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8 Milton Friedman declined to comment.
In October, employees at a floundering car plant in Romania announce that they've arrived at a method to erase the company's $20 million debt: Donate their sperm and give the proceeds to their employer. One report estimates that each employee would have to, er, donate to the cause 400 times. "[Management] told us to come up with a solution," says a union spokesperson. "Now we've found one that even the best economists never thought of."

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87 Among its target audience, of course, the line between "date" and "prostitute" does tend to blur.

E-ECAD, a provider of electronic design automation software, takes out an ad on a Silicon Valley billboard that uses pictures of female archetypes to explain its three payment options: hourly (a prostitute), term (a girlfriend), and perpetual (a bride). After it comes under fire, the company puts out a press release explaining that the hourly woman -- wearing thigh-high red boots and a miniskirt -- wasn't a prostitute but rather a "date."

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69 Apparently "Sure, I'm being exploited -- but at least now I can get me a quart of Mad Dog 20/20" didn't test well.

In May, Denver ad firm Sumaato receives complaints from homeless advocates after it hands out signs to area panhandlers in an effort to promote its services. The signs read "At Least I'm Not Spamming Your E-Mail" and "Hell, It Beats a Cubicle."

Class.

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29 OK, for the last time. James Earl Jones: much-admired actor. James Earl Ray: much-despised assassin. Got it?
To honor James Earl Jones at a Martin Luther King Day event, the city of Lauderhill, Fla., commissions Texas-based Merit Industries to create a plaque featuring stamps of black Americans. It reads, "Thank you James Earl Ray for keeping the dream alive."

This slip up was too funny. I love it.

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