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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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Is the last paragraph of the Wired article...
:D
"Bert is best known for his role 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'?
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Here's the "logic":
Obviously this explains the whole thing.
These guys had the original ("with bert") photo this morning, but the cocksuckers cropped it out. Oh what -- was this embarrasing? whose fucking side are you on, jackasses.
Hmm, I guess it would be proof if the two random people showed up on the poster as well.
Perhaps they think these are accurate portrayals of us evil Americans :P Big pointy heads and sickly yellow skin. Mmmm...
Cheers,
jw
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Good lord, this is old news. This was on FC days ago.
Think about it ... Someone posts a picture of Ernie and the Binnie boy. From what I can tell it came from http://www.j-roen.net/bert/how/how.htm.
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?
Bert is Evil
Hey I just heard that they've kidnapped Kermit, those friggin bastards!!!
What the hell are we supposed to do now?
2 reptiles beneath your current threshold.
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.
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
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.
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The Bert hidden in the poster was a covert infidel detection mechanism...anyone that saw it and started laughing is obviously a spy...
This makes me wonder if the poster-maker is related to the guy who set himself on fire while burning the American flag.
As reported on lindqvist, the source is in fact the 12th image of Binladen shown by google. In fact, if you do a image search yourself you can see Bert in all his evil glory.
Next thing ya know "All your base are belong to us" are gonna show up in pro-American celebrations in Afgan after we crush them :-)
I'm sure he'll have a laser designator focused on bin Ladin's backside soon enough... ;-)
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There was a site, and still is a site called bert is evil. It basically was full of pictures with Bert photoshopped into them. And they were all evil situations like KKK rallies. The site even won some webby awards a while back. The site is also linked on www.memepool.com today.
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.
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..that Osama was merely a puppet, while Bert was the true Mastermind. No wonder Condi is worried that Osama's speeches contain secret messages.
When in doubt, have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand.
CNN Breaking news:
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...
I wonder what Big Bird is up to?
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10:00 - "Veilwatch"
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You know. As long as we're reporting on crap that collects in our inboxes, you might as well.
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Easy does it!
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Straight from CNN!
"U.S. officials recently said that the group headed by accused terrorist Osama bin Laden has put encrypted messages to its members on Web sites."
Bert is part of the plot. Bert is the key. The messages are so encrypted that Bert appeared. We are doomed!
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Here's the original Bert is evil page.
:-)
Turns out they were right all these years
Send lawyers, guns, and money!
What's next? Will we see someone in Pakistan waving a picture of Bin Laden, and underneath...
"Someone set us up the bomb."
But then, all Afghanistan's base belong to U.S. now.
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Guess the FBI can cross out "Photoshop Skills" from their Al Qaeda dossier.
I know it's funny. and I'm supposed to laugh but....
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.
Interesting.
I guess T is for Taliban today.
Chinese opera singing sounds like they are raping male feline cats.
And Bert and Ernie are gay and to get even with losing their spot on PMS(PBS) TV, they had sewn the seeds of faggotry faggot land in Great Britain...in the form of the teletubbies. Thankyou San Francisco. I will now fly a Tyco R/C airplane, with a payload of anthrax, into your house and up your cornhole as your fuck your gay lover on the kitchen table while eating and experimenting with spaghetti and watching sesame streat's tickle me elmo cuddle with Rosey O'Donnel. Thankyou
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Enter wife: "Honey, are you ever going to get off that thing?!?!"
Radical: "Lay off me, I have to get this poster done for the radical anti-american protest tonight! ... oh, COOL! Bert!! Check this out honey!"
The one is a caricature of medieval backwardness, like a character from Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail. The other is more modern and doesn't always hold his finger up when he talks.
Beyond that....
"Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded."
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If only he produced it himself that would be more likely...
here:
http://www.rense.com/general14/flagburn.htm
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Slander the man if you will, but at least Bert is kosher, and/or the Islamic equivalent!
assuming the photos aren't faked -- these could be pre-arranged messages to his field aggents. Bert could mean "do plan X". There are reports of pics of osama with jack daniels to, that could be plan Y ...
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If his parents didn't take away his rubber ducky when he was younger, imagine how different things would have been...
Osama bin Laden reportedly vows to destroy America for the attacks it launched against Afghanistan. His evil partner Bert was quick to add "Oh, and we're going to blow up that fucking rubber ducky too."
In this picture, Ernie bears a striking resemblance to Adolph Hitler giving a speech (minus the little moustache).
And here we see Ernie donning his Kevlar vest, ready for any attack that might befall he or his beloved roomate.
