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Comments on: Kim Jong Il: dictator, gnome, and now 'internet expert'

AI VXXXXine Injection .... Binary Medicine. 

Posted Friday 5th October 2007 15:59 GMT

One Cool Dude, Kim Jong Il. Does he have a Sister or maiden Aunt?

Which is the sort of personal intrusion of Space that any Open System Provides. Fortunately IT intrigues the Masses and they can spend forever Chasing that Dragon's Tale/Tail.

Meanwhile, on the other side of town, with Kim and the Gang, Magic was abroad.... :-)

The expertise of another world-leader 

Posted Friday 5th October 2007 16:05 GMT

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Pope Pius XII, known to some as 'Hitlers Pope' also seems to have regarded himself as an expert on all manner of subjects. Here is the historian John Cornwell:

"If he showed signs of grandiosity it was in his tendency to expatiate on an ever expanding range of topics. So numerous and so beyond his competence were these specialised talks, or 'allocutions', that the practice seemed symptomatic of ripening delusions of omniscience. He lectured visiting groups on subjects such as dentistry, gymnastics, gynaecology, aeronautics, cinematography, psychology, psychiatry, agriculture, plastic surgery, and the art of newscasting. A visitor to his study once remarked on the piles of fat manuals around his desk; Pacelli responded that he was preparing a talk on gas central heating. When T S Eliot, arguably the leading English-language poet and literary critic of his day, came to the Vatican for a private audience in 1948, Pacelli delivered him a lecture on literature."

(the text above was cribbed from http://www.hootingyard.org)

Kim Jong Il's Blog 

Posted Friday 5th October 2007 16:10 GMT

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http://users.livejournal.com/kim_jong_il__

Do you know how fricken busy I am! 

Posted Friday 5th October 2007 16:50 GMT

Do you know how fricken busy I am!

Keeping in touch with JFK the leader of the corrupt capitalist world. Elvis, John Lennon & Freddie Mercury as to when they will be making an appearance in North Korea. Requesting Aryton Senna's presence to help with the cause of hosting North Korea's first F1 grand prix race ever. Asking Princess Diana would she like to checkout our premium land mines. And Saddam Hussein where's my fricken WMDs???

Please introduce him... 

Posted Friday 5th October 2007 17:25 GMT

... to Chuck Norris.

Wait; maybe he *is* Chuck Norris.

Mac??? 

Posted Friday 5th October 2007 17:49 GMT

And I thought it was Liberace's piano, complete with candelabrum.

Damn you Reg! 

Posted Friday 5th October 2007 18:02 GMT

Paris Hilton

"Presently, there are two Kim Jong Ils listed on Facebook. He's probably trawling for babes as we write - his loneliness was of course well documeted in Team America: World Police. ®"

You got there first. :<

Not impressed 

Posted Friday 5th October 2007 18:42 GMT

(Written by Reg staff.)Dead Vulture

Only one?

Bush doesn't claim to be an expert, but at least he's got an ear on all the internets.

we all know who invented 

Posted Friday 5th October 2007 20:05 GMT

Coat

Come on now where is AL Gore in all this? We all know he invented the US of A version of the internet. Wonder if Kim Jong has sent a friends request to him on facebook?

He might be wonely... 

Posted Friday 5th October 2007 20:59 GMT

Coat

He might be wonely... and somewhat deluded, but he does seem to have a better grasp of the Internet than our own beloved dicatators.

we all know who invented 

Posted Friday 5th October 2007 22:15 GMT

Just knew some 'Faux News' viewer had to mention the 'Al Gore invented the internet' myth.

No, he never said it.

http://web.archive.org/web/20000125065813/http://www.mids.org/mn/904/vcerf.html

(Sorry, I should have said CNN viewer)

we all know who invented 

Posted Sunday 7th October 2007 00:01 GMT

He said

"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

At least he could spell potato(e).

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