Top Five Lamest Excuses for Slow Sales

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Last week, bookseller Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) warned that fourth-quarter earnings would fall below expectations due to disappointing holiday sales that the company partly blamed on the "election fiasco." As a result, we at Fun & Folly thought it was time to reprise a Top Five from last November, and take a look at the top five lamest excuses for slow sales:

Annoyed by that "Who Let the Dogs Out" song

The Y2K1 bug

The demise of the drachma

Hungover employees forgot to open stores on New Year's

And the number one lame excuse for a revenue shortfall...

Math is hard!