AOL fool the world (Well the non-geeks anyway!)

[Valane]

AOL Forced confession (http://www.watleyreview.com/2004/111604-3.html)

"We kept getting copies of the phone book, so I thought AOL was doing that. I also wanted the virus protection, because it was flu season."

Haha, Nice way to end the day :)

[Pingman]

How would that fool any one, it soudsn stupied as anything lol
how can 40% of people subscribing for internet not have computers lol

[Mouse_On_Mars]

Did you know that 'gullible' has been removed from the dictionary?

[Elbonio]

it's not?

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=gullible


:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

[RocketKnight]

Hoisted by my own petard!

[Elbonio]

confound it all! i've been duped!

[Er00]

they subscribed to a company called America OnLine? If they didn;t figure it out then they deserved to be paying money for nothing purely so they may starve and we can cut them out of th gene pool :/

[Cheez]

Just for Er00 and anyone else who didn't realise:

parody n.
pl. parodies

A literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule. See Synonyms at caricature.

[Valane]

hehe :-D

[Er00]

pfft :p: I just woke up dammit :p:

[KingDaveRa]

Another article:

China Secretly Towing Taiwan Closer to Mainland

Hmmmmmmmmmm.

[Steadders]

"Well, I got the disk in the mail, and it said if I wanted to subscribed I should send money to these people," said Carl Lewen, an AOL subscriber in Kentucky who does not own a computer. "It never said anything about having to do anything with the disk. I thought it was kind of like a souvenir."

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[no friends]

I honestly can't stop laughing!!!...

Is this an american website byany chance?

[Qdos]

The scary thing is, that's probably not that far away from the truth. As a systems admin, I've had some pretty dumb things said to me with regards to computers.

Check out http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/ for loads of tech support stories.

[TheDon]

Originally posted by Chris
Just for Er00 and anyone else who didn't realise:

parody n.
pl. parodies

A literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule. See Synonyms at caricature. Or also

sat·ire

A literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit.

Either way, how anyone can believe this and not see it as a joke is beyond me, I mean, yeah people are stupid, but not THAT stupid.

[KingDaveRa]

I'd say it was a satire.

[Er00]

no, really they can be that stupid, trust me :p:

[Valane]

Originally posted by KingDaveRa
I'd say it was a satire.

Hail to the king baby, he ain't no fool.