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Title: No Comment: Senator Grassley, your office is calling Post by: HCK on June 07, 2012, 07:00:05 pm No Comment: Senator Grassley, your office is calling
The US Senate: home of democracy, bastion of civility, redoubt of Brylcreem, sciatica and combovers. If you were trying to recruit a less tech-savvy group of Americans, it would be pretty challenging. The late Alaska senator Ted Stevens set the bar with his legendary reference to the Internet as a "series of tubes" (it's not a truck, people), but despite the chamber's current home page headline of Technology and the Senate, the everyday missteps around gadgets and geekdom continue. The latest example, via BuzzFeed: in the video below, Senator Chuck Grassley's podium time gets interrupted by a very distinctive ringtone. Yes, Chuck has an iPhone; yes, it's still set on the classic "Up Yours, Gustav Mahler" Marimba tone; yes, he forgot to turn it off before stepping onto the Senate floor. Captured for posterity by C-SPAN, this ring ding earns today's No Comment. No Comment: Senator Grassley, your office is calling originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments http://www.tuaw.com/2012/06/07/no-comment-senator-grassley-your-office-is-calling/ |