For a moment of panic, a daft notion, a stupid indulgence in bluster and bravado.
That's a bit more myth of course, because the Possum was just as capable of recording a daft novelty song or a foot-stomping slab of honky-tonk.
You need to go back to 2011, to shortly before the Qwikster debacle (when Netflix said it would split its DVD and streaming service, a daft move that lost nearly a million customers).
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He also brought on Chris Daft, a VP who had worked at a number of companies Bill had previously funded.
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Mr Daft deserves a cautious thumbs-up for what he has done so far, but he knows the real test is about to begin.
He may not propose anything as daft as a 75% tax, but neither is he offering the radical reforms or the structural downsizing of spending that France needs.
Sir Bobby Robson claimed Gazza was as "daft as a brush" and his immature behaviour and naivety was excused because it was seen as central to his desire to be the subject of the attention and affection he craved.
"Our management's determination to change to the preferred method of accounting for employee stock options ensures that our earnings will more clearly reflect economic reality when all compensation costs are recorded in the financial statements, " said Coca-Cola Chairman and Chief Executive Douglas Daft in a statement.
Severed-foot disposal in a pocket biosphere is really a daft problem, one I hope you never need face, love.
Par for the course from us this season has been to play well, give away a daft goal, and then come back from it.
Asked what would be the most important thing that Brazil's new president could offer her family, Mrs Vieira clearly thinks it is a daft question.
Kevin Sanders, founder of the Daft Club, a London fan site, says he started seeing so much helmet-hawking in discussion forums that he created a special page where buyers and sellers could connect.
I'm also expecting a decent cup run this season (for no other reason than the fact we're overdue one) and, if you're looking for a daft bet, what about Well skipper and BBC pundit Stephen Craigan to win the European Golden Shoe thanks purely to own-goals?
Moreover, as the consultants acknowledge, planning constraints are not always daft: Britain is a smallish, crowded island.
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But when Spielberg does the story realistically, with scenes of butchery and mud, it seems trivial, even a little daft: the war stops, the armies and the trenches and the hospitals are stilled, so that the boy and the animal can find each other.
Mr Daft does not look like a man under pressure there are no signs of the amiability wearing thin.
Over the past three months, a small team led by Daft Punk (Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo) and manager Paul Hahn has orchestrated a drip-feed marketing campaign that has left almost everything about the album up to the imagination.
In a humiliating blow for Daft, they called the deal too expensive.
On an Erok-run night expect to hear everything from Daft Punk, Calvin Harris, A-Trak and Lykke Li to Sam Young, Jesse Marco and Jupiter Jazz.
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With his shock of black hair and daft story about trying to fry a jelly when his housekeeper was away, he was the quintessential mad professor.
Now, Mr. Johnson is in the process of updating a chart he published in 2010 entitled "A Visual History of Daft Punk Helmets, " which diagrams the subtle evolution of helmets worn by the band.
Thomas Spragge, a 54-year-old prototype toy-maker in Massachusetts, had never heard of Daft Punk until three years ago when his daughter asked him to make a helmet.
None of this would be possible without the backing of Mr Daft, who is determined to make Coke a more intuitive, touchy-feely kind of organisation than it was under the numbers-driven Mr Ivester.
Daft though his ideas were, Mr Hain touched a raw political nerve.
Mr Miliband said Mr Gove was "high-handed, incompetent and unfair" and urged Mr Cameron to perform a u-turn on the "daft" decision.
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With an eclectic mix of electro and alt-pop influences ranging from Blondie to Daft Punk, Marble Fairy's sound packs a disco-funk punch.
It is just plain daft to suggest that if struggling Spain suddenly adopts a German attitude it will rise off its knees and succeed.
The "Saturday Night Live" commercials, three at last count, are also minimal, featuring only the Daft Punk logo, the album's title or a disco-flavored performance of "Get Lucky" featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers.
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