100 of the worst ideas in history: humanity's thundering brainstorms turned blundering brain farts
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INTRODUCTION: WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?
ix
WHOPPING HISTORICAL FOUL-UPS AND FAUX PAS
1
The President s Scandalous Em-Bare-Ass-Ment
2
Why Is Dumbo Wearing Hiking Boots?
. 4
A Confused Chauffeur Starts a World War
6
The Great Leap Forward Falls on Its Face
8
Pay Me Now or I ll Splay You Later
ю
Tippecanoe and
Prez
for a Month Too
12
Friday the 13th: The Original Horror Story
14
Preventing 9/11 Could Have Been an Open-and-Shut Case
16
The Assassin s Gunshot That Backfires Big Time
18
Sure, He Was a Murdering Marauder, but At Least We Get a Day Off
20
By George, That Library Book Is
80,665
Davs Late 22
Bones of Contention
Pilt
on a Lie
24
If You re
Anti-
Nuke, This Will Really Hit Your Hot Button
26
The Midnight Walk of Paul Revere
28
Captured Slave Ship Sets the Abolitionist Movement Free
30
ENTERTAINERS WITH STARS IN THEIR EYES (AND ROCKS IN THEIR HEADS)
33
How to Lip-Sink a Music Career
, 34
E.T. s Mission to Mars Aborted
36
G-Men Go Screwy Screwy over Louie Louie
38
Remember the Dorks, Luke
40
Don t
Tase
Me,
Bro
—
(and Don t Sing to Me Either)
42
Britney Bares All
44
Look, Dear, Charlie Chaplin Dropped By for a Sleepover
46
Smokey, Not Stirred
48
Capone s Treasure Turns into Trash TV
50
Dinosaur Helps Bring Actor s Finances to the Brink of Extinction
52
Pete Does His Best to Avoid the Long and Winding Road to Superstardom
54
Raiders of the Lost Part
56
Ted Danson s
Minstrel Cramp
58
Snuff Daddy s Greatest Hit
60
Cousin Eddie Checks In, but He Doesn t Check Out
62
Dr. Dude Little
64
More of the Best of the Worst: Fail to the Chief: Five of the Worst Ideas in
Presidential History
66
INEPT INVENTIONS, PITIFUL PRODUCTS, AND SENSELESS SERVICES
71
The Butt of a Fat Joke
72
A Killer Idea for Saving Lives
74
The Pinhead Inventor Who Never Got the Point
76
OctoBomb
78
They Bet on the Ponies and Lost
80
This Game Really Sticks Out in Your Mind
82
A Dumb Way to Test How Smart You Are
84
Racially Insensitive Restaurant Serves Up a Side of Controversy
86
New Coke s Product Launch Goes from Fizzy to Flat
88
The Pubic Hairpiece
90
WD-528,000,000,000
92
»OLITICALLY INCORRECT
POLITICOS
95
Monkey Business Sinks a Presidential Campaign
96
Tape Creates a Sticky Situation for Tricky Dick
98
The Grand High Exalted Hoo-Hah of the United States
100
A Turkey of an Idea Gets Plucked
102
Mail to the Chief
104
The Bridge to Nowhere
106
Make Your Meeting or Else Meet Your Maker
108
For Whom the City of Bell Tolls no
The President Gives America the Finger
112
Read My Lips: No New Taxes (Until I Change My Mind)
114
Pay No Attention to That Exploding Mountain
—
Just Vote for Me
116
Pol Pays a Hooker by Check and Really Gets Screwed
118
This Is How I Look
—
and I m Not Making It Up
120
More of the Best of the Worst: Ten of the Worst Movie Ideas in History
122
STUPIDITY AT A MAJOR-LEAGUE LEVEL
129
The Bambino s Curse on the Beantown Bombers
130
Fourth Down and
70
Million to Go
132
The Heavyweight Chomping-On of the World
134
Out of the Park? Out of the Question
136
Dopey Cyclist Pedals a Pack of Lies
138
A Multimillion-Dollar Career Goes to the Dogs
140
Disco Inferno Singes the White Sox
142
Not a Guy You Want to Neck With
144
WAR STRATEGIES THAT BOMBED
147
We
Qaeda
Sorta
Attacked the Wrong Country
148
A Single Torpedo Sinks the German Ship of State
150
The Double Agent Who Double-Crossed
der Führer 152
Invade Russia in the Winter? Snow Way!
154
A Military Strategy That s Dead On
156
You Better Watch Out, You Better Not Cry, You Better Read Your Mail, I m
Telling You Why: Sneaky George Is Coming to Town
158
Caesar s Fiery Battle Tactics Leave Historians Burning Mad
160
America s Best General Gets a Slap in the Face
162
More of the Best of the Worst: Fashion Frock-Ups: Pick Your Favorite Worst
Ideas for Under-, Outer-, Foot-, and Headwear
164
A HEALTHY DOSE OF DUMB
167
Hats Off to the World s Maddest Profession
168
Help Yourself to a Steaming Cup of Influenza
170
A Dental Care Product That Could Rot Your Teeth
172
Lincoln s Mercury Dealers Nearly Drive the President Crazy
174
The Hippocratic Cure Only
Dracula
Could Love
176
Ignorance Is Dr. Bliss
178
The Dental Amalgam That Might Have You Feeling Down in the Mouth
180
IN THE NEWS AND OUT OF THEIR MINDS
183
Balloon Boy Floats a Story Full of Hot Air
184
India s Roll of the Dice Comes Up an Unlucky Sevin
186
Eight Is More Than Enough
188
Y2K
Is A-OK
190
The London Big Mac Smackdown
192
Cattlemen s Beef with Oprah Needs More Cowbell
194
Bernie
Made-Off
with Their Money
196
Break Glass and Get Thirty Years of Bad Luck
198
More of the Best of the Worst: What the Flock Were They Thinking?
Straight, Not-So-Straight, and Crooked Preachers
200
STINKY THINKING FROM AIR, LAND, AND SEA
205
Test-Drive the Luxurious New Ford Lemon Sucker
206
I Can Stop This Train—and I m Not Just Yanking Your Chain
208
Oh, the Stupidity!
210
Holy
Schettino,
How Did That Guy Become a Captain?
212
They Sing the Body Electric, Then Hummer a Different Tune
214
A Horseless Carriage of a Different Color?
216
Uncool at Any Speed
218
Blind Ambition Meets Highway Robbery
220
The Worst of the Worst: Hook, Line, and Sinker: The Titanic; One Bad
Idea Begets Four Others
. 222
MAD SCIENTISTS AND THE MONSTERS THEY CREATE
225
Mr. Cane Toad s Wild Rise
226
These Dudes Must Have Been High When They Made This Weed Deal
228
Oilpocalypse Now
230
Attack of the Frankenfish
232
The Pesticide That Commits Homicide
234
More of the Best of the Worst: Bad Ideas Gone Good
236
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
239
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
240
BIBLIOGRAPHY
241
INDEX
270
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