“MSZunefan, the man who sacrificed his body to Microsoft with his Zune tattoo, is now planning to change his name,” Charlie Sorrel blogs for Wired.
Microsoft (First name) and Zune (Last Name)
Full article here.
Desperately bad guerilla marketing… er, make that “gorilla.” He makes the guy who fronted the iPhone line look like Mr. Cardio. The guy’s either a fake or Microsoft has actually found someone who has less respect their body than we have for their software.
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Somone’s been eating toys dipped in lead based paint.
couldn’t think of a better name for this guy!!
perfect poster for the product.
For a bloke like him “Brown Zune” is a wonderful name.
He will be equally quickly forgotten.
Ballmer’s already fantasizing about putting him in tights and butterfly wings.
“Fly, my precious monkey child. Fly, dammit.”
I don’t have the heart. It’s just too damn easy.
I thought this was an Onion piece
“Oddly, his concerns are with the legality of using a trademarked name. We think he should be a little more worried with, say, keeping his wife and job.”
I refuse to believe that this man has either.
@ Mauritius Kestrel
Thanks for reminding me of that awful MSN butterfly ad campaign. The therapy I have to go through to block that stuff out isn’t cheap.
I would do what he says. He’s already “accidentally” eaten three of his lawyers. See on the wall where it’s writ, “Habeas A Corpus Delecti!”
Hey now. There are women just as stupid as this guy. How else do you think that *insert politician that you personally dislike* keeps getting re-elected?
Let him do it; people never regret those sort of decisions.
Jesus!
talk about a douche salad rolled into a chode roll.. this guy rocks the concept.
Listen all you bloggers, The man probably doesn’t have a job and so this is his way of earning a buck, good luck to him because his hearing was probably temporarily dysfunctional while tucking into his favourite bucket of eats, thus causing him not to hear that the Zune and its market place chums (napster et al) are becoming obsolete at the speed of thought! Thus making him a likely candidate of early obsolesence.
What ever he does, he has my support, I can only wish him well on this new venture he is about to embark on.
We need more people like him to embody products, thus creating a very interesting World.
So that is what ZuneTang looks like…..
best MDN take in awhile – thanks for the laugh guys =)
@ BustingTheSkullsOfIdiots
So, are you saying that the women of Alaska are to blame for Ted Stevens? I see…
I think he should change his name to ‘anita salad’
“We think he should be a little more worried with, say, keeping his wife and job.”
Read between the lines.
Wife = Longhorn
Job = Branding
And someone might want to check his freezer. There’s also a Boy Scout Troop, six insurance salesmen and dozens of pets missing in the area. <urp>
This reminds me of when I changed my name to Sony MiniDisc. It was my father, Betamax’s idea.
(Does anyone else feel a Princess Superstar song coming on?)
“Mens sana in corpore sano.”
I didn’t know that the reverse statement holds true as well.
Welcome to the socially inept…™
Welcome to the Sociopath™
Ok, remember the post from Qwest crap, and how those who call Mac users zombies and mindless followers and etc.? Well basically this makes my point.
Two nursery-school truths that still hold true:
1. What goes around comes around.
2. It takes one to know one.
So C1,
BetaMax was screwing VHS – eh, I thought so.
Did I say embody?
what a product that body must be embodying!!!! embo—dying get it?
Some people should remain in their parents basement and not come out to squirt with others.
Wot fun!!!
His bumper sticker says, “If I Squirt You, Will You Love Me?”
Why not? I think he’s the perfect spokesman for the Zune.
I doubt even Microsoft would want anything to do with this basket case.
They have used this picture before!!! I guess they couldn’t open the door wide enough to get in and take “a latest photograph of him”!!!
magic word : “why”
From the ZuneScene comments…
mszunefan:”If any one could help me research what I have to do to have this happen in my state of Iowa that would help a great deal.”
Ah… Iowa. It all makes sense now.
“I doubt even Microsoft would want anything to do with this basket case.”
Especially when TMZ reports that he’s Uncle Fester and Turtle Boy’s secret love child.
I think we should petition the authorities to allow this to happen. I’d love to see the hilarity of humiliation that ensues.
“Ah… Iowa. It all makes sense now.”
Where acres of corn are terrified. And useful holes come in only three flavors:
milk bottle,
canister vacuum,
and small tear in mattress.
Does anyone still not know that ZuneScene is run by Apple?
whatta mah-rune
He should marry that goldenpalace.com chick. Talk about successful branding, the only online gambling website I know of.
Nothing says ‘Lovin’ like a Zune tatoo and cankles.
