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Am I sorry or not?

One of the consequences of the New Internet World Order is that it is very easy to set up a web site like www.sorryeverybody.com and equally easy to set up a response like www.notsorryeverybody.com. This state of affairs clearly calls out for some sort of competition between the two. At dinner last night, someone suggested that there should be a site like www.amisorryornot.com? I guess it would have been funnier if the "not sorry" site had pictures of people not being sorry. Then "sorry or not" could have picked a picture and had visitors vote whether the person looked sorry or not...

(I have to admit in my consummate geekdom that I think that the funniest "X or not" site is www.amibiosornot.com.)

Published Thursday, November 18, 2004 7:01 AM by oldnewthing

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# re: Am I sorry or not?

Thursday, November 18, 2004 11:48 AM by Ben A L Jemmett
Aha, somebody else who appreciates http://www.amibiosornot.com/!

# AMIBiosOrNot

Thursday, November 18, 2004 3:28 PM by TraviBlog

# re: Am I sorry or not?

Thursday, November 18, 2004 12:36 PM by Steve Dispensa

# re: Am I sorry or not?

Thursday, November 18, 2004 4:34 PM by Andreas Häber
Nice sites :)
If you understand Norwegian then these two sites are funny as well (in my opinion):
http://www.ulv.no and http://www.sau.no

(Little help: ulv = woolf, sau = sheep)

# re: Am I sorry or not?

Friday, November 19, 2004 12:39 AM by Zibbo
Don't forget http://www.apologiesaccepted.com
who will be first to register www.nowedonotacceptyourapologies.com? =)

# re: Am I sorry or not?

Friday, November 19, 2004 6:07 AM by Tom
"Wolves are <ålreite> animals, wolves eat among other things sheep"

"Sheep are stupid animals, sheep are food for among other things wolves"

What does ålreite mean? Is it a comic transliteration of all right? Do people say this?

# re: Am I sorry or not?

Friday, November 19, 2004 7:20 AM by Andreas Häber
Tom: It's an adjective created from the transliteration of "all right". Most people will just say it like in English. More info is available here: http://www.dokpro.uio.no/perl/ordboksoek/ordbok.cgi?OPP=%E5lreite&begge=S%F8k+i+begge+ordb%F8kene&ordbok=begge&alfabet=n&renset=j&alle_former=on

It comes from writing often-used English words in a more Norwegian way, to protect the Norwegian language... Other examples are:
pub - pøbb
service - sørvis

# re: Am I sorry or not?

Friday, November 19, 2004 7:20 AM by Dan McCarty
From what I've heard the "sorries" vs. the "not sorries" were pretty close. By about 51 to 48%.

# re: Am I sorry or not?

Friday, November 19, 2004 7:33 AM by Cooney
Um, A møøs byt my syster ønce.

# re: Am I sorry or not?

Friday, November 19, 2004 8:49 AM by Matt
From the sounds of Dan's post, 1% (~1.5million) have been disenfranchised by the failure of anyone to register www.dontgiveashitwhathappened.com.

# re: Am I sorry or not?

Friday, November 19, 2004 11:05 AM by James
Last week there was a www.werenotsorry.com site that did have photos of people not sorry. Looks like it's down now, though...

# re: Am I sorry or not?

Sunday, November 21, 2004 10:54 AM by Cooper
Maybe you should mix this with a few days ago and do www.amiaccreditedornot.com?

# re: Am I sorry or not?

Monday, November 29, 2004 12:12 PM by Kelli Zielinski
... I just wasted three perfectly good minutes looking at motherboards.

# re: Am I sorry or not?

Monday, November 29, 2004 12:13 PM by Kelli Zielinski
What's worse is that I think I giggled in glee over it...
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