Caption Contest: Civil War reenactment + iPhone = ubernerd
By Laura June 
posted Jun 26th 2009 4:22PM
posted Jun 26th 2009 4:22PM
Far be it from us to make fun of people for their favorite pastimes -- that would, in fact, be the pot calling the kettle black (considering that we're both addicted to gadgets and quilting, we have little room to point fingers). However, it's possible that you might be a serious nerd if you're caught gabbing on your iPhone in the midst of a hike during a reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg. Good sir, we salute thee!
Laura: "Are you telling me I'm not eligible for an upgrade until 1865!?"
Joe: "North and South could both agree that lack of Flash support was a grave oversight"
Thomas: "Robert E. Lee!? I thought you said rob a 3G"
Josh T: "What? I said 'what's so civil about war anyway?'"
Nilay: "An app store divided against itself cannot stand."
Don: "Scurvy? Nope, not an app for that."
Chris: "Yeah, I mistook it for a piece of hardtack last week, just came back out this morning. Works great!"
Laura: "Are you telling me I'm not eligible for an upgrade until 1865!?"
Joe: "North and South could both agree that lack of Flash support was a grave oversight"
Thomas: "Robert E. Lee!? I thought you said rob a 3G"
Josh T: "What? I said 'what's so civil about war anyway?'"
Nilay: "An app store divided against itself cannot stand."
Don: "Scurvy? Nope, not an app for that."
Chris: "Yeah, I mistook it for a piece of hardtack last week, just came back out this morning. Works great!"
Ross R.: "I like that it runs Merrimac OS X."
[Thanks, Ethan]
[Thanks, Ethan]
iBolish Slavery!!
I don't see the problem with this photo.
He looks like every other iDiot that waited in line for a phone.
I kid, I kid.
=]
I SAID CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?!!
Nothing wrong with the photo? Think again.
If i'D known this would have happened, i'D have picked my own cotton
well.... I'm not American and I don't know much about the civil war but if they talked in that old english way with "TH" at the end of every verb then.
Caption: Fucketh he who brakes thy olde iPhone
Hi customer service .. About my bill ..
AT&T's time-roaming charge is HOW MUCH!!!??
That's why the North won the Civil War. They were using iPhones. Those Southern rebels were using Pres and there weren't enough of them to go around.
@Kamaraderie
the only thing about the photo is that it does look a bit overexposed... the flash could have used a bit of difusion
That guy looks stupid.
Oh I am so going to regret this.
I am so going to regret posting this.
Technically, you shouldn't. He holds the phone to the ear, yelling, to the home screen. Stupid indeed. I would have done the same.
good point pavlindrom. I am just glad i am not as hot and sweaty as the dude to his right!
i prefer the X11 logo on other dudes back
Thanks, faceless internet commentator.
The reason it's on the home screen was because I specifically took it for a caption contest on Engadget.
It's for a laugh, not for legitimacy. As you could tell by my expression, it was purely for a photo.
And I don't do these events, normally. My Dad asked me to when I went back to VA to visit. I told him only if I could get a shot in battle on my iPhone.
And that's the end of that story.
lol@ the X11 logo. You have damned sharp eyes, sir.
Also, "Thomas: "Robert E. Lee!? I thought you said rob a 3G" got me pretty good. :)
My Contrib: "AHHHHHHHHHH MY BRAAAAAIN AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!"
(I'm assuming humans from the past have a lower tolerance for cell phone radiation)
Virginia's good for these kinds of get-togethers ...
@Ethan
Well that explains the miss match blue then. Seems it might have been photo'choped since the only person in the picture that didn't have the same hue also had the iPhone.
Can you hear me now?
Nope, I still get no signal!
"And I thought AT&T's 2009 coverage was poor..."
How about: "It's the future calling. They want their phone back."
Did The Doctor mod their phone to get temporal reception ?
I'm sure this is a dead zone
God dammit I ctrl+f'd dead zone hoping no one took it. Someone did. FML
holy crap I know that guy! I used to work with him!
Who are you? Where did we work together?
One of the overlooked features of the new iPhone 3GS is that it has the ability of time travel.
Time travel? There's an app for that!
Apple's Time Machine does much more than was advertised.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/time-machine.html
Maybe this guy is with the Doctor. The Doctor can fix cell phones to work anywhere in time and space.
We must go back to the island.
Can you hear me now?
Nice, but the guy CT above you already said it... so don't go commenting on others about how you were original when you weren't...
I knew the reception was going to be bad in 1865, I really shouldn't have to yell. Damn Iphone.
"Ma, that dude behind me is looking at me funny again"
"So ... the blue soldiers get and iPhone and the gray soldiers get a Palm Pre?"
Steve who?
could you please be more specific?
I hear Stonewall Jackson was very fond of his Blackberry.
"So ... the blue soldiers get an iPhone and the gray soldiers get a Palm Pre?"
Okay, thanks.
What about the guy who used a digital camera to take the picture of the guy on his technologically advanced iPhone?
He used a pinhole and everybody was standing still like that for 5 minutes, I'm sure.
I am going into an ACTUAL dead zone, call me back.
"Naw, they couldn't hit an elephant from that dist-"
It's the South. They said they're sorry. We can go home now.
"Aaaaaahhhcchhoooooooo"
What do you mean tethering to my iRifle isn't allowed on AT&T?
"Any one know how to get google maps to work on this thing?"
I managed to, and according to this... There should be a McDonald's 200 feet south.