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The Strange Case of Mahir Cagri
Mart writes "Mahir Cagri, from Izmir, Turkey, was projected to instant fame when news about his homepage spread among internet users . Entitled
Welcome to my homepage!!!!! I kiss you!!!! the page contains pictures
of Mahir and describes his lifestyle in broken English:
"I like to take foto-camera (amimals , towns , nice nude models andpeoples)....."
Mahir's homepage has received over a million hits. It has been featured in
Salon magazine, and is covered in this week's edition of
The Onion under the headline "Turkish man Kiss You."
Sadly the homepage wasn't real. Mahir
claims that his home page had been pirated and that his worlwide fame, or infamy is undeserved. "
http://www.3dshack.com/shack_stu ff/wacklinks.shtml
Finally, a journalist breaks the story first :)
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Let's face it the hamster dance version of Mahir said it all!
This was at least kinder than all those Turkish jokes the Greeks and Cypriots tell.
Reality is just a clever Hack, and the Planck constant is the refresh rate.
that is like the fourth version i've seen of that page in the last few days.
somehow I feel vaguely relieved.
Bad things often happen to good people,
It is up to them to see that they remain good.
So... what's so very special about this page? It's not as if this is the first homepage on Internet.
I don't see the point of it...
Once again, I am surprised by the total wackiness of the Web. It flew around my office like wildfire, and we all are still saying "I kiss you" to everyone we know. It is just another example of how something that could be considered totally useless in the physical world brings happiness and craziness in the digital realm. Let the man have his 15 of fame, and let him deal with it as he sees fit. I laughed my ass off. So did a lot of other people who were having a bad day.
i dont get it. what is this about? (yes, i did visit the links) -nick
"by doing just a little each day, I can gradually let the task overwhelm me."
Thanks to Hemos, he'll get a billion more. What a cheap way to get publicity.
Is it just me or this story is unappropriate for slashdot?
HASDI
First post? First post??!!
My opinion on this claim of Mahir's is that he's trying to backpedal after all the attention he got. He's trying to say his page is his, but that someone else pirated his site to write 'I like sex'. Yeah right. Mind you, when a million people are looking at your embarrassing little web space, you're bound to deny it en masse.
First it was the 'Mr. T Ate my Balls' pages spinoffs, then the dancing baby, then the dancing hamsters. Mahir sounds like a misguided, naive man trying to look for love in all the wrong places, but the users themselves who buy into this and start fan clubs are just your run-of-the-mill idiots who not only flog a dead horse but make sure they run over it with a steamroller.
And the media who buy into it and give it more publicity (and I'm sorry to see Slashdot join the fray) are just spoon-feeding the masses with the filling junk news they wish for.
So now we're going to Slashdot Mahir as well?
"The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays."
Not only was his website supposedly hacked - now it looks like it's been slashdotted, too!
I saw it earlier this week - I guess I just don't get what the fuss was all about. Maybe I'm just an Old Fart, but I've seen a lot more interesting candidates for net.phenom. Oh well. To own their each.
- -Josh Turiel
-- Josh Turiel
"2. Do not eat iPod Shuffle."
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." -- Delos B. McKown
Does anyone else not have any idea what this is all about?
Pretty simply: There's something we in the US find amusing about forign concepts -- in the enlightened United States, the concept of a man kissing us as we access his web site to be a hoot rather than a cultural insight of any kind. Those crazy backwards forigners!
Obviously, the more you can drag it out the better -- that's where the broken english, etc. come in. Interestingly, this concept can also be applied to sub-groups within the United States. For proof, look at Fargo, Raising Arizona, the Dukes of Hazzard or any episode of the X-Files involving the midwest or Texas (note: the Texans deserve it, IMHO).
I feel that this will only be the first of a slew of web sites dedicated to cashing in on this interesting concept. In fact, I'm working on my own "Stupid Midwesterner" web site as we speak (well, as I type). Oh yeaa, doncha know. We here in Wisconsin are enjoyin' this whole Microsoft kit-and-kibootle. Look for it to start hauling in the hits -- I'm looking for a high-paying banner ad agreement as we speak. Maybe I could even do the MP3 web site thing; "To see more of the wacky Wisconsinite's site, click on the first three banners and get the first word of the second paragraph of each site that pop up in the new annoying windows...".
