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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-23-07 05:32 PM
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Do you have the password to Ted Steven's site or are you an interplanetary alien-being?
Maybe an orange cat who can't type?

OK, which one of you evilDUers hacked Sen. Ted (Tubes) Stevens site with this?

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/

Almost as freaky as his infamously disjointed "series-of-tubes" speech last year about the Internet (which briefly earned him the Most Lampooned Politician on the Web award), Stevens' reelection site asks visitors to enter a username and password and then -- as they unsuccessfully fumble for a password -- condemns them with a warning that begins:

"Through a series of highly sophisticated and complex algorithms, this system has determined that you are not presently authorized to use this system function. It could be that you simply mistyped a password, or, it could be that you are some sort of interplanetary alien-being that has no hands and, thus, cannot type." (See screenshot on 2nd page of this post.)

But wait, it gets even weirder:

"If I were a gambler, I would bet that a cat (an orange tabby named Sierra or Harley) somehow jumped onto your keyboard and forgot some of the more important pointers from those typing lessons you paid for. Based on the actual error encountered, I would guess that the feline in question simply forgot to place one or both paws on the appropriate home keys before starting. Then again, I suppose it could have been a keyboard error caused by some form of cosmic radiation; this would fit nicely with my interplanetary alien-being theory."


OK, boys & girls, da momma has been away for a bit and somebody must have been naughty! :D

Who is responsible for the Senator's site going weirder than usual?

I salute you :patriot:
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-23-07 05:35 PM
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1. truth is marvelously stranger than fiction.
a moment worthy of The Series of Tubes.
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-23-07 05:41 PM
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4. Hate Stevens, but hoping this was a hack job
But, I guess we can't rule out that it was the Senator himself.

Getting harder to write comedy for entertainment with this sort of thing going on.

Does he get to vote or REAL stuff in the Senate? We are SO screwn.
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Dr.Phool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-23-07 05:50 PM
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5. A hack job on a whack job?
:rofl: :rofl:
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-23-07 06:02 PM
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8. lol -- oh they could have been serious -- but that would make it even more BRILLIANT!
because the irony of that really is interplanetary.
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Truthseeker013 Donating Member (93 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-23-07 05:36 PM
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2. Do you have the password to Ted Steven's site or are you an interplanetary being?
Yes to the latter, and admitting to the former could put me on *worse* than an exam table at Area 51...
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Dr.Phool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-23-07 05:40 PM
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3. Gotta keep an eye on them tubes, Ted.
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myrna minx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-23-07 05:54 PM
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6. Ha. That's hilarious.
:rofl:
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-23-07 05:57 PM
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7. Oh man, this is too good.
Funniest thing I've read in ages.
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-23-07 06:14 PM
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9. Well my guess is that Ted did not crack a smile but
I did. He usually looks like some one fed him moose droppings.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-23-07 06:18 PM
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10. "place one or both paws on the appropriate home keys"
:D



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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-23-07 06:21 PM
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11. Swamp Rat!
:hug:
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-23-07 06:36 PM
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12. havocmom!
:hug: :hug: :hug:



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northofdenali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-23-07 07:02 PM
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13. Seriously, Stevens is so whacked, that I wouldn't
put it past him........ However, he hasn't got enough intelligence or enough sense of humor to pull something like this off! This is funny as hell, and I'm forwarding it to all my fellow Stevens-haters here in the state!
:patriot::rofl::patriot:
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-23-07 07:05 PM
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14. So, wounded vets who have lost both their arms are like interplanetary alien beings?
Edited on Fri Feb-23-07 07:07 PM by IanDB1
"It could be that you simply mistyped a password, or, it could be that you are some sort of interplanetary alien-being that has no hands and, thus, cannot type."

Maybe they're logging in from Building 18 at Abu Ghreed?

Chickenhawk Republickers should exercise caution when mocking those who have no arms.

Maybe Senator Stevens just forgot the word "us"?


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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-23-07 07:09 PM
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15. Screenshot


:rofl:
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-23-07 07:44 PM
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16. Isn't it a classic?
Somebody is GOOD!
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