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Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
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7:42a - I am Offended!
Well I'm not, but that's the battle cry of one Mahubastard over on LJ in the Overheard In New York Feed.
ONYC is a site where folks can send in bits and pieces of conversations heard in The Big Apple. It's very interesting and Wedsday is One-Liner Day. Where we only get stuff one person says. Todays was full of lines that could be seen as racist, but are so outragous you can't help but smile.
Mahubastard isn't smiling. (s)he cries foul and proceeds to demand that LJ'ers stand up for integrity, God, Apple Pie, Pupples and copius amounts of spooge. Which is everywhere as the rest of the feed tells her to STFU.
Good times, y'all, Good times.
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/overheardnyc/1015603.html
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4:53p - The Internet Didn't Exist!
http://community.livejournal.com/mock_the_stupid/2119131.html?thread=50482907#t50482907
Some quotes verbatim, some not.
![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) mock_the_stupid post: Here is a small list of things that she made us write in our exercise books, under the illusion that in the 1900s...they weren't invented...
- Computers
- Televisions
- Supermarkets
- Bathrooms
Gee, technology sure has evolved in these past few years!
littlekatydid: uh. you sure she didn't mean the DECADE 1900s? Like from 1900-1910? Cuz, yanno, those things didn't exist 100 years ago...
Other people: Uh, some things (bathrooms, especially) were invented then.
littlekatydid: The toilet was invented (in America, where we for some stupid reason didn't learn from the Brits) in 1875. Somehow I doubt it was in common use by 1900.
peebs1701: How on earth does "in common use" = "invented" By that definition the internet wasn't invented until at least the 90's.
littlekatydid: The internet wasn't invented until the '90s. What we had before that was nothing that even vageuly resembles the internet. We had BBS's, a few networks such as TSN, etc, but these can hardly be called "the internet".
peebs1701: world wide web != internet
littlekatydid: www = internet.
peebs1701: *links to Wiki article*
littlekatydid: Right, because anyone interested in accuracy uses Wiki to prove a point. For all I know, you wrote that article. And besides, the system of interconnected systems didn't exist until the 90s. The military had theirs, but that didn't do any one else any good. Its kind of like the toilet. It might have tecnhically existed, but no one knew of it, or used it, so it may as well not have.
fugaciouslover: Wow. For someone so interested in accuracy, you sure are free and easy with your convenient definitions.
I love the way you've decided that "just because the military had it doesn't mean it was *invented*, because they didn't share it with anyone else!"
The military had theirs, but that didn't do any one else any good. Its kind of like the toilet. It might have tecnhically existed, but no one knew of it, or used it, so it may as well not have.
BWAAA HAAA HAHAHAHAHA!
Wank ensues.
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