Over on the excellent "Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus" website, I wrote: "I'm adult enough to be frisky without having to call anyone a jackass."
Actually that's not true. Dave Winer is a Jackass, as I have repeatedly pointed out. I only wrote what I did because I was poking at t-shirt salesman John Gruber.
Anyway. I got thinking about this when I read a New York Magazine article about Steve Jobs that stated, "Yet the most common descriptor applied to him, by friends and foes and even Jobs himself, is 'asshole.' "
That got me thinking. I wonder what people say about me? So here are the results:
Paul Thurrott Asshole: 13,300 results
Paul Thurrott Jackass: 580 results
Paul Thurrott Asshat: 154 results
Clearly I'm not in Steve Jobs' league. Yet. But I'm still slightly ahead of that do-gooder Mary Jo Foley and my good friend Rob Enderle, who come in at 11,400 and 988, respectively.
Take that!
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4 comments:
Sorry. You're trailing John C. Dvorak by a good margin:
dvorak + asshole
More than 65,000 hits.
"Dvorak" is actually French for "asshole". I know this, because I visit France on a regular basis, and my wife is French. So I discount those results because of that. Of course, that doesn't stop Dvorak from being an asshole on occasion. Obviously.
That's good to know. I've always wondered whether
I should pronounce it like the composer (Antonín Dvořák) or /duh-VOR-ack/ -- ever since I switched
from querty.
Now I can just tell people I type in asshole.
...see how effortlessly the 'u' flows from the 'q' in
the asshole layout? It's actually hard to type "qwerty".
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