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ME!!!!

Eat it, fuckers!

― Michael (Oakland Mike), Sunday, 17 December 2006 02:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Slow year?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 17 December 2006 02:51 (seventeen years ago) link

i hate that fucking guy.

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Sunday, 17 December 2006 02:52 (seventeen years ago) link

brutal. so weak.

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Sunday, 17 December 2006 02:52 (seventeen years ago) link

You were named TIME magazine's "Person of the Year" on Saturday for the explosive growth and influence of user-generated Internet sites such as YouTube, Facebook and MySpace. You were chosen over Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, North Korea's Kim Jong Il and Donald Rumsfeld. Congratulations.

Wait a second, I was chosen because I spent so much wasted time looking at videos on the internet? Would it not have been me if I wasted that time watching videos on television instead?

― Michael (Oakland Mike), Sunday, 17 December 2006 02:55 (seventeen years ago) link

fire the editor

― friday on the porch (lfam), Sunday, 17 December 2006 02:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Donald Rumsfeld is in your extended network.

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Sunday, 17 December 2006 02:56 (seventeen years ago) link

we all know the real person of the year is the lizard kinG!!1

― friday on the porch (lfam), Sunday, 17 December 2006 02:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Yay us! Is there a cash prize?

― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 17 December 2006 03:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Dubya uses the Google

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Sunday, 17 December 2006 05:01 (seventeen years ago) link

It's a series of tubes!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Sunday, 17 December 2006 05:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Bobby Bowden blames Ebay for Son's Departure

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Sunday, 17 December 2006 05:07 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/8062/oldcomputersk9.jpg

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Sunday, 17 December 2006 05:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha, when I visited that link I got a car ad that said "you might not be the person of the year but..." etc. Bad year to pick that slogan!

― walterkranz (walterkranz), Sunday, 17 December 2006 06:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I think their reluctance to piss off subscribers by naming scary evil people pretty much dooms them to making these cutesy-ass choices until the end of time.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 17 December 2006 06:35 (seventeen years ago) link

How fucking lame.

― editio princeps (pato.g27), Sunday, 17 December 2006 06:43 (seventeen years ago) link

And they didn't give me the front cover! Lily Allen fucking better say something about that.

― editio princeps (pato.g27), Sunday, 17 December 2006 06:44 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/lynskey/timeperson2.gif

― 5v5 fbf kark medonly (TimRussert), Sunday, 17 December 2006 08:47 (seventeen years ago) link

They should've just give it to "I'm the Pope" guy.

― Fat Lady Wrestler (Modal Fugue), Sunday, 17 December 2006 12:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I saw some thing on CNN ysterday aft discusing all the nominees and most were negative: Rumsfeld, president of Iran etc. When "youtube" got mentioned as a long shot I turned to my wife and said "bingo!"

oh man I should've placed a bet or something! gots my finger on the zeitgiest, dudes!

― mark coleman (lovebug ), Sunday, 17 December 2006 12:41 (seventeen years ago) link

You like me! You really, really like me!

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Sunday, 17 December 2006 13:35 (seventeen years ago) link

the person of the year is clearly the guy that invented the sausage pancakes on a stick

― without you i'm nothing (get bent), Sunday, 17 December 2006 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the "You" they're talking about is the one guy who still subscribes to Time Magazine.

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Sunday, 17 December 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

i read time at work occasionally. it is filled with factaloids. or mcfactanuggets. or tidfactbits.

― scott seward (121212), Sunday, 17 December 2006 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

factrinos

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 17 December 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Is a factaloid a fact combined with an Altoid (curiosly strong!) to make it easier to stomach?

― alison murchie (aimurchie), Sunday, 17 December 2006 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

the one guy who still subscribes to Time Magazine.

Then it's me! Oh joy!

― debito (debito), Sunday, 17 December 2006 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Is it still the Information Age? How retro!

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 17 December 2006 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link

You were chosen over Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, North Korea's Kim Jong Il and Donald Rumsfeld.

You were chosen because you were completely bland, inoffensive and uncontroversial.

― Leon Czolgosz (Leon), Sunday, 17 December 2006 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh god, that flash slideshow is like a bad Zune ad.

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Sunday, 17 December 2006 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/5807/haxghtjkjdjhjazqewmbnojf7v7g7aigmd3.jpg

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Sunday, 17 December 2006 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I the actual Person of the Year was the first one who bought it or looked at the cover. It was for HIM/HER. And now we're all just cheap fake imitation posers.

― RIYL Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Sunday, 17 December 2006 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

http://static.twoday.net/augenzuppler/images/lebowski_time_mirror.jpg

― wmlynch (wlynch), Sunday, 17 December 2006 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

WTF

― hoo keeps it steen/and they love that shit (hoosteen), Sunday, 17 December 2006 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link

hmm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_the_Year

Since 1927, every serving President of the United States has been a Person of the Year at least once with the exceptions of Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover and Gerald Ford.

1950: The American Fighting-Man (first abstract chosen)
1960: U.S. scientists (represented by Linus Pauling, Isidor Rabi, Edward Teller, Adam Fisher, Donald A. Glaser, Willard Libby, Robert Woodward, Charles Draper, William Shockley, Emilio Segre, John Enders, Charles Townes, George Beadle, James Van Allen and Edward Purcell)
1966: The Generation Twenty-Five and Under
1968: Apollo 8 Astronauts Frank Borman (b. 1928), Jim Lovell (b. 1928), William Anders (b. 1933)
1969: The Middle Americans
1975: American Women (represented by Betty Ford, Carla Hills, Ella Grasso, Barbara Jordan, Susie Sharp, Jill Conway, Billy Jean King, Susan Brownmiller, Addie Wyatt, Kathleen Byerly, Carol Sutton and Alison Cheek)
1982: The Computer (first non-human abstract chosen)
1988: Endangered Earth (Planet of the Year)
1993: The Peacemakers: Nelson Mandela (b. 1918), F.W. de Klerk (b. 1936), Yasser Arafat (1929–2004), and Yitzhak Rabin (1922–1995)
1998: Bill Clinton (b. 1946) (2nd time) and Kenneth Starr (b. 1946)
2002: The Whistleblowers: Cynthia Cooper of Worldcom (b. 1963), Sherron Watkins of Enron (b. 1959), and Coleen Rowley of the FBI (b. 1954)
2003: The American Soldier (2nd time)
2005: The Good Samaritans: Bono (b. 1960), Bill Gates (b. 1955), and Melinda Gates (b. 1964)
2006: You - Referencing contributors to user created content "for seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game, TIME's Person of the Year for 2006 is you." [2]

― jw (ex machina), Sunday, 17 December 2006 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e0/TIME_cover_Persons_of_the_Year_2005.jpg

it could be worse!

― jw (ex machina), Sunday, 17 December 2006 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

hahah otm

― latebloomer's mayan name is tapir ballz (clonefeed), Sunday, 17 December 2006 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

the 'person of the year', just like last year and the year before that and the year before that and maybe the year before that, is obviously Bush. Time just doesn't want to be accused of 'hating America'.

― nuneb (nuneb), Sunday, 17 December 2006 23:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Dear Bono,

Why does God exist?

I love you,

kv_nol

― kv_nol (kv_nol), Sunday, 17 December 2006 23:37 (seventeen years ago) link

this year's runner-up = Putin?

― nuneb (nuneb), Sunday, 17 December 2006 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link

http://static.flickr.com/41/95084582_54daec95d1_m.jpg

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/f/f2/150px-Mad_pacman_cover_large.jpg

― Abbott (Abbott), Monday, 18 December 2006 00:11 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.political-news.org/images/thumbnails/iran-president-blasts-us.jpg

"...I was screwed over! Fuck you, Bush!"

― editio princeps (pato.g27), Monday, 18 December 2006 00:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I had that MAD issue. And might still do.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 18 December 2006 02:35 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.thethirteenthstep.com/sa/no%20u.jpg

― amon (amon), Monday, 18 December 2006 02:45 (seventeen years ago) link

http://themot.org/gallery/d/2650-2/videodromenou.jpg

― amon (amon), Monday, 18 December 2006 02:49 (seventeen years ago) link

http://themot.org/gallery/d/2630-1/noudonkey.jpg

― amon (amon), Monday, 18 December 2006 02:51 (seventeen years ago) link

http://themot.org/gallery/d/59439-1/yau.jpg

― amon (amon), Monday, 18 December 2006 02:54 (seventeen years ago) link

http://themot.org/gallery/d/2576-1/NOuORLYgay.gif

― amon (amon), Monday, 18 December 2006 02:56 (seventeen years ago) link

"the google" video is the funniest thing I have seen in weeks. Thank you, so much, for that link.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Monday, 18 December 2006 03:55 (seventeen years ago) link

(Planet of the Year)

What the fuck.

― Michael (Oakland Mike), Monday, 18 December 2006 04:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Someone photoshop this guy onto the cover:

http://videofinds.com/media/1/20051024-starwarskid.jpg

Because that's basically what the flimsy premise of the article amounts to.

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Monday, 18 December 2006 04:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Can't we vote to change it to the 'O RLY' owl?

― sgh (sgh), Monday, 18 December 2006 05:07 (seventeen years ago) link

My first thought was Chavez. But oh well, me, that's cool too.

― Zachary Scott (Zachary S), Monday, 18 December 2006 05:50 (seventeen years ago) link

it's like you think people can;t come up with any new ways of being an asshole and then time names you person of there year and yr all i will not stop fighting until i am people sexiest man alive.

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Monday, 18 December 2006 06:16 (seventeen years ago) link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/de/Time_(Simpsons).jpg/200px-Time_(Simpsons).jpg

― sgh (sgh), Monday, 18 December 2006 06:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Can't we vote to change it to the 'O RLY' owl?

This makes more sense.

― jw (ex machina), Monday, 18 December 2006 07:39 (seventeen years ago) link

THE PERSON-SIZED HOLE IN TIME'S PSYCHE SHALL BE FILLED BY AVIANS

― latebloomer (clonefeed), Monday, 18 December 2006 09:12 (seventeen years ago) link

does anyone truly buy into the "democratized internet utopia" thing?

― latebloomer (clonefeed), Monday, 18 December 2006 09:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Let's have a vote!

does anyone truly buy into the "democratized internet utopia" thing?

I don't.

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 18 December 2006 09:25 (seventeen years ago) link

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