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What Ever Happened to 'Toothing'?
Jim Hanas excertps from his very funny article on the quiet disappearance of last-year's promised digital bacchanal. "Remember 'toothing'? It was a craze that was sweeping England last year as bored commuters arranged sexual encounters using Bluetooth-enabled cellphones. You probably read about it over at Wired or Reuters or the BBC. There's a decent chance you even blogged about it. Well. What happened?" Update: 04/05 00:10 GMT by T : Hanas writes with a followup: "The original source on the whole toothing thing has just admitted it was a hoax -- in response to my email and your picking up of my post."
Along with leg warmers and flash mobs.
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Well, theres AIDS, Herpes, Syphillis, and discovering that the cute 20-something you were TXTing a minute ago seems to have become a disturbing 50 year old man with bad teeth and worse breath.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
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UTF-8: There and Back Again
I always say less toothing.
Seriously, no matter how horny you are, you wouldn't simply jump on bed with anybody, would you?
You're a girl, aren't you?
Maybe toothing led to teething.
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
Apparently people have wised up and turned off promiscuous mode.
(Its a good way to prevent virus transmission.)
Know what I like about atheists? I've yet to meet one that believes God is on their side.
News for nerds, stuff that might have been.
You can't take the sky from me...
You see, English people aren't the most attractive people in the world. They kept meeting up and saying things like, "You look like a horse's arse", "Bob's certainly not your uncle" and similarly witty phrases. It didn't take long before everyone realized they were just wasting their time and just went home and masturbated.
It was too hard for the average user. Perhaps if Apple built it into the iPod and integrated it with the scroll wheel it would reach critical mass.
On second thought, just get a Lovegety
it was called bluejacking
so that probably accounts for why you cant find out any information
'nuff said!
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
... involving geeks and sex, it just didn't work.
Wasn't that the movie with Jennifer Beals?
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
What do you think happened? It ended up being a bunch of blokes chasing after another bloke named "Shelly".
Wait - this is the craze that was sweeping ENGLAND?
I ain't evil, I'm just good looking.
...9+6 months later toothing has lead to teething.
A girl? On Slashdot?? No, she's a fembot -- look at the name.
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
Slashdot. News for the amnesiac, stuff that mattered.
This toothing stuff maybe never even existed, except as an effective rumour to frustrate a whole news-for-nerds site in one hit...
"Toothing" sounds exactly like the type of sexual encounter you're likely to find in the UK.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Seriously, no matter how horny you are, you wouldn't simply jump on bed with anybody, would you? :)
Yes is so much the wrong answer, isn't it?
I have found that there are few more accurate predictors of a failed trend than an appearance in Wired before it actually takes off. (Wired is much better when the thing has already taken off; its ability to accurately predict things that happened yesterday approaches 50%.)
Sausage Fest
No, she's a fembot -- look at the name.
That's great! I see they have made many improvements with these bots since I last played...
The fembots used to just run around and circles and got confused when they ran into a corner.
Now, they can dodge and shoot around corners.
Great work to the fembot designers!
94% of Repubs and 21% of Dems voted to renew the Patriot Act
A real sexually transmitted computer virus?
I thought they were only in jokes...
# cat
Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
Gentlemen,
The first rule of tooth club is: You do not talk about tooth club.
The second rule of tooth club is: You DO NOT talk about tooth club.
Third rule of tooth club, someone yells "Stop!", goes limp, taps out, the toothing is over.
Fourth rule, only two people to a toothing.
Fifth rule, one toothing at a time, fellas.
Sixth rule, no shirt, no shoes.
Seventh rule, toothings will go on as long as they have to.
And the eighth and final rule, if this is your first night at tooth club, you have to tooth.
Brits are ugly
French are arrogant
Irish are drunks
Polish are stupid
Italians are fat
Dutch are drug addicts
Germans are humourless
So which continent was it that (re)populated most of the USA? Should we conclude that Americans are ugly, arrogant, stupid, fat, stoner, drunkards with a crap sense of humour? Seems there might be something to those mindless prejudices after all!
Here's your tinfoil hat.
...may father was you insensitive clod!
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
Sounds to me like someone bought a ticket to London hoping to get laid, and came home disapointed....
;)
Sorry, if they won't touch your pot-belly, nacho stained D&D shirt in North America, they won't touch it in London either....
Supposedly, a good-looking chick will go up to you, pull out her white headphone miniplug, and look at you expectantly. You're then supposed to remove your white headphone plug, put it into her ipod, while she does the same to yours, and you each enjoy the other's music for a time.
...
This only happens in Marketing groups.
Besides, you don't know where her iPod's been
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First rule of Toothclub : You don't talk about Toothclub.
Second rule of Toothclub : You don't talk about Toothclub.
Third rule of Toothclub : You don't tell that the girl that is toothing, is actually a fifty-something named Bob.
Q: Why do the men in Scotland wear kilts?
:P Sometimes I just can't help myself.
A: Because the sheep can hear a zipper a mile away.
Just a Tuna in the Sea of Life
It was a great idea until they found out that only men used bluetooth in this manner. It soon became a huge, wireless sausage-fest.
A girl? On Slashdot?? No, she's a fembot -- look at the name.
Stronger, faster. Better than a regular girl!
You can't take the sky from me...
Which college? Wait, this is a public forum, forget I asked.
"Looking back, I had more fun with the plain jane lookalikes who caught my attention because they were my kind of lighthearted kinky in the bedroom that with the look-at-me gorgeous women I've brought home from the bar only to find out that they were plain boring in bed. "
Yes, those gorgeous women sure are boring in bed. I am tired of the wasted effort pleasuring gorgeous women that I bring home from the bar. Please, let's just concentrate on the plain ones.
I met my ex wife of 5 years asking ASL in an IRC chat.
Oooh.. good example!
Oh wait...
Hmmmm. Let's see.
1) Toothing seemingly never existed outside the media;
2) it involves sex;
3) it's supposedly a secret, almost cultlike group;
4) it involves modern technology of a sort not understood by soccer moms but possibly used by their children.
Therefore:
"Tomorrow on Oprah: 'Toothing!' Is your little girl sending a message that she wants sex and she wants it now?"
And they can have an 'expert' on, who's met 'toothers' and knows that bluetoothers just give blowjobs, but redtoothers are into anal sex, and blacktoothers want to be sodomized by the entire football team, including the mascot.
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Pfft- let me know when pause, fast forward, and mute functions are available.