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Newt Gingrich Re-names the SmartPhone, Other Modern Inventions: Funny or Die

Newt Gingrich Re-names the SmartPhone, Other Modern Inventions Funny or Die Comedy A job’s a job, but when you’ve been assigned to make Newt Gingrich look up-to-date, that job is now a major challenge.    A filming session goes awry when Newt insists upon calling his Smartphone by any other name. “Hand-held computer” seems to work for him, as does ‘cell.’ Next, hop into the Way-back Machine with Newt, Crockett and Tubbs, and catch a glimpse at the grand-daddy of the smarty pants phone – ‘The Mobile’ otherwise known as ‘The Brick’ back in the eighties.  Some of Newt’s other triumphs are the horseless carriage, the electric candle, sliced bread and not least, ‘the bucolic economic retraining home’ – a special favorite of Newt’s , which he hopes to bring back for lucky Americans, otherwise known as the ‘poor farm.’ Everything old is new again.