Fanbois sent into FITS of RAGE by fake Steve Jobs statue competition Fanbois around the world were sent into an incandescent rage this week by news that a hideously ugly statue of Steve Jobs was set to stand outside Cupertino. But The Register has learned that Apple has no intention of erecting the mildly phallic structure near its headquarters. In fact, some of our friends within the fruity …
He has a cool name but not that great a statue builder have you seen a picture of the sculptor?
I love this comment; it is the quintessence of the Internet middlebrow echo chamber. "Hey, I have an opinion which adds nothing to the discussion and is only tangentially related to it at best. Here it is! Also I used the wrong homonym, which ironically is the very word which would have substituted for an awkward phrase earlier in the sentence."1
Indeed, I suggest that in the future we use "mtech25" as a synonym for "middlebrow", much as we have adopted the names of such goodfolk as Quisling and Bowdler into our vocabularies.
1It is a commonplace among those of us who teach writing, or more to the point study the teaching of writing,2 that the present generation, in the industrialized world and on average, writes more than any previous one, thanks to the tremendous growth in online writing, texting, etc. And this has had some salutary effects on the state of written expression, but also means we often mine a poorer vein.
2Everyone needs a hobby.
I think it says more about what passes as public art nowadays. I mean years ago, if someone had said that the one of the world's richest men, Mohamed Al Fayed, would erect a statue of alleged kiddy fiddler and singing superstar but definitely not a soccer fan Michael Jackson at Fulham Football Club's stadium, anyone hearing it would be checking their calendar to see if it was April 1st. Same with most of the other WTF? statues and buildings that get passed nowadays.
Yeah, my thoughts too. I disctinctly remember the "jagwyre" episode:
http://search.theregister.co.uk/?q=Jagwyre
(most of the fun being -surprisingly- had by Andrew O., noted Apple enthusiast).
and the start of the You-are-dead-to-me period -attributed to said episode:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/13/humiliation_apple/
but I can't recall the hairdo thing.
I'm thinking they could have a statue styled on that of Kim Il-sung, but with the arm holding an iThingy taking a selfie.
It seems of late that the Register has the same relationship with Apple that the New Musical Express had with Jethro Tull in the mid to late 70s.
Though not a fan of all things Apple (quite the reverse when it comes to certain specific examples of Appletat) I am forced to remember how that ended, and which one outlasted the other.
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