No, Sean Connery Did Not Write a Mean Letter To Steve Jobs

A fake letter from Sean Connery to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is making the rounds on social media following the actor's death on Saturday. Just to reiterate: it's fake, the product of humor site Scoopertino, which posts satirical articles about Apple and goings-on at its Cupertino (get it that's the name) headquarters. From a report: The typewritten letter dated 1998 purports to show Connery's outrage over Jobs asking him to appear in an Apple commercial. "I do not sell my soul for Apple or any other company. I have no interest in 'changing the world' as you suggest," it states. "You are a computer salesman, I am fucking JAMES BOND!" But the internet loves things that are too good to be true, and Sunday morning, the "letter" was circulating on Twitter.

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[Moblaster]

I'll have my clamshell shaken not stirred. It bruises the hinge.

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[LifesABeach]

must be a slow day at the /. editors desk.
there is not a mention of who first published this letter on to the internet.
and what of the sources that retransmitted it.
sloth is bad for a reason

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[blackest_k]

You mean that there are times when a woman deserves a slap as a last resort.
He said not in the way that you would hit a man and that was in 1965 in 2006 he had changed his mind.

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[The Grim Reefer]

You mean that there are times when a woman deserves a slap as a last resort. He said not in the way that you would hit a man

So does this make feminists happy as they are being treated the same as a man, or pissed off because he said not with a clenched fist as you would hit a man?

I personally never thought it was OK to hit a woman until I had a crazy ex girlfriend show me otherwise. I was in my early 20's and came home from work. She was drunk and hiding behind the door to my apartment and hit me in the back of the head as hard as she could with an iron skillet. When I turned around to see her winding up for another swing I kno

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[skids]

This was just satire apparenetly, not an honest attempt at deception... umm.... dishonest attempt? Well whatever.

On the general matter I think there's a circuit in many of our brains that only gains satisfaction through cheating/lying/stealing. Probably the product of an inferiority complex where one has convinced themselves their best effort isn't good enough and the only way to succeed is to get one over on someone else. That and a inability to comprehend the consequences of destroying an environment w

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[thePsychologist]

Even if it were true, I wouldn't have negative feelings towards Sean Connery. It doesn't even sound that mean. Apple is not exactly a charity.

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[Joe2020]

... People often use lies to criticize people. ... I don't fully get why people do it. ...

You believe to know what is and isn't a lie. This is why you don't get it. You're simply quicker to believe in hearsay than others and thus form an opinion faster. Hence you believe to know what is and isn't a lie. Not everyone is this quick to judge.

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[Dunbal]

It's obviously fake because that kind of shit would 100% be handled by an actor's agency and not the actor themselves. They have to earn their cut somehow.

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[Freischutz]

It's obviously fake because that kind of shit would 100% be handled by an actor's agency and not the actor themselves. They have to earn their cut somehow.

Computer operating system cultists will believe anything that validates their religion and invalidates competing religions without a single critical thought.

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[Aighearach]

It's obviously fake because Sean Connery was never even a Bond Girl, why would he "be fucking James Bond?"

And who would believe that Roger Moore is Sean Connery's type, I mean, seriously.

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[Dunbal]

Perhaps he was referring to masturbation? I mean, it worked for David Carradine...

Implied fake.

[I'mjusthere]

A fake letter from Sean Connery to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is making the rounds on social media ...

All you had to say was a letter is making its rounds on social media. The fake part is implied until proven otherwise. So, anything on social media is a lie until verified by reputable sources.

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[geekmux]

A fake letter from Sean Connery to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is making the rounds on social media ...

All you had to say was a letter is making its rounds on social media. The fake part is implied until proven otherwise. So, anything on social media is a lie until verified by reputable sources.

By the 1990s, it was well known how Sean Connery felt about his most infamous role. The last person saying some stupid shit like "I am fucking JAMES BOND", was him:

"I have always hated that damned James Bond," the Scottish-born actor famously once raged. "I'd like to kill him."

That sound like someone who would exclaim the former to someone like Steve Jobs? And this attitude was established early on. He donated his entire salary from Diamonds Are Forever (equal to 29 million GBP) to charity, one of hundreds of donations made in his lifetime.

It probably took about a fraction of a second to establish this was bullshit

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[tinkerton]

And by God, do we have armies of people specialized in making and breaking reputation! If you have the money.

Who with a functioning brain gives a shit?

[couchslug]

Fascination with trifles is for lesser creatures. Fascination with celebrities is degenerate and stupid, a contemptible distraction unworthy of thought.
The sort of "person" who cares doesn't belong on Slashdot in any capacity.

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[Aighearach]

Indeed, he didn't even neck hair, he would never be able to represent slashdot the way a couch slug can.

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[dinfinity]

"Great Minds Discuss Ideas; Average Minds Discuss Events; Small Minds Discuss People"

The real scoop!

[I'mjusthere]

Steve Jobs wrote a letter to Sir Sean stating that he thought Daniel Craig was the best Bond ever and that he wished Sir Connery fixed his speech impediment. Er, schpeech impdishment.

Slap!

[ostrand]

But he did slap his wife around. Not with a clenched fist, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com] and I reckon this is worse.

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[drwiii]

My mean letter to Steve Jobs is "E".

Connery had more class.

[Rambo Tribble]

Such a petty attack was beneath the man. Like many of his generation, he had some class. It is a quality that has become vanishingly rare in public personalities.