Thank you for Cingular

Meanwhile, I could only hope to be as great a debater against the man as Mr. George Vaccaro, the Verizon Math guy, who's shown us all that Canadian Verizon employees don't understand the difference between .002 dollars and .002 cents.

That's really, really sad. I'm not a math person, at all, but I'd as soon as jump at someone's jugular if I were required to pay 100 times the amount originally agreed upon. Many fourth grade students could probably spot the difference in a much smaller amount of time. The confusion between the two amounts may be a common mistake, but after having it explained to you over and over again, you'd have to wonder what these people were on.

Verizon Math Guy got his start on YouTube, where he posted the phone conversation he had with Verizon. The post soon became one of the top viewed videos at YouTube, and he created the blog in order to respond to all the feedback he'd been getting from people who'd had similar experiences or just supported his cause. The comic guy over at xkcd (read his comics, they're grrrreat!) even drew this in retaliation and support. This is just another example of how the Internet can influence consumer public relations, in this case, for the worse.

"What now, bitches?" indeed.