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Bill Gates Handwriting Analyzed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the god-we-must-be-desperate-for-news dept.

Kaal Alexander Rosser writes "The BBC is reporting that a doodle left behind at a Davos press conference given by Tony Blair, Bill Gates and Bono shows the writer to be: "an unstable man" amongst other things. The Gates Foundation has confirmed the doodle was left there by Bill Gates."

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  1. unstable by minus_273 · · Score: 5, Funny

    i dont know about gates, but his OS is damn unstable.

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  2. Bill Gates doodles... by fitten · · Score: 5, Funny

    are probably nothing more than variations of the $ sign... =)

    1. Re:Bill Gates doodles... by sasquatch21 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Bill uses Perl?

    2. Re:Bill Gates doodles... by Tenebrious1 · · Score: 4, Funny

      are probably nothing more than variations of the $ sign... =)

      I heard there were drawings of some short squat bird and the words "die die die" over and over again...

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  3. Aha by spellraiser · · Score: 4, Funny

    The 'unstable man, unstable OS' jokes may begin ... now.

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  4. Wow by Quasar1999 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Really, handwriting analysis? This is the computer age... I don't even know how to write... I put an 'X' in the 'sign here' section... everything else I type... If they analysed my handwriting, well... they'd think I was a 2 year old with a crayon. ;)

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    1. Re:Wow by Foofoobar · · Score: 4, Funny
      If they analysed my handwriting, well... they'd think I was a 2 year old with a crayon


      I thought most Visual Basic users were. ;)
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  5. Tony Blair, Bill Gates and Bono... by brian+ferullo · · Score: 4, Funny

    what bad joke is this setting up?

    1. Re:Tony Blair, Bill Gates and Bono... by 955301 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Tony Blair, Bill Gates and Bono walk into a bar within 5 minutes of one another and sit down.

      With an obvious need to one up the other two egos in the room, Tony orders a kamikazi and says, "I know they say the three of us are quite unstable, but I believe I have you chaps beat, even on that front. I overthrew a country on the advice of a Texan." He passes a "one-free-knighting" coupon to the bartender for escro on his challenge.

      Gates, drinking a screwdriver and squiggling on a piece of paper, blurts out "It's not like Britain didn't do that to the same people before. Try dominating the world with a collection of buggy software and an army of marketroids. Allow the single most significant collaborative creation of the 20th century to be brought to its knees. Then get back to me". He passes a check totaling the GNP of a small country to the bartendar to see Blair's challenge.

      Bono, not even inclined to remove his sunglasses responds passes a black I-pod to the bartender. "You see that blonde, at the end of the bar? I'm going to eat her now." He downs his tequila, walks up the blonde, stabs her repeatedly, then eats her, and returns to the conversation.

      The bartender interjects and says to Bono "I don't think your instability counts... after all, you're on drugs, and that makes it artificial." Bono, looking puzzled because he hadn't taken a pill in at least three days says "Hell, I'm not on drugs". The bartender passes the pot to Gates, refills the men's drinks and replies, "of course you are, that was a bar-bitch-you-ate".

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  6. Hitting the Nail on the Head ! by bushboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, the poor guy has been hammered left right and center for years - can you blame him for being a bit troubled !

    I bet he draws penguins and apples and little tiny bugs and all sorts of odd things when he's bored !

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  7. But how did they... by tod_miller · · Score: 4, Funny

    How did they crack the DRM on the doodles so they they could be analysed outside of Media Player?

    And why didn't the paper contain a little ticker that showed the time and date and author of the doodle?

    Anyone have a link the torrent? Oh man, I feel strange... it must be the /. effect.

    Did the doodles point to any new ideas in windows? Or was one of the doodles a strange on-flying bird like creature being beaten to death by office stationary (paperclips)

    Who knows? :-) Or was it a monkey screaming 'oooh ooh develoopers! developers developers! aaaargh!'

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  8. Bill's future. by adam31 · · Score: 4, Funny
    I saw Bill get a tarot card reading in Las Vegas a while back.

    I remember one card had a Skull...
    and the other had a Penguin.

  9. Next on Slashdot by the_skywise · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bill Gates' psychological analysis using the science of Numerology, his tea leaves from his last sushi dinner and a phrenologic reading of his cranium.

  10. Re:Want to see the doodle? by savagedome · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually, George Bush's doodle was also found. You can see it here

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  11. Re:Speaking as a geek... by oliana · · Score: 5, Funny

    I believe the correct sentiment is "more successful" with technology than girls.

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  12. Re:Him2? by miseryinmotion · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bono happens to draw comic versions of himself and The Edge fighting evil across the galaxy, and always takes them home to ink and color.

  13. Typo? by Ironsides · · Score: 4, Funny

    Excuse me while I go consult the "I Ching" to find out whether Microsoft intends to embed Internet Explorer in "Office 2007".

    Since this is Microsoft and Bill Gates we are talking about, shouldn't you consult "Ka Ching" instead?

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  14. Tony Blair, Bill Gates and Bono go into a bar... by eugene+ts+wong · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...and the bar tender says, "We don't serve big wigs here like you.".

    Tony Blair says, "But can we at least vote on it?".

    The bartender says, "No!".

    Bill Gates says, "But we just need a place to crash.".

    The bartender felt betrayed because he expected support from Bill, and thus said, "You too??".

    Bono says, "Yes...".

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  15. Re:Tony Blair, Bill Gates, Bono and you are in a l by JPDeckers · · Score: 4, Funny
    Tony Blair, twice.

    Oh, wait, this is slashdot, wrong answer:)

  16. Re:Congrats, Einstein by drfireman · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can bend spoons. It's hard to explain to a lay-person, but it just takes a bit of ... I don't know how to describe it, call it "leverage." I would be the last to call my powers extraordinary, this is really a power that is latent in all of us, but usually suppressed due to a mental block I will call, in shorthand, "respect for silverware."

    Handwriting analysis is also not complete crap. The other day, my wife went shopping, and correctly bought an item that I had written down on our shopping list, even though I myself couldn't read my own handwriting.