Reader Comments
whatishalo? @ Jun 26th 2009 4:26PM
iBolish Slavery!!
Kamaraderie
@ Jun 26th 2009 6:35PM
I don't see the problem with this photo.
He looks like every other iDiot that waited in line
for a phone.
I kid, I kid.
=]
mgsrocks1 @ Jun 26th 2009 7:41PM
I SAID CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?!!
Nothing wrong with the photo? Think again.
Gen Brown @ Jun 26th 2009 9:28PM
If i'D known this
would have happened, i'D have picked my own cotton
feraligatr8 @ Jun 27th 2009 12:48AM
go seki @ Jun 27th 2009 7:17AM
Hi customer service ..
About my bill ..
AT&T's time-roaming charge is HOW MUCH!!!??
iphonerulez @ Jun 27th 2009 8:38AM
That's why the North won the Civil War. They
were using iPhones. Those Southern rebels were using
Pres and there weren't enough of them to go around.
@Kamaraderie
the only thing about the photo is that it does look a bit overexposed... the
flash could have used a bit of difusion
Aguiluz
@ Jun 26th 2009 4:26PM
That guy looks stupid.
Aguiluz
@ Jun 26th 2009 4:27PM
Oh I am so going to regret this.
Aguiluz
@ Jun 26th 2009 4:28PM
I am so going to regret posting this.
pavlindrom @ Jun 26th 2009 4:29PM
Technically, you shouldn't. He holds the phone
to the ear, yelling, to the home screen. Stupid indeed.
I would have done the same.
Tuffguy
@ Jun 26th 2009 7:09PM
good point pavlindrom. I am just glad i am
not as hot and sweaty as the dude to his right!
oliver hart @ Jun 26th 2009 7:11PM
i prefer the X11 logo
on other dudes back
Thanks, faceless internet commentator.
The reason it's on the home screen was because I specifically took it for a
caption contest on Engadget.
It's for a laugh, not for legitimacy. As you could tell by my expression, it
was purely for a photo.
And I don't do these events, normally. My Dad asked me to when I went back to
VA to visit. I told him only if I could get a shot in battle on my iPhone.
And that's the end of that story.
Xenoterranos
@ Jun 26th 2009 11:44PM
lol@ the X11 logo. You
have damned sharp eyes, sir.
Also, "Thomas: "Robert E. Lee!? I thought you said rob a 3G" got
me pretty good. :)
My Contrib: "AHHHHHHHHHH MY BRAAAAAIN
AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!"
(I'm assuming humans from the past have a lower tolerance for cell phone
radiation)
crescentdavid @ Jun 27th 2009 1:37PM
Virginia's good for these kinds of get-togethers ...
@Ethan
Well that explains the miss match blue then. Seems it
might have been photo'choped since the only person in
the picture that didn't have the same hue also had the iPhone.
Can you hear me now?
keeheon @ Jun 26th 2009 5:57PM
Nope, I still get no signal!
a ham
sandwich @ Jun 26th 2009 4:28PM
"And I thought AT&T's 2009 coverage
was poor..."
TFrazier
@ Jun 26th 2009 4:28PM
How about: "It's the future calling. They
want their phone back."
PGP-Protector @ Jun 26th 2009 4:28PM
Did The Doctor mod their phone to get temporal
reception ?
P.J. Caps @ Jun 26th 2009 4:28PM
I'm sure this is a dead zone
Fadakar
@ Jun 27th 2009 1:23AM
God dammit I ctrl+f'd dead zone hoping no one took it. Someone did. FML
chucky3456 @ Jun 26th 2009 4:29PM
holy crap I know that guy!
I used to work with him!
Who are you? Where did we work together?
Jordan Biffle
@ Jun 26th 2009 4:30PM
One of the overlooked features of the new iPhone 3GS is that it has the ability of time travel.
Time travel? There's an app for
that!
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII (BarCODE) @ Jun 26th 2009 5:16PM
Apple's Time Machine does much more than was
advertised.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/time-machine.html
Montusama
@ Jun 26th 2009 8:44PM
Maybe this guy is with the Doctor. The Doctor
can fix cell phones to work anywhere in time and space.
Linhares
@ Jun 27th 2009 2:51PM
We must go back to the island.
