Monday, November 23, 2009

World's Biggest Flops-- Part 9

10 The SYMBOL NAME formerly used by the artist formerly known as Prince. (Formerly, formerly, formerly a hit-maker, but no more.)


9. SUSAN B. ANTHONY ONE-DOLLAR COIN-- (1979-1981)-- Tens of millions never left US Treasury vaults. (Make it look like a silver dollar, not a quarter.)


8. WEBVAN.COM-- (1999-2001) Online grocery service crashed within 18 months of raising $375 million in an IPO. (Poor, poor investors.)


7. PAPER CLOTHING (1960s)-- Must have been a hippie or green thing.)


6. MICHELLE PHILLIPS-DENNIS HOPPER-- (1970) She was the second of his five wivws; he her second of five husbands. The Mamas and Papas singer later recalled her marriage with the Easy Rider star as "the happiest eight days of my life. (Dennis Hopper, the corporate sell-out.)

Five More to Go. --DaCoot

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