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the_marq 01-20-2005 01:18 PM

Was (is) Bill Gates a sex symbol?
 
OK I found this on a blog I visit about once a month, and I just had to share it here.

WTF is this all about (circa 1983)

<img src="http://telusplanet.net/public/markus_e/images/billgates01.jpg">

<img src="http://telusplanet.net/public/markus_e/images/billgates02.jpg">

Averett 01-20-2005 01:19 PM

Hawt.

I don't know if that's really Bill Gates though. Maybe a look-a-like?

jbw97361 01-20-2005 01:20 PM

OK, he looks drunk to me. Although I do see some large floppy disks on his desk, nothing is working...

Then again, I'm a man too, so that probably has something to do with it.

present_future 01-20-2005 01:21 PM

Maybe it's just me, but if that were an advertisement for Microsoft way back when, I think Macintosh would be the more successful company.

Halx 01-20-2005 01:23 PM

If I had those in 1600x1200 resolution.. I know what my new desktop would be.

They look authentic, but too authentic. That just isn't Bill Gates. I dont think they're real.

That being said, despite his ultimate power and wealth, there is something about Bill Gates that will forever bar him from being associated with the word "Sexy."

the_marq 01-20-2005 01:27 PM

Snopes says "Real"

http://www.snopes.com/photos/people/gates.asp


Although the Teen Beat angle is pretty funny.

Charlatan 01-20-2005 01:32 PM

Wow... those are hilarious. Go Bill go...

Averett 01-20-2005 01:39 PM

Quote:

Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, reclines sexily on his desk in his office soon after the release of Windows 1.0. 1985 Bellevue, Washington, USA.
I'm disturbed. And a little bit turned on.

reiii 01-20-2005 02:44 PM

if thats real...wow, just wow

Blackthorn 01-20-2005 02:47 PM

They look like a photo shop of Willie's face....I don't think they are real but hey... back in the day maybe he was just a luuuuuvvv mah-cheene! :D

ShaniFaye 01-20-2005 03:24 PM

there will never be enuff money in the world to consider him "sexy"

munchen 01-20-2005 03:52 PM

Rawr! With a smile like that he doesn't even need money....

Crisis 01-20-2005 03:55 PM

I wish I were as hot as Bill. He shouldn't invest a couple billion in plastic surgeory for himself.

Lasereth 01-20-2005 05:05 PM

Bill Gates is my new hero.

-Lasereth

StanT 01-20-2005 05:18 PM

These days he just tapes a few $100 bills to his zipper.

maleficent 01-20-2005 05:22 PM

Awwww - he's cute... and short.... :)

Makes me reminiscent for my old AT - that used the 5 1/4" floppy.

OK, someone figure out what's on the word processing document behind him :) Letter to Paul Allen?

Coppertop 01-20-2005 05:45 PM

I dunno, being the richest man in the universe is bound to appeal to at least a few women.

Fremen 01-20-2005 08:53 PM

Not him, Snopes or no Snopes.

Cool action shot, though.
http://telusplanet.net/public/markus...illgates02.jpg

I'd chunk it to him for a few drachmas. :D

Redjake 01-20-2005 10:11 PM

Bill Gates is awesome!

Cynthetiq 01-20-2005 11:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by maleficent
Awwww - he's cute... and short.... :)

Makes me reminiscent for my old AT - that used the 5 1/4" floppy.

OK, someone figure out what's on the word processing document behind him :) Letter to Paul Allen?

aaah the 5 1/4"... those were the days....

the days that I could store 64k on single disk... a Palm program wastes that much memory just in code inefficiencies.

vorpal_rabbit 01-20-2005 11:31 PM

A friend of mine posted an edit to this picture that includes the missing element:

<img src="http://www.arches.uga.edu/~brumby/Pictures/GatesValue.jpg">

Now THAT's sexy.

omega2K4 01-21-2005 07:56 PM

I made this for use in Counter-Strike: Source a week or two ago:

http://img93.exs.cx/img93/7563/billg...machine1dz.jpg

CSflim 01-22-2005 01:59 PM

Hahahah! Brilliant!

Sweetpea 01-22-2005 02:00 PM

it's totally photoshopped in there kids . . .

Frowning Budah 01-22-2005 03:10 PM

Hey, I for one think smart is sexy. Like him or not you got to admit he has some smarts.

rfra3645 01-22-2005 03:30 PM

i say its him... why wouldnt he do those.. the first windows.. i can only remeber back to 3.1...at any rate someone should stick a recent photo of him up here...

quadro2000 01-24-2005 05:48 AM

They're definitely him.

Anybody else notice the Macintosh in the background?

yabobo 01-24-2005 05:58 AM

Shit, for a share of 29.5 billion I'd let him do me!

GremlinDelirium 01-24-2005 06:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by quadro2000
Anybody else notice the Macintosh in the background?

Yeah, I noticed the mac in the background. Frickin hilarous. Its well known MS stole from mac in the begining and there's further proof. ;) :lol:

Craven Morehead 01-24-2005 06:50 PM

looks stoned

maleficent 01-24-2005 06:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rfra3645
at any rate someone should stick a recent photo of him up here...

ask and yee shall recaive

http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/images/billbio.jpg

omega2K4 01-24-2005 08:43 PM

I'd do him. For some money, of course.

hu-man 01-25-2005 01:25 AM

Why shouldn't it be real? Back when they started out, sure they had press photos taken. And they're actually good press photos.

projectself 01-25-2005 09:25 AM

http://images.google.com/images?q=bi...=Google+Search

projectself 01-25-2005 09:28 AM

please, click on the link above. some of those pictures of him are just too too funny.<p>
another from the series?<p>
<img src="http://www.emh.co.kr/images/bill_gates.jpg">

nofnway 02-23-2005 10:09 PM

I just felt like bumping the oldest thread....and this one is funny

Anomaly_ 02-24-2005 12:09 AM

Why must people insist that any mildly amusing picture on the web has been altered? Except for the blurb on Slashdot about it being from "Tigerbeat", it is the real deal. Anyway, I'm just glad that Steve Ballmer was left out of the picture. Could you imagine the mania of that guy twenty years younger?

Stompy 02-24-2005 08:14 AM

Money = sex = power.

Sex symbol with looks? Nah. But think of it like this... the ugliest celebrities have no problem whatsoever with gettin the ladies.

Women are attracted to men in positions of power.

Worth $29.5 billion? You could be 500 lbs and you would still be a sex symbol.

kid astronaut 02-24-2005 04:48 PM

yeah that is definitely him
my dad used to work for microsoft, he says he remembers those pictures coming out
apparently it was like an inside joke at microsoft, once they were released

wsuprincess 02-24-2005 05:18 PM

As someone who lives in Washington........ICK! I don't think he's that great looking, and that's kinda grossing me out! :D


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