The Webbys and Five-Word Acceptance Speeches

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, received the Webby Lifetime Achievement Award

The 13th annual Webby Awards took place at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on June 8, 2009.

The notoriously long ceremony featured what seemed like an endless stream of awards — while speeches were held to just five words.

Here are a few standouts --

Sir Tim Berners-Lee: "Free... open... Keep one web."

Sarah Silverman: "Holocaust, did it happen? Yes."

The Economist: "Read a fucking newspaper...please."

The Huffington Post (Arianna Huffington): "I didn't kill newspapers...okay?"

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone: "Creativity is a renewable resource."

Seth MacFarlane: "What is this for again?"

Trent Reznor: "Wait, we didn't charge anything?"

Flickr: "Can everyone get closer together."

NBC.com Full Episode Player: "Shine heardt wig company thanks you."

The Onion: "Free all attractive political prisoners."

FAIL Blog: "Epic win."

Digg: "Play with your Digg daily"

Coraline Website: "Cheeto is a friend of mine"

Wordle: "I would like to thank [shrug]"

YouTube LIVE: "Hallelujah for short attention spans."

cake-factory: "Really we don't sell cakes."

Smokey Bones Bar & Fire Grill: "Thanks for pulling our pork"

Flight of the Conchords Lip Dub: "Thanks for the motherflippin award."

Wired.com: Wired Science: "Robot sharks with lasers in space."

The Curse of Degrassi: "Thank you thank you thank"

The Office: The Outburst: "Brevity, is the soul of..."

Making of Mad Men Online Production "Inside Mad Men": "Smoking drinking screwing wins awards"

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon: "Thank God Conan got promoted"

What would yours be?

Visit WebbyAwards.com for the full list of speeches.