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The web should be a playground.

news.com.au — THE man whose attempt to pay a bill with a drawing of a spider became an internet sensation says he is a serial prankster who believes the web should be a playground. David Thorne, who runs the website 27bslash6.com, said the "spider drawing" emails became so popular that his site crashed under the strain of hundreds of thousands of visitors...

Who dugg this? Made popular Nov 20, 2008

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  • Rikushix, on 11/20/2008, -0/+23At the very bottom:

    Q: Are there any other humour websites or internet hoaxers that you admire?

    A: I have always enjoyed the social websites such as Digg and Reddit and will quietly admit to 4chan and the like.

    Haha what a surprise
  • DeathJux, on 11/19/2008, -1/+21The web should have no limits imposed on it, period.

    Let each user make of it what s/he will.
  • tawnos, on 11/19/2008, -4/+17Hot though...
  • albyliontk, on 11/19/2008, -5/+18The girl in the picture is very rude!!.
  • Devine122, on 11/19/2008, -3/+15The spider needs one more leg.
  • zimbra, on 11/20/2008, -0/+8Welcome back from wherever you've been the last few weeks.
  • mengland, on 11/20/2008, -0/+7That's the kind of thinking that starts 4chan.
  • puscifer919, on 11/20/2008, -0/+6The guy who won the eBay action for the drawing the of the 7-legged spider should've attempted to pay with a drawing of a 99-legged centipede valued at $10,000.
  • sonicomega, on 11/20/2008, -1/+7She can flip me off all day with a face like that
  • zimbra, on 11/20/2008, -0/+5Couldn't agree more, it's the last place on Earth that hasn't be censored into sterility.
  • Rikushix, on 11/20/2008, -1/+6it would make him a bit of a douchebag if he really didn't pay up and the employee he communicated with was genuinely pissed off...but that didn't happen, sounds like she had a good laugh from the sound of things.
  • Serphyas, on 11/20/2008, -1/+5If you were too lazy to read a few lines down the article, here is the actual e-mail conversation between him and the employee, on his website.

    http://www.27bslash6.com/overdue.html
  • elizabethb221, on 11/20/2008, -2/+6That's the whole point.
  • envirotex, on 11/21/2008, -0/+4Got a chuckle out of,
    "I stay up too late, drink too much coffee, smoke too much, hate getting up in the morning and have a young child who thinks I don't know what he has been up to when he deletes his internet history."
  • Narcowski, on 11/20/2008, -0/+3Too old for pedobear by about ten years.
  • Steveaux, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2Everything is great about the article except that he said he listens to Linkin Park.
  • zimbra, on 11/20/2008, -1/+3I know, been...
  • Van3ck, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1Braaaaaaaaaaaaaa Zilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

    Da da da da da daaaaaaaaah
  • GoodLuckReigh, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1bandwidth restrictions are the new censorship :-(
  • wunksta, on 11/20/2008, -1/+2this makes me happy
  • zimbra, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1I do know, because I read the article.
  • TheCollective00, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1and Digg.
  • Finalreminder, on 11/20/2008, -2/+3That Thorne guy has a great sense of humour.
  • simontsmall, on 12/17/2008, -0/+0and if that site goes down, you can view it here
    http://from.simontsmall.com/2008/12/17/david-thorn ...
  • Fragnarg, on 11/20/2008, -2/+2When I was a boy, kids sold drugs on the playground. Will there be drugs?
  • GoodLuckReigh, on 11/20/2008, -0/+0please run for office
  • envirotex, on 11/21/2008, -1/+1David? Is that you?
  • Gargoyle, on 11/20/2008, -1/+1:-D
  • LongShlong, on 11/20/2008, -4/+2Yeah, but the bill also existed outside of the web, in real life... Which he tried to get out of paying, which makes him a douchebag. A funny douchebag.
  • fknrat, on 11/20/2008, -4/+1Spammers are the bullies taking everyone's lunch money then.
  • dzynz, on 11/20/2008, -6/+3Harry Tuttle?
  • AndrewMoyer, on 11/20/2008, -5/+2I guess the domain name 27bSTROKE6.com must have already been taken.

    (Go rent "Brazil" if you don't know.)
  • jarjarwang, on 11/20/2008, -7/+2"This Used To Be My Playground"
  • Jsmuli2, on 11/20/2008, -8/+3I'd pedo bear you but I don't care to.
  • CopernicusCenji, on 11/20/2008, -7/+1So much for NYPA. Looks like spreading this cancer was all the personal army this ***** needed.
  • ssj2119, on 11/19/2008, -7/+1Spider-web
  • Bullsnot, on 11/20/2008, -10/+2Really??? That was in internet sensation? I thought it was rather boring, I read it and moved on thinking I wasted my time on something not funny.

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