I knew Gore suffered from electile dysfunction.

It's those Electoral College girls.

I really don't understand why that "invented the Internet" thing is still making the rounds in cyberspace. Al Gore never once made the claim that he invented the Internet. What he said was that he took the initiative in helping to pass legislation that made the modern Internet possible. While that's still pretty damned self-aggrandizing, it's a far cry from "invented the Internet."

@strider_mt2k: I elect oral frequently.

There is a direct correlation between hurricane intensity and the amount of Viagra it has consumed.

So does Chen always post the sex joke posts?

Oops. Wrong post...sorry

@Jesse in Japan:
Here's the partial transcript:

BLITZER: I want to get to some of the substance of domestic and international issues in a minute, but let's just wrap up a little bit of the politics right now.

Why should Democrats, looking at the Democratic nomination process, support you instead of Bill Bradley, a friend of yours, a former colleague in the Senate? What do you have to bring to this that he doesn't necessarily bring to this process?

GORE: Well, I will be offering - I'll be offering my vision when my campaign begins. And it will be comprehensive and sweeping. And I hope that it will be compelling enough to draw people toward it. I feel that it will be.

But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

@scarbrtj: Hiyoooooo!

@scarbrtj: LMAO!

@scarbrtj: Nice!

@scarbrtj: Well played, sir. Well played.

"Any luck tracking the hackers?"

"Well, there was a lot of activity coming from a computer bank at 55 W. 125th St. in New York. Do you know anyone at that address Mr. Vice-President?"

Is "fox" a verb now? What does that mean?

I don't know if I'd trust any erectile dysfunction cures or other penile enhancement claims from Al Gore. Sure, he'd say that his product will give you an extra 18- 20 centimetres, but the actual science would undoubtedly show only a 1-2 cm increase.

@hughjass: He did take the initiative in creating the Internet:

Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn: We don't think, as some people have argued, that Gore intended to claim he "invented" the Internet. Moreover, there is no question in our minds that while serving as Senator, Gore's initiatives had a significant and beneficial effect on the still-evolving Internet.

Leonard Kleinrock: A second development occurred around this time, namely, then-Senator Al Gore, a strong and knowledgeable proponent of the Internet, promoted legislation that resulted in President George Bush signing the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991. This Act allocated $600 million for high performance computing and for the creation of the National Research and Education Network [13-14]. The NREN brought together industry, academia and government in a joint effort to accelerate the development and deployment of gigabit/sec networking

[en.wikipedia.org]

Cerf, Kahn, and Kleinrock were involved with the invention part, but Gore drafted and proposed the legislation for its funding. That is how he took the initiative in creating the Internet, and he didn't say a word about "inventing" it.

@tombest610: Always has been. It means "to trick by ingenuity or cunning". It has generally been subsumed by "outfox", meaning "to outsmart".

@tombest610: Yep, in the current vernacular "Fox" is a verb, and it means exactly what you think it does.

daddy, what's a "sort code"?

Well... It DOES explain the reputation he has for being a "stiff" kind of guy.

FTW!!!!!!!!!! I am sick and tired of hearing that Al bin Gore created the damn internet. No he has not! It was created by a bunch of nerds at MIT + DoD in colloboration with Darpa & IBM in good old Cambridge, Massachusetts. Gore's hairy a** had nothing to do with it . . . my gosh! Can we all stop being ignorant about this fact. It's amazing how people can capitalize on ignorance. He wouldn't last 30 seconds with VC's and entrepreneurs from the late 80's & 90's who know where the heck teh internet came from. But hey - this is America - we eat whatever is fed to us without questioning - right?

Fact (Dwight style): Can anyone tell me how and where the money from the legislation was spent? Did anyone do an audit to objectively quantify the effectiveness of that damned legislation.

Why dont we take a walk on Menlo Park, CA and Waltham, MA and ask the private equity folks that same question and you will get your answer.

Gore was a proponent and got a bill signed to get a feather in his hat. He knows sqaut about the internet and no - the money came from us - private citizens to fund the darn thing.

@sumocat:
the definition of Creating:
1. to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
2. to evolve from one's own thought or imagination, as a work of art or an invention.

The definition of Inventing:
To produce or contrive (something previously unknown) by the use of ingenuity or imagination.

So your argument that he took initiative in "creating" as opposed to "inventing" is moot, as those words are synonyms.

Well, as long as no one reads it to him, Al should be OK. I'd really hate to see him upset....wait a minute that is an emotion, never mind it's not possible.

Now if only someone would have hacked the voting for the Nobel Peace prize to give it to someone with a smaller carbon footprint.

Maybe an Amish person.

So GHWB signed the High Performance Computing Act of 1991? I guess Bush 41 kinda created the internet!!!!!!

Or internets. And blogospheres.

@GC736: Huh? How is "causing something to come into being" the same as "to produce or contrive" it?

Inventing may be a synonym for the second definition, but when a word has two different definitions, it's a pretty clear signal that they are two different meanings.

I just wan't to know who goes around inspecting people's source code for things like this? Are you sure we have no idea who did this?!?!?! :)

@sumocat
All I did was copy the original transcript.

@GC736:

Synonym means similar meaning, not identical. Lazy people, or people with agendas, took a few words out of a whole speech and distorted their intended meaning. Intelligent people listened to the whole speech and understood what was actually being said.

Nice to see that everyone has been ripping off my story without crediting the orignal author:

[www.earnersblog.com]

@scarbrtj:
One of the best posts I have seen! Bravo!