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Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
All fun aside, it is facinating the way the word gets passed around about a certain site on the web, and bang!, everyone is checking it out. It makes one wonder what triggers such sudden rushes. If anyone figures it out, please tell me. I'd like to a million hits on my page too.
Mike Eckardt
meckardt@yahoo.nospam.com
http://www.geocities.com/meckardt
You're already off to a bad start, troll.
Intel transfer the difficult from Hadware to software, for get more power, programmer need more technology. -- chinaitn
...for /. to pick up on this story.
This page made the rounds at my work about 3 weeks ago. I was susprised I never saw it here - I assumed they knew about it but decided not to post it since it's so stooopid!
Great. After days of generating terrible publicity for our country for at least two weeks, the unknown idiot who has defaced the poor guy's Web page (The page is NOT created by Mahir. He put a personal Web page at an ISP in Bulgaria, and some idiot was amused with his physical appearance, and came up with the piece of crap that has been filling up mailboxes worldwide in the last two weeks.) finally made it to Slashdot.
Get over it, people. This is a bad joke. The guy is an ordinary teacher, and did not prepare the page himself. Still it is a fascinating example of how the Internet has changed the world.
Mahir is on the front pages of Turkish papers, and has been mentioned in a couple of other papers too, most notably Sweden's Aftonbladet and UK's The Observer. CNN has asked him for an interview, and he demanded $50,000.
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Mahir is a true hero! He has created the best homepage on the whole f. WWWW. He goes for the basics: He likes women, he likes sex. He is not ashamed. The rest of us can sneak around, try to be nice, buy them beer, Mahir is our hero. He screams: I want sex. Apparently that enough for greatness. Never mind that he denies the whole story, everybodys got a hangover sometime. Mahir: I kiss you
Interesting story. But the end was the best. You're just reading along about frivolous stuff, the WHAM, moral commentary. That was a great "reel 'em in then sucker punch 'em" routine to get his message out...
By the way, it is also hilarious that Mahir Cagri translates to "Skillful Invitation" in Turkish, don't you think? (It is a perfect translation, and the guy's name is real).
Zigbee Central: A Zigbee weblog
No accounting for taste, random noise in the culture-sphere... if you have to ask why, you just don't get it. :)
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Especially toward the end. His English grammar deteriorates to the point where it's practically indistinguishable from the "I Kiss You" page.
Long Love Turkey!
My only question is: Why hasn't this guy slapped up a few money making banner ads? :)
(Yes, yes, I know, if he made a page like that, he prolly doesn't know what a banner ad is or how to make money from them...)
except that on the Internet, everybody will be famous for 15 seconds.
Humph. I'm from an entirely different planet, have interesting and bizarre quirks, often speak in an inscrutable tongue, and for a while my homepage said "I fart in your general direction". Why aren't I famous too?
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Sacred cows make the best burgers.
Basically the original page was set up as a practical joke by one of his friends. The details are metioned on Salon some time back.
Another friend sent him a joke email saying she thought he was a stud and he replied back in a serious manner which would suggest it wasn't a joke.
Personally I think you should check out the Brandon and Rick never get laid it's much more funnier. Or if you want to make a bit of cash, check out the 10K for a wife page.
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/63/mahir_cagri.htm l
I've made way more useless web pages than that and my English wasn't much better (though it's all I speak) and hey I like sex and traveling and elt anyone who asks stay with me and my web pages never got more than a few thousand hits. My favorite was my contest to dress in drag and post the pics on my web site if 500 women sent me their panties. That got me a lot of date offers but not many web site hits. Darn. :)
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
Through some freak incidents, one lone, single man in the country of Turkey suddenly is becomming known throughout the world!
Doesn't anyone understand what in the world is going on? I mean, it's like someone just started spinning a globe, and stopped it with his finger, and that finger landed on TURKEY, of all countries!!!
...and the rest, they say, is history. Bada bing, bada bang, bada boom, this guy's famous. All because someone decided to "tinker" with his web page.
And what next? Well, let's use the all-popular dancing baby AVI as an example. A cute little AVI file, distribued by E-Mail, suddenly became a symbol of the ever growing internet and is received fame as far as appearing on T-Shirts and dancing with Calista Flockhart on Ally McBeal!
So, what's in store for this guy? I'm thinking something along the lines of his own TV show titled "Me Kiss!" and receiving a place in the Oxford dictionary with his picture next to the phrase "Me Kiss," meaning "A kind greeting, originating from Turkey."
