Time Magazine’s Person of the Year: Me
Time Magazine has announced that their person of the year for 2006 is . . . You. Not “you” like “the person reading this,” but you in the collective, in the one pronoun that doesn’t exist in the English language (except in the south) – “You” as in “yous.”Time explains:
“We made Facebook profiles and Second Life avatars and reviewed books at Amazon and recorded podcasts. We blogged about our candidates losing and wrote songs about getting dumped. We camcordered bombing runs and built open-source software.”
Bravo, Time Magazine. Bravo. It’s about time someone recognized who really is leading this worldwide webolution, who the important people are. Rise up, Yous, and accept your honor. You are the Person of the Year.
And you!
Couldn’t forget about you guys!
You too!
Especially you!
. . . you.
Not you.
(Seriously, no MySpace? Gawker? Nothing?)
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22 Comments:
You need to post something longer. This only kept me from work for 2 minutes!
I think we all know by now that African children don't get recognized until they overcome insurmountable odds and run Boston in 1:37:34. We do, however, recognize white guys who build houses and then cuddle on lounge chairs.
How sad.
I want to say you're going to hell for making fun of the poor African kid, but damn if I didn't giggle at his lack of MySpace.
Save me a seat.
Awwwwwwwww... I just cried a little but I'll be okay. It's not like I'll ever meet the kid or anything, because like you said, he doesn't even have Myspace... GET WITH THE PROGRAM KID! ;)
horrible
Things I learned today:
1. I am generally perceived to be an asshole; and,
2. I am not good at writing incisive social commentary.
Of course not the kid in (presumably) Africa. He can't watch the 30 second ad for Chevy on Time.com before he reads the article about You. *And* if he could, let's be honest, he's buying a Toyota. Better gas mileage.
Why does everyone assume that kid is African? Just because he is black? You people should be ashamed........
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........he is African right?
Best part of the whole thing is that Chevy or whatever ad before the Time.com article that specifically says "You may not be time's person of the year..."
oh yes I am. yes i am. read the cover suckers.
Time Mag should be pulled from the market. "You"?
How lame can they get?
Lets just drop the big one on ourselves and be done with it. If Time is right, we're in for a slow and painful death.
Two things.
First, Time magazine is obviously suffering from a drop in subscriptions and needs everyone who has been getting their reading materical from the web for the last couple of years to pick up a copy while waiting in line to purchase whatever they eat while filming their pet iguana.
Second. I mean, I second miss nines.
Apparently the cover is a mirror so you can stare at yourself.
I cannot wait for this week's edition to get to my apartment.
And yes, I have a subscription to Time magazine. What of it?
You're totally not an asshole and your social commentary is excellent. But then I'm biased because whatever you write just makes me want to have sex with you.
Booger eaters, idiots and some interspecies erotica.
Yep, we control the information age. Welcome to our world. We deserve to be recognized!
You! Little kid, move out of the way! There could have been another stupid video there! Damn you!
Does this mean I can finally get all my news online from bloggers and drop my subscription to the increasingly-irrelevant Time Magazine?
i thought that kid was going to be angie & brad's next kid. oh wait they alreay have one of those.
personally, i enjoyed the whole "you" thing.
i am adding it to my resumé.
i am college educated AND time's person of the year. if i dont get hired- oh boy. i'll be irritated.
poor kid, literally and figuratively.......
Oh my. First; you have a lot of free time don't you? How did you manage to find those?
But worse; i'm very disturbed by the girl who totally ruined how cute the puppy was.
Well I, for one, was honored to be chosen as Time Magazine's Person of the Year. I'm just glad I finally got the recognition I deserve for helping out humanity. I mean, who else wants to be a middle school librarian? Someone's got to do it.
We, I mean Us, I mean YOU -- Are so awesome...
Social commentary? How about the fact that there IS a word for "the collective you". It's ya'll. Or, as Katie Couric was so fond of saying, "You all."
That dirty girl with the dog was making me want to puke. Really. Blech.
I see Jules is from Florida but that doesn't count as "The South" so she doesn't understand that "ya'll" is not a "collective you" since "ya'll" can be singular as well as plural.
Now "all ya'll" THAT'S the "collective you." One must hear southernese to believe it. Understanding it is a whole other story.
On the issues of Time shipping to the south east the person of the year should have been "ya'll" (singular). That would have sold some issues!! (but only if there were pictures helping to tell the story) OHHHHHH I'm going straight to hell when I die!
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