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Giant Insect Invades Germany
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kdawson
on Thu Sep 28, 2006 05:30 PM
from the our-thrip-overlords dept.
from the our-thrip-overlords dept.
Noryungi writes, "It seems the alien invasion of the Earth has just started! A 50-meter insect has been spotted roaming the German countryside! Let the 'I, for one, welcome our new giant insectoid overlords' joke contest begin!" A moderator at a Keyhole forum IDs the bug as a thrip, about 1mm long, squished under a glass plate during scanning.
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No... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.dragonswest.com/ | Last Journal: Monday November 05, @07:35PM)
It seems the alien invasion of the Earth has just started!
No.. it's really Richard Branson's newest Eco-Friendly transportation mode. See, we'll strap seats to the backs of these giant genetically modified insects and they'll run us or fly us anywhere we want to go. What could possibly [imdb.com] go wrong [imdb.com]?
microsoft europe strenuously denied it was a bug from their code, "ours are a few metres smaller."
Re:No... (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Friday October 06 2006, @05:23PM)
Re:No... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:No... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.griffjon.com/ | Last Journal: Wednesday September 26 2001, @06:14PM)
(btw, I'm joking, but just to be safe, I for one welcome our new genetically-modified-food-created insectile pooping overlords!)
That's Not a Bug (Score:5, Funny)
Re:That's Not a Bug (Score:4, Funny)
(http://127.31.33.7/)
Ich fur ein... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.a4fs.net/blog/)
Other OB (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.dragonswest.com/ | Last Journal: Monday November 05, @07:35PM)
Re:Ich fur ein...... Willkommen unsere neuen Insekt overlords
In Soviet Russia Google Maps bug YOU!
Re:Other OB (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Tuesday July 31, @12:06PM)
Letztes Jahr gab keine Insektenüberlordschaften.
Re:Other OB (Score:5, Funny)
(http://traumstadt.org/)
Re:Other OB (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.neverwhen.net/)
Fark had a thread of wierd finds last week (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://www.gamezero.com/)
There are some really great shots in that thread as well
as some co-ordinates to follow up on. One is a wierd land
area in New Mexico where some scammers had built out all
the roads for an entire city development and then skipped
out with the money and never built a thing.
Very wierd stuff.
Re:I checked the photo and (Score:4, Informative)
(http://barrett.9hells.org/ | Last Journal: Friday October 06 2006, @09:25PM)
You're right! (Score:5, Funny)
I hear "Kugeltalstraße" is a really popular Chinese street name. Yep, sure looks like China [comcast.net] to me.
Bugs! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bugs! (Score:4, Funny)
It's got more value as a cool link than a fixed bug.... I hope someone's got a sense of humor ^^
Joke contest? (Score:4, Interesting)
Oh, let's not.
Alternatively, everybody can get it out of their systems today if I never have to hear it again.
Forgive me, but... (Score:5, Funny)
Way to spoil the joke (Score:5, Funny)
(http://simon.oconnorlamb.com/)
The fact it was posted with the Monty Python foot should be enough for anyone to know it shouldn't be taken seriously.
We could have had hundreds, if not thousands, of posts as to exactly what it could all mean, how it got there, why it was taking a large dump at the time of the photo...
But now... now you've ruined it.
I hope you're happy... go and sit in the corner and think about what you've done.
Re:Way to spoil the joke (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3675.html)
Of course it was. It's what they want us to think. If they didn't put that idea in our heads, we'd be free to think about what really happened.
Re:Way to spoil the joke (Score:5, Funny)
"The fact it was posted with the Monty Python foot should be enough for anyone to know it shouldn't be taken seriously."
So if they didn't include the Monty Python foot, people would have seriously thought there was a giant bug in Germany?
Re:Way to spoil the joke (Score:5, Funny)
absolutely preposterous (Score:5, Funny)
(http://circletimessquare.com/)
fun (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.imwithfred.com/)
Boston [google.com]
Dallas [google.com]
Sidewalk ends [ministryof...anda.co.uk]
Of course, there are tons of these, including the popular ipod [google.com].
Re:fun (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://devers.homeip.net:8080/blog/ | Last Journal: Tuesday April 12 2005, @08:34AM)
One of my favorites is Versailles [google.com]. Yes, that Versailles [wikipedia.org].
Did you realize that the world's most famous palace, it's grounds, and the community in front of it are laid out like an enormous happy-face stick figure [homeip.net]? Take a look at that aerial photo, then go back and look at the Google view [google.com] -- it's obvious once you look for it. And this all goes back to, what, 1500s and earlier [wikipedia.org]?
It almost makes you think that the French first sent people up in hot-air balloons [wikipedia.org] just so that they'd get a chance to see the joke that architects & urban planners had set up centuries earlier...
:-)
From the Googleplex (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.theblight.net/)
http://theblight.net/misc/germany.jpg [theblight.net]
The Maps team is going to be -pissed.- It'll be awesome.
This is News? (Score:4, Funny)
'Bugzilla' users? (Score:3, Funny)
That's nothing. (Score:3, Funny)
Check out this giant fly attacking Mt. St. Helens! [cambria.com]
With apologies to Kafka... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://slashdot.org/)
...and invaded Germany.
Nothing to see here, move along (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.oursland.net/ | Last Journal: Wednesday January 17 2007, @04:07PM)
The Yukon/Alaska Black Box (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:The Yukon/Alaska Black Box (Score:4, Insightful)
Nice try, Google... (Score:3, Funny)
(http://www.landoverbaptist.org/)
on the map, or they start the Google Maps Treasure Hunt next year.
My wife's pun (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Tuesday August 14, @05:41PM)
(My wife is an incorrigible punster. I try not to incorrige her.)
Google Sightseeing (Score:4, Informative)
Including boobies! [googlesightseeing.com]
Satellites have scanners? (Score:3, Interesting)
(http://gamedev.sf.net/)
Re:U.S. Action soon to take place (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Germans subpoena Google (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Thursday February 24 2005, @07:11PM)
In a further development, Russia has started to mobilise its troops onto it's western border in anticipation of a German attack. President Putin said: "Germany has a history of doing this, they did it in the first world war and they also have a history of ripping off old first world war battle plans for use again."
Asked to step in and resolve the situation by bombing the lot of them back to the stone-age, President George W. Bush said "It is not the policy of the US Government to interfere in the internal issues of sovereign states. We also don't bomb places that don't end in -stan or start with an 'I'" he said, "It's apples and grapefruits really. None of our turtlewax."