Guy, right? I mean, the Fall Guy was a bounty hunter who was a stunt man. rescue fiasco . So of course people were gonna be way down on the military. And then, David Sirota: But just to give you some context on that, I do agree with you. But
So you could be creative and not suck. It was a huge fiasco .
"Hey, they've taken away our reply-to-all." The second had to do with, "Here's the keystrokes you use to actually get reply-to-all." Now just imagine how much time that wasted and then the bad press picked it up and it was just a fiasco because what they really should have done, at least from my perception and use a new UI design, is they should have just separated the buttons if they were really worried because make the knowledge worker, make the user make a conscious thought, "Do I wanna hit reply-to-all all the way on the right or do I wanna just hit replay on the
They kind of auditioned me. And it was an absolute fiasco . There was this guy, a different director.
We had never done it we didn't know how the technology would work. Mercedes had a bit of a fiasco with a virtual reality idea during the Super Bowl, and for us, it turned out awesome. We had a million and a half people that came to our microsite.
flying up in a car they going to some film conferences a Chitty chitt Bang Bang or something and then they started talking about a fiasco with a faulty Peg which sent me off in a completely new Direction altogether anyway I finally when they started talking about the hs1 javelin realized they were actually train spotters and they were the most unlikely
And this was also around the time after the financial crisis, when the economy fell apart. I like to call it a financial fiasco , actually. So I was interviewing groups of dads.
He launched his first major treasure hunting expedition off to Cortes. And I was actually able to locate the reporter who went out with him on that journey and we talked about it. And it turned into just a complete fiasco . Their boat almost sank on several occasions. And they basically didn't find any treasure. But this was the start of Mel Fisher's career.
that first moment, the first video in your apartment. Well what happened as a result of the Motown Nickelback fiasco , or whatever you would call it, a lot of things happened. I started to realize that, by bringing singers in that are really talented and collaborating with them, that I could have a lot more success than I
They can't make enough bourbon. You guys have recently probably followed the Maker's Mark fiasco where they had to water down Maker's Mark in order to meet demand. And then they said no, no, no, we're not actually going to do that.
have the pleasure of introducing Thomas Rex um his previous book which I'm sure many of you are familiar with is called Fiasco the American Military Adventure in Iraq 20 3 to 2005 today he's going to be talking about his new work which is
Arabic um anti-military anti-American and a pacifist she became the adviser to General odierno now if you've read my book Fiasco um this is a shock General odero is one of the heroes of the gamble but he was one of the villains of fiasco when he commanded the fourth infantry
been attached to this project and was just banging my head against the desk. I couldn't find anybody. And then one day this package comes in the mail anonymously to me that contained a 60-page account that Kirkwood had written of his role in this fiasco . And it even included some really interesting film that I'm going to show you guys in a second. But we see that Kirkwood wrote, "The newspapers called it Abalonia, although I wanted to call it Lumeria
counterproductive tactics that his tactics were brutal and helped inflame the Insurgency well it so happened that Emma Sky uh had just read Fiasco when odierno called her up one day and offered her the job of being his political adviser and I wouldn't advise trying this in your own job interviews she said to him
And they were just like a cool band that I liked. Nice. And so, I think I saw Lupe Fiasco in there too?
the rules at half time. That's what you're up against. Unknown audience 2: Jesse: Right in, well other than that fiasco , unbelievable in Alaska where it worked, I have never, ever seen a write-in candidate ever win. But Alaska did give me a slight ray of hope cause it happened up there, but let's remember, those are Alaskans and there's not exactly as many of them as there are Californians or the rest of the country. Smaller numbers,
Now we should have the council become a deliberative body. If it was truly a deliberative body, as it should be, then I don't think we would have had the fiasco that we had with the meter lease in the City of Chicago. That was put together by the Mayor's Office. It was a plan. It was negotiated behind closed doors, put together and then presented to the City Council for a vote within a two day period; a 75 year lease where the city has given away its authority
General odierno now if you've read my book Fiasco um this is a shock General odero is one of the heroes of the gamble but he was one of the villains of fiasco when he commanded the fourth infantry division in Iraq in 2003 2004 not just me but a lot of people thought that he typified
We never really got it until now and by the way we now react differently towards bottled water." So the bumper sticker is: "Bottled water is for suckers." "Nowhere in history does the phrase 'selling ice to Eskimos' apply more aptly than to the bottled water fiasco , and not just because the analog to ice in this case is its melted counterpart. We Eskimos have been duped. 'There's gold in them thar hills' came the cry in the 1980s. Blue gold. Wait you're going to put dirtier, less palatable water in a bottle
take office. And of course, there was the whole Biden fiasco .
One geologist warned that the project would either be one of the “most rewarding scientific ventures ever carried out,” or a “foolish and unjustifiably expensive fiasco .”
About 10 to 15 years ago, I read this book by Frank Partnoy, it's called "Fiasco ," which talks about derivatives.
responsibility for some of the tough decisions that are ahead of us regarding budget cuts and as well as revenue decisions. Where's the money going to come from? David Lieber: Um-hum. So you mentioned privatization and that's obviously been a controversial subject whether it be with the parking meter fiasco or now with the festivals and the talk of privatizing those and even the Taste of Chicago. Do you think there is a role for privatization in the context of good governance?
Vic Gundotra: I think your point about, you know, with "The Tonight Show" fiasco , ended up one of the best things you could ever imagine happening to you.