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Bert Is Evil
Posted by
michael
on Wed Oct 10, 2001 07:41 PM
from the brought-to-you-by-the-letter-B dept.
from the brought-to-you-by-the-letter-B dept.
It's been coming in all day. Bert and Bin Laden. Lindqvist.com has the best explanation, I think. Even FOX is reporting on it now. Bert is unstoppable.
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My favorite part... (Score:4, Funny)
"Bert is best known for his role [sesameworkshop.org] on the long-lived Sesame Street children's show, where he lives with his housemate Ernie."
His housemate? Or...are they just insinuating that maybe Bert is leaving Ernie for some hot bin Laden-lovin'?
Re:My favorite part... (Score:5, Funny)
Dubya bin Laden (Score:5, Funny)
This makes a twisted sort of sense (Score:5, Funny)
Here's the "logic":
Obviously this explains the whole thing.
Re:This makes a twisted sort of sense (Score:5, Funny)
geez - they're puppets - of course they are instruments of clever manipulators
Google Image search strikes again (Score:5, Interesting)
Hmm, I guess it would be proof if the two random people showed up on the poster as well.
Re:Google Image search strikes again (Score:4, Informative)
Hey Nikke,
We reckon that four out of the 8 images used in the poster are from the very first page of results in Google for an image search on Osama Bin Laden. http://images.google.com/images?q=osama+bin+laden& hl=en&sa=N&tab=gi
Regards, Littleboy
Another person answers a question that had occurred to me -- in bin Ladin's TV appeareance, isn't he holding a bottle of Johnny Walker? Closer examination reveals it's a Yemini-style knife (jambia, the one poachers kill rhinos to get horn for the handles) that he started wearing after the Cole attack.
Re:Google Image search strikes again (Score:4, Funny)
Some days you have to take delight in the simple pleasures.
The reach of the internet ... How this started ... (Score:5, Interesting)
Someone in Bangledish picked this up and ran with it. This is amazing.
First it shows the reach of the internet. It's unreal that this is how it is. What a great feather in the cap for the internet to be out on the forefront.
Second what an amazing rub that things we look at as cultural icons aren't perceived as such in foreign countries. I mean what were they thinking?
Bastards!!! (Score:3, Funny)
What the hell are we supposed to do now?
Legal recourse? (Score:4, Insightful)
Hopefully no one is going to attack whoever made the original because Ignacio has stated it wasn't his intent nor does he find it humorous.
I know someone who used to play Counter-Strike as 'USAma Bin Laden' and always was terrorist. After the attack he felt very bad about the joke and changed his name. I have to say that I feel bad for these people who do something pre-attack as a joke or whatnot and now have people criticizing them when a month ago today would have found it funny.
Osama bin Bert (Score:5, Funny)
The difficult that the intelligence community has had in tracking down members of these terrorists cells is partially due to the fact that these messages are broadcast worldwide, and also because the suspected terrorists are a bunch of little kids.
Re:Osama bin Bert (Score:4, Funny)
I'm hoping bin Laden's next appearance on a children's show will be a short cameo on The Electric Chair Company.
When? Immediately, immediately, immediate-l-y!
Open Sesame (Score:4, Funny)
laughs for days... (Score:3, Funny)
This makes me wonder if the poster-maker is related to the guy who set himself on fire [azcentral.com] while burning the American flag.
Next Thing.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Next Thing.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Next Thing.... (Score:4, Funny)
"Someone set us up ME!" - good message intended towards bomb handlers.
Re:The next thing, translated (Score:5, Funny)
Al your Qaeda are belong to U.S.
Get it right. :)
Re:The next thing, translated (Score:4, Funny)
what USA!!
Re:Bert is simply... (Score:5, Funny)
Culturally owned... (Score:4, Funny)
Clear Concise Explanation (Score:4, Informative)
Anyway apparently there were some people rallying in favor of Osama Bin Laden, and they made posters of him with pictures of him they found on the internet. Of course on the Bert is evil site there was a whole set of laden pics. So when you type bin laden pictures into google or whatever search engine. You end up at bert is evil. They used these pictures to make posters and their rally made the news. Now even moreso because they have the messed up posters. Oh so funny.
Maybe you people seem to forget there's a war going on.
Confirms my theory (Score:5, Funny)
CNN Breaking news: Sesame Street has been banned! (Score:4, Funny)
After the recent discovery of Bert being associate with the terrorist Bin Laden, the USA government have banned Sesame Street from TV, and all toys that are linked to this child tv show must be destroy before the end of the weak. Those who don't destroy these toys will be considered "friendly to terrorism" and will be arrested.
Also, folwing this discovery, the makers of Sesame Street have been arreted by the FBI for further investigation about there relationship with Bin Laden!
More news about this story comming soon...
You blew his cover! (Score:5, Funny)
I wonder what Big Bird is up to?
