# "Don't dot com me!"
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-dot-com-me/9892
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 25, 1999, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-dot-com-me/9892 "1999-10-25T00:17:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)
#### Post date: [October 25, 1999, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-dot-com-me/9892/1 "1999-10-25T00:17:00Z")
Oh great, new words! I thought I saw this line in a film lately. I can’t quite figure out just what it means though. Using the Internet ‘dot com’ in a new way interests me.
Can anyone define it and/or know of other similar usage?
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### Author:  [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)
#### Post date: [October 25, 1999, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-dot-com-me/9892/2 "1999-10-25T00:26:00Z")
Tell us a little about the context and we’ll commence guessing.
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### Author:  [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)
#### Post date: [October 25, 1999, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-dot-com-me/9892/3 "1999-10-25T00:27:00Z")
Norm MacDonald had a beer commercial full of dot comedy.
Don’t groan at me - it was his joke.
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### Author:  [@Cowboy\_Greg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowboy_Greg)
#### Post date: [October 25, 1999, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-dot-com-me/9892/4 "1999-10-25T05:09:00Z")
“[dot.com](http://dot.com)” whatever I noticed first in some ads from Sun Microsystems. Naturally, since it sounds hip and with it and implies whoever tosses it around in casual speech is one of the new Internet economy movers and shakers, it got buzzworded in record time. However, in my ever-so-humble Unix sysadminish opinion, anybody who uses it has just marked themselves as a clueless marketing droid who uses buzzwords in lieu of actually understanding what they’re talking about. Personally, if I ever stoop so low as utter the dread phrase “dot-com enabled business”, I hope my tongue would immediately swell up to the size of a casaba melon to preclude me from spouting further blather and embarassing myself even more.
Opinionated? Me? Naaaah… 😉
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A cubicle is just a padded cell without a door.
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### Author:  [@Byzantine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Byzantine)
#### Post date: [October 25, 1999, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-dot-com-me/9892/5 "1999-10-25T05:26:00Z")
Should I feel bad for saying… [biteme.com](http://biteme.com)? Or just lick my strong white [ass.com](http://ass.com)? No? Well, then just go to get/clue.com… it’s all a joke.
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### Author:  [@PurpleCrackwhore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleCrackwhore)
#### Post date: [October 25, 1999, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-dot-com-me/9892/6 "1999-10-25T13:12:00Z")
I tried to get/clue.com but they sent me to .net for some reason… so I guess I will remain forever clueless.
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“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing, does the painter do good
things.” --Edgar Degas
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### Author:  [@Dirty\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Devil)
#### Post date: [October 25, 1999, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-dot-com-me/9892/7 "1999-10-25T20:27:00Z")
I remember four or five years ago hearing John Madden, during a football game, say “He’s so out of touch, he can’t even dot com.” That was the first time that I had heard dot com used like that. Now it’s used by everybody and their brother, and they always feel real witty and original when they say it.