Can you hear me now?
dTondro @ Jun 26th 2009 5:21PM
Nice, but the guy CT above you already said
it... so don't go commenting on others about how you were original when you
weren't...
Brdystyls
@ Jun 26th 2009 4:30PM
I knew the reception was going to be bad in 1865, I really shouldn't have to yell. Damn Iphone.
"Ma, that dude behind me is looking at me
funny again"
"So ... the blue soldiers get and iPhone and the gray soldiers get a Palm Pre?"
Steve who?
could you please be more specific?
Look_Around_You
@ Jun 26th 2009 5:30PM
I hear Stonewall Jackson was very fond of his
Blackberry.
jtupeck @ Jun 26th 2009 4:35PM
What about the guy who used a digital camera
to take the picture of the guy on his technologically advanced iPhone?
He used a pinhole and everybody was standing
still like that for 5 minutes, I'm sure.
I am going into an ACTUAL dead zone, call me
back.
Jon Acheson @ Jun 26th 2009 4:37PM
"Naw, they
couldn't hit an elephant from that dist-"
Jay Voorhees @ Jun 26th 2009 4:37PM
It's the South. They said they're sorry. We
can go home now.
ohpleaseno @ Jun 26th 2009 4:38PM
What do you mean tethering to my iRifle isn't allowed on AT&T?
"Any one know
how to get google maps to work on this thing?"
I managed to, and according to this... There
should be a McDonald's 200 feet south.
"Hey the Smore
Schnapps are on their way!"
aj121489 @ Jun 26th 2009 4:52PM
Lol South Park rules
Idlemind
@ Jun 26th 2009 4:38PM
"...you see
kids... my great great great
great great grandfather was
an Apple fanboy too.... just like you will be
someday"
HAHAHA thats
a good one!
too bad i just said it...
Can you hear me now?
Pex-Corrh
@ Jun 26th 2009 4:39PM
"Dearest
Annabelle. It's been so hard these last five months without seeing you, I only
hope the service I do for our great Union... hold on. Enough
with the cannons already!"
You say MMS available soon!?
Steve Grissom @ Jun 26th 2009 4:41PM
"So ... the blue soldiers get an iPhone and the gray soldiers get a Palm Pre?"
Okay, thanks.
Idlemind
@ Jun 26th 2009 4:43PM
"...This is so much cooler than the iTelegraph"
Farrah
Fawcett and Michael Jackson??? Forget it, this war
isn't worth fighting anymore.
Steve Robillard
@ Jun 26th 2009 4:46PM
Civil War, Slavery, Death and Dying we got an
app for that
PGP-Protector @ Jun 26th 2009 4:47PM
Why isn't the GPS working ?
boolean22 @ Jun 26th 2009 4:47PM
FREEEDOMMMMM!
IndiaTech
@ Jun 27th 2009 4:18PM
Wrong War...
What? Are you telling me bullets now have to
be bought individually after the 3.0 update?
Bradley @ Jun 26th 2009 5:57PM
popular bullets are priced at
$1.29 instead of $0.99
mr.edwards2 @ Jun 26th 2009 4:48PM
I will defer to the wisdom of George Carlin on
the topic of Civil War reenactments:
"There are actually people who go out and re-fight these battles. You know
what I say? Use real ammunition, assholes! You just might raise the
intelligence level of the American gene pool!"
Classic.
Yeah. Carlin. There's
a class act of sophistication.
I would almost agree with you, minus the fact that these guys also teach morons
such as yourself to distinguish between Blue and Grey. Half the time tourists
don't know the difference, or know Union from Confederate...
Just because it's a hobby that doesn't involve a computer or technology doesn't
make the enthusiasts morons.
However, I cannot say the same for the Grey Rebels. Most of those guys ARE
idiots.
"General Grant! We need air support...
NOW! "
Forget 3G coverage, we barely have 0.01G
Look_Around_You
@ Jun 26th 2009 5:37PM
Also not pictured is the 1-inch thick
telegraph wire attached to the back of it!
scottsconklin @ Jun 26th 2009 4:50PM
Maw! Somthn just
jumped up and bit me in the buttox
boolean22 @ Jun 26th 2009 4:51PM
One second earlier:
"Y'know, Watchin' tha war, havin' a Bud"
"WHAAAZAAAAAAAPPPPPP!!!"
what? I paid $600 for an iphone clone?
