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Some Guy: “The iPhone Winning ‘Invention of the Year’ is an Embarrassment”… of great ideaness!
hannibalchew
At least he took that news better than somebody at crunchgear. I heard that one of the writers at crunchgear, after they found out that the iPhone received invention of the year from Time magazine, got drunk from terpentine and was seen cussing and urinating on a iPhone billboard.
Some Guy: “The iPhone Winning ‘Invention of the Year’ is an Embarrassment”… of great ideaness!
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@hannibalchew – that was me. And that wasn’t urine.
Some Guy: “The iPhone Winning ‘Invention of the Year’ is an Embarrassment”… of great ideaness!
baltwade
I hope and hope and hope that this was written with a touch of sarcasm. Sure, the iPhone is the coolest piece of tech that most people have heard about in the last year, but it doesn’t absolutely nothing important. What about the inventions that actually save people’s lives?
Some Guy: “The iPhone Winning ‘Invention of the Year’ is an Embarrassment”… of great ideaness!
baltwade
“but it doesn’t absolutely nothing important”
Yikes . . . “it does absolutely nothing”
an auto proof reader would be my invention of the year.