Let's hope our intelligence community can wade through the mountains of evidence that will unveil the sinister Sesame Street Terrorist Cell!
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Ben Laden cloned Bert. We're doomed.
The President is going to address various media networks urging caution when airing children's television programs; warning that Bin Laden's orginization Al Qaeda may try to use Sesame Street as a means of sending secret messages to their American terrorist-cell leaders.
From the Wired article:
One of the first sightings of the Osama-Bert poster...
Osama-bert? Sounds like a new Dilbert character. Think "Dogbert," but nicer.
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--Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains), Casablanca
Within two minutes, you will hear a knock at your door. Look out the side window, see the white Stratus car? Two men, in suits, approach the door. Run.
I'm watching the Bert/bin Laden picture slowly climb to the top of the list, presumably because more people are clicking on the image.
My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!
Looks like we now know what happened to Ernie. He rigged the election in Florida, and is now occupying the White House.
The proof is here!!!!
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..considered an eenemy. So, BOMB SESAME STREET!
Bush: Al your Queda are belong to us
Laden: What you say!!
As pointed out in the wired article the best part is above the picture of bert, there is another picture of Bin Laden this time with a bottle of JD or Jonny Walker ;-)
Real News here please... We might as well just analyze the factuality of Nostradamus and the Devil in the Smoke...
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I don't think the picture was doctored. Osama's trying to send secret messages to the next wave of suicide bombers. Beware of turbaned men tyring to take Bert dolls as their only carry-on.
Have the Jim Henson's company send their corporate lawyers at Al Qaeda for Copyright Infringement (Pat. PEnd), with support from the RIAA ... Hell if the RIAA can take down 200 years of human rights and freedom of speech, they could as well be able to lobby the shit out of the talibans.
Man, you ain't seen nothing yet... Bert may be naughty, but Ernie puts him to shame.
You see, Ernie was instrumental in several recent hostile foreign government attempts. He's an old friend of Castro as well, and has tea with Billy Gates every third Sunday.
Don't even get me started on that miscreant Big Bird...
...I think the message is clear: "We are being made to protest, but our sentiments are with the Americans".
Alternatively, It could be a signal from Bin Laden to his moles, expected to be overlooked.
Either way, I very sincerely doubt that anyone would risk this if it were not very important.
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It looks as if one of the sesame street characters are posied to become this generation's Kilroy.
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.
I guess after 20+ years of being called a fag, he finally cracked.
That ducky must be REALLY afraid now.
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While we are talking about wierd things happening in the background of important political messages...watch the presidents important address on Sunday about the US launching attacks on Afganistan here on CNN. I found it incredibly hard to pay attention to his speech with all those kites doing loop-de-loops outside the window.
I wonder if those guys flying the kites were aware that their tricks were being broadcasted (and rebroadcasted) to the everyone in the country. Man, talk about pressure to perform.
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What about Q-Bert? :)
Personally, I found this article pretty funny. It's been asked for before, now you can get it!
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What sex is BigBird? Male or Female or... You just don't know, do you? Now who is his best sidekick? Snufalupakous. Now this may have changed, but as far as I can remember, ole Snuffy was only visible to BB and the neighborhood kids. Right? And Snuffy lived in a back room or wardrobe. Right? So, you've got a six-foot androgynous yellow bird whose best friend lives in a closet and is only seen by same bird. If that isn't the liberal media trying to turn all 6-year-olds into hopeless buggers, then I don't know what is. Don't even get me started on the Swedish Chef. Filthy Nordic ponce....
Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
Good news.
Both Hamsterdance and Mr. Winkle are safe for now from pro-Osama Bin Laden forces.
Phew!
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Where will it all end?
Yes... but when is the Counterstrike skin coming out?
I guess this might be considered a little close to the bone...
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..can be found at another Bert Is Evil site.
Mod my comments down. It'll be fun.
If we can find Bert, maybe he will lead us to bin Laden.
Now how can we find Dick Cheney?
but a western 'icon' would most likely be avoided because of the extra attention such a photo would receive...
Bert's soft spot was for pigeons. Haven't you ever seen him do the pigeon dance?
See this link.
I don't normally suggest government cencorship but the fact that this guy is even allowed on the air makes me ashamed to be American. He has distorted the facts and lied about Republicans so many times that I have lost count. Therefore part of the "joke" is that he is the Taliban's favorite broadcaster.
This is about two years old and was originally "Iraqi TV Guide".