He realized how much of a loser he looked like through his web page and does not want anybody to think he did it!
[humor]If you can't get your kiss, you can see the man dance here!
That man can groove like nobody. Get down! Man, thats one funky beat.
He's got a fan club you should join too gnarphlager![/humor]
Remember the "doubly-translated Madonna interview" that appeared here a few weeks ago, and turned out to have been made up by Gary Trudeau?
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I personally don't think its sad that the website was a hoax. It seems to me that the addition of Mahir's retraction is one of the best parts of the sites. It makes the whole thing. The fact that these unexpected turn of events for some random man lead to such acceptance and willingness to do good for the world is simply wonderful.
Read Stephenson's Snow Crash to get an idea of what the heck I'm talking about.
Hm, Mahir suddenly sounds like a clever guy. :-) Does anybody have a link to the real Mahir's page handy -- I couldn't find it?
Maybe there is a (very!) weak /. point in here about how to get rich and famous on the internet? But (a) I think we would all rather take a different path (somebody already did a journaling filesystem for Linux, so I guess I have to think of somehting else now) and (b) there are probably better ways to introduce it. Or maybe TurkishGeek is on to something:
(Come on, everybody, we've got this thread so let's make the most of it:) How did the Internet change the world? I seem to remember a guy in England who put a shark up on his roof and got instant fame and interviews. How is that different from the fame of Mahir? People have always done stunts for publicity or otherwise. It is not clear to me that anything except the speed of communication has changed.
Not every stupid web page gets a million hits. What does this show, except that people are as silly as ever and still follow the herd, wherever it leads?
Hi!
... is this.
A (fake) site in which a girl proclaims her love for her boyfriend, and goes on to describe his genital and anal warts. I initially thought it was real.
Question #12
You are an idiot who does not know the difference between the WWW and the Internet. You put your phone number on the web along with some horrid pictures of yourself in a pathetic attempt to attract desperate members of the opposite sex. Someone who has been using the Internet far longer than you decided to show you how stupid you are by making a copy of your page and spelling out what was written between the lines all along. You have already tried whining to the police and to various clueless lawyers. What will you do now?
- the Texans deserve it, IMHO
Fine. We'll just take our toys and go home. I home you won't miss Stevie Ray Vaughn, Edie Brickell, Tex-Mex cuisine, films like Rushmore, Lonestar, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Sports fans will undoubtedly miss the Dallas Stars, the Dallas Burn and the Dallas Cowboys (defense lawyers will also miss the Dallas Cowboys).Becuase "possession is nine-tenths of the law," we also lay claim to Bob Mould, Ministry, and Sandra Bullock.
Finally, Walker: Texas Ranger may be a lame TV show, but do you think anyone would watch Walker: Wisconsin Ranger?! Not likely.
Now, I know what you're going to say, but we can make our own damn cheese.
It's hardly a new concept to make fun of, or find amusing, others' differences. "Pollock jokes", nationality jokes...heck, any joke that finds unshared characteristics amusing is an example.
Here's a couple, meant with no disrespect to the nationalities portrayed within...
A British fellow was touring an orchard in America, and the tour guide was explaining what they did with all the fruit. "We eat what we can, and what we can't we can."
The British fellow thought that this was just so amusing that he had to go and tell his friends about it first thing when he got home. "You see, they eat what they can," he told them, "and what they can't, they put up!"
Q: If someone who speaks two languages is bilingual, and someone who speaks three languages is trilingual, what it someone who only speaks one language?
A: American.
A fellow in Arkansas was sitting on his porch one day when he noticed a hillbilly walking along with a herd of pigs. "Hey, stranger," he asked, "where you going with those hogs?"
"Takin' 'em to market, up Springfield way."
"Walking?"
"Yup."
"But...that'll take two weeks!"
"Hell, stranger," the hillbilly said, "time don't mean nothin' to a hog."
Yes that was genius. I though the site was OK not anything really funny. But that song made the funniest thing since sliced white bream
So you say everyone has to know English as well as you do? I couldn't get. Do you know every fucking bit of shit about computers when you use them?
Omigod, that's the funniest...
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ABSURDITY, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Let me tell you that the page took the Turkish online community by storm more that the rest of the world. This really does not have to do with the amuzing foreigner concept, at least outside the US. It's a part of Turkish elite nastiness, if you want to know it. The kind of Turkish people that would have access to the web do have a slight mocking attitude and contempt towards simple, villager types from the East. There's even a term for it: maganda. Mahir would be typical. That's the sociological tidbit for today.
