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Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki
sonamchauhan writes "A Londoner helped his wife deliver their baby by Googling 'how to deliver a baby' on his mobile phone. From the article: 'Today proud Mr Smith said: "The midwife had checked Emma earlier in the day but contractions started up again at about 8pm so we called the midwife to come back. But then everything happened so quickly I realized Emma was going to give birth. I wasn't sure what I was going to do so I just looked up the instructions on the internet using my BlackBerry."'"
...to catch a critter that got into my basement.
God bless mobile Internet.
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, START
how is babby delivered?
Was it a boy or a girl?
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
I learned how to clean up forensic evidence from my basement....
Thank you Wikipedia!
Tsukasa: All I really want, is to be left alone...
The AT&T EDGE service on my Blackberry would have delivered the information by the baby's 1st birthday if I was lucky. That is making the assumption that the built in browser could actually load the webpage.
Anyone faced with a woman about to deliver, and their first thought is "I know, I'll go search around on google" is my hero.
And the worms ate into his brain.
The internet can be used to answer all sorts of questions! I recently left my laptop unattended in the living room, and when I came back "How to get a threesome in Dragon Age" was in the search box.
The only question now is which one of my roommates needed to resort to a FAQ to figure that one out...
There was, but Apple pulled it after complaints. It was called Shaken Baby or something similar...
I'm a firm believer in the philosophy of a ruling class, especially since I rule.
I recently needed to learn how to set a live trap to catch a critter that got into my basement.
God bless mobile Internet.
Peanut butter and chocolate.
This also works for catching girls.
I think your sig actually paraphrases what the article said.
If one doesn't know how to, how does one learn to google something on the internet?
It was a Wii Gameboy
Now, I think it's a little early to start imposing roles on it, don't you?
Just Bing it.
The baby didn't cry at first. Then it realized that its own father had just used a user-editable, non-authoritative guide to performing a life-and-death medical procedure, and it hasn't stopped crying since.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
Wait, if you were home, why would you need mobile internet? Or were there other circumstances keeping you from accessing your home net connection?
Because he did not want to have to Goggle "how to clean afterbirth off of a laptop"...
You have the right to remain sentient. If you give up the right to remain sentient, you will be elected to public office
the real headline ought to be: "Mother ejects baby in uncomplicated delivery"
What on earth has the mother got to do with it???
Yeah I'd like to hear the stork's side of all this.
Glad he got it done!
At that point, neither he nor his Blackberry had much to do with the proceedings!
Follow these easy instructions.
LMGTFY
There's an app for that.
...that Wikipedia played a part in the conception as well?
Name...That...Autocomplete!
It's a good thing he didn't have a Blackberry Storm to mash his query out on, or he would have been confused by the instructions on "how to slither a navy"
[citation needed]
Yep, this story. - Pretty disruptive for people who need a (quick) answer and not your stupid comment.
You would think in all those nine months of labor the thought to read about delivery would cross his mind...
Handling charges included.
Wait, if you were home, why would you need mobile internet? Or were there other circumstances keeping you from accessing your home net connection?
Because he did not want to have to Goggle "how to clean afterbirth off of a laptop"...
Can't clean laptop! The goggles, they do nothing!
I am not a crackpot.
Have you ever seen what happens when cat's mate? I haven't, but I've heard it. Sure sounds like death to me.
I tried that, and now I'm just scared.
The reliability of Wikipedia articles is considered by most to be uncertain, as sources find that many errors are produced by editors who clean-up articles. Most errors go undetected for long periods of time. [1]
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A friend of mine once changed the article for the movie Beaches to indicate that Arnold Schwarzenegger had a small, and uncredited cameo.
Wikipedia is the best thing to happen to gambling since rigged dice and double sided coins.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
I do that a lot.
I drank what? -- Socrates