DirtyVegas
@ Jun 26th 2009 4:52PM
All the confederates
wanted was tethering.
gummybears @ Jun 26th 2009 4:53PM
"whaddaya
mean they took of the Hottest Girls app!? How the hell am I
going to finish the job!!?"
"Theorizing that one could time travel
within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett led an elite group of scientists into
the desert to develop a top-secret project known as Quantum Leap. Pressured to
prove his theories or lose funding, Dr. Beckett prematurely stepped into the
project accelerator, and vanished.
He awoke to find himself in the past, suffering from partial amnesia and facing
a mirror image that was not his own. Fortunately, contact with his own time was
maintained through brain-wave transmissions with Al, the project observer, who
appears in the form of a hologram that only Dr. Beckett can see and hear.
Trapped in the past, Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life,
putting things right that once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next
leap will be the leap home."
Ziggy!
ibpimpins @ Jun 26th 2009 4:54PM
Ziggy! GET ME OUTTA HERE!!!
onedollarbill @ Jun 26th 2009 6:27PM
+1 for the Quantum Leap reference!
Stop texting or we
will amputate your thumbs, you can fire a weapon w/o thumbs ya
know.
Another dropped call. Poor
soul.
jonbruck @ Jun 26th 2009 5:02PM
"Whaaaaazaaaaap"
Lol nice
Brdystyls
@ Jun 26th 2009 5:02PM
Alright men, we came back from the future to
try and stop the North from winning this time....what?...can
you hear me now? Hello? Damn dropped a call.
ibpimpins @ Jun 26th 2009 5:03PM
Sonova
b... 1 second too late.
neals79 @ Jun 26th 2009 5:05PM
Mr. Lincoln..I'm having a problem getting the Gettysburg address
on my GPS
thepolarbear99 @ Jun 26th 2009 5:05PM
I knew the iPhone
was alien technology.
Nathan Troupe @ Jun 26th 2009 5:05PM
Guy number 1: "What's that you got
there?"
Guy number 2: "The Devil"
BlurMagic
@ Jun 26th 2009 5:06PM
"that's not from
the civil war..."
"BUT IT HAS A COMPASS!"
Brdystyls
@ Jun 26th 2009 5:12PM
1865 iPhone:
Government secrets revealed. Tonight at 9.
I want a bigger version for my desktop!
Idlemind
@ Jun 26th 2009 5:17PM
"...Although had strict orders not to
alter the course of time, agent 089 couldnt resist
popping back to the future to grab a new iPhone,
especially since the line in front of the SoHo store
was so short..."
NalosLayor
@ Jun 26th 2009 5:18PM
Doc: Marty, you've gotta
go back!
Marty: I'm calling you from 1865, how far back do I have to go, Doc?
Doc: Far enough back to stop AT&T, so I can get my CDMA iPhone!
Thomas Brady @ Jun 26th 2009 5:19PM
"NO, MOM, we're NOT DONE, yet! You'll
have to drive around for a few minutes."
nintendo fanboy hater @ Jun 26th 2009 5:20PM
They later burned him for witchcraft. Stupid
Pre fanboys
"I bet I can get on engadget
if I break the rules of this reenactment." - Tool
Yeah, that's basically what happened. I would
hardly call myself a tool, however.
sitruc @ Jun 27th 2009 12:30AM
Bad day at work... I wanted to use something
with a little more sting.
Patrick @ Jun 26th 2009 5:26PM
Hey guys! I just checked Wikipedia
and it says that we win this one.
Look_Around_You
@ Jun 26th 2009 5:33PM
"...and that we
then ally with the Klingons to take over the Delta
Quadrant?!?"
Oh_Lets_Say___Moe
@ Jun 26th 2009 5:26PM
"This was day that would not only see
North against South, but Lincoln against Lincoln."
"Well, you see two Lincolns showed up. Now, that was a case of poor
planning, pure and simple. And Lincoln himself had never been at the actual
battle in the first place. So? neither
of them should have been there. It was just two Lincolns too many."
Patrick @ Jun 26th 2009 5:27PM
Also we might want to watch our left flank...
Brdystyls
@ Jun 26th 2009 5:27PM
History Channel Civil War: Secret Missions for
PS3
"Uh dude I don't think this is a game anymore......"
Help! I'm surrounded by "Grays"!!