Reminds me of the Kurt Vonnegut "Wear Sunscreen" nonsense.
A girl (engineering student) put at what the time seemed innocent enough page about how her lovers did in bed. On the page she posted the name and gave them stars from 0 to ***** on their performance. This list was quite long, and included members of both sexes, both singles (?) and couples. In few weeks, this list had given her national fame, and in the end ended up in the printed version of one of the newspapers. Where it was actually readable. The poor girl received mail from countless horny males, and got flamed from few. Now, I suspected that this list was fake, and in the end, after she had been abused (not physically, btw) her phone and home address posted on irc and other places, she put up a page where the whole thing is explained. The list was mostly fake, with only few real names (lovers?) and only put there for humour, probably very local. ;) :)
I hope that she and the people who distributed the url (I'm guilty too) will learn from this and people should always think twice about what to put on the web, and those who distribute the rumours to really think if the 'owner' of the information would want to have gazillions of people to read it. (Of course if you don't want anybody to read don't put it on the web, in the first place!)
In short, please be nice!
Just wanted to share this with you
Jón R.
You have to be impressed with a guy that gets a /. article written about him.
Be insightful. If you can't be insightful, be informative.
If you can't be informative, use my name
But did anyone bother to read Mahir Cagri's entire response?
Don't get me wrong. I found the faked Mahir page hilarious. However, the real Mahir
a) Speaks somewhat better English.
b) Seems like quite the insightful character.
c) Has the good sense to question what this kind of thing says about _our_ cultural values.
Personally, I'm not afraid to say that should I ever visit Turkey, I'm going to email Mahir and take him up on the offer to guide me around. He seems like a decent person who's had all kinds of weirdness dumped on him in the last week. Show him the respect of taking the time to read what he's said.
-- The Sage does nothing, and nothing is left undone. --Lao Tzu
...id software. You might have heard of them. Games like Doom, Quake. Sometimes people play these games on "computers", over the "Internet", course, I'm from Texas so I'm obviously too stupid to comprehend anything outside the oil and cattle industry.
;-)
Jealousy is a dangerous thing, just because your state didn't have the balls to be it's own Nation doesn't mean you have to whine about it.
I think the San Antonio Spurs are a basketball team, they might have recently spanked some hoodlum coach-choking yankees recently for some type of world championship, but I've learned to be distrustful of the media...
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I am not sure how much of this is a hoax, and how much is real... but how many of you read the supposed letter from Mahir?
OK, so the first 3/4 is cute, and the amateur english from the website continues, but what the hell is all the PC (polically correct, not personal computer... geeks) crap!?
It was obviously written by someone completely different than whomever wrote the first 3/4. It just did not fit in at all. The English and grammar are completely different.
Just struck me as really odd.
Check this out, it's his first hit single. This is really the icing on the cake for this phenomenon. I thought the rest of the stuff was slightly humorous, but this made me die laughing.
Most of Europe hugs and kisses as a greeting. I was raised with this as a custom, and to this day (I'm 24) still kiss even my father hello and goodbye, and greet my friends and relatives with a hug.
"Csokolom" (with umlauts on the o's) is a typical Hungarian greeting... meaning literally "I kiss you".
I don't think this whole "uproar" has anything to do with *language* getting lost in the translation, but more with amerikans losing *culture* and *beauty* in the translation.
Flame me if you wish, but I thank God I live in Canada, which is *so* much closer to Europe, and so much more *human* than you people could ever realize.
Personally, this kind of "humour", as it was called, is on par with South Park: Disgusting and juvenile.
mindslip
Here are a few lessons to learn from Mahir.
;)
1. Never put your personal phone number on your Web Page. I wouldn't even do it for on-line resumes. an email is fine.
2. The same for home address. You might get some Slashdot type showing up at your door.
3. Mahir did a great job of tracking the culprit. Especially since he has little or no computer experience.
subject says it all...I don't know where we first heard about it, but one of my friends decided that it would be amusing to call this guy collect...he dialed the number on the webpage...(after explaining to the AT&T opperator, that YES he did know he was calling Turkey)..he spoke to a guy who sounded EXTREMELY sleepy....my friend (who said his name was 'Mustafa') talked to him for a while. (this was at about 2AM eastern time) Eventually when we tried to call him back, Mahir had blocked international collect calls (at $.80 I can see why...they were going to call a Turkish opperator, and call him collect that way..I'm not sure what happened though.
