glowing fingers were never going to sell as a kids toy, because every adult would think glowing dildo. Parents didn’t buy the glowing fingers for their kids to play with, even after drastic clearance pricing. It was on of those things we had to destroy and put in the dumpster.
I’m pretty good at guessing which computer games that are massively hyped up will actually get lousy reviews and tank.
When I saw the first announcements of it, I kept thinking “Why?”
I was a serious Treo user, but I couldn’t see why I would need such a device to compliment my Treo. One more thing to carry around. It died a quick death.
Princess Diana collectible plates.
People suck.
A FOAF wrote a song that he promised, PROMISED was going to be the biggest hit the world had ever heard. He was going to get filthy rich from the royalties. It was timely, relevant, and healthful.
This was in the days when AIDS was a pretty new scare. The song was about how it was a good thing to use condoms.
“My mama always told me, to wear a raincoat, outsiiiiiide.”
Aside from the crappy lyrics, the horrible melody, and the beat you couldn’t dance to, it was, all in all, still a pretty sucky tune.
I guarantee you’ve never heard it.
Is he the kind of guy that if you ask him about it today will still insist that it was brilliant but some big wig in the industry who knows nothing about music blocked it from going big?
Years ago I was working at the Super 8 Motel in Beach Flats…the one that is right across the street from the other Super 8, and I mused that the only thing anyone ever seemed to want to eat at the UCSC dining halls was the cereal. Couldn’t figure out why they were spending their thousands-of-dollars meal plan on Fruity Pebbles. I then thought I should one day open a restaurant that served only cereal and expensive add-ons - something that would cater to the hipster regressive crowd.
We live in a strange world.
You know, that reminds me… about five years ago when the first “Hulk” movie came out, I remember seeing these Hulk “Smashing Fists” in the toy department at Target. I guess kids put them on their hands and smash them together and they make some kind of noise. I thought it was a really stupid idea and wondered who would buy such a thing. Fast forward to this summer and a new Hulk movie, and guess what I saw in the toy department at Target? I seriously wonder if they made a new Hulk movie just to move the merchandise that didn’t sell after the last one.
I didn’t get to know him enough to say. I’m hoping that he’s since gotten a clue.
It does remind me of the “pink toe shoes” story, though. Someone I know was in group therapy pink toe shoes woman. Said woman always brought her ballet slippers to therapy, and constantly remarked about how if it weren’t for her father’s abuse, she would have been a top ballerina. Her shoes showed no sign of wear, and she had the physique of a moose.
The Mall of America used to have a minor attraction called Cereal Adventure which was sponsored by General Mills since they are headquartered here. They had a “Cereal Bar” that was adjacent to one of the malls food courts.
I don’t think I ever saw anyone eating there.
Doesn’t necessarily mean anything. I don’t know UCSC, but at some schools, the reason to get a meal plan is that everyone living on campus is required to buy one, and the reason to use the meal plan to get cereal is that it’s the only thing that’s remotely edible.