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You can find his project page here where he has graphs from his hit counter among other things.

David calls me the inspiration for his final project, as we both visit the same IRC channel. The inspiration came from my petition (cached because petitiononline.com has seemingly removed my petition) to rename the LOTR movie "The Two Towers" to something else. Of course, it was a joke. However, I'm still receiving responses to this day thanks to a site another friend of mine set up and which I wrote the FAQ for.

Congratulations, David, on another successful internet hoax!

I haven't figured out if it's a spoof or if these folks really are crazy. Twotowersprotest.org if you want to check it out.

Ban the Two Towers now!

Two Towers Protest.org

Just say no to Osama Bin Tolkien!

cheers

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I sent sent them an email to twotowersprotest

asking if they also wanted the publisher to retroactively collect all the books that had the title in it including the ones published before 2001....

So, um... get this:

Naming this movie "The Two Towers" is hate speech, according to the folks at www.twotowersprotest.org.

Why?

You insensitive clod, it's because "The Two Towers" somehow reminds us of the World Trade Center towers. (Never mind that the towers never went by that name. They were the "Twin Towers" in some circles. I never heard "Two Towers")

I can't find any references to protests about the title of "K19: Widowmaker" -- talk about an insensitive title!

Sigh.

I'm wandering even farther off topic, please excuse me:

My grandfather just passed away, and he was cremated. Garrison Keillor, in his "News from Lake Wobegon" tonight on the Prairie Home Companion radio show, told an extended joke about a grandma who would take "grandpa" (an urn) down off the shelf around christmas time, so he could spend time with the family. Think about it -- this can be quite funny, all the odd situations that go on with an urn in the picture.

Obviously, I had rather mixed feelings hearing this, given my family's recent loss.

But should I be mad at Keillor for telling this joke? Is it in poor taste?

I'm willing to say of course not! Humor, art, literature, movies talk about stuff that happens in life.

You could try to restrict the content of art forms so as not to offend anybody... but you'd never succeed.

This two towers thing is JUST A COINCIDENCE, and not to obvious a one at that. It never even ocurred to me until I'd read about this protest.

Stop to consider that sometimes protests like this just make the whole situation worse.

Off the soapbox... sorry for the rant...

(Go out and enjoy the movie!!! I got my tickets already. :)

- Peter

Some people are stupid. ;)

These people are beyond stupid. There is a website associated with the petition located here. I saw this awhile back and did a whois through internic on their domain. It was registered to a guy named Kevin something, whom I did a Google search on along with "two towers". It came up with a CNN article about someone with the same name who used to own a comic book shop right near where WTC happened. The guy was apparently selling comics covered in WTC dust as collectors items. I can't be certain this was the same person, but the company contact listed on the whois was a comic book company in Canada. The whois information has since changed.

speaking of the two towers, has anyone seen these sites?

Some guy wants to rename the movie because he says the movie is being named "The Two Towers" to mock the events of 9/11

Then he has support from this group who have a similar agenda.

Man, this is a screwed up world.

-EGP

Why yes! I have two links.

The petition
A protest site.

What a crazy world we live in.