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Yes, it's round, which doesn't sell well with male customers, but we can make it work! We just have to pitch it the right way. Click on the link to submit your own design idea, and then watch it be brutally rejected.
http://www.idee-ade.de/ (warning: auto-sound) -via Miss Cellania
Previously: The Stop Sign, If It Were Designed by Committee
You got there before me. Although my favourite line is: "Which is precisely the sort of thing we want to know! Do people WANT fire that can be fitted nasaly?"
"Ah," said the marketing girl, "well, we're having a little difficulty there."
"Difficulty?" exclaimed Ford. "Difficulty? What do you mean, difficulty? It's the single simplest machine in the entire Universe!"
The marketing girl soured him with a look. "All right Mr. Wiseguy," she said, "you're so clever, you tell us what color it should be."
- Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the end of the Universe