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Posted by: ind06 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Sen. McCain logged onto the Internet 9:00 AM Sunday, "I can't get this [expletive] thing to work," McCain said as he struggled with his computer's mouse, causing wife Cindy to prompt him to add he was "just kidding."

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ind061 month, 2 weeks ago

IN RELATED NEWS: McCain has announced that, though his knowledge of the internet, touch tone phones and other "new-fangled do-dads" is possibly lacking he has made a plan to appoint his great grand nephew Sherman as "Whippersnapper Nonsense Czar".
"If it's new and I don't care about it, Sherman will handle it," a buoyant McCain stated. "Yeah, they tell me he knows all about that [expletive][expletive]. The kid wears weird clothes, you ask me [expletive]..."
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  uncle-dave1 month, 2 weeks ago
  
  Senator McCain also got some advice from fellow Senator Ted Stevens. Senator Stevens explained that the internets was a series of tubes and that seemed to allay some of Senator McCains fears. His only question was "how much postage does it take to send a first class email"? To which Senator Stevens replied "just try to get your head around the tube thing John".
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berkeley1 month, 2 weeks ago

obviously, it wasn't a mac.
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  ind061 month, 2 weeks ago
  
  Or even a quarter pounder
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tehranchik1 month, 2 weeks ago

Was he wearing a flak-jacket?
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  uncle-dave1 month, 2 weeks ago
  
  Yes he was wearing a flak jacket TC! It was a herringbone wool tweed with a pink carnation on the lapel. Stylish, but not pretentious.
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greenmac1 month, 2 weeks ago

I can picture it now ....fumbling from site to site. Joining any site he finds , just for the exposer.
John: Hey Cindy! I found this cool site, Adult Friend Finder. Great people on here.
Cindy: Shut it down John!!!!
John: Hey here is a girl that looks a bit like you... a bit fuzzy on the face.
Cindy: Shut it down john!!
John: She says she is married to an old guy that can't keep up. She is looking for a couple to join her. It says she wants someone to take control... my kind of person. I will drop her note.
Cindy: Shut it down John
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  ind061 month, 2 weeks ago
  
  Too funny Greenmac!LOL!
  John: Hey Cindy! These hippies on Digg sure are rude!
  Cindy: Try another site, honey.
  John: How about this boating site? Propeller. I like boating.
  Cindy: [sigh]
  John: This site isn't about boating at all! It's just more rude kids being rude! Hey, one of these boating site hippies just called me a "leftitard"! What the [expletive]does that mean? Now another one is saying... That's not even a word, they're speaking in hippie-ese! Errawfullmahowe? I'll show you errawfullmahowe!
  Cindy: Don't punch the computer like that John.
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    greenmac1 month, 2 weeks ago
    
    Hey thats how I got here...LOL
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      ind061 month, 2 weeks ago
      
      Errawfulmahowe!
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        Secret_Asian_Man1 month, 2 weeks ago
        
        Confucius say McCain enjoy his CD and 4000 free hours of AOL.
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Mdiar1 month, 2 weeks ago

LOL
Nice one, Ind! By the way... did Propeller just change today or was it earlier? Been gone a bit and still gonna be semi-inactive, but tried submitting a song I came across on YouTube and when I tried to come to Propeller I was directed to an odd page telling me an announcement is incoming!
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CommonDavid1 month, 2 weeks ago

I actually LOL'd when I read this title, good stuff haha
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CommonDavid1 month, 2 weeks ago

I actually LOL'd when I read that title. Good stuff haha
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chevydog1 month, 2 weeks ago

This is truly momentous; though we don't know which of the internets he was on.
The *********** part was that later he saw a Mac-PC commercial and got confused.
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tchef1 month, 2 weeks ago

Funny!
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  ind061 month, 2 weeks ago
  
  Hmmm...
  Some of the time I can reply, but 90% of the time I can't.
  Ditto for voting for posts or comments.
  The edit feature allowing me to correct little spelling errors is gone.
  The category heads are gone from the posts so even more people will be confused by my satire posts
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    RickyDawkins1 month, 2 weeks ago
    
    oh... those were satire... ;)
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willottica1 month, 2 weeks ago

ugh.
I can't reply to a comment.
I can't find good stories, it seems because the rating system doesn't work very well.
The change was today. I don't think I'll be back much.
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Natureboy1 month, 2 weeks ago

McCain commented on how far technology has progressed from the cuneiform tablets he used as a child.
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Neophile1 month, 2 weeks ago

did someone say lemon party?
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  ind061 month, 2 weeks ago
  
