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Things you couldn't make up, part XXIIV
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 6:47 am
by Gob
“Mr. Zuckerberg, a magazine I recently opened came with a floppy disk offering me 30 free hours of something called America On-Line. Is that the same as Facebook?”
Re: Things you couldn't make up, part XXIIV
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 6:57 am
by BoSoxGal
Re: Things you couldn't make up, part XXIIV
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 8:59 am
by Bicycle Bill
Things you COULD make up .... the Roman numeral XXIIV.
-"BB"-
Re: Things you couldn't make up, part XXIIV
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 12:00 pm
by Gob
Mea culpa, it's a meme not a quote, I got stung.
Re: Things you couldn't make up, part XXIIV
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 1:48 pm
by Lord Jim
Things you couldn't make up
Except, this was made up...

Re: Things you couldn't make up, part XXIIV
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 3:18 pm
by Big RR
It was?
Re: Things you couldn't make up, part XXIIV
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 3:27 pm
by Crackpot
I haven’t seen this particular exchange but i’ve seen Many that were just as bad.
Things you couldn't make up, part XXIIX
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 4:35 pm
by RayThom
... or this...
Mr. Zuckerberg, How do you sustain a business model in which users don't pay for your service?
(This surprising question came from Utah Senator Orrin Hatch (R). Zuckerberg blinked for a moment--he couldn't believe it either--and then said simply, "Senator we run ads.")
"I see. That's great." Hatch responded.

Re: Things you couldn't make up, part XXIIV
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 4:38 pm
by Lord Jim
Big RR wrote:It was?
After senators began questioning Zuckerberg, some Twitter users were quick to poke fun at the stereotype that older people don’t completely understand his social network.
“Mr. Zuckerberg, a magazine I recently opened came with a floppy disk offering me 30 free hours of something called America On-Line,” journalist Dave Itzkoff captioned a photoset of Sen. Chuck Grassley interrogating Zuck. “Is that the same as Facebook?”
http://time.com/5235340/mark-zuckerberg ... analytica/
Re: Things you couldn't make up, part XXIIX
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 5:05 pm
by Crackpot
RayThom wrote:... or this...
Mr. Zuckerberg, How do you sustain a business model in which users don't pay for your service?
(This surprising question came from Utah Senator Orrin Hatch (R). Zuckerberg blinked for a moment--he couldn't believe it either--and then said simply, "Senator we run ads.")
"I see. That's great." Hatch responded.

That was one of them
Re: Things you couldn't make up, part XXIIV
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2018 1:17 am
by Scooter
Re: Things you couldn't make up, part XXIIV
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2018 3:06 am
by BoSoxGal
Re: Things you couldn't make up, part XXIIV
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2018 3:26 pm
by Big RR
Why does the drawing of Zuckerberg look like ones I've seen of Obama?
Re: Things you couldn't make up, part XXIIV
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2018 6:24 pm
by Lord Jim
Similar ears and haircut...
Re: Things you couldn't make up, part XXIIV
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2018 6:49 pm
by Big RR
Sure, but in real life would you ever confuse them, or even think they're related?