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- Kylde, on 12/27/2008, -7/+448like 9 yrs ago! February 24, 1999
- stevelucky, on 12/27/2008, -13/+330i didn't notice this was from the onion at first. hilarious!
- Vorg, on 12/28/2008, -10/+287i read the whole article before i realized it was the Onion. I feel so used.
- freesf, on 12/28/2008, -3/+165I don't think that at 13 years old, you can fire anyone
- thepuma77, on 12/27/2008, -30/+189That's the same reason I fired my last employee. He was a real fruit.
- publiclurker, on 12/28/2008, -0/+83I guess a really large lemonade stand could hold two people.
- Kerrigore, on 12/28/2008, -0/+77The photo is from 1998, it's probably a Performa, which is hard to distinguish from a PC from that angle. Based on the structure of the case (rounded bits at front, vertical vents) I would say that is a Performa PowerPC Tower from the 90's. The monitors could be anything, that doesn't matter.
Amazing how everyone now seems to think Apple products have always been white and shiny... unless you were joking... in which case I'm dumb. - ThsGuyRightHere, on 12/27/2008, -14/+85This was funny... when I read it years ago.
- Phatlip012, on 12/28/2008, -3/+72I thought it was real until I read the part about him standing on his head. Then I though, "*****, this is the Onion isn't it?".
- crazylax42, on 12/28/2008, -17/+74buried for being 9 years old
- russj117, on 12/28/2008, -2/+55i know our posters say "think differently," but our real slogan is "no refunds"
- peterinjapan, on 12/28/2008, -0/+44This was actually the first Onion article I ever read. I thought it was real for a couple of years. Dugg.
- Troy64, on 12/28/2008, -1/+38I guess sometimes it takes a while to make it to the front page.
- Murdats, on 12/28/2008, -2/+34wow, thats hardcore.
- yurimxpxman, on 12/28/2008, -4/+33haha.. I didn't notice it was the onion until I got to the part where they said what Apple's new guidelines for individualism were. I got rick rolled!
- AgmLauncher, on 12/28/2008, -2/+30"taking barefoot walks around the Apple campus to "feel more connected to the creative energy of others."
I do that :( - 0260, on 12/28/2008, -0/+25I thought he started working there when he was 15 until I saw the date of the article.
- Saitekc, on 12/28/2008, -2/+27I respect your computer knowledge, may I become your padawan?
- inactive, on 12/28/2008, -3/+27Dude, that article is from 1999. Are you just doing searches for "Apple" on the onion's site and pasting them here at this point?
- arnarag, on 12/28/2008, -1/+25Pedobear would digg that.
- gheide, on 12/28/2008, -0/+23same here... damn onion...
- dan21328, on 12/28/2008, -2/+23No lie, I was halfway into that article before I recognized that particular typeface and font size and realized I was reading a story from The Onion. Good lord.
- Sil369, on 12/28/2008, -0/+19do it do it
- graemee, on 12/28/2008, -1/+19Well NO it's the onion. Real is only a concept.
- gmacneill, on 12/28/2008, -1/+18Hate to admit it, but I read the whole thing before I realized it. It didn't make sense, so I just kept going thinking "wtf" as the article became more ridiculous. The part about the 35 designed puddles for kicking made me stop. Still didn't think to check the URL though...
- chkdg8, on 12/28/2008, -3/+19Prohibited will be such "gratuitously idiosyncratic" behaviors as singing out loud, flying kites and catching butterflies.
Love it! - jvincent08, on 12/28/2008, -1/+16See, you're being buried for thinking different.
- klarthlester, on 12/28/2008, -1/+14Same here. I was about to forward it to an Apple-hating friend. Then again, I may, yet.
- Kerrigore, on 12/28/2008, -2/+15Eh, my family had a Performa 8100 growing up and I went from using that at home to using a 6000 or 7000 series at school quite a bit, so the cases are familiar to me. But that was the dark age of Apple, which most long-time users have tried to forget, so I'm not really surprised that people thought it was a PC (it was Apple's foray into boring beige boxes, which nearly killed them). This also fits with the article, since at the time Apple was just coming out of the dark ages where it was a pretty bad company. Jobs had returned but they had yet to see the success they've had in the 21st century.
