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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Dumbest Thing I've Heard In Awhile

Posted by Bill @ 8:35 pm CDT
Filed under: Just Goofin' Off, TV

Slogan from an AT&T commercial I just saw (the context is an imagined future elementary school spelling bee that has been going on for 48 hours with no one eliminated):

Access to the Internet makes all of us smarter.

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1. kenleonard - 08/31/2010 9:05 pm CDT

Only in the sense that, on the internet, no one cares how you spell.

A spelling bee run by online rules would be difficult to judge.

Or, rather, it wud b tuf 2 jge

Sigh ...

2. Inklingstar - 08/31/2010 9:12 pm CDT

They all have smartphones and are checking dictionary.com for each word. :)

3. Shrode - 08/31/2010 9:23 pm CDT

That's a little bit like saying "more money makes you more moral"

4. BiF - 08/31/2010 9:49 pm CDT

Access to the Internet makes one more distracted and reduces their attention span. Leave it to the ad people.

5. Jared - 08/31/2010 9:51 pm CDT

I resent the insinuation. I grew up with the internet and I turned out internet.

6. Bill - 08/31/2010 9:58 pm CDT

Jared - LOL!

7. Bird - 08/31/2010 10:11 pm CDT

It should have read, Access to Thinklings makes all of us smarter.

8. BiF - 08/31/2010 10:48 pm CDT

Um, sorry, Jared. Kids these days!

9. Manders - 09/01/2010 12:28 am CDT

*laughing hysterically*

10. Raindream - 09/01/2010 1:03 pm CDT

The inTerweb hasn't made me smarter today. Maybe tomorrow. How long before one of the elites complains there's too much information out there?

11. Brian in Spring - 09/02/2010 11:09 pm CDT

Back before there was a "www" in front of every address, there may have been some truth to the claim. And then the mouse was created and everything went downhill. Bring back archie and gopher!!!

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