He’ll get all the chicks w/ a name like that. Let’s break it down slowly: micro – soft. Yeah, I can here them running now.
this is why I use Apple products…
If it takes a cool guy to represent iPod, then this guy is the perfect poster boy for Zune: Wierd and not too handsome.
If Microsoft’s recent ad campaign on Slashdot is any indication, their new marketing strategy is to bring on the ugly.
A perfect mascot for Microsoft.
MS should let this man change his name.He’s the perfect image right now of Microsoft …bloated.
“He’ll get all the chicks w/ a name like that.”
Only the brain damaged poultry too slow to escape.
He looks like he’s about to give birth to a thousand little Gigabeats.
Microsoft will probally sue hime if he does… They don’t need anymore slow bloated things confiding with their name…and what don’t know is this is this is balmer’s kid…hahaha.
Oh.
My.
God.
a-hole.
Is this the guy who writes under the pseudonym “Paul Thurrott”?
This guy must still live with his parents.
Should change it to Mucking Foron.
This guy was OBVIOUSLY hired by Apple. I can see it now …
iPod: Hi. I’m an iPod.
Zune: And … (muffled eating sounds) … I’m … (grunt, wheeze, snort) … uhm … (swallow, belch) … I’m a … (crunch, break wind, vomit a little) … I’m a Zune.
iPod: … … …
AWW this poor guy there is no way this can be real. Is he really that desperate for his 5 minutes of fame? I hope not ;(
You! Please remove yourself from the genepool! Immediately.
Sometimes all the planets align and we have perfection.
This is one of those times.
Apple should hire this guy for their publicities: ….”Hi I’m a PC….”
His first name was actually given to him by his wife during there wedding night.
Wow. Now I understand why Zune’s are so unpopular.
I wonder what his parents look like? Scary thought!
Parents? He’s the love child of Jabba the Hut and Rosie O’Donnell
Microsoft? More like Macrosoft!
What a zuner!
DO IT! DO IT! DO IT! DO IT! DO IT! DO IT!
Why would anyone tattoo “LOSER” on his/her body – and then change their name to that as well?
Anyone know a good shrink for this sad excuse of a man??
He should try losing weight first before changing his name. All the the Honey Buns have rotten his brain if He changed his name to M.Zune.
Imagine, Someone Crack-a -Lacken with a Zune.
D’oh Eric. You beat me to it dude…
How about he calls himself Dick Rash, Paul Skinback, Wain Ker or Ivor Turd.
No, on second thoughts… Zune is ideal name for such a worthless piece of shit (the digital music player ofc).
This looks simply like performance art.
I like his attitude, expressing himself and living his life as he sees fit.
I wish more people would act on their harmless impulses.
The world needs the interesting ones, whether we agree with their choices and esthetics or not.
Does this mean he will suck, too?
MW:probably…?
I don’t know, I would thinkg that getting a Zune tattoo is about the same thing as getting a “Kick Me” tattoo.
Jokes on you guys, your only seeing his left shoulder, when he turns the other way, there’s a Dorito chip on his right shoulder,
he’s their poster boy too.
He had better beware of being rolled — by dung beetles.
He should get an “L” on his forehead while he’s at it. The tattoo artist would probably throw that in for free.
I probably shouldn’t give tips to MS but – consider PAYING HIM TO NOT GET THE TATTOO.
“The guy’s either a fake or Microsoft has actually found someone who has less respect their body than we have for their software.”
MDN is kidding, right guys? Just look at this pork chop. Is it even possible for him to have less respect for his body? Oh wait… he got a Zune tattoo…never mind.
“Please remove yourself from the genepool! Immediately.”
@Bruce,
Frankly, I really don’t think you should worry about this specimen breeding. Even if he did, he looks like the type that would eat his young.
“There are women just as stupid as this guy. How else do you think that *insert politician that you personally dislike* keeps getting re-elected?”
interesting. i am going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you are not implying that only women, and this guy are stupid, and that the unfortunate pairing of terms is only due to the post you re responding to, and not, as might be suggested, because that is an incredibly sexist statement you are trying to make….
…and the picture kept asking me ..hey, what’s wrong with me …and it said, “I’m in tech, that’s what’s wrong and I should be in agriculture..” I mean, I’d be there if I were him. If I were him I’d enter myself in a ginseng root look-a-like contest ..and I’d have a miniature version of my ginseng root self sitting on my lap ..and then a mini-mini-self sitting in his lap ..and then I’d tie my three selves to a friendship necklace made of something organic and become a google ad for ‘the zune social’ and I’d hang out in the ‘zune marketplace’ with a little tray of squircles and I’d hand them out to people who hadn’t yet any idea why they were there ..and then I’d wonder how much more wrong it could get.
