According to the San Jose Mercury News, the recording equipment brought to his home did not work at first and "almost doomed the guest spot".
The popularity of the automobile, which broadened the choice of day trips and vacation spots, doomed the steamers and, in turn, Indian Point.
He showed the video to 200 people, including pastors, marriage therapists and relationship scientists, asking them to spot the doomed marriages.
Spotting a doomed bank, it seems, may only be possible once it is going to hell.Yet there was a common ingredient in most failures: an over-reliance on wholesale borrowing.
Up on the Australian balcony, with Michael Clarke yet to fall to Broad's jewel of a cutter, the cameras offered a vision of the carnage to come: Watson alone in the dressing room, pads on, face whiter than his shirt, bouncing on the spot like a doomed Menshevik.
"They were all doomed to remain on the spot, like sheep in a pen, till they were sold; they have no apartment to retire to, no bed to repose on, no covering to protect them; they sit naked all day, and lie naked all night, on the bare boards, or benches, where we saw them exhibited".
Soon, the Orioles smacked just enough pitches to open spots, dooming Burnett again.
Doomed if they do, doomed if they don't: such is the tricky spot the Libertines find themselves in on their first album since 2004's implosion.
Thanks to his job, he spotted the deportation order that would have doomed his girlfriend.
