Archive for octubre, 2008

Professor Franz of Copenhagen´s position regarding fiasco

Posted on octubre 30th, 2008, by Fiasco Award Team

While our ideas live in the world of paper or electronic documents everything works beautifully. It is at the time when we try to make them real, a bold step, when it can turn into a fiasco and when we run the risk of falling into despair, too.
It seems that was the case of Professor [...]

Why fiasco means fiasco

Posted on octubre 30th, 2008, by Fiasco Award Team

The original italian meaning of the word fiasco is a flask or bottle. But today, in italian as in many other laguages, it has also a most popular meaning: fiasco is a failure, a complete mess.
At the start when fiasco was used to mean ‘a failure’ in Italian, it was referring to a theatrical [...]