Or at least, a version of it. My dad has family in Israel, and when my sister and I were little, we used to watch tapes of the Israeli version of Sesame Street. I honestly don't know whether it's a spin-off of the original series or a simple clone - the fact it's in Hebrew makes it difficult. But Ernie and Bert (or look-alikes) were both in the series. So it certainly is possible for someone in the middle east to know about Bert.
(Incidentally, even though I never did get a good comprehension of spoken Hebrew, I have to say that I found the Israeli version of Sesame Street much more entertaining than the American version. The animation in particular is very trippy.)
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Hope everyone clicks your
Did anyone recognize the model? I'm only supposing that they came from the Great Satan's oppressive factories. (Anyone got a link to the pix?)
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Has anyone ever possibly considered, perhaps, that taking a television character that a lot of children grow up and learn with, then putting them alongside the murderous, treacherous Bin Laden, an unspeakable terrorist, might -possibly- be sending out the wrong image to impressionable kids? Most of them are probably learning to fear Bin Laden right now, and putting a Sesame Street character next to him is probably going to result in needless confusion. Remember folks, most of these kids believe there's a Santa Claus, so there's no reason they wouldn't -actually- believe that Bert is a terrorist :> Sounds sort of funny, but you'd be surprised.
This is precisely the kind of thing that is going to get our boys killed. Bert was a secret agent! Now, by talking about it on some of the bigger news sites, the terrorists are going to figure out who he is. His cover's blown: he's doomed!
Scary idea. While theyre going over that al Qaeda video over and over trying to find secret messages Bert could be our messenger of death. Could mean anything from begin phase two to release the fatal childhood plague. The feds should be all over this.
Steganography is the trojan horse of the 21st century and the only way to stop it is to block all communication of the war to the united states.
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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.
-S
--- What parts of "shall make no law", "shall not be infringed", and "shall not be violated" don't you understand?
I've got a question on another photo that seems to be very popular for reasons I can't figure out.
Yahoo has their most popular photo section and the current number 1 has been in the top 10 for several days - it doesn't seem that remarkable to me: some young jounalist/intern girl who is from Britain, but of middle-eastern decent. Why is it so popular?
I remember many years ago seeing on Usenet a series of three newspaper reports.
The first was a 'siege in progress' report - Big Bird had flipped and gone into an apartment building and fired shots, and police had the building surrounded.
The second was immediately post-siege - Big Bird had killed Ernie and wounded several, and been shot dead by police storming the building.
The third was several days later, the bulk of it being Bert's eulogy at Ernie's funeral.
Does anyone have a copy of these? I'd love to read them again.
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Obviously then it is true about the Mr. Hooper death here and here [fractalcow.com], it was
probably a training mission.
I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people. - Jack Handey
This just goes to show how influential our culture that "they" claim to hate has been on their lives. The western world built the Internet, and gave whoever created this propaganda poster access to the materials they needed to produce it on such obviously short notice.
Unfortunately, the irony is lost on those who would rather kill us.
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A google search turns up "Bert is Evil" pages .BE, .CA, .CH, .CL, .CZ, .DE, .DK, .FI, .IE, .IS, .JP, .KR, .NL, .NU, .RU, .SE, .TO, .UK, .ZA
.COM, .NET, .TV, .ORG Domains
across all of these domains:
.AT,
Plus the usual
Bert must have look-a-likes everyway to protect himself, kinda like Saddam did in Desert storm
I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people. - Jack Handey
From what I can tell, I saw this a few days ago, it started here
There are many pictures of bert with all sorts.
Ernie.
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One of the news sites said that the guy who took the photos of the rally was heading back to the market to see whether he could find any of the posters.
I wonder what they'll be going for on eBay in a year or five or ten.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Isn't the Internet a no-no in Afghanistan?
And does this count as anti-Taliban steganography?
Or a secret message? 'When you see the evil icon of America, strike!!'
In any case, All Hail Eris
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I heard that on new Sesame Street shows that they no longer "co-habitate". I haven't watched a new show though...so I am unable to confirm this.
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Today, George Bush held a press conference asking America to be patient... Justice does not come quickly.
Meanwhile, he sent messages to PBS threating retaliation unless they hand over Bert and shut down his evil faction which goes by the name: "Sesame Street". It's expected that PBS will refuse to cooperate and will soon be wiped from the face of the earth. PBS's official word is that there is no proof that Bert is involved, and accuse Barney and his brainwashed followers for the attacks.
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It's a brilliant plot to convert bin Laden from a face of terror to a figure of fun in 12 hours, and it's worked. I hope somebody gets a big raise for this one.
