Caption contest: the most depressing thing we've seen all day
By Chris Ziegler 
posted February 18th 2009 8:01PM
posted February 18th 2009 8:01PM
This isn't one of them.
Chris: "Listen, you (expletive), I'm only two months behind on the Easy Bake."
Darren: "Hawha? Iaowe u six five dolars? Huh? Moommiieeee!"
Josh: "It will be a $35 charge to reinstate service, and no, you can't have a cookie."
Richard: "How could I have sent that many SMS? I can't even read. Put your manager on."
Joe: "Is this what they mean by 'the future underwriting the present?'"
Jose: "Sshhhh! I'm talking to my marketing consultant - he loves the banner!"
Paul: "Sure, the hold times suck, but at least they play tunes from The Wiggles in the background."
Nilay: "I'm sorry, but they just haven't taught us the difference between .002 dollars and .002 cents in math class yet."
"You'll break my what? Is that connected to the knee-bone?"
"Shhhh, Bobby be quiet.. my Dad thinks im at Childtime."
"Hmm. Business ethics? It sounds familiar but I can't find it in my corporate handbook."
"Girl, Benny still uses his dads friend to trade stocks...his dads friend! ...HAahahaHAH!"
E-MOBILE PRO? HA!! That's for Babys!! I need a full service broker to handle my trades buddy!!
"Il have you know i cant understand the old thing! Aha? Oh it must be my age for the first one before it"
"I'm a PC and I'm 4 and a half!"
"Ripping u off since since ur 1st steps" lol
"Listen Up Ericsson, If You Ever Want To See Sony Again I Suggest You Tell Us Where Our Windows Mobile 6.5 Devices Are"
Chris wins!
nahh i think nilay wins, big time on that. Have you heard that phone call?
I agree with Ian, Nilay does win. In fact I award her the interwebz.
lol. her.
Perhaps not exciting, but these guys are huge... Back in the 90s I worked for a telecom giant, and their complete backend was provided by this company -- and the same was true pretty much across the board. Insane bucketloads of money, they used to make. Then they got acquired by Sema, then Schlumberger, then Ericsson. Their product was crap back then (I was tasked with reengineering it), it's incredible that it was the best of breed, but it was.
How do you re-engineer billing?
You've obviously never been in billing...Eeesh...
I had to read the sign a few times before i realised. What do they think, a picture of a child will soften the blow when they want to repossess your house because you accidently clicked on the internet button without an unlimited data plan?
I would of thought a more appropriate picture would of been sacks of cash with dollar signs on them.
"I'm working on my first iPhone app"
Did I stumble into Something Awful?
this video says it for me...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=944mWbcEOOI
Haha, Nilay's was epic.
"Recession has really kicked in, billing the next generation already"
As part of Ericcson's new cost cutting measures, they managed to find call service representatives who work for less than even offshore adults!
Well, they better, do you know how much those Swedes cost?!
LOL @ Nilay
That video made my brain hurt.
are you my daddy?
"SHHHH! I got as call from sony erik, he says I am on the wrong banner. This is Nokia, right?
Yes, you are speaking to the supervisor.
Check it to the back right, the ATHF are expanding into the mobile market!
kid's first words:
"HOW much is my bill???"
http://failblog.org/2009/02/04/verizon-math-fail/
I see where Nilay got his idea C:
Teacher: Ok, now can you read this word?
Little Girl: Ca- cad- caf- cat. Cat.
Teacher: Very good Janie the word is cat, that's 16 words which brings your total bill for today to $3.20. Remember that you can avoid paying for words with our unlimited vocabulary plan for only $29.95 per month...
did any one else catch on to the caption Nilay: "I'm sorry, but they just haven't taught us the difference between .002 dollars and .002 cents in math class yet."
There is a video on www.collegehumor.com that's crazy. http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1899970
The first one is funny
Chris !! you should win !
I'm adopted.
Oh, future generation, no natural resource, no social security, all they get will be this crappy phone.
“What’s that? Engadget don’t like my banner??? So tell them to go stick it up their big, fat Acer!!!!”
It's 2009 ... Do you know what YOUR child is capable of?
my mums credit card? okay its 4312 8762 4....
Chris wins for sure!!! golden!!!
Nilay so wins this.
The younger we get them hooked to cell phones and mobile broadband, the more money we can make off of them. It's what the tobacco guys taught me.
"I'm testing the new handheld and I'll be back at work producing them in 5 minutes."
"Ever since I was atacked by a log, I can't write the letter l."
" You mean Dog"
Mommy? These men say I can come home if you pay your iPhone bill. Mommy?!
(lil girl) "Hi! I'm selling Girl Scou... wait wha? Okay... the purple van out front. You have candy. Okay! I'll be right there!"
(lil girl) "Hello, 911? Yes, my mommy told me never to take candy from strangers in purple vans, and to call 911 if people tried to do that."
(dispatch) "Okay, where do you live?"
(lil girl) "Well, my mommy also told me never to give out my address over the phone, so I am hanging up now."
(dispatch) "WAIT!!! I have your GPS trace! I know where you are!!!"
(lil girl) "MOMMY! 911 HAS MY GPS TRACED!!! CALL THE POLICE!!!"
Ironic, eh?
Was that supposed to be funny or clever?
looooove the reference Nilay! haha
"I told you! I dropped off the homework in a Hello Kitty backpack in the trashcan in the park, now where is my money?"
Re: Verizon's epic math failure.
MY running commentary would go:
disgruntled math genius: "so you realize that one dollar does not equal one cent"
sweet frumpy floor manager: "yes"
*no comment*
DMG: "and that a half dollar does not equal a half-a-cent"
SFFM: "yes"
*so far so good*
DMG: "and therefore .002 dollars does not equal .002 cents"
moronic troglodyte in disguise as human being: "no"
*epic bitch slap!*
Listening to that phone conversation made lose the last dwindling hopes I had for the human race. I only wonder why the disgruntled math genius didn't press it further, as the concept is pretty easy. A does not equal B, forget about the numbers. Oh well. I hope he only had to pay 71 cents in the end.