Patrick @ Jun 26th 2009 5:33PM
General Lee... your only error was twittering
your battle plans.
The real tragedy is that General Pickett dropped his iPhone
in a puddle... he never got the message that the charge was cancelled...
When Marty McFly
went back in time, he left something behind...again.
I had no idea that participating in Civil War
reenactments meant that you were a nerd. I thought it meant you were a dork.
rxse7en @ Jun 26th 2009 5:40PM
The 3g speed is faster than Grant going
through Atlanta!
granny
down east @ Jun 26th 2009 6:43PM
Sherman. The bastard.
Send in the Cavalry NOW!
talking to the home screen =
tool
Well that makes two
people calling me a tool, guess I'll go shoot myself now.
jivetrky @ Jun 26th 2009 5:47PM
"I'm going to have to wait HOW LONG for
copy and paste?"
junyor Mynt @ Jun 26th 2009 5:47PM
Yeah we are totally pwning
the south.
"Can you hear me then?"
Biggworm
@ Jun 26th 2009 5:55PM
Hello? I would like to order 700,000
tombstones please!
Pastwatch: Fail.
guy taking the photo with
the digital camera: Hey dude, put away that phone. This is a civil war
reenactment.
saintrobyn @ Jun 26th 2009 6:03PM
"It's the South sir! No, I'm not shitting
you. They ARE rising again!"
Let's get them slave holdin'
AT&T Rebs!
Yeah! We'll Tar and Tether them and MMS our victory to the world!
"Oh Gawd,
Laura, I know you told me not to use the Time Machine on our Mac again, but dammit, I couldn't help it. Help ME! I'm surrounded by a
bunch of rednecks!!!"
My proximity sensor isn't working
!!!
wrong war, but, "don't
fire until you see the whites of their phones!"
You want me to bring milk home for the baby?
Brian Smith @ Jun 26th 2009 6:56PM
Why is the guy behind me soooo
sweaty?!
Think wool + Pennsylvania summer + extreme
exercise.
It was New Market, Virginia. Wasn't THAT hot,
but yeah...and the 3G coverage was there. I was surprised.
What do you mean I'm fighting for iPhone equality?! I can scarcely afford the one line I
already got!!
hpowell9451 @ Jun 26th 2009 7:31PM
How about this one
"WHAT?? I don't have service here, they
haven't invented cellphone towers yet!"
"Aaaaaahhhcchhoooooooo"
Micfiygd
@ Jun 26th 2009 7:39PM
You mean you still don't have mms?!
he looks like max bemis.
Michael Luevane
@ Jun 26th 2009 8:16PM
Could we, uh... talk to Colonel Kurtz?
ACEY RIOT @ Jun 26th 2009 8:23PM
Honey just relax, I'll be fine... yes I'm
sure!...yeah, Shelton-Laurel Massacre had something to do with college
basketball...well, who are you gonna believe, me or Wikipedia?
roustaboutd @ Jun 26th 2009 8:28PM
Um yeah...Mr. Jobs? This is Dean in
R&D. You know that Time Travel app you wanted me to test...
the guy to the left
"fin annoying iphone holders. think
they own everything."
"The Pron App ROCKSS!!!!"
Scare Crow @ Jun 26th 2009 8:54PM
Taken at the battle of Applemattox,
I presume?
Yeah, yeah...but I wanna
know, who had the CAMERA on the Civil War hike!
"I said, this
would be a lot easier if we just used Pocket Tanks."
oconnorfr @ Jun 26th 2009 9:32PM
No! We did not order any port-a-potty's for
our re-inactment.
swagless @ Jun 26th 2009 9:41PM
hey,any body here seen Mike
Hunt
Keith Woodie
@ Jun 26th 2009 9:42PM
Wow this new time travel app is AWESOME!
khall15 @ Jun 26th 2009 9:47PM
Augh!!! What do you mean
you don't deliver in Gettysburgh.
"Hang on, let me call missus to prepare
my bath. There really should be an app for that."
"Is the the
line for the new iScorne 1864GS?"
Total farb!
How fitting. My Dad, who took this picture,
helped coined that phrase.
Wait, he didn't coin it. Sorry. He found who
coined it, and wrote an article in the Camp Chase Gazette.
So I assume he doesn't soak his buttons in
pee?
murrdithc @ Jun 26th 2009 10:15PM
ew. my
brother is such a dork.