  Hmmm...
  Some of the time I can reply, but 90% of the time I can't.
  Ditto for voting for posts or comments.
  The edit feature allowing me to correct little spelling errors is gone.
  The category heads are gone from the posts so even more people will be confused by my satire posts
  The popular vids category is gone, so there go half my posts with it.
  I spent 45 minutes trying to sign in this morning, now that I'm finally here I'm afraid to sign out
  I don't understand the 10 point scare of wonderfulness and can only wonder why a simple concept like vote numbers was abandoned, or at least hidden away.
  I only THOUGHT I didn't understand the algorithm, now I'm CERTAIN I have no clue. Stories rated 10.0 that have 0 votes and 0 comments?
  The home page seems to consist of articles that at my charitable best could only be described as "spammy"
  The bookmark "submit this to propeller" button has been replaced by a copy and paste the URL here "function" This is not actually a function at all but more correctly the LACK of a function. Why replace a one-click feature with a copy and paste manual dexterity challenge?
  I've had my attempts at commenting deleted as 'spam" twice, but that's actually a step up, because my comments to the "How Do You Like The New Propeller?" thread never showed up at all.
  Other than that, I think it's a GREAT overhaul. WELL worth the wait! :D :D :D
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        ind061 month, 2 weeks ago
        
        Hmmm...
        Some of the time I can reply, but 90% of the time I can't.
        Ditto for voting for posts or comments.
        The edit feature allowing me to correct little spelling errors is gone.
        The category heads are gone from the posts so even more people will be confused by my satire posts
        The popular vids category is gone, so there go half my posts with it.
        I spent 45 minutes trying to sign in this morning, now that I'm finally here I'm afraid to sign out
        I don't understand the 10 point scare of wonderfulness and can only wonder why a simple concept like vote numbers was abandoned, or at least hidden away.
        I only THOUGHT I didn't understand the algorithm, now I'm CERTAIN I have no clue. Stories rated 10.0 that have 0 votes and 0 comments?
        The home page seems to consist of articles that at my charitable best could only be described as "spammy"
        The bookmark "submit this to propeller" button has been replaced by a copy and paste the URL here "function" This is not actually a function at all but more correctly the LACK of a function. Why replace a one-click feature with a copy and paste manual dexterity challenge?
        I've had my attempts at commenting deleted as 'spam" twice, but that's actually a step up, because my comments to the "How Do You Like The New Propeller?" thread never showed up at all.
        Other than that, I think it's a GREAT overhaul. WELL worth the wait! :D :D :D
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        ind061 month, 2 weeks ago
        
        Hmmm...
        Some of the time I can reply, but 90% of the time I can't.
        Ditto for voting for posts or comments.
        The edit feature allowing me to correct little spelling errors is gone.
        The category heads are gone from the posts so even more people will be confused by my satire posts
        The popular vids category is gone, so there go half my posts with it.
        I spent 45 minutes trying to sign in this morning, now that I'm finally here I'm afraid to sign out
        I don't understand the 10 point scare of wonderfulness and can only wonder why a simple concept like vote numbers was abandoned, or at least hidden away.
        I only THOUGHT I didn't understand the algorithm, now I'm CERTAIN I have no clue. Stories rated 10.0 that have 0 votes and 0 comments?
        The home page seems to consist of articles that at my charitable best could only be described as "spammy"
        The bookmark "submit this to propeller" button has been replaced by a copy and paste the URL here "function" This is not actually a function at all but more correctly the LACK of a function. Why replace a one-click feature with a copy and paste manual dexterity challenge?
        I've had my attempts at commenting deleted as 'spam" twice, but that's actually a step up, because my comments to the "How Do You Like The New Propeller?" thread never showed up at all.
        Other than that, I think it's a GREAT overhaul. WELL worth the wait! :D :D :D
        Reply
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        ind061 month, 2 weeks ago
        
        Hmmm...
        Some of the time I can reply, but 90% of the time I can't.
        Ditto for voting for posts or comments.
        The edit feature allowing me to correct little spelling errors is gone.
        The category heads are gone from the posts so even more people will be confused by my satire posts
        The popular vids category is gone, so there go half my posts with it.
        I spent 45 minutes trying to sign in this morning, now that I'm finally here I'm afraid to sign out
        I don't understand the 10 point scare of wonderfulness and can only wonder why a simple concept like vote numbers was abandoned, or at least hidden away.
        I only THOUGHT I didn't understand the algorithm, now I'm CERTAIN I have no clue. Stories rated 10.0 that have 0 votes and 0 comments?
        The home page seems to consist of articles that at my charitable best could only be described as "spammy"
        The bookmark "submit this to propeller" button has been replaced by a copy and paste the URL here "function" This is not actually a function at all but more correctly the LACK of a function. Why replace a one-click feature with a copy and paste manual dexterity challenge?
        I've had my attempts at commenting deleted as 'spam" twice, but that's actually a step up, because my comments to the "How Do You Like The New Propeller?" thread never showed up at all.
        Other than that, I think it's a GREAT overhaul. WELL worth the wait! :D :D :D
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