(San Antonio, TX) – Mere hours after it was launched, the eagerly awaited MMS (multi-media messaging) feature for Apple’s hugely popular iPhone was disabled, as AT&T’s data servers proved incapable of coping with the massive influx of wiener pic traffic.
“Within the first few minutes, our network was flooded with nearly 3.4 million MMS messages and the early data shows that almost 98% of those were pictures of our male customers’ penises,” stated Ronald MacArthur, head of data traffic for the company.
In the weeks and days up until the feature was rolled out, AT&T had been working around the clock to make improvements to its network, in order to deal with the expected spike in customers using the service. Unfortunately, their efforts appear to have been woefully inadequate.
“I guess we just weren’t prepared for how many guys would want to send other people a picture of their ding dong,” lamented MacArthur.
An informal poll of passers-by on a crowded street downtown revealed that AT&T had vastly underestimated the appeal.
“Oh, hells yeah I’m gonna send out pictures of my dick! You can do that now??” remarked a well-dressed businessman.
“I have Verizon, but really the only thing that’s been preventing me from getting an iPhone is the fact that I can’t trick my buddies into seeing a picture of my wang by saying something like, ‘Oh hey, you gotta see what this chick is wearing!’ and then sending them a picture of my boner under the pretense that it’s some slut in a miniskirt or something like that. I’m definitely gonna get one now. Especially with them adding Microsoft Exchange support. Oh and the dick pictures too,” said another man in his early 30’s who declined to give us his name, lest he tip off his friends to his planned shenanigans.
“Are you kidding? I sent like twenty already!” Enthused another young man who was actually in the process of taking yet another picture of his genitals to send out from his iPhone as we interviewed him, apparently unaware that the service had been disabled.
Female iPhone users seemed less enthusiastic about the feature. IT professional, Melanie Browning, complained that she had already received several unwelcome pictures from her male friends and co-workers.
“It’s idiotic. At this point, I realize that it’s not going to be a picture of a cute puppie. I’m not that stupid. Hold on a second, my dad just sent me a picture of his new car–Oh god!” Ms. Browning then began sobbing uncontrollably.
On their website, AT&T would not provide a solid timeline for when the service would come back online, but had this to say: “AT&T regrets further delays in rolling out the MMS service to its iPhone customers. We promise that we are hard at work, shoring up our infrastructure in order to bring you the best possible experience for tricking your friends and women you are stalking into seeing your Johnson against their will.”

57 responses so far ↓
Carol Hiller // September 25, 2009 at 8:23 pm |
Why is “Johnson” capitalized?
Your pal,
The Grammar Lady
hollywoodphony // September 26, 2009 at 10:11 am |
You just wouldn’t understand.
mathiias // October 1, 2009 at 8:38 am |
You notice that “Johnson” is capitalized (as it should be) but not that “puppie” is spelled wrong (puppy).
What kind of Grammar Lady are you?
Rob // October 1, 2009 at 11:47 am
She knows what to pay attention to.
Aardvark // October 2, 2009 at 8:06 am
She’s the grammar lady, not the spelling lady.
Mike // October 4, 2009 at 1:53 pm |
Because it`s a noun lol!
Kate C. // September 26, 2009 at 9:39 pm |
surely Rob Wagman is inconsolable at this bit of news
Curtis // September 30, 2009 at 10:28 pm |
Really immature. Not to mention, pretty gay!
Calledya // October 1, 2009 at 6:50 pm |
Homophobe much?
Bill // October 1, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Homophobe is a verb now?
poddington // October 1, 2009 at 8:31 am |
good post, made me laugh
Curtis // October 1, 2009 at 8:34 am |
Im really gay!
Rudy // October 1, 2009 at 8:34 am |
that’s alot of dicks!!!
Cursors // October 1, 2009 at 8:40 am |
LOL. SEriously? 3+ million pictures of penises…
Kevin // October 1, 2009 at 8:43 am |
The real question SHOULD BE…
Why was AT&T looking at these private messages?
Sense-Oars // October 1, 2009 at 8:46 am |
^^^Did not get the joke.
g.lllable // October 1, 2009 at 4:12 pm |
needed ^^^^ to fully understand this wasn’t the day that my nokia 6030 (no camera phone) started paying dividends. i didn’t wanna see anyone’s junk anyway. as far as i’m concerned, mine’s the only junk that matters anyway. but f*ck att. i think thats going to be the spinoff of this article.
Gonzobot // October 1, 2009 at 8:52 am |
This needs to be a grassroots movement to show the lack of infrastructure in ATT networks. I’d be willing to bet if every iphone user was sending pics (not necessarily of their units) the network really would go down. If it was all cock shots it would be way funnier though. I can see the headlines now…”Penises > AT&T”, or maybe “Phone Co Pwned By Penis Photobombs”
Silvester Regwright // October 1, 2009 at 9:19 am |
Did you know that the Madagascar Red Ringed Tree Sloth will, without warning, drop in front of unsuspecting humans and begin to vigorously clean its testicles with its tongue and various vegetation close by?
I like turtles!
iPhone more like img-timeline // October 1, 2009 at 9:20 am |
Wow it is like christmas for people who lack phones with real features, that have existed for the past 5 years or more in Europe and the rest of the civilized world.
