"What the fuck were they thinking?!" moments

[EstimatedProphet]

Ponder upon this:

The single version of the song "We Built This City" by Starship reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 on November 16, 1985.

So what is your "What the fuck were they thinking?!" moment?

[terrya]

1. "Rocky" wins the 1976 Academy Award for Best Picture

In a year with such films as "Network" "Taxi Driver" and "The Conversation", the best picture of the year was...a run of the mill boxing movie. I still, to this day, don't understand that one.

But then again, this is the Academy Awards, so maybe I should expect this kind of thing.

[EstimatedProphet]

3. Along those lines...

Annie Hall won the Oscar in 1977, against Star Wars.

[Sanity Claws]

22. Annie Hall is a great film

It is one of my favorites of all time.
Star Wars was good too. Tastes differ.

[EstimatedProphet]

25. Annie Hall was a good film

Star Wars changed the face of cinema for 30 years.

[unpossibles]

46. not to mention the face of toy marketing for movies

and a whole generation's "youth culture" to be exploited at a later date.

:)

[LostinVA]

5. Driving Miss Daisy over Glory, etc.???

[racaulk]

13. And how about "Crash" over "Brokeback Mountain" for 2005?

I'm still upset over that one...

[Zavulon]

14. I never saw Brokeback, but

didn't think much of Crash. I find it hard to believe it was best picture of the MONTH of its release, much less a year.

[Mad_Dem_X]

58. Yep - I mentioned that below

Pissed me off somethin' fierce.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

23. The Conversation came out in 1974, actually.

But yes, I agree about Network and Taxi Driver.

[terrya]

37. Oops. You're right.

My bad.

[ghostsofgiants]

32. One word: Titanic.

[fishwax]

33. kramer vs. kramer over apocalypse now

[Tripper11]

2. 2000 and 2004 ELECTION????

Seems like a good one there!

[EstimatedProphet]

4. No argument

[BarenakedLady]

17. Hell's yeah!

:wtf:

[pagerbear]

19. Perhaps you mean to say SELECTION

[taterguy]

6. The Portland Trailblazers drafting Sam Bowie in 1984

I guess he was the best athlete available

[Spirochete]

55. Well, they had to

otherwise they probably would have got stuck with that Jordan guy. :eyes:

[CabalPowered]

7. Locating a new high school next to a new Walmart

One of many WTF were thinking moments at our city council.

[Inchworm]

28. odd- same thing happened here

Walmart was after the school though.

:shrug:

[guitar man]

8. 1969

Harley-Davidson merges with the American Machine and Foundry Company (AMF), a longtime producer of leisure products.

now that's a big :wtf:

[johnnie]

9. In my parent's neighborhood

They built a BJ's (superstore) next to a Dicks (sporting goods).

[racaulk]

10. HA HA HA HA!!!!

:rofl: :spray: :thumbsup:

That's classic!

[NewJeffCT]

11. In south Jersey

Not far from my ex-wife's family, there is a BJ's and a Dick's right next to each other as well. In addition to those two, there is a Seaman's furniture store in the same plaza.

So, BJ's, Dick's and Seaman's.

[volstork]

34. All they need is a Hooters

for a complete set!

[bumblebee1]

47. I wonder one thing:

How many drivers chuckle while driving past the same plaza?

[ironflange]

18. Kinda like here

There's a strip mall nearby with both a dog groomer, "Doggy Style," and a sex shop. For good measure, there's a chiropractor in between them, in case you aren't doing it right. I'll be in the area today, I'll get a pic.

[EstimatedProphet]

26. That is good!

[Critters2]

29. Hehehehe nt

[racaulk]

12. How "Full House" lasted on television for eight seasons

:wtf:

[underpants]

50. Alanis and "Uncle Joey"???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Coulier

Trivia
Coulier was alleged to be Alanis Morissette's first lover (they met at a hockey game) and is widely suspected to be the subject of her bitter song "You Oughta Know," though neither party will confirm this. (See <1>.)

