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Old Jun 8th, 2017, 02:28 PM
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Museum of Failure Opens in Sweden
http://museumoffailure.se/

Helsingorborg, Sweden -just a short ferry ride across the water from Helsingor, Denmark and Hamlet's Castle there.
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Old Jun 8th, 2017, 03:09 PM
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And yet, Marxism isn't listed in the exhibits.
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Old Jun 8th, 2017, 03:17 PM
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I fail to see the raison-d'etre of such a museum.
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Old Jun 8th, 2017, 03:25 PM
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It doesn't seem any weirder than the Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb.
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Do you think it will succeed?
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Do you think it will succeed?>

Or will it live up to its name? May get day-trippers from Denmark but otherwise Helsingorborg is unremarkable for the foreign tourist.
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<i>I fail to see the raison-d'etre of such a museum.</i>

Failure is more interesting than success.
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My DH plans to visit this museum on his yearly trip to Sweden, next month...I appreciate the post.
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What's a paradox? If the Museum of Failure is a success...
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Maybe our UK election should be featured...
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Old Jun 9th, 2017, 12:44 PM
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A wax figure of May waxing nostalgic about his previous majority?
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His?
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Old Jun 9th, 2017, 01:37 PM
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Oops - mind failed me-again.
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Old Jun 9th, 2017, 02:31 PM
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Actually it was a Freudian slip! Same with Maggie Thatcher.
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Here is the Incomplete Book of Failures published in 1979.

https://www.amazon.com/Incomplete-Bo.../dp/0525475893
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Ironic or moronic that IMD would post that!

(jess kidding!)
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>>> Do you think it will succeed? >>>

he he
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>>> Do you think it will succeed? >>>

I fail to see the humor in that.
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Com'on Pal, at least make the insults funny.
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Old Jun 10th, 2017, 10:27 AM
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Com'on Pal, at least make the insults funny.>

We have here a failure of communication?
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