Fred // October 1, 2009 at 9:49 am |
The Onion you’re not
hollywoodphony // October 1, 2009 at 9:58 am |
Thanks for reading!
emilypanda // October 1, 2009 at 10:23 am |
It was great!!! Didn’t know Curtis was actually gay…
#Tracer // October 1, 2009 at 10:31 am |
This is absolutely rapelicious!
MT // October 1, 2009 at 10:45 am |
Was AT&T entitled to check what their customers send? How the hell do they know that they were sending “ding dong’s pics”????
Judoguy // October 1, 2009 at 10:52 am |
Wow, so many idiots think this is a real article. Cracked me up.
The onion you are!
Judoguy // October 1, 2009 at 10:53 am |
Better yet – F the Onion!
Carol Hiller // October 1, 2009 at 11:02 am |
Oh yeah, I smell onions!
Mike // October 1, 2009 at 11:17 am |
Right.. so ATT is reading all your text messages to see what your sending??
Great… another reason not to use ATT
Ken // October 1, 2009 at 11:50 am |
Funny stuff!!!!
Ken // October 1, 2009 at 11:51 am |
Very funny!
Rob // October 1, 2009 at 1:07 pm |
haha now I don’t have to text
8=================D
to my friends anymore
Yan // October 1, 2009 at 1:43 pm |
I loved it!
name // October 1, 2009 at 2:11 pm |
why is AT&T allowed to look at the pictures of customers? that’s private property/information
noya // October 1, 2009 at 2:24 pm |
this is completely fake…there isnt a Ronald MacArthur that works for AT&T
Alex // October 1, 2009 at 2:56 pm |
They should implement penis optimised compression for MMS. At 98% penile rate they could just transmit “length”, “girth”, “pimplyness”, “colour” and discard the rest.
bob // October 1, 2009 at 4:45 pm |
well this sums up iphone users perfectly w bunch of morons that think its funny to take penis pictures. Where is the intelligence?
zarathustra // October 1, 2009 at 5:53 pm |
What is the ‘onion’?
Thought article hella funny… =]
paintboy100 // October 1, 2009 at 5:54 pm |
haha bob calls iphone user unintelligent morons while he actually thinks this article is real
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Jack // October 1, 2009 at 8:03 pm |
Curious about the whole “”Onion” thing also…? Enlighten me brethren!
Dave // October 1, 2009 at 8:29 pm |
The onion news. Check em out on YouTube:)
Carol Hiller // October 1, 2009 at 9:23 pm |
http://www.theonion.com
America’s Finest News Source
Hom3r // October 1, 2009 at 9:24 pm |
So… AT&T was looking at the pics?
StareClips.com // October 1, 2009 at 10:41 pm |
Does that mean the other 2% of pictures were vaginas?
design // October 2, 2009 at 1:45 am |
OVER 9000!
Helmet // October 2, 2009 at 2:59 am |
I just told EVERYONE in my office that 3,3 million dicks killed AT&T’s network.
They seemed pretty amused and had no doubt this happened. Especially my gay colleague perked up his ears;)
Ding dong over het hele netwerk | Computertaal // October 2, 2009 at 4:01 am |
[...] AT&T heeft even toegelaten om MMS berichten door te sturen. Ze hadden verwacht dat het druk ging worden – de iPhone heeft immers MMS tot zijn beschikking. Maar niemand had voorspeld dat het zo druk ging worden. 98 procent van alle verstuurde MMS berichten gingen over… penissen. [...]
Carol Hiller // October 2, 2009 at 7:36 am |
I am eric filipkowski and these are fictional stories about a character named eric filipkowski. Fiction. That means “not true.”
Q. What part about “not true” are your readers not getting?
A. “not”
Pretty impressive, all these comments – I suspect it was the magic tag “penis.” You should tag all your entries with that one.
StareClips.com // October 2, 2009 at 8:33 am |
Or else, many of the readers ARE getting it and are playing along because it’s an amusing joke.
Well, “name” and “MT” didn’t get it.
CHABELITA // October 2, 2009 at 11:50 am |
Hua ha ha ha…, I AGREE FOR the magic tag “PENIS”…
This a magic for you:
“…When you made a logo, it has a big allocation of financial promotion to branding its image!
Without a huge and glamour promotion, a logo is just a scratch on paper! Really…?!? I wonder…”
Graphic Designer: How to make HIGH PAYMENTS and EXPENSIVE
ASSPIE // October 2, 2009 at 5:50 pm |
this/threads is full of win
Mulfi Blog // October 3, 2009 at 3:48 am |
LOL…
That’s so funny,
hahahahahhahaaaaa……
Carol Hiller // October 20, 2009 at 4:08 am |
Just heard something interesting on Sunday. My nephew works for a server host, and he says the FBI can come in at any time and tap one of their clients’ servers, for mirroring at the FBI office. The client is not informed, nor is the server host permitted to inform them. No reason has to be provided for this. Thank you, Patriot Act!
StareClips.com // October 20, 2009 at 6:50 am |
No, they can’t. If your nephew’s server host just rolls over and lets it happen willingly… then yes, it could happen. What they’re supposed to do is refuse to do so without a court order.
waleed // November 17, 2009 at 12:45 pm |
nice article
i mark it.