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In this time of crisis, we need to be very careful not to show hatred or violence to other Muppets. Just because Bert wants to destroy humanity, that doesn't mean all the Muppets do. In fact, the majority of Muppets are peace-loving citizens.
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.
OK, to me this looks like the work of those photoshoping freaks at somethingawful.com.
> Although some of what you said is funny, you included some pretty bad generalities in this post. What do you mean by 'the stench is right'? are you trying to say that all arabian people stink? That is a very bad stereotype. Normally racial jokes are modded down as -1 troll. Since most of what you said is funny, I think it is ok.. but watch out with the generalities.
A father and his son are walking in downtown Manhattan in the year 2010. The father says "Wow son, this is where the Twin Towers used to be!". The son, not understanding, asks "What are the Twin Towers?". The father replies, "They were the tallest buildings in New York before the Arabs destroyed them." Still not understanding, the son asks, "What are Arabs?"
Ha ha ha!
All your Qaeda are belong to us!
I am 22 years old. I never expericened a national tragedy like this before. The cold war, Vietnam, JFK... I was too young to really have it effect me in any way until now. I get PISSED when I see anything todo with 9-11 joked about because I am scared and angry. I now have a better understanding of what it was like to live through the coldwar scarred that Portland ORE was going to get nuked just because it is on the west coast. I now feel for what my grandmother lived thorough (WW2) and what my mother lived through. I feel much older now. I cant even look at a skyscraper downtown anymore with out see a plane crash into. I have seen Bert is Evil before and I think I even laugh at the JFK one but now I dont because though events where just as really and life changing for many people has the WTC is for me. Did anyone feel like this during the Cold War?
It's "up us." I know, I find myself saying it the other way when I try to just roll it out casually, because "up us" is so damned bumpy! But, there it is.
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Sorry bub, it's been editted after the fact. The Lindquist site has a picture of the poster pre-bert, meaning that some serious photoshop work was done, surprisingly, before it got out on the wire.
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but a western 'icon' would most likely be avoided because of the extra attention such a photo would receive
What extra attention ?
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. Bertrand Russel
So now that that poster has been clearly identified as being composed of pictures off the internet, maybe webmasters who hosted those pictures should correlate their logs, thus discovering the IP address of the man who made the poster. I'm sure we'd all love to ping flood him and send him nasty emails.
Occam's razor finds two much better (simpler) explanations:
- Retarded fake-ass-"Muslim" poster-maker doctors his poster after learning that his creation includes a gay muppet.
- AP temporarily panics, fearing bogisity, and erases Bert, assuming it "must be some kind of mistake".
Get used to it. This is the New New Media. And, to be fair, the Lindquist site contains both above Occam-compliant explanations.Expanding a vast wasteland since 1996.
Too bad they didn't use these pictures.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. Bertrand Russel
The words "bert is evil!" rearrange create:
I is TV rebel!
Those people at the Childrens Workshop have been trying to keep this a secret but here is proof that they are all complete evil
Here is the proof
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But extra attention would mean that it was seen by all and not lost in some sort of random occurance. Burt is there because Osama wants the world to see Bert!
And for some more proof that Bert is evil check this out
The chosen icon needs to be large enough to still be visible after shrinking. The scarry part is even the placement of Bert could be partially an indicator.
Re:My favorite part... (Score:-1, Offtopic)
by Anonymous Coward on 10:16 PM October 10th, 2001 (#2413890)
Well, Sesame Street is in New York City.
"If I can't have you, Bert, no one can!" -bin Laden
This bombing was brought to you by the letter B and the number 2.
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I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
Yes, I read about how it was done, funny...
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...
If God gave us curiosity
It blows my mind that we have seen any pictures of Barney bin Laden yet.
or following or coming or arrested. Don't forget associated , have instead of has, child instead of children's and there instead of their. Amazingly, both investigation and government are correct!
It would seem that the people at Fox News are doing a little more than just reporting on the story...
"Sesame Street has always stood for mutual respect and understanding," a spokeswoman said. "We're outraged that our characters would be used in this unfortunate and distasteful manner. This is not at all humorous.The people responsible for this should be ashamed of themselves. We are exploring all legal options to stop this abuse and any similar abuses in the future."
When asked about Bert's current whereabouts, however, the spokeswoman replied: "No comment."
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It's been known for years how evil he is. From his alcohol abuse to his ties with Hitler. Just look here
Anybody else care to notice that EVERY single protester in the other nations is MALE? Guess women don't have any say in the matter eh? If you're not already convinced, then this alone should say a lot to the world about how the Taliban feels toward women (besides the videos you can find on the net of their beