mckitterick: (kenya!)
mckitterick ([personal profile] mckitterick) wrote2005-01-21 01:42 pm
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[identity profile] adammaker.livejournal.com 2005-01-21 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
ow.
Brain hurty.

[identity profile] chernobylred.livejournal.com 2005-01-21 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Dear god. Someone get me a fork so I can poke out my eyes.

[identity profile] mckitterick.livejournal.com 2005-01-21 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
But think of all those teen girls back in 1978 or whatever it was who cut out his posters and hung 'em on the wall.

"Bill Gates is so dreamy! He speaks my language: Basic!"

Heh,
Chris

[identity profile] c3fyn.livejournal.com 2005-01-21 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Aaargh!

[identity profile] geekmom.livejournal.com 2005-01-22 07:58 am (UTC)(link)
Well, luckily it wasn't a teen beat spread: http://www.snopes.com/photos/people/gates.asp

However, the pictures themselves, even as promos for Windows - ewwwww! How did Windows ever sell??!!??

[identity profile] mckitterick.livejournal.com 2005-01-22 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, that's even worse. Wow.

[identity profile] solan-t.livejournal.com 2005-01-21 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Not...even...going...to...look....

[identity profile] solan-t.livejournal.com 2005-01-21 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Nope. Still haven't. Neener-neener! I shall be the only sighted person left. Wahahahahahahah!

[identity profile] mckitterick.livejournal.com 2005-01-21 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
The image of him coyly tossing the 5-1/4" disks is stuck forever in my mind's eye like a porcupine needle embedded in a coyote's eardrum, a 16-ounce hammer sunken into a carpenter's skull, a chunk of Sputnik cratered into the Mojave desert, rusting and festering, destroying habitat and polluting the groundwater.

Chris

[identity profile] mckitterick.livejournal.com 2005-01-21 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Conceits 'R' Us!

Chris

[identity profile] tanuki-green.livejournal.com 2005-01-21 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I'M BLIND!!!!!!!!I'M BLIND!!!!!!!!I'M BLIND!!!!!!!! RED HOT SEARING PAIN!!!! OMG!!!!!!!! I'LL NEVER SEE AGAIN!!!!!

But luckily, I read this before I looked at those pictures!
Microsoft's AntiSpyware Tool Removes Internet Explorer

[identity profile] mckitterick.livejournal.com 2005-01-21 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh heh heh, that's their Evil Plan (TM).

Chris

Musn't look....musn't lo...

[identity profile] c3fyn.livejournal.com 2005-01-21 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Dude! WTF?!?

*whimper*

*slit*

....

Re: Musn't look....musn't lo...

[identity profile] mckitterick.livejournal.com 2005-01-21 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I knew you'd look.

[identity profile] bebemochi.livejournal.com 2005-01-21 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Snopes is everybody's best friend.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/people/gates.asp

[identity profile] solan-t.livejournal.com 2005-01-21 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh @#$% that had the pictures.


*weeps*

[identity profile] mckitterick.livejournal.com 2005-01-22 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Gotcha!

[identity profile] mckitterick.livejournal.com 2005-01-22 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Somehow, it's worse that these were publicity shots - publicity!?

Chris

[identity profile] bebemochi.livejournal.com 2005-01-23 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
I know. I think they were trying to use the "sex sells" route without realizing that Bill Gates is The Anti-Sex.
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