Wired Magazine's 2006 Foot-in-Mouth Awards

[Ian David]

By Tony Long| Also by this reporter
02:00 AM Dec, 26, 2006

Welcome to Wired News' 2006 Foot-in-Mouth Awards program. You, the readers, have sent us your picks for the lamest quotes from or about the world of technology during this eventful year. We have selected the "best" of those and present them to you now.

Leading off with a stupid quote from President Bush might seem a little too easy, perhaps unfair, a bit like stealing candy from a blind kid or something. But in a year chockablock with moronic quips, obtuse observations and mind-boggling inanities, you still have to put Dubya front and center. He is, after all, the most powerful man in the world.

"One of the things I've learned on the Google is to pull up maps. It's very interesting to see -- I've forgotten the name of the program -- but you get the satellite, and you can -- like, I kinda like to look at the ranch. It reminds me of where I wanna be sometimes."
-- Bush, asked during an interview with CNBC if he ever googled anybody.

"The Google." How quaint -- if it were coming from your grandmother. (And that would be Google Earth, Mr. President.)

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[PA Democrat]

1. Which of the "internets" do you have to visit to get "the Google"?

Dumb.....as.....a.....rock.

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. No he's not

It's all an act.

Narrow and limited, yes. Stupid, no.

[MindPilot]

4. Nobody is that good; we never see him out-of character.

Jean Stapleton as Edith Bunker is a smart person acting stupid. George Bush is a stupid person trying to act smart.

I don't buy that he's really smart and just playing dumb argument for a minute.

[NewJeffCT]

3. I think it's some tubes and stuff

Didn't a Republic senator say that the internet was made up of some "tubes"?

[karlrschneider]

5. I think it was Ted Stevens

?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

6. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm3Icamb6yM

:rofl: