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#121
04-06-2007, 01:44 PM
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Re: Biggest consumable flop
No love for Burger King's attempt at in-house dining w/ popcorn, dinner baskets, and having a minimum wage worker deliver your food to you?
It was advertised as BKTV, with Dan Cortese. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BK_Tee_Vee 
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#122
04-06-2007, 01:48 PM
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Re: Biggest consumable flop
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I'm one of the eight or so people who actually enjoyed Crystal Pepsi. [/ QUOTE ] [/ QUOTE ] I really liked it as well. [/ QUOTE ] Me too. And Pringles were a bigger 'flop' than just about anything. They were supposed to revolutionize the potato chip industry and put every other brand out of business. [no joke.] [/ QUOTE ] There are Pringles in my pantry right now. I don't like them, but I don't think they're that much of a flop.
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#123
04-06-2007, 01:48 PM
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Re: Biggest consumable flop
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I'm one of the eight or so people who actually enjoyed Crystal Pepsi. [/ QUOTE ] [/ QUOTE ] I really liked it as well. [/ QUOTE ] Me too. And Pringles were a bigger 'flop' than just about anything. They were supposed to revolutionize the potato chip industry and put every other brand out of business. [no joke.] [/ QUOTE ] What? Were they talking about the Pringles themselves or the packaging? Because the packaging became really [censored] annoying once my hand got too big to fit in that damn tube. BTW, I just looked it up. Pringles have $1.5 Billion is sales each year. I don't care if their original plan was to take over the industry, that's no flop.
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#124
04-06-2007, 01:53 PM
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As a toddler you were aware of market trends and patterns and now all you've made of yourself is being a guy aruging on a message board? This is like if Doogie Hauser ended up as a homosexual. [/ QUOTE ] FYP
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#125
04-06-2007, 01:54 PM
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Re: Biggest consumable flop
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the Lisa ftw. [/ QUOTE ] I don't know if you've read it, but I read the story of the Lisa in this book and I've never viewed Steve Jobs the same way since. IIRC correctly the book says Jobs exiled the Mac team to a trailer in favor of his prized Lisa team, and then jumped back on the Mac bandwagon the last second when even he could see how much more successful it would be. I think Apple hates this book and says it's all inaccurate, and I have no idea who is right. 
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#128
04-06-2007, 03:28 PM
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 [/ QUOTE ] Wasn't the McDLT very popular? I thought that they just canned the idea becasue they were catching so much heat from environmentalists due to the ridiculous amount of styrofoam packaging. They were delicious btw for anyone who never had one... I would like to submit: 
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#129
04-06-2007, 03:38 PM
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Re: Biggest consumable flop
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I would like to submit: [/ QUOTE ] I'm fairly certain that ambiguous sexuality was a hit for a number of years, actually.
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#130
04-06-2007, 03:47 PM
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Re: Biggest consumable flop
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[ QUOTE ] ]Good topic. I'm 28 years old and can vividly remember a time when it was standard to find an 8 track player in a car. Just because they were crappy doesn't mean they were a flop. [/ QUOTE ] I gotta call you out on this. Unless your memory is isolated to an old buick your family owned, your statement is false. In the early 80's an 8 track would be viewed as more of an oddity than "standard". [/ QUOTE ] Your argument is awful. That is basically like saying that it would be odd to find a car with a cassette player in it right now. Not everyone is driving around in brand new cars. Any way you try to spin it, 8 tracks were once everywhere and in no way shape or form were they a flop.
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