When Your Imaginary Friend Is Bill Gates

from the immenient-imagination dept

When kids have imaginary friends, they usually are actually imaginary. Not one kid in India, who is going around telling people that he's working for Bill Gates as Microsoft's "Immenient (sic) Chief Executive Officer of Technology." Apparently, either Bill or this kid needs a spelling lesson (guess which one is more likely). Microsoft, of course, has confirmed that the kid has nothing to do with the company, and the email address the kid claims goes straight to Gates (who he "chats" with on a regular basis) goes straight to bounceville. Of course, maybe the reason Microsoft has no record of the Immenient Chief Executive Officer of Technology, is because: "Though I was offered a salary of $5,000 per week, I refused to charge them for my services, as in that case I would have to give them more time." That's because, in his spare time, he claims to be working on both a bachelor's and master's degree from Harvard. As for what he talks to Gates about, "we often interact online whenever either of us needs the other's guidance." It seems like only one of the two really needs "guidance" here.
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  • identicon
    kevin, 13 Jul 2005 @ 10:23am

    slow news day

    this is news? even/especially in India?

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    dorpus, 13 Jul 2005 @ 10:24am

    Don't Tell Anyone Our Secret

    Shouldn't we make the kid play the "astronaut" game with a plastic bag over his head, until he really sees stars? But maybe not, kids in India do a fine job of killing themselves by eating nicotine-spiked candy sold by street vendors, or eating lead-rich paint peelings off the wall.

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  • identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 13 Jul 2005 @ 10:51am

    Slow news day

    very slow news day in the tech world... *yawn*

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  • identicon
    John Hudgens, 13 Jul 2005 @ 11:03am

    Sounds like a Supershadow

    Sounds like the Bill Gates version of George Lucas' supposed (but only in the mind of the disturbed Mickey Suttle) confidant SuperShadow...
    That guy's been spouting a similar line of bovine excrement about Lucas and Star Wars for years now...

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  • identicon
    dave, 13 Jul 2005 @ 11:30am

    No Subject Given

    this reminds me of that kid in india who claimed to win some NASA think-tank prize, he claimed that he had went to London (on an airline that doesn't fly to london) and stayed in a 5 star hotel in the city and took a taxi to Oxford University every day for a 5hr test for some period of days... don't remember specifics, i think it was mentioned here on techdirt...

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    acousticiris, 13 Jul 2005 @ 3:05pm

    Thank goodness for the India Times

    ...Where else would we get to read such an interesting story about an 18 year old kid who is a compulsive liar. Imagine such a thing!
    I did find it interesting that Techdirt's own "Mike" failed to tell us which one of the two "really needs 'guidance' here."
    Subtle dig?

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  • identicon
    mastmaker, 13 Jul 2005 @ 5:14pm

    No Subject Given

    you'll wait a minute. May be this guy has been had by an impersonator. If so, he has been had for MUCH LESS THAN some of the people here in good ol' US of A been.

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    • identicon
      Roger, 14 Jul 2005 @ 5:52am

      MS conned?

      The title of the article says "Boy cons Microsoft" but the text doesn't support that.

      link to this | view in chronology ]

  • identicon
    Will Leingang, 14 Jul 2005 @ 8:55am

    This is me

    Hey I used to pretend I was Bill's friend all the time.

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