Let Me See...

The Fat Guys have tough decisions to make every day. Things like what time to get up(since they don't work), what's for breakfast, what's for midmorning snack, what's for late-mid morning snack, what's for lunch... you get the idea. While some of these decisions may be perplexing to us, others have had to make much tougher decisions, and they haven't always exactly worked out. Here are ten examples:

“Let me see if I’ve got this straight…”

CEO of Coca Cola:  "Let me see if I've got this straight...you want to take the most commercially successful soft drink product with the greatest name recognition in the retail world and completely change the formula? Sounds good to me!"


Landlord of Lee Harvey Oswald, transporting him to work at the Texas School Book Depository on November 22, 1963:  "Let me see if I've got this straight...You've got curtain rods in that brown paper package, and you're taking them with you to work today at the warehouse, where you will have absolutely no use for them at all?  OK, get in!"


DECCA Records A&R Department Head to The Beatles manager after audition:  "Let me see if I've got this straight...Two guitars, an electric bass, and a drum...That's it? And that hair!   Sorry, I don't think so.”

San Diego Chargers Draft War Room, 1998:  "Let me see if I've got this straight...Fred Taylor, Randy Moss, and Hines Ward are available, but you guys just have a gut feeling about this Ryan Leaf kid?   Let’s do it.”

Marketing director of M&M Mars - to the producers of, E.T. The Extraterrestrial:  "Let me see if I've got this straight...you want a product placement of M &M’s in a movie about a three foot tall alien who only wants to get back home? We’ll Pass”

McDonalds Product Development Team:   "Let me see if I've got this straight...we’ve got $100M set aside to develop a new product and you want to try a low fat burger made of seaweed extract and call it a McLean Deluxe?...A Healthy Burger?  Let’s get started, I don’t see how it can miss.”

Richard Nixon to Chief Advisors:  "Let me see if I've got this straight...we’ve got the re-nomination sewed up, and there isn’t a viable Democrat to possibly challenge us in November, but you want to go ahead and bug the Democratic National Headquarters?  Ah, what could it hurt”?

Red Sox Manager John McNamara; Game 6, 1986 World Series: “Let me see if I’ve got this straight…we’re three outs away from winning the World Series and you want me to put defensive replacement Dave Stapleton in for Billy Buckner to protect our 2-run lead, just because Buckner is hobbled and I’ve done it all year? I won’t do that to Billy Buck or the Red Sox fans”!

Actor Jerry Van Dyke; 1964: “Let me see if I’ve got this straight… You want me to accept the role of Gilligan on a preposterous sounding show like Gilligan’s Island? Thanks, but no thanks! I’m holding out for a show called My Mother the Car, people will be talking about it for the next 50 years”!

Monsanto Executives - inventors of Astroturf in 1964:  "Let me see if I’ve got this straight..You want to lay antimicrobial protection, rubber fill-in backing and nylon yarn fibers and put it on top of concrete and play football and baseball on it. No mowing, no lawn maintenance. It sounds too good to be true! We'll put it in every stadium in America".