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Telegraph explains 'Why Heath Ledger will blow us'

Roger Ruffley

Blow our what? 

Posted Friday 11th July 2008 12:22 GMT

Paris Hilton

Asks Telegraph interviewer Mr Hisc*ck...

You couldn't make this stuff up!

Paris because... oh, go figure that one out for yourselves.

Anonymous Coward

It takes 22.3 years... 

Posted Friday 11th July 2008 12:22 GMT

Unhappy

...for something to become funny.

Making a mistake like this with a living person would have been hilarious. But it's too soon. I'm just... not... ready!

Ashley Pomeroy

Gone with the wind 

Posted Friday 11th July 2008 12:22 GMT

Paris Hilton

Why is it that every story in The Register eventually turns into a discussion about skullfucking? Why is that?

Havin_it

Could have been worse 

Posted Friday 11th July 2008 12:22 GMT

Coat

given the author's name, had it been a 'personal' review.

"Heath Ledger blows Hiscock (away in the Dark Knight)", anyone?

Mine's the one with the electric joy-buzzer in the pocket, cheers.

david

Very poor taste... 

Posted Friday 11th July 2008 12:22 GMT

Keep it up!

sabroni

not just computers 

Posted Friday 11th July 2008 12:22 GMT

Happy

years ago the pub we drank in at dinner time had a similar thing on it's jukebox, where "Objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are" by meatloaf appeared as "Meatloaf - Objects in the rear"

Anonymous Coward

@Ashley Pomeroy 

Posted Friday 11th July 2008 13:35 GMT

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Atheregister.co.uk+skullfucking

Hmmmm....

Samantha Clinton

More importantly 

Posted Friday 11th July 2008 16:15 GMT

...where's the exploding fridge story gone??? And BOFH??? The public demand answers!

Nicholas Moore

@AC 

Posted Friday 11th July 2008 19:30 GMT

<pedant>Would help if your Google search could actually work - the site: bit has to be at the end of the search, else it doesn't seem to work. For instance, re-arranging your search brings up this comment page!</pedant>

Alan W. Rateliff, II

Contextual ads can be painful 

Posted Friday 11th July 2008 22:34 GMT

Paris Hilton

A number of years ago, CNN.com had a story about a young boy who drowned in his parents' pool. The tall ad to the right advertised water-proof watches. I have a capture of it to keep as a reminder of taste.

Paris, as a reminder of taste.

David Hotham

Underestimated != Overestimated 

Posted Friday 11th July 2008 23:45 GMT

<pedant>"cannot be underestimated" meaning "cannot be overestimated". Clearly it's all too easy to underestimate the importance of (whatever this article was about)</pedant>

Jamie Jones

"arsenic" 

Posted Saturday 12th July 2008 16:24 GMT

Paris Hilton

Where I used to work, we had a unix system called "arsenic".

Another server had 'remote-login' services setup, as back then, a lot of the user terminals were hard wired into their closest server.

Someone had helpfully set the gecos (account information) field to say "remote login to arsenic"

If you ran the 'finger' command (yes, yes, old joke) to show current logged-in users, the truncation made it appear as:

Remote login to arse

Well, we laughed....

Paris.. Say no more.

theotherone

a bit too 

Posted Sunday 13th July 2008 12:34 GMT

school yard humor innit?

Chris C

Immature and pathetic 

Posted Sunday 13th July 2008 12:44 GMT

Even setting aside for the moment that the person in question is dead, how immature must you be to find a cut-off title bar amusing or funny (especially considering you read the full title in the first half of the title bar)? I bet you get a kick out of saying "boobies", too. What are you, 7 or 8 years old? Then again, given the fascination with Paris Hilton and the Eee girl...

damonlab

rss feeds too 

Posted Monday 14th July 2008 19:13 GMT

Gates Horns

Same goes for RSS feeds.

Just the other week I caught this RSS feed from slashdot "MS To Finally End OEM Licensing".

Imagine how disappointed I was when I clicked on that only to find "MS To Finally End OEM Licensing For Windows 3.11".