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Amaryllis

(9,524 posts)
Sun Apr 16, 2017, 01:35 PM Apr 2017

Who remembers sorry everybody.com & apologies accepted.com after 2004 election? Could use them now!

Sorry everybody.com came out just after the 2004 election and and apologies accepted.com was the world's respone. We could use an updated version now!

For those too young to know about sorryeverybody.com, the website is no more, but here is the Wikepedia entry for Sorryeverybody.com:

Sorry Everybody was a website created after the 2004 United States presidential election, which invited U.S. citizens to apologize to the world in advance for the actions of George W. Bush in the next four years. Its most prominent feature was the gallery, which contains images submitted by visitors holding various apology notes. The website became massively popular in the aftermath of the presidential elections, leading some Bush supporters to create spinoffs to express they were not sorry.

The website was created by James Zetlen, an American neuroscience student who was at the time in the third year of his undergraduate program at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The first photo was taken by Zetlen of himself, in his home in Los Angeles on November 3, 2004, just after the concession of John Kerry in the 2004 U.S. presidential election (which had been held a day earlier, on November 2, 2004). Zetlen's photo inspired thousands more similar contributions from U.S. citizens, and he compiled a gallery of 8,000 of these photos on his website and published a 256-page book containing approximately 1,000 of them, entitled Sorry Everybody: An Apology to the World for the Re-election of George W. Bush.

More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorry_Everybody

Apologiesaccepted.com was the world's response to sorryeverybody.com and that website still exists:
http://apologiesaccepted.com/index.html

"We, wanderers of the world outside the US, have been touched by the initiative of www.sorryeverybody.com, and the huge amount of photos they received. The initiators of this website would like to show to the American people that they appreciated that message."

Return of the King had come out the year before and LOTR was all the rage. This was my favorite post:



It's the last entry on this page:
http://www.apologiesaccepted.com/gallery_00008.html

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Who remembers sorry everybody.com & apologies accepted.com after 2004 election? Could use them now! (Original Post) Amaryllis Apr 2017 OP
Very much so... but somehow, I'm not sure the world will be so forgiving this time... hlthe2b Apr 2017 #1
By now they all know that he was "elected" with a lot of Russian assistance...so maybe they Amaryllis Apr 2017 #3
I had a tee shirt apologizing for Bush ismnotwasm Apr 2017 #2
I have the same one! whathehell Apr 2017 #4
I gave one of those shirt to my son. murielm99 Apr 2017 #5
If you're roughly the same size.. whathehell Apr 2017 #8
a few differences are the russian hack amd trump losing popular vote JI7 Apr 2017 #6
I remember that site! It was gracefully done, and we do need it again. Alas...n/t CaliforniaPeggy Apr 2017 #7
I still have my sorryeverybody.com long-sleeve tee. SMC22307 Apr 2017 #9
R# big #5 & K UTUSN Apr 2017 #10

Amaryllis

(9,524 posts)
3. By now they all know that he was "elected" with a lot of Russian assistance...so maybe they
Sun Apr 16, 2017, 01:44 PM
Apr 2017

would be?

ismnotwasm

(41,975 posts)
2. I had a tee shirt apologizing for Bush
Sun Apr 16, 2017, 01:42 PM
Apr 2017

In seven different languages--I wonder what happened to it? I could use it.

whathehell

(29,065 posts)
8. If you're roughly the same size..
Sun Apr 16, 2017, 06:38 PM
Apr 2017

He may be willing to give it back to you, or at least loan it out for a few days.

JI7

(89,246 posts)
6. a few differences are the russian hack amd trump losing popular vote
Sun Apr 16, 2017, 03:12 PM
Apr 2017

Better would be trying to expose all the shit on trump.

And we need the international community to help with things like the investigations and protesting him. Especially if he goes to their country .

SMC22307

(8,090 posts)
9. I still have my sorryeverybody.com long-sleeve tee.
Sun Apr 16, 2017, 07:13 PM
Apr 2017

It's so worn out I pretty much just wear it while doing yard work... holes, frayed edges, everything. Spent so much time scrolling through those uplifting pics and messages.

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