Just wait for when Microsoft EOLs Zune—this guy will not even get recycled.
Maybe Greenpeace needs to a toxicology report on this guy.
This story is a waste of time; let the guy do it if it’s legal.
CHARLIE I have just one word of advice,
forget about using two names.
Stick with just “ZUNE” it’s far more cool, perhaps even suiting.
Personally, “Zoo” is better… go with that.
dougless
Looks like the move star Fat Bastard.
Uhh… if he’s going to change his name, he should change it to… Helena… Helena Handbasket or maybe Handcart.
@Mauritius Kestrel
“Fly, my precious monkey child. Fly, dammit.”
I immediately thought of the flying monkeys from the original Wizard of Oz.
Oh dear…
He must have, oh, about three brain cells left… and two of them are probably flickering.
And they have the gall to accuse us Mac users of being fanatical?!
@ TT
lolz.
@ The Artist Soon To Be Known As Microsoft Zune:
Listen, if you happen to run across this thread, and have read this far, then I have to ask you something…
Have you given this a dry run yet? I mean, have you tried going out in public, and introducing yourself as Microsoft Zune yet? Have you singed your name this way? Have they called that name at airline checking yet?
I’m guessing the answer is no. If not, I highly recommend you give this a test run before you change. You may find out that the overhead you get with the name (like, say, every third person you say your name to goes ‘huh?’ and demands a lengthty explanation) is more trouble than the name is worth. Trust me. When you make a change like that, you want to be sure of it.
Try using your new name is polite conversation and as an online identity. Change the name on your checks (many people don’t know you can make your checks say anything you want) or try signing up for mobile service, or garbage collection, or some other non-financial account. These won’t require a SSN, so you can name them as you please. Give it a try, say for a year, then do it for real.
It might save you some horrible embarrassment later in life.
Or even sooner.
Thank you,
Christina WIley
“airline check-in“
“in polite conversation”
As you were.
Hey! to each his own… This is starting to look lie they are grasping for air… I think the PC nerds ae finally getting a little scared…
Maybe he should just rename himself with simplicity and honesty, with no worreies about MS legal hunting him down.
Fat Fscking Idiot seems most appropriate.
I think its a good idea for him to tattoo “Squirt Me” on his forehead.
> They [Microsoft] don’t need anymore slow bloated things confiding with their name…
Good one! He should be the spokesperson for Windows Vista.
C’mon people, don’t be so hard on the guy. So he reeeeeally loves MS and the Zune. Have some compassion. All these rude…chuckle…comments and…chuckle…hurtful words…chuckle…
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The only person in the world with a popular website named after him – youtube ! (In Scotland, a ‘tube’ is the most banal form of idiot).
You’re just jealous– all of you.
Just like Microsoft, this gentleman has great designs of becoming ubiquitous.
This must be a fake. If you look at a closeup of that tattoo, it looks like it’s just painted (can you even get colors like that with a real tattoo?) Then again, as a publicitary stunt it doesn’t make too much sense either. But it may be possible, after all we’re talking Microsoft here, and MS has a notorious lack of good taste. Sometimes I even get the impression that the Zune team has given up all hope from the start and constantly acts in self-derision. That would explain the ‘squirting’ term (I feel dirty every time I write it), or the quite strange
error screen.
Great close-up pic of the tatoo. we also get to see at that site all the fans commenting on what a great tatoo
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also noticed that “beware of dog” warning, that should restart the jokes….
In a sad twist, if he goes through with it, his girlfriend has vowed to legally change her name to No Squirt For You.
That doublewide stopped a-rockin’.
You haters are jus jealous cuz you didnt think of it first. This guy is like awesome and not afraid to do kool stuff like this. And hes not even that fat neither. If youve ever seen the show the biggest looser, theyr way fatter tahn this guy. And he just likes his zune so he wants that to be his name wuts wrong with that? Your jus a bunch of jealous haterz cuz you wish you came up with the idea first. And have you even tried the zune and squirting stuff to your socials? the zune makes it fun to listen to music and squirt to your socials. Maybe when they come out with an new vershion of the zune I will change my name to that like Microsoft Zune 360 or sumthing. so there. you couldnt even afford a zune you cheap bastards let alone doing something tight like changing your name to it hahahahahaha.
I think that says it all.
This post needs 100 comments.
And also a psych consult for the fat Zune bastard.
But the big question is: Is he DRM free? If they subsidize him we’re all screwed. Can you imagine being able to buy one of him for like $20! The model is sound, but I couldn’t fit him in my pocket.
He’s not brown enough, but he probably squirts a lot.