Aspera means "hard work"
"There is a fine line between genius and insanity--I have erased this line."
My last comment got posted accidentally. Damn Netscape. Anyway, he DID kiss you. The only things he didn't say were "I like sex" and the thing about the nude models. Or such is my understanding.
grep -ri 'should work'
For being exploited beyond anyone's wildest dreams, this guy took the whole thing rather well. As a matter of fact, he even went and turned it into a "Make the world a better place" thing.
;)
I can't get over how he didn't get pissed off over this, or at least he didn't mention it in the story. And to further prove that this world has not yet turned into a pulsing blob of shit, alot of people sent pictures to him, with various humorous messages like "WE LOVE MAHIR" or "WE KISS YOU TOO!".
Nice little story that shows that one person can make a difference
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SuPz.orG
A fellow in Arkansas was sitting on his porch one day when he noticed a hillbilly walking along with a herd of pigs. "Hey, stranger," he asked, "where you going with those hogs?"
"Takin' 'em to market, up Springfield way."
Thanks for the joke! I live in the Springfield in question (Missouri, just north of AR) and hadn't heard that yet. Thanks!
P.S. No, I don't know if we're the Springfield from "The Simpsons".
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
The old link http://216.169.122.124/rayn/turkstud.shtml is no longer valid... This was hilarious. Any mirrors?
Dunno if you've seen them all yet: The Original: http://members.xoom.com/_XOOM/primall/mahir/index. html The Tribute: http://216.169.122.124/rayn/turkstud.shtml Mahir-Mania: http://members.xoom.com/mahirdance/getdown.html
I agree that there is a good deal of stylistic variation on the English version. There are also differences in transliteration of Turkish words (Türkiye comes out Turkey some places, Tirkiye, in other places), etc. The most likely explaination is tht Mr. Cagri wrote the text in Turkish, and several different people helped in the translation to English.
The fact that there is a Turkish version which looks to be well composed, seems to be a good indication that this is not a hoax.
But it is interesting that Mahir's response begins with nearly perfect English grammar... Obviously he became more impatient toward the end of the response.
However, the imperfect grammar is often quite amusing to a native speaker, similar to the amusement a Linux user might derive from a MacOS user looking at a Linux machine and saying "where's the Finder?"
I'm not sure about the roster, but I want you to point out to me how many people in the Spurs organization were born and raised in Texas vs how many were born and raised in some Yankee town.
"It's Brazilian"
Texans really do have the stubbor pride that can only be rivaled by New York and New Jersey (nahhh...).
I lived with a Texan for a couple years in college (in Michigan), and the nonstop argument he had with about the entire school population over "Who was a better running back?" Emmit Smight or Barry Sanders, drove me bonkers.
Not sure how this became a Texas vs. Wisconsin thing... but I will say the beer (Macro AND Micro), is about 500 times better in Wisconsin.
Lone Star: The National Beer of the Republic of Texas
HA!
Sorry, the crack I was smoking there was a little potent on that inhale.
Smith
*My* big question is this: Is there a "Mahir Cagri Ate My Balls" page yet? Please post the URL if anyone gets inspired.
A "Mahir Dance" page (in the fine hamster tradition) might also be vaguely amusing.
I kiss you!
As I read down the list, I see the JPV interview, and then Mahir the kissing Turk.
I suggest the theme... "Idiots made famous for no good reason." or "Unqualified, Unloved, Unneeded." perhaps, "You defaced my website, and now I'm rich!"
I think any of these would make a decent episode of Jerry Springer.
~Jason Maggard
http://www.springerdot.org
"14 minutes and counting..."
Texans drink sh*t beer (in Texas). I *loved* Lone Star in high school, but it does compare favorable,IMHO, to most schwag beers (MillCooBudLitDryIce).
Course, now I live in Fort Collins, CO with one of the highest concentrations of mircobrews in the country. I'm within walkin' distance to more than 100 different beers X-).
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With the text on his page as the lyrics. It can be found here: http://artists.mp3s.com/artists /63/mahir_cagri.html
Face it, Americans LOVE Mahir!
also: http://www.mp3.com/mahircagri
Just can't get enough.
