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."

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CMDRTACO CHIPPED HIS TOOTH ON MY ROCK HARD COCK

[Anonymous Coward]

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Disappointed

[MLopat]

You sound really disappointed that your sole avenue for a sexual encounter never materialized. Ah well, I guess there's always Lava Life for you...

Re:Disappointed

[MLopat]

I can't believe you assholes mod me down as a troll. What the hell am I trolling for, laughs? Geez. Sounds like a couple of you have a case of the Monday's.

Simple

[Anita Coney]

Brits are ugly, and you guys finally realized it.

why is this even on slashdot?

[Anonymous Coward]

Why? Has the world gone short on tech-related news? This is absurd. This is not even news. Ridiculous. What happened to the good, timely news meta-site called "Slashdot". No kidding, I'm serious. I once came here to get quality links, quality comments, and quality posts; but now? A post about toothing? What??????

I'm so disappointed.

YOU LIVE IN YOUR PARENTS BASEMENT

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah and tell me you're not some 40 year old living in your parents basement if youve actually checked out lavalife. loser

In reality...

[jejagua]

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.

Exactly

[bonch]

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.

Conspiracy

[ari_j]

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.

Oh please

[Anonymous Coward]

What kinda idiot would get involved in such a thing? And why is this worthless post even on Slashdot? All you're gonna find to stick your tool into from something like that is a slut or a fag. Take your pick!