Amusingly Bad Ideas

[kib]

Cathy's Plunger Christmas Trees. An Amusingly Bad Idea.

I'm sitting here and the ice cream truck is on the corner. Yes, in Tucson it's apparently still ice cream season. What's amusingly bad is that this dude has chosen for his theme music first the opening bars of Fur Elise, and then the opening bars of Greensleeves. A more mournful dirge for ice cream I cannot imagine, I envision kids dressed in black veils trudging solemnly behind the van, perhaps holding boxes of ashes to sprinkle. What did they call this particular carillon choice, The Demise Of Mr. Softee? :(

Anyone else notice a particularly bad product or marketing idea out there lately??

[catherine]

LOL, kib.. I can't imagine Fur Elise being the ice cream man song! That's hilarious. Maybe they sell meat pies to the tune of Sweeny Todd, too!

I'm a big Shark Tank fan, and the Sharks couldn't stop laughing at this one--a cure for bed head called Morninghead.

http://www.morninghead.com/#video-1

The guy did NOT get an investment.

[Packy]

Well, Okay: Former "Home Alone Kid" and slightly odd adult Macauley Culkin has formed a "rock band". They play covers of another so-called rock band, the also-slightly-odd "Velvet Underground". Only, they have given the songs lyric-reassignment surgery, by changing them to ones with Pizza themes. How do you kids like that? Last May in England, where weirdness is as much a staple as it is in places such as California & Florida, they were booed offstage, with beer being thrown at them! Wow. Sounds like Culkins' idea to reinvent himself as a Rock Star using Pizza was a colossally Bad Idea. Thankk Mee. Edited to add: Since I am a psych-O-logist, I have assessed McCulkin's personality, and developed an explanation for his behavior: He is trying to relive his lost youth, with an extended one, by attempting to emulate having a "normally dysfunctional" one. At least by poor little rich kid standards. He has really CHEAP apartment in Manhattan($2 million), that is a slobby batchelor pad, and of course his roomies and bandmates to keep things lively. See?

[iris lilies]

... Maybe they sell meat pies to the tune of Sweeny Todd, too!

http://www.morninghead.com/#video-1



that made me snort-laugh.

[CathyA]

Cathy's Plunger Christmas Trees. An Amusingly Bad Idea.

I'm sitting here and the ice cream truck is on the corner. Yes, in Tucson it's apparently still ice cream season. What's amusingly bad is that this dude has chosen for his theme music first the opening bars of Fur Elise, and then the opening bars of Greensleeves. A more mournful dirge for ice cream I cannot imagine, I envision kids dressed in black veils trudging solemnly behind the van, perhaps holding boxes of ashes to sprinkle. What did they call this particular carillon choice, The Demise Of Mr. Softee? :(

Anyone else notice a particularly bad product or marketing idea out there lately??

LOL! What was he thinking??!

[kib]

LOL, kib.. I can't imagine Fur Elise being the ice cream man song! That's hilarious. Maybe they sell meat pies to the tune of Sweeny Todd, too!

I'm a big Shark Tank fan, and the Sharks couldn't stop laughing at this one--a cure for bed head called Morninghead.

http://www.morninghead.com/#video-1




The guy did NOT get an investment. "ask your girlfriend or boyfriend to give you morning head." oh my yes, there's a good marketing slogan.

[kib]

Well, Okay: Former "Home Alone Kid" and slightly odd adult Macauley Culkin has formed a "rock band". They play covers of another so-called rock band, the also-slightly-odd "Velvet Underground". Only, they have given the songs lyric-reassignment surgery, by changing them to ones with Pizza themes. How do you kids like that? Last May in England, where weirdness is as much a staple as it is in places such as California & Florida, they were booed offstage, with beer being thrown at them! Wow. Sounds like Culkins' idea to reinvent himself as a Rock Star using Pizza was a colossally Bad Idea. Thankk Mee. Edited to add: Since I am a psych-O-logist, I have assessed McCulkin's personality, and developed an explanation for his behavior: He is trying to relive his lost youth, with an extended one, by attempting to emulate having a "normally dysfunctional" one. At least by poor little rich kid standards. He has really CHEAP apartment in Manhattan($2 million), that is a slobby batchelor pad, and of course his roomies and bandmates to keep things lively. See?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2PmXRi1yfA

holy hell. Maybe they should have tried Fur Elise. Dadada duh da duh duh, duh duh duh pizza, duh duh duh pizza, duuuuhhh ... dadada duh da duh ...

What child, is this, who eats pizza, on Christmas ...

[Lainey]

I went to a pro baseball game and the song that one of the hitters asked to have played when he comes up to bat:
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." gee, that's gonna get everyone pumped up !?

[Packy]

I went to a pro baseball game and the song that one of the hitters asked to have played when he comes up to bat:
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." gee, that's gonna get everyone pumped up !? "Sundown" would be better, with it's bass and beat and guitar.