Sorry, its been hammered worldwide, more than just Slashdot... THe guy was getting something like 20 hits a second last week..
If millions of ppl came to your website... if you became the biggest joke of the Internet, then the only thing to do is deny. True, anyone could have made this, only logs would tell the truth. But this story doesn't add up. Ie - how he found the hijacker even though he knew little about the net - claims he had help. Nice alibi... Also, the picture of him with his speedos(ie nuthuggers). He is laying down in a sexual pose. This picture alone gave away his intentions. Nothing wrong with liking sex, but he doesn't have to lie about his intentions.
http://216.169.122.124/rayn/turkstud2.swf
damn funny
It made danish people, new zealanders, swedes, indians, and frenchies laugh in our parisian office ...
I think it's funny. I wonder how long it will take before www.ikissyou.com is taken.
Then I saw I rabbit with a face, a beer, and a joint.
But this is weird because it says this on the page where Mahir gets funky with this bad self: "e mail : lil_bastards@telus.net (for ad offers)"
It's strange because Telus happens to be my ISP, and I live in Alberta, Canada!
Shiner Boch is the National beer of Texas. I've managed to find it outside the Republic, but it's difficult. One bar in Florida listed it as an import. I guess travelling from Heaven to Earth is an importing process.
Yawn.
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"You're gonna need a bigger boat." - Chief Brody
Moderate this up too.
This just brought back to mind the bumper stickers that the State of Wisconsin came up with around 1980. They simply said "Escape to Wisconsin." It wasn't long before most people were cutting out the "to", and just leaving "Escape Wisconsin."
BTW, you might want to talk to a surgeon about having the stick removed from your ass.
Hilarious, check this out: http://members.xoom.com/boxchocolat e/mahir.html
Yes Sir, it is on the AOL welcome window. And you wondered why he was getting so many hits. Poor bastard.
I work for a local ISP here, and we had gotten a very peculiar email this week (on the 6th, I believe). The message was from someone who named himself "not mahir" at therealmahir@hotmail.com The message read (in full):
why isn't my site working? http://204.187.137.63/mahir
Since that came from a hotmail address, we couldn't help the guy. The site was a mirror of the "real" fake page (the one on xoom), though it now redirects to some bizarre star trek page..
Of course, the email was faked; it came from one of our pops in toronto, and the real mahir is in turkey. Still, it did make for some creepy moments when we read about his story here :)
Well, we can settle this whole state debate on Sunday when the Packers kick the Cowboys' drug addicted butts back to their ranches. That is, if the Packers can ever stop bickering about who's at fault for this season's poor start. Bah, at least I still have the Badgers to cheer for.
Mahir made me laugh. Maybe I'm the ugly American - but Mahir "I like sex" made me laugh.
The real Mahir is even cooler. Seriously - the mans' life was turned nuts (cup runneth over email accounts, phone ringing off the hook) - and what did he do? He put up a *new* page - explaining what happened.
He also took his little moment in the spotlight to make me *think* about what's really important in the world. He urges me to become aware of what's happening in Chechnya and other suffering.
An old teacher of mine would have said Mahir's a good egg.
Seriously - how many of these ultra-forwarded sites (think dancing baby, hampsterdance) *do* anything with their instant noteriety -- other than try to hawk merchandise. Mahir's actually *doing* what Miss America's only talk about -- promoting world peace.
Mahir - I KISS YOU!!!
- Joe
-- Joe Crawford, web journeyman: San Diego California USA
what would andy warhol think? this perhaps?
I'm sorry, I'm British and I dont get this. Can soemone explain it to me. I assume it works on the belief that to the British, to can something means to put up? (As in "To can something" where can is a contraction of trashcan?) Sorry, over here we use "bin", a contraction of dustbin (or pedalbin). So as far as I can see, it just doesn't work.
Or maybe I just don't get it :)
Rich
I live in Canada. I like South Park... or, better yet (with all apologies to Matt and Trey), I like Tom Green! He's a good canajun kid dere...
I do personally believe that Canadians, by and large, are generally more culturally aware and adept, don't assume that we don't like dick and fart jokes as much as the next north american inhabitant.
I gotta see Dogma. Jay and Silent Bob rock your world.
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"People will pay big bucks for the luxury of ignorance."
And please try to pay better attention in English class!
And try paying attention in English class next time!