Thursday, May 21, 2020

Small businesses that didn't quite cut it


Admiral Richard Byrd was not only a famous explorer but also an entrepreneur. In his many travels in the Arctic he fell in love with the landscape and it's people. He just knew one thing was missing. Sex.

So he opened a string of Eskimo massage parlors to offer a happy ending to intrepid explorers on their way to the pole so to speak.

Unfortunately due to his foot fetish the Inuit maidens would not show their baby seals and would only offer release with their feet.

He went bankrupt in the first year.

(Small Businesses That Didn't Quite Cut It by Doris Kearns Goodwin)

2 comments:

chickelit said...

You're forgetting the Byrd was actually a Rear Admiral and spend more time down under than on top of the world. He tried to sell emperor penguins to other Antarctic explorers, thinking were just the right size, shape, and texture to be living love dolls. Unfortunately that business failed too.

ampersand said...

"Eat My Blubber" - Land O Ice Maiden