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08 March 2009

This Thread Is For Sentences That Would Have Been Gibberish 20 Years Ago... →[More:]

Please either:

a. write a sentence that makes sense now but would have been incomprehensible in the 80's, or:

b. make a future sentence that will only make sense 20 years from now.

Example: I got your Tweet on my iPhone but when I Googled you, it was all fuxxored and I got a 404.

post by: Lipstick Thespian at: 21:34 | 31 comments

Total derail, but sorta relevant in my head.
ME: Email it to me.
HER: It's not digital.
ME: Scan it.
HER: How?
ME: Take it somewhere to be scanned then.
HER: That's too complicated. Can I fax it to you? What's your fax number?
ME: I don't have one.
(Both sigh.)
HER: Should I drop it off?
ME: That seems like a pain in the ass. You're across town.
HER: Well, I'll just put it in the mail. You'll get it tomorrow.
ME: Yeah, okay.

posted by typewriter 08 March | 21:47

This thread is four sentences about a 20-year-old Ben Gibbard.

posted by brainwidth 08 March | 22:02

Where are you?

I'm over by the bar waving at you.

posted by octothorpe 08 March | 22:06

a. write a sentence that makes sense now but would have been incomprehensible in the 80's

FAIL!

PWNED!

posted by jason's_planet 08 March | 22:06

write a sentence that makes sense now but would have been incomprehensible in the 80's

I'm running out of room on my laptop's 220 gigabyte hard drive.

posted by Hugh Janus 08 March | 22:17

He texted me but the fact that he typed "lol" makes me think I don't want to friend him on facebook.

posted by scody 08 March | 22:28

Obama... followed by anything.

Osama... followed by anything.

Our touchless middleware management tool monitors your distributed apps without instrumentation and provides real time, actionable, feedback via a descrete java client, email, tweets, or a touchless thinware client.

posted by arse_hat 08 March | 22:34

My kids never pick up so I just text them.

posted by Claudia_SF 08 March | 22:35

Sir Edward Kennedy

posted by netbros 08 March | 22:45

My message is going to go all the way to California before you get it where you are sitting next to me.

posted by jessamyn 08 March | 23:09

Are we friends on Facebook? I can't remember. I'm sure we have contacts in common -- if not, just do search for my name.

posted by treepour 08 March | 23:38

(X) cat is (X).

posted by arse_hat 08 March | 23:40

"You've played through Portal, right?"

posted by arse_hat 08 March | 23:44

If by gibberish, you include speech that would have got you a one-way ticket to the psych ward:

The Secretary of State for the last 4 years was a conservative black woman serving a Republican president. The succeeding president is a black man whose strongest opponent during the entire run was a former First Lady.

The world is on the brink of depression due to rampant residential mortgage foreclosures in the United States.

The Atlanta Falcons were in Superbowl XXXIII.

posted by Ardiril 09 March | 00:17

Plox for tweeting that YouTube mashup w/ Gov. Schwarzenegger and Obama -- I thought it was a Rickroll, but then I lol'd.

(Not that I'd ever say something like "plox", but hey, it's possible)

posted by Rhaomi 09 March | 00:51

I'm reading an awesome ebook called "The Essential Guide to Geocaching" on my Kindle; I saw it linked on somebody's blog, and got it delivered wirelessly via whispernet from Amazon a couple minutes later.

posted by taz 09 March | 01:06

I shot a photo of my Ipod Nano with my phone and uploaded a high-rez version to Flickr.

I'm burning all my MP3s to DVD as backup in case my HD crashes.

posted by taz 09 March | 01:14

That Youtube mashup went viral, and now they're even playing it at MSM places like Fox.

Even the best antivirus and firewall software with up to date definitions can't reliably protect against things like phishing and socially engineered viruses and trojans.

I stop now.

posted by taz 09 March | 01:25

So I herd you liek mudkips.

posted by Daniel Charms 09 March | 02:45

OMG, I'm sitting here on the train, browsing Facebook (lucky I changed from IE to Firefox, or I'd be bombarded by pop-ups - that greasemonky script you posted to MeFi is great, BTW) and listening to some new mp3s I downloaded from iTunes last night. I tried to Google that new add-on for Firefox you twittered about, but the site is 404. Can you e-mail me the address - I'll check my mail later on my phone and text you if it works for me. Is there a link to it on your blog?

OK, more than one sentense, I know.

posted by dg 09 March | 03:45

My computer has four gigs of RAM.

posted by Melismata 09 March | 08:51

They need to do way instain mothers who kill thier babbys, because these babby can't frihgt back.

Move Zig, for great justice.

posted by ROU Xenophobe 09 March | 09:45

posted by Melismata 09 March | 09:54

Sure, tweet me when you get there and I'll check googlemaps for directions.

posted by dabitch 09 March | 10:33

i can haz chzburgr?

posted by eatdonuts 09 March | 13:10

1. You need start thinking outside the box and embrace the new paradigm of organizational synergy here.

2. This mission-critical function is win-win as you bring value-added solutions and resources that leverage your skill set and exploit your core competencies.

posted by danf 09 March | 13:19

Oh, and remember mail rooms? Like the one in "The Secret of My Success"? Inter-office memo envelopes? They don't exist. Our major company has one secretary/administrative assistant for the entire floor.

We actually have a mail room, but it's integrated with shipping/receiving. We also use inter-office envelopes. They are totally old-school but how else can the Benefits department transmit sensitive info? But yeah, we only have 3 secretaries and 3 clerical staff for 100 employees.

posted by muddgirl 09 March | 13:36

We have not only a mail room in the building, but a separate mail scanning facility in a separate location, where all our mail is x-rayed, sniffed and probed for suspicious contents before it even gets to the mail room. Who in the '80s would have thought it wasn't safe to open your own mail or that courier deliveries would be banned unless previously cleared with security?

posted by dg 09 March | 15:18

a separate mail scanning facility in a separate location, where all our mail is x-rayed, sniffed and probed for suspicious contents before it even gets to the mail room.

Yep, we have the same setup here. If you get a large package or envelope, it's stamped "X-RAYED" by the time it reaches your desk.

posted by BoringPostcards 09 March | 15:20

You need start thinking outside the box and embrace the new paradigm of organizational synergy here.

That's like a Twinkie - it will never be good for you nor will it ever rot(go out of style)

I remember writing up some "you might be a geek if"

...Someone asks for your adddress and you say: "Internet or Bitnet"?

...You know what FIDONet is

...the pizza place recognizes your voice and you hang up - you get your pizza on time

etc.

Gibberish 20 years ago...or completely different meaning...

He got on to my space and totally trashed me.

I washed my nano but it still works!

My keyring got corrupted - now what?

posted by lysdexic 09 March | 16:28

yeah, fergot to mention I wrote up that "u mite be a geek if" 20 years ago. Old geek is old.

posted by lysdexic 09 March | 16:29

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