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Doug
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posted 30 January 2004 04:39 PM      Profile for Doug   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
http://www.business2.com/b2/web/dumbest/1

Business 2.0 has come out with its 2004 list of the 101 dumbest incidents in the world of business this year. There's even a Canadian one:

"In Canada, General Motors is forced to come up with a new name for its Buick LaCrosse sedan after discovering that crosse is a slang term for masturbation in Quebec."

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Michelle
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posted 30 January 2004 04:58 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Haha! File that under "N" for "Nova".
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Jacob Two-Two
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posted 30 January 2004 05:49 PM      Profile for Jacob Two-Two     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Can't you just see the ad campaign? Good lookin' guy cruisin' down an adventurous looking highway, very conspicuously driving with one hand.
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Mr. Magoo
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posted 30 January 2004 05:53 PM      Profile for Mr. Magoo   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I'm thinking, give it a week to appear or not appear on Snopes.

Here's their debunking of the Chevrolet Nova myth.

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Agent 204
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posted 30 January 2004 08:13 PM      Profile for Agent 204   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I've seen that too. Almost impossible to get some people to believe it's not true, but I think Snopes is a fairly trustworthy site (notwithstanding the rumour that they once started one). I wonder if the LaCroisse story, which is (apparently) true will take off in the same way as the apocryphal Nova story?
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