[BITList] Was History: Revisited?

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    mmmmmm, interesting – strange pippa didn’t notice this :-
    ct

      Steve Jobs vs James Bond: fake letter set to become an urban legend 
      June 21, 2011 10:02 am 
      Shareby Mic WrightCategories: Gadgets News   Tags: Apple, James Bond, Sean Connery, spoof, Steve Jobs 




      It’s not often that you get to see a urban legend coming into being in real time but hop onto Twitter today and you’re likely to come across an entertaining missive purporting to be a four-letter word bolstered brush off written by Sean Connery to Steve Jobs. The story goes that Jobs wanted the Bond actor to feature in an ad but it’s just that…a story.

      The fake letter was put together by Apple satire site Scoopertino but shorn of its context it’s floating around on TwitPic and being reported as a genuine article. You’d think the brutal line “you are a computer salesman and I am f*cking James Bond” might have tipped more people off.

      Click through to see the fake letter in all its glory and hit the link at the bottom of the page for the original Scoopertino story. Our favourite entirely fictional fact? That the Apple iMac puck mouse was inspired by a burnt English muffin…


From: John Feltham 
Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 9:14 AM
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: [BITList] History: Revisited?

G'day folks, 

On 16/07/2011, at 11:37 PM, Pippa wrote:

Z'is  true???

Just checked…

http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/connery.asp

I usually check these things on Snopes. Didn't this time!  :-)



ooroo




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