Could You Please Dial The Interweb For Me, Mr. Biden?

[Undesired Walrus]

BPSCG, do you think it would have been fair for left-wing people to jump all over a mistake like this coming from Bush's mouth?

 

[Puppycow]

Ted Stevens: The Internet is a series of tubes (techno mashup)


W: The internets and the Google


ETA:
A different techno remix of Ted Steven's speech

 

[Beerina]

Add me to the list of people who don't care very much but who think the current common usage is silly.

It literally makes me blow my top, figuratively speaking.

 

[johnny karate]

Some things are beyond mockery.

Consider me burned.

It doesn't change the fact that over the last decade the verbal gaffes of Democrats is a drop in the ocean compared to the bottomless wellspring of stupid that's come from the Republicans.

 

[Nitpick]

I, too, find the frequent improper use of "literally" annoying.

Unfortunately, few people care.

I don't mean to (further) derail the thread, but I have to disagree. Obviously, "literally" is often being used to intensify a metaphorical statement. Someone uses a metaphor, but denies that it is a metaphor by suggesting that things are relly, literally as stated - which of course they are not, the person is simply using an "augmented", a "second-degree" metaphor...
Probably though, the effect has long worn off due to frequent usage...

An interesting read, I believe:
http://www.slate.com/id/2129105/

 

[fuelair]

I agree. It literally burns me up.

Darn, we surely will miss you!!!

 

[fuelair]

it literally makes me blow my top, figuratively speaking.

try

 

[Yalius]

Consider me burned.

It doesn't change the fact that over the last decade the verbal gaffes of Democrats is a drop in the ocean compared to the bottomless wellspring of stupid that's come from the Republicans.

Nah, it's just that, over the previous decade, the Democrats were of such marginal importance that their verbal gaffes went unnoticed. Now that there is a Democrat center-stage, the gaffes will come be coming steady and thick. Foot-in-mouth disease is definitely bipartisan.

 

[Nitpick]

Ok, wrong time for an attempt to a serious discussion I guess...

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

I'm appalled. Apparently some stupid moron working for Biden didn't even bother remembering one measly little IP address.

IP address? You mean like a dotted quad?

When asked, I usually just give 127.0.0.0

 

[Grizzly Bear]

Consider me burned.

It doesn't change the fact that over the last decade the verbal gaffes of Democrats is a drop in the ocean compared to the bottomless wellspring of stupid that's come from the Republicans.

I do believe it's merely a contest of which party gets noticed more... It runs in cycles depending on which party is in power. Party-line bias doesn't change it...

 

[WildCat]

Consider me burned.

It doesn't change the fact that over the last decade the verbal gaffes of Democrats is a drop in the ocean compared to the bottomless wellspring of stupid that's come from the Republicans.

You obviously haven't heard many press conferences by Mayor Daley.

 

[johnny karate]

Nah, it's just that, over the previous decade, the Democrats were of such marginal importance that their verbal gaffes went unnoticed. Now that there is a Democrat center-stage, the gaffes will come be coming steady and thick. Foot-in-mouth disease is definitely bipartisan.

I do believe it's merely a contest of which party gets noticed more... It runs in cycles depending on which party is in power. Party-line bias doesn't change it...

Maybe, but it certainly helps when the Democrat in question is an eloquent, educated man, as opposed to the stuttering doofus who held his job previously.

 

[johnny karate]

You obviously haven't heard many press conferences by Mayor Daley.

"Stupid thing said by The President" trumps "stupid things said by a mayor" every time.

 

[WildCat]

"Stupid thing said by The President" trumps "stupid things said by a mayor" every time.

Are those goalposts that easy to move about?

 

[Grizzly Bear]

Maybe, but it certainly helps when the Democrat in question is an eloquent, educated man, as opposed to the stuttering doofus who held his job previously.

Somehow Biden doesn't quite fit in that area...

 

[BPSCG]

Somehow Biden doesn't quite fit in that area...

True - Biden isn't a stuttering doofis.

 

[peptoabysmal]

Consider me burned.

It doesn't change the fact that over the last decade the verbal gaffes of Democrats is a drop in the ocean compared to the bottomless wellspring of stupid that's come from the Republicans.

That all depends on what the definition of "is" is.

 

[Tsukasa Buddha]

Ladies and gentleman, the police aren’t there to create disorder. The police are there to preserve disorder!

 

[Alareth]

Can anyone explain to me why an old man forgetting the name of a website and misunderstanding internet terminology is in any way newsworthy?

It's really sad that the partisanship in this country is so deep that each side has to dig this deep to create an attack on the other side.