- gheide, on 12/28/2008, -4/+17Übergeek...
- needmorechange, on 12/28/2008, -2/+14Funny, but isn't this article like thirty-five years old?
- MeatyMcBeef, on 12/28/2008, -6/+18By knowing that, you sir may very well die alone.
- Kerrigore, on 12/28/2008, -1/+13It's a Performa PowerPC tower
- GuitarDood, on 12/28/2008, -2/+13No it didn't.
- shootermcgavn, on 12/28/2008, -8/+19Onion-rolled. Again.
- DephexTwin, on 12/28/2008, -1/+12It was actually used as the first text to test Gutenberg's moveable type machine.
- EarlOfLade, on 12/28/2008, -0/+10Which makes it even funnier today ten years later and for the exact same reasons as ten years ago. Well done, The Onion!
- Mejogid, on 12/28/2008, -4/+14Wait.... you're not meaning to imply that this article may be some form of parody rather than a factual account, are you?
- ddgromit, on 12/28/2008, -1/+11I just feel dumb.
- mal1964, on 12/28/2008, -2/+12You should have caught that before you hired him.
- Kyan, on 12/28/2008, -0/+9I don't believe any of you people who say you only realised it was the onion after reading into the article.
The first thing I do when I see a digg headline that catches my interest is to check the domain it is from to see if it is one that I don't enjoy readings. That's how I stay away from the Dailymail, Huff post and a few others.
I mean, this is digg, you can't just take for granted that the article will be good based on the headline and blurb...but I'm weird about stuff like that. - jeffhughes, on 12/28/2008, -2/+11Then I don't like you.
- kreatre2007, on 12/28/2008, -1/+10I love The Onion. This of course is a false news article like all of there other stuff. I saw some very "original" and "different" people at Apple's corporate HQ when I was there for training a few years ago. I don't think Apple would fire anyone like this as long as he was doing his job. Apple retail on the other hand... That's a different story. Thinking different at a retail store is not so encouraged. As a Mac Genius at Willow Bend, I came up with a lot of unorthodox solutions to problems when conventional or "approved" methods didn't work. I was always getting lectured by someone over my methods but the funny thing is that when our asses were in the fire over some really difficult, out of the ordinary issue, I was the one called in to fix the problem. The customers were always happy with what I did for them so that's what counts. I'm an Apple consultant now so, I can do what ever the hell I want now.
- Kerrigore, on 12/28/2008, -2/+10satire |ˈsaˌtīr|
noun
the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. See note at wit .
• a play, novel, film, or other work that uses satire : a stinging satire on American politics.
• a genre of literature characterized by the use of satire.
• (in Latin literature) a literary miscellany, esp. a poem ridiculing prevalent vices or follies. - KrazyA1pha, on 12/28/2008, -1/+9To be honest, I missed 'The Onion' logo because my eyes went strait to the picture of the employee. Then, as I always do, I scrolled my page down so the text would start at the top of the screen to avoid distractions. I finally caught suspicion, scrolled up and saw it was the Onion after the 5th paragraph.
I can't imagine someone making it all the way through the article without realizing it was satire, though.
Oh, and sorry about your respect for and faith in humanity... - tyrulz, on 12/28/2008, -3/+11Oh God, get off apple's dick.
- bigsteve, on 12/28/2008, -1/+9Oldest digg submission ever?
I mean, this was about half the internet's life ago (roughly, at least the internet as we know and use it today...) - chewbie, on 12/28/2008, -1/+8wow man! you almost finished the whole article before you realized :)
- Kyan, on 12/28/2008, -2/+9I always cry when I read their articles.
- darylspong, on 12/28/2008, -2/+9You're trying to tell us you didn't see the banner that says "THE ONION" at the top of the page?
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