[JaneV2.0]

Privatizing Washington State liquor sales.

You used to be able to browse a quiet, well-stocked liquor store, take your time, and pay a reasonable amount--picking out a couple of individual serving bottles on the way out. Now you get to choose your overpriced alcohol from behind locked cabinet doors, and you had better move fast in case the clerk with the key had better things to do than to enable your habit. And individual sized bottles are apparently a thing of the past.

Real good idea--take an idea that worked, add a generous layer of retail profit, a bank of locked cabinets, and watch half your market head to Oregon to buy their booze. Glad I wasn't much of a drinker. They seem to be using the same model for marijuana, so I guess street dealers have nothing to fear.

ETA: I guess that wasn't exactly an amusingly bad idea. But it was a bad idea. :devil:

[Gregg]

The Steering Wheel Table (http://www.brookstone.com/autoexec-wheelmate-steering-wheel-desk?bkeid=compare|mercent|googlebaseads|search&mr:trackingCode=1760FC9E-590D-E211-BFCC-001B21A69EB0&mr:referralID=NA&mr:device=c&mr:adType=pla&mr:ad=50901997164&mr:keyword=&mr:match=&mr:filter=50609112295&gclid=CNTA3dPL8sECFTKCMgodCEIAsQ) is a candidate in my world. "Convert your steering wheel into an ergonomic work surface for writing, light computing, or just taking a lunch break." Mmmm, yea. Guessing a lot of buyers will hunt for efficiency by combining all of the above with their commute. Won't be pretty when the quadruple big gulp is sitting next to the report they just printed out (from the CD player add on). Driving: its not just for make-up any more.

[Gregg]

"ask your girlfriend or boyfriend to give you morning head." oh my yes, there's a good marketing slogan.

We both snorted at that, but I think her's was a snort of contempt.

[CathyA]

The Steering Wheel Table (http://www.brookstone.com/autoexec-wheelmate-steering-wheel-desk?bkeid=compare|mercent|googlebaseads|search&mr:trackingCode=1760FC9E-590D-E211-BFCC-001B21A69EB0&mr:referralID=NA&mr:device=c&mr:adType=pla&mr:ad=50901997164&mr:keyword=&mr:match=&mr:filter=50609112295&gclid=CNTA3dPL8sECFTKCMgodCEIAsQ) is a candidate in my world. "Convert your steering wheel into an ergonomic work surface for writing, light computing, or just taking a lunch break." Mmmm, yea. Guessing a lot of buyers will hunt for efficiency by combining all of the above with their commute. Won't be pretty when the quadruple big gulp is sitting next to the report they just printed out (from the CD player add on). Driving: its not just for make-up any more.

It could double for a Heimlich maneuver if you start to choke on your lunch........but you'd have to start up the car and make it go fast, then slam on your brakes. :~)

[ToomuchStuff]

The Steering Wheel Table (http://www.brookstone.com/autoexec-wheelmate-steering-wheel-desk?bkeid=compare|mercent|googlebaseads|search&mr:trackingCode=1760FC9E-590D-E211-BFCC-001B21A69EB0&mr:referralID=NA&mr:device=c&mr:adType=pla&mr:ad=50901997164&mr:keyword=&mr:match=&mr:filter=50609112295&gclid=CNTA3dPL8sECFTKCMgodCEIAsQ) is a candidate in my world. "Convert your steering wheel into an ergonomic work surface for writing, light computing, or just taking a lunch break." Mmmm, yea. Guessing a lot of buyers will hunt for efficiency by combining all of the above with their commute. Won't be pretty when the quadruple big gulp is sitting next to the report they just printed out (from the CD player add on). Driving: its not just for make-up any more.

Before Amazon made some changes involving photographs, that was one of the funniest spoof reviewed products, with ton's of pileup pictures.
Some products I think are there, just to make one laugh.

[JaneV2.0]

The Steering Wheel Table (http://www.brookstone.com/autoexec-wheelmate-steering-wheel-desk?bkeid=compare|mercent|googlebaseads|search&mr:trackingCode=1760FC9E-590D-E211-BFCC-001B21A69EB0&mr:referralID=NA&mr:device=c&mr:adType=pla&mr:ad=50901997164&mr:keyword=&mr:match=&mr:filter=50609112295&gclid=CNTA3dPL8sECFTKCMgodCEIAsQ) is a candidate in my world. "Convert your steering wheel into an ergonomic work surface for writing, light computing, or just taking a lunch break." Mmmm, yea. Guessing a lot of buyers will hunt for efficiency by combining all of the above with their commute. Won't be pretty when the quadruple big gulp is sitting next to the report they just printed out (from the CD player add on). Driving: its not just for make-up any more.

Or nose-picking!

[Gardenarian]

The funniest Amazon product reviews:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1001250201

(Don't read while you're supposed to be working - dangerously funny :)