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What Ever Happened to 'Toothing'?

Posted by timothy on from the any-grooming-hints-for-your-fans-rollie? dept.

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."

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  1. In reality... by jejagua · · Score: 0, Troll

    There were encounters. If utter disgust wasn't involved, there sometimes was pleasure. Those who succeeded succumbed to Syphilis. Those who failed wrote negative blog entries and returned to self love, as a previous /.er described.

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  2. Exactly by bonch · · Score: 0, Troll

    Just like the "hyperlinks" people were painting on walls for people to email with their phones to get the content. For some reason, there's this need among reporters to write about crazy social movements involving wireless technologies, to show how "zany" people are.

  3. Conspiracy by ari_j · · Score: 0, Troll

    Okay, there is no way that you didn't set this joke up. Either you have more than one account or you have a female friend that you collaborated with, and my money is on the former. Conspiracy of one.