My wife is doing what???!?!?
sircastor @ Jun 26th 2009 10:57PM
So, I actually know this guy. :) Yeah, that's
not a comment, but it's funny to see him.
Patrick @ Jun 26th 2009 11:33PM
"It's OK guys,
they're sending Terminators!"
From a time when bullet wounds meant amputation, and soldiers had to wait days for their data
over EDGE.
b3nz0n8 @ Jun 26th 2009 11:55PM
Mammay....I can haz cheezburger....it dun jailbreaked
The Weakonomist
@ Jun 27th 2009 12:39AM
I can't find the Gettysburg address on google maps? I wish this thing had VZ navigator.
feraligatr8 @ Jun 27th 2009 12:55AM
"guess what my
left hand's doing"
Christopher S. Palian @ Jun 27th 2009 12:55AM
Going to war against your own country... there
is an app for that.
Cold Bitter Truth @ Jun 27th 2009 1:53AM
Great Gatsbys, I've
downloaded enemy troop movements as GPS coordinates to Maps... so everyone load
up Loopt to avoid friendly fire and CHARGE
b3nz0n8 @ Jun 27th 2009 2:39AM
Jennaaay!!...I was running and
runnin'gah...with no particular place to go..when all of a suh'denn...it felt like sum'thin
jus jumped right up...and bit me in the but'tocks
They told us to go to the south for better
3G!?
NERD:: Call for fire,
call for fire: Fire for effect.
PHONE:: [Bravo 3 Zulu, call for fire acknowledged,
fire for effect in 2 mikes]
NERD:: Hey! We Got mortars incoming!...
Dennis O. @ Jun 27th 2009 7:40AM
"And I heard tell that General Samuel
Cooper made one of his slaves wait in line for 7 days just so's
he could have himself the first iPhone 3GS south of
the Mason Dixon!!"
AT&T are such
tyrants.
magusxxx @ Jun 27th 2009 10:54AM
"And the plane will be
overhead…now!"
"What's a plane?"
"I don't know, I saw it on M*A*S*H."
"What's M*A*S*H*?"
Fruit company stocks? No thank you very much.
"First the Hottest Girls app gets removed
and now they're taking away my iBayonet app!"
scottsconklin @ Jun 27th 2009 1:13PM
NO! I wast
using my vibe!
Trin
Rimes @ Jun 27th 2009 1:35PM
"HEELLPPPP"
wupierto @ Jun 27th 2009 2:24PM
General, they’ve got us surrounded! Twitter
the cavalry!!!
"Well you tell Sherman that if he's gonna do that, then he's gonna be
burning the bridge in our relationship!"
brennonbrady @ Jun 27th 2009 5:39PM
We must free the enslaved black iphones!!
Steve S @ Jun 27th 2009 5:54PM
HELLOOO?!? YEA, I'M DOIN THE
CIVIL WAR THING. WHA... YEAH I SAID I'M DOIN THE CIVIL WAR THING.
RIGHT....YEAH.... CIAO!!!! /trigger happy tv
guy voice
" I'm Bill S. Preston,
Esquire! "
bud2wine @ Jun 27th 2009 8:42PM
No sir, I'm not pee shy - not even with 2 of
my buddies watching - And I can talk on the phone at the same time!
jesterselv @ Jun 27th 2009 9:08PM
"HELLO! ...... WHAT
....... NAW, I'M AT A CIVIL WAR RE-ENACTMENT.... YEAH
...... YEAH..... ALRIGHT........CHOW"
(trigger happy tv)
Dan Fruzzetti
@ Jun 28th 2009 2:38AM
"Who invited that guy?"
Steve Hamilton @ Jun 28th 2009 8:46AM
"Scotty! Beam me the hell out of here!
I'm sick of hardtack!"
magusxxx @ Jun 28th 2009 9:14AM
What do you mean it's an extra $5 delivery
charge for crossing the Mason-Dixon Line?
magusxxx @ Jun 28th 2009 10:24AM
"Please designate which side you are
fighting for by saying North or South"
"North"
"I'm sorry, I didn't understand your response. Please try again."
"NORTH!"
Pre-determined @ Jun 28th 2009 2:35PM
"King Michael
Jackson what?!! SAY IT ISN'T SO!!!!"