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."

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Save you the trouble:

[imstanny]

The best one by far:

"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

Fear Not, Slashdotters!

[Armadni General]

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.

Re:Please come forward

[Anonymous Coward]

"I have a hard time beliving that anyone would get offended by the real use of the word fuck:"

He actually said F-asterisk-asterisk-asterisk but when typing it out it's much easier to use *

Re:did you see

[Tim Browse]

Also, use DR-DOS, it's smaller than MS-DOS.

Yeah, I'll get right on that.

Re:tee hee giggle... sex! talkin bout his pee pee

[Anonymous Coward]

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!

Not tech but the top spoken gaffe of 2005

[nightsweat]

Without a DOUBT was, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."

A personal favorite

[SnappingTurtle]

I once worked at a small factory that was going through some difficult financial times. The CEO was really a decent guy, but he made a classic gaffe during a speech. He was trying to show the factory workers that he was willing to sacrifice too, so he said "if it helps the company, I'm willing to take home a few thousand less a month."

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.