Wired invites you to participate in the 2006 Foot-in-mouth Awards, a "time to reflect on the year's most idiotic statements from the freewheeling world of technology." The top 2 most popular (and not surprisingly, since they still induce ROFL) are from 1) Dubya:
"Occasionally. One of the things I've used on the Google is to pull up maps. It's very interesting to see--I've forgot the name of the program--but you get the satellite, and you can--like, I kinda like to look at the ranch. It remind me of where I wanna be sometimes."
and 2) a great contender from Senator Ted Stevens:
"I just the other day got... an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, I got it yesterday. Why? [...] They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material"
wha--huh?
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