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Title: Best hoax i have ever seen, The Mac Wheel
Post by: shura on January 14, 2009 05:53 AM
a friend of mine showed me this. it's a hilarious fake video of a new computer made by apple.  i was really impressed by how well done this was. if it wasn't blatantly making fun of mac/mac users i really would have believed this.

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/appl...s_revolutionary (http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revolutionary)
Title: Best hoax i have ever seen, The Mac Wheel
Post by: rtil on January 14, 2009 06:16 AM
it\\\'s well made cuz it\\\'s from the onion, they\\\'ve been doing satiric news broadcasts for a really long time , and they\\\'re usually hilarious. this one is no exception

and apple would make something like that lmao
Title: Best hoax i have ever seen, The Mac Wheel
Post by: f0d on January 14, 2009 06:22 AM
someone already posted a thread about this and thought it was real, i forget who
Title: Best hoax i have ever seen, The Mac Wheel
Post by: rtil on January 14, 2009 06:25 AM
it's sad how many people DO think it's real, just read the youtube comments if you can actually bare to go through them. i'd say 3/4ths of the people who watched it think this this is coming out
Title: Best hoax i have ever seen, The Mac Wheel
Post by: f0d on January 14, 2009 06:48 AM
yeh satire is a dying art

but i guess it wouldn't be as funny if everyone got it

the idiotic comments are half the fun!
Title: Best hoax i have ever seen, The Mac Wheel
Post by: shura on January 14, 2009 06:52 AM
"everything is just a few hundred clicks away"
lmao

did you guys read the suggested sentances?
"the aardvark bathed with his beauties"
"the aardvark asked for a dagger"

i can totally see apple making something like this
Title: Best hoax i have ever seen, The Mac Wheel
Post by: CoolDrMoney on January 14, 2009 02:02 PM
lmao!

And the Sudoku killer was a nice lil endin
Title: Best hoax i have ever seen, The Mac Wheel
Post by: psi43 on January 14, 2009 02:13 PM
Quote from: Sashura"everything is just a few hundred clicks away"
lmao

did you guys read the suggested sentances?
"the aardvark bathed with his beauties"
"the aardvark asked for a dagger"

i can totally see apple making something like this

the abortion was beautiful
Title: Best hoax i have ever seen, The Mac Wheel
Post by: Daveb0t on January 14, 2009 02:59 PM
The Onion is great.  They have an amazing staff full of writers who know how to properly structure things to not only appear authentic, but also so the final punch and greatest bite usually come right at the end of the story.
Title: Best hoax i have ever seen, The Mac Wheel
Post by: Flash on January 14, 2009 04:04 PM
"and not just dicking around" lmfaooo
Title: Best hoax i have ever seen, The Mac Wheel
Post by: redmongoose on January 14, 2009 07:17 PM
this is a prediction of the future
Title: Best hoax i have ever seen, The Mac Wheel
Post by: Daveb0t on January 14, 2009 07:32 PM
I could go on all day pasting my favorite articles and videos, but
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/yout...videomrss_91874 (http://www.theonion.com/content/video/youtube_contest_challenges_users?utm_source=videomrss_91874)
Title: Best hoax i have ever seen, The Mac Wheel
Post by: Reed on January 14, 2009 07:36 PM
lmao i wish youtube had an 'actually good' tab
Title: Best hoax i have ever seen, The Mac Wheel
Post by: rtil on January 14, 2009 07:45 PM
judging by who youtube picks as their "partners" their actually good tab would probably be full of shit

ever since google purchased youtube they've only been scrambling for ways to make it profitable. the best way to do that is to slap banner ads all over camwhore videos. and that is precisely what they're doing

still, they have yet to make a dime off the investment
Title: Best hoax i have ever seen, The Mac Wheel
Post by: texas on January 14, 2009 10:43 PM
Quote from: Belief
Quote from: Sashura"everything is just a few hundred clicks away"
lmao

did you guys read the suggested sentances?
"the aardvark bathed with his beauties"
"the aardvark asked for a dagger"

i can totally see apple making something like this

the abortion was beautiful
the attractive peanut farmer graded the term paper
Title: Best hoax i have ever seen, The Mac Wheel
Post by: FrozenSheep on January 15, 2009 03:26 AM
Quote from: f0dyeh satire is a dying art

but i guess it wouldn't be as funny if everyone got it

the idiotic comments are half the fun!

This reminds me of that time magazine cover with obama wearing a turban and his wife dressed in rambo style.
Title: Best hoax i have ever seen, The Mac Wheel
Post by: Gmagnum on January 15, 2009 04:32 AM
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Title: Best hoax i have ever seen, The Mac Wheel
Post by: shura on January 15, 2009 04:48 AM
i watched it again and i just noticed the prices

8GB = $2,599, 40GB = $9,960

lmao. sounds like apple
Title: Best hoax i have ever seen, The Mac Wheel
Post by: stevenr4 on January 15, 2009 05:07 AM
LOL