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2005 Foot In Mouth Awards
jollyroger1210 writes "Wired is running a story on the 2005 Foot In Mouth Awards." From the article: "Tech execs say the darndest things. And so do shuffling presidents, and disgraced scientists, and Wikipedia fakers. It's time to relive 2005's biggest spoken gaffes."
"I know what I don't know, and to this day I don't know technology and I don't know accounting and finance."
-- Bernie Ebbers, ex-CEO of WorldCom
Screwing it would scratch the screen. Don't screw it.
Anagram("United States of America") == "Dine out, taste a Mac, fries"
Chair-to-the-wall has won Number Two!
"'I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google.'"
-Steve Ballmer
Excellent.
I suppose that means the GP wins the 2005 Meta-Foot in Meta-Mouth award.
I have mod points, but there's no option for +3 Guilt Trip. Really - it's fine. The World forgives you.
Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera - Jeanne D'Arc.
"Walk this way, talk this wa-ay."
-- Intel chairman Craig Barrett
The most embarrassing executive antics of the year came early in 2005, as a tone-deaf, stiff white guy stepped up to the stage at the Consumer Electronics Show and joined Aerosmith front man Steven Tyler in a duet.
Watching the video, I was amused trying to determine who was actually the older white guy...
The whole demo with the crazy kids is pretty awkward too. Tyler gives a little speech to the audience... *shudder*
Digg comment: Huh huh. Cool, dude. /. comment: This is a really interesting device. Pity it doesn't run Linux.
-- Cheers!
He actually said F-asterisk-asterisk-asterisk but when typing it out it's much easier to use *
Yeah, I'll get right on that.
LOL, awwwww...THANK YOU!
Slashdot is populated by Old Mammals, and I'm one of them.
Just instantly identifying that lyric caused more hair to turn grey. Goddamnit....
or this one... "Brownie You're doing a heck of a job."
"I'm a uniter, not a divider", "yellow cake uranium", "we will catch bin laden dead or alive", "weapons of mass destruction", "I will appoint a moderate to the supreme court", etc. Or my personal favorite, although not quite as quotable to those with low attention spans, is this new one; "To say `unchecked power' basically is ascribing some kind of dictatorial position to the president, which I strongly reject...".
Grow the fuck up, you loser. I couldn't give two shits where the President sticks his dick. Even if it's a fat girl. Unless he wants to put it in one of my orifices, it's none of my business. Like the OJ trials, I was one of the very few that never watched nor cared to waste my time watching something so stupid.
Also, it was four years ago, so you might as well be talking about Carter being afraid of a bunny rabbit, Nixon being a crook, JFK cheating on his wife, or George Washington and his wooden teeth. It's ancient history. But I guess talking about someone's sex life and their genitals is going to be the defining cultural event for your entire life. Maybe all of American History!
I know we're not talking about things you can giggle over anymore, but it's because they're fucking important!
I bet he had enough materials at least to produce 500 tons of mustard. And another 800 tons of mayonaise.
Anagram("United States of America") == "Dine out, taste a Mac, fries"
It has nothing to do with Microsoft. MS-DOS would use up to 768 K without problems if you didn't have an EGA or VGA card.
Yeah. 768K should be enough for anyone.
...this one?
Without a DOUBT was, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."
the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur - A.N. White
His "I'm there with you" speech to workers who were lucky to take a single thousand a month didn't exactly have the intended affect, and he resigned a month later.
I've found that my posts don't format quite right w/o a sig.
I probably could dig up the manual to my first Apple III, which stated in print, that 128K was more than anyone would ever need or something approximate to that.
We read this as we were trying to figure out why the System Utility software was crashing with a stack overflow...it was because it required 256K to run.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
This proofs that Intel plans for the future - they were working on how to defeat DRM 20 years before it arrived, and no one realized anything !-)
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
Let's be nice, some of us like Steven Tyler...
To be fair, this WAS the biggest piece of news to come out of New Orleans in several years that didn't involve girls going wild. :P
It's been a long time.
I happen to know that I am not, nor have I ever been, a feces. And, unless I'm consumed by cannibals, I never will be!
Isn't it about time Bush got a lifetime achievement award? A golden foot in mouth would look great on the mantel in the oval office.
However, you're still limited to 4GB of addressable memory per process.
I wonder if that is enough to run MS Office.
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