April 2009
12 posts
“Alberto made the grave mistake of downloading Wall-E for his nephew while...”
– $62,000 movie download a result of poor travel planning - Ars Technica
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Classic Internet Idiot Move.
Dumbo Phone Gaff
Hey, this didn’t happen online, but it was internet-related! I had to call a business contact and scrolled down on my phone and hit “call”, the guy answered, and I then launched into this whole process we had to get rolling my Monday that related (here comes the “internet connection”!) to some web-sites our company maintains.
So I finish telling him this list of...
I recently sent an exposed email, but it's worse...
I work for a fairly up and coming restaurant chain. Perhaps you’ve heard of us. We have a website through which customers can comment on their experiences and sign up for our mailing list, allowing us to notify them of developing news. Part of my job is to keep people up-to-date. Well, recently I was behind on a blast, and waking up late one morning I hurriedly wrote the email, then sent...
Watchlookatthisfuckinghipster:
“Some people say hip-hop is dead. We just do this to make sure.”
Reblogged here because you’re both completely self-aware, or completely not; either way, you two wholly entertaining muppets knew for certain this multi-sensory assault would make its way to solar-powered MacBook Pros everywhere. In Marin. But low and behold, the rest of us have been exposed, and like...
“Once the relationship ends, the internet drama begins.”
– OH, Woman in a McDonald’s. IIM imminent.
Accidental e-mail congratulates 7,000 on admission... →
We have too many lawyers as it is, anyway.
One from the webs...
The Accidental Email
A husband checked into the hotel. There was a computer in his room, so he decided to send an email to his wife. However, he accidentally left out one letter in her email address, and without realizing his error, sent the email.
Meanwhile, somewhere in Houston, a widow had just returned home from her husband’s funeral. He was a minister who was called home to glory...
Internet Idiot Move Near-Miss
OK, so a new client of ours posted on Twitter that he was really upset with this hotel chain for the way they treated him and that they were now “dead to him”. I immediately put a supportive reply together including a link to this article about the “10 Big Companies That Will Disappear This Year” where they list this very hotel chain with which he was upset. I post it on...