[Zavulon]

15. Remaking the Pink Panther movie(s) with Steve Martin

I started to watch it on DVD and shut it off. Martin certainly has his good moments, but this was a catastrophe.

[Zavulon]

16. American Idol

A glorified karaoke contest with jerkoff judges features people doing bad jobs of singing bad songs, and yet half the country is mesmerized by this horseshit. WTF?

[leftofthedial]

20. Nixon twice, Raygun twice

king george stole it twice

[pagerbear]

21. This?

[bumblebee1]

49. Ah!!! Another drive-by chuckle moment. n/t

[sakabatou]

56. Godzilla (American)

[myrna minx]

24. When Reagan declared ketchup a vegetable. n/t

[Critters2]

27. Pope Ratzinger.

I'm still scratching my head.

[ironflange]

31. Vatch your ass!

http://kscakes.com.nyud.net:8080/LolCats/Uploads/Saved/you-vill-not-offend-der-panzerpope.jpg

(I love lolcat builder)

[Maccagirl]

30. Bill and Monica

Did they really believe no one would find out-especially since she practically took a newspaper ad out about it. What a self-absorbed, needy child/woman. Bill had to know his admin was over that November night in '95-self-destruction in it's most tragic form.

[marzipanni]

36. As Robin Williams said ...

men don't have enough blood supply to run a penis and a brain at the same time.

[Hand]

35. Trading Sammy Sosa. nt

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

48. What kind of brain-dead, drooling moron would do something like that?!

...go for it.

[Random_Australian]

38. Choosing pebble-bed nuclear reactors over ADS reactors.

One is an improved version of the normal reactor, the other one is basically fucking incredible, and you can guess which one they chose.

(Hint: It wasn't the one that can take the nuclear waste we have now and make it benign. It's not the one that generates no long-term nuclear waste, it's the one that has lower start-up costs. Bastards all.)

If someone wants to argue "no nuclear reactors is better" - be prepared for a sound thrashing, unless whatever proposal you offer can also perform nuclear incineration and actually rid us of the nuclear waste that is currently being thrown into the ocean.

That's my "What the fuck were they fucking thinking" moment....

[Yog Sothoth]

39. Big Rigs

[Richard Steele]

40. "New Coke" nm

[KitchenWitch]

54. That gets my vote.

[Mad_Dem_X]

41. "Crash" winning the Best Picture Oscar

over "Brokeback Mountain." :grr:

[Montauk6]

44. "Crash" even being NOMINATED! grrr....

[asthmaticeog]

42. Tommy Shaw, Jack Blades and Ted Nugent forming Damn Yankees.

:wtf:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

43. Make it necessary for 60% more people than before to apply for passports,

and at the same time, instituting outsourcing of payment processing--while hiring only 275 more people nationwide.

A big booby prize for the Harvard MBA (Bush), the member of corporate boards (Secretary of State Rice), and the highly efficient manager of death squads (Assistant Secretary of State Negroponte).

[Montauk6]

45. Tommy Lee Jones beating out Ralph Fiennes for the Oscar still befuddles me

[underpants]

51. Gossett getting to keep his Oscar AFTER Ermey's "Full Metal"

:shrug:

[FloridaJudy]

52. Jet skis

Hey, let's build a product that pollutes, shatters ear drums, destroys coral reefs, and has absolutely no practical purpose whatsoever!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

53. This was the logo of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies at a Brazilian university:

It's been yanked from the University's site since, but it's all over the internets. And I can guarantee you it's REAL.

http://media.dl.matrixau.net/etc/www.cfh.ufsc.br/

[NewJeffCT]

57. Jar Jar Binks

'nuff said.

[NewJeffCT]

59. When George Lucas changed The Force

from a mysterious invisible thing that some could interpret as God (and the devil for The Dark Side) to something defined by one's midichlorian count.