Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
July 18, 2025, 04:41:22 AM

Login with username, password and session length

Search:     Advanced search
we're back, baby
*
Home Help Search Login Register
f13.net  |  f13.net General Forums  |  General Discussion  |  Serious Business  |  Topic: Microsoft hires Stodgy old man in effort to drop image of being stodgy old man. 0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
Pages: [1] Go Down Print
Author Topic: Microsoft hires Stodgy old man in effort to drop image of being stodgy old man.  (Read 3274 times)
Merusk
Terracotta Army
Posts: 27449

Badge Whore


on: August 21, 2008, 05:31:25 AM

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/8/microsoft-hires-seinfeld-to-make-it-cool-but-is-seinfeld-still-cool-

Ok, Seinfeld was cool, once.  Maybe.  That was 10 years ago, though.  Even then his personna was always more of a conservative, somewhat stodgy guy, not a free-spirited bohemian, though.   Plus he's over 50.  Way to target the early 20's demographic with that choice.  swamp poop

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
Hawkbit
Terracotta Army
Posts: 5531

Like a Klansman in the ghetto.


Reply #1 on: August 21, 2008, 05:39:50 AM

/sigh

So now everyone pays an extra $25 on the next version of an overpriced, broken Windows.  Why the hell does Microsoft need to improve their image?  They've already proven that they can release a super-duper turd of an o/s and people will still flock to it.  They need to seriously take that money and use it to make the *next* version not suck. 
schild
Administrator
Posts: 60350


WWW
Reply #2 on: August 21, 2008, 06:06:00 AM

I don't think Silicon Valley would know what cool was if it hit them in the face with a rhinestone-studded model M keyboard.
Trippy
Administrator
Posts: 23657


Reply #3 on: August 21, 2008, 06:10:16 AM

Ohhhhh, I see.
Yegolev
Moderator
Posts: 24440

2/10 WOULD NOT INGEST


WWW
Reply #4 on: August 21, 2008, 08:32:49 AM


Why am I homeless?  Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
Oban
Terracotta Army
Posts: 4662


Reply #5 on: August 21, 2008, 08:46:08 AM


Palin 2012 : Let's go out with a bang!
Yegolev
Moderator
Posts: 24440

2/10 WOULD NOT INGEST


WWW
Reply #6 on: August 21, 2008, 09:05:10 AM


Why am I homeless?  Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
Brogarn
Terracotta Army
Posts: 1372


Reply #7 on: August 21, 2008, 10:08:00 AM

Oban
Terracotta Army
Posts: 4662


Reply #8 on: August 21, 2008, 10:13:43 AM

You really need to watch the whole thing. 

Palin 2012 : Let's go out with a bang!
Paelos
Contributor
Posts: 27075

Error 404: Title not found.


Reply #9 on: August 21, 2008, 11:35:01 AM

It's like they just released an ape on stage.

CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
HaemishM
Staff Emeritus
Posts: 42666

the Confederate flag underneath the stone in my class ring


WWW
Reply #10 on: August 21, 2008, 12:33:06 PM


Lantyssa
Terracotta Army
Posts: 20848


Reply #11 on: August 21, 2008, 03:01:45 PM

What does a half-bald guy look like when going Super Saiyan? huh

Hahahaha!  I'm really good at this!
Triforcer
Terracotta Army
Posts: 4663


Reply #12 on: August 21, 2008, 08:35:35 PM

I hate the Apple commercial guy.  Always with that smarmy, self-satisfied little "I'm hip" smirk.  I want to punch him in the neck. 

All life begins with Nu and ends with Nu.  This is the truth!  This is my belief! At least for now...
NowhereMan
Terracotta Army
Posts: 7353


Reply #13 on: August 22, 2008, 04:17:04 AM

The PC and Mac guys in the UK are a pair of comedians whose characters in their most successful shows are a boring conservative social intovert and a mooching bum that claims to be an artists but is entirely untalented and unsuccessful. I think they cast them quite well.

"Look at my car. Do you think that was bought with the earnest love of geeks?" - HaemishM
K9
Terracotta Army
Posts: 7441


Reply #14 on: August 22, 2008, 05:37:37 AM



 awesome, for real

I love the smell of facepalm in the morning
Oban
Terracotta Army
Posts: 4662


Reply #15 on: August 22, 2008, 06:43:28 AM

Is that Seinfeld?

Palin 2012 : Let's go out with a bang!
Polysorbate80
Terracotta Army
Posts: 2044


Reply #16 on: August 22, 2008, 08:39:10 AM

What does a half-bald guy look like when going Super Saiyan? huh

Something like this?


“Why the fuck would you ... ?” is like 80% of the conversation with Poly — Chimpy
Pages: [1] Go Up Print 
f13.net  |  f13.net General Forums  |  General Discussion  |  Serious Business  |  Topic: Microsoft hires Stodgy old man in effort to drop image of being stodgy old man.  
Jump to:  

Powered by SMF 1.1.10 | SMF © 2006-2009, Simple Machines LLC