Re:You blew his cover! (Score:4, Funny)
I've got your Big Bird right here. [tachyonsix.com]
Afghan TV Guide (Score:5, Funny)
MONDAYS:
8:00 -"Husseinfeld"
8:30 - "Mad About Everything"
9:00 - "Suddenly Sanctions"
9:30 - "The Brian Benben Bin Laden Show"
TUESDAYS:
8:00 - "Wheel of Terror and Fortune"
8:30 - "The Stench is Right"
9:00 - "Children Are Forbidden From Saying The DarndestThings"
9:30 - "Afganistans Wackiest Public Execution Bloopers"
10:00 - "Buffy The Yankee Imperialist Dog Slayer"
WEDNESDAYS:
8:00 - "U.S. Military Secrets Revealed"
8:30 - "When Northern Alliance Attack"
9:00 - "Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pita Bread"
9:30 - "Just Shoot Everyone"
10:00 - "Veilwatch"
THURSDAYS:
8:00 - "Matimallahoasillalama Loves Chachi"
8:30 - "CBS Evening News with Dan Rather"
9:00 - "Veronicas Closet Full of Long, Black, Shapeless Dresses and
Veils"
9:30 - "My Two Baghdads"
10:00 - "Diagnosis: Heresy"
FRIDAYS:
8:00 - "Bob Patterson (Must Have His Hand Cut Off)"
8:30 - "M*U*S*T*A*S*H"
9:00 - "Everybody Loves Anthrax"
9:30 - "Achmeds Creek"
10:00 -"No-witness News"
Give credit where due (Score:5, Informative)
Poor ol' Bert-is-Evil is Slashdotted to hell... (Score:3, Funny)
Here is (Score:4, Informative)
Turns out they were right all these years
In 2001 AD, war was beginning... (Score:4, Funny)
"Someone set us up the bomb."
But then, all Afghanistan's base belong to U.S. now.
Al Qaeda threat assessment (Score:5, Funny)
Guess the FBI can cross out "Photoshop Skills" from their Al Qaeda dossier.
Does the Middle East get PBS? (Score:3, Insightful)
Does Sesame Street even broadcast in the largely Islamic countries where these posters are popping up?
I've heard every theory about why Bert is on the posters, but (stick with me here) Maybe they don't know who Bert is? Most of us have grown up watching Sesame Street but I wonder if the same holds true in the Middle East.
Just a thought.
Sesame street (Score:4, Funny)
In Other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Osama-Bert? (Score:3, Funny)
From the Wired article [wired.com]:
One of the first sightings of the Osama-Bert poster...
Osama-bert? Sounds like a new Dilbert character. Think "Dogbert," but nicer.
The new kilroy (Score:3, Informative)
For those who don't know, where ever Americans went durning the second world war, they would paint a cartoon character, Kilroy.
So, who should it be? I think the obvious choice to represent the united states would be Ernie.
Parody (Score:5, Insightful)
Now tell me exactly what are they going to do? Sue some random guy at a protest on the other side of the world?
Or maybe they've forgotten that parody is a protected form of fair use and free speech [publaw.com].
-S
The Age of Irony is Back!!! (Score:3, Insightful)
Please Support The Muppets (Score:5, Funny)
I know you've all read the news stories by now. Someone shouted "Dirty Muppet!" and threw a bottle at Grover as he was crossing the street.
Ernie is under 24-hour protection at an undisclosed location. And in the most perverse story of all, someone tried to force-bathe Oscar the Grouch.
I hope you'll all attend the rally on Sesame Street later on this week, to show support for the Muppets. Remember: we are trying to destroy Bert, not all the Muppets.
Bert's last communication was a videotaped rant, calling on all "Muppets, puppets, marionettes and animated characters" to rise up and destroy civilization. He was last seen with cast members of Today's Special and The Great Space Coaster, asking for their support.
Log Correlation? (Score:3, Interesting)
So obviously intentional... (Score:3, Interesting)
But did anyone notice that the large OBL is the same as the one in the picture of Bert? This means that either the maker of the poster (a) found the original or (b) had enough editing skills to cut him out of the doctored one with Bert. In either case, he obviously worked with the image and thus obviously would have seen bert, and anyone with two brain cells to rub together would realize that it's awefully strange to have a large puppet behind OBL in an image...
Those who don't watch PBS are damned to repeat it (Score:3, Funny)
Nukes back on the table? (Score:5, Funny)
Just wait until the U.S congress finds out that they've violated copyrights!
They're doomed now!
Why did they make the Bin Laden poster at all? (Score:3, Insightful)
They're muslims right? So they are forbidden to make images of people. Or have the rules changed since the days when muslim art was all beautiful calligraphy and geometry?
Even if modern muslims tolerate neutral representations of people, making posters of people to glorify them is surely very close to idolatry, no?
Not that I have ANY doubts at all about the hypocrisy of any murderer claiming to be doing god's work - that goes without saying. But maybe
all those who sympathise with OBL should take a step back and look at what they are supporting: certainly not Islam.
What mindset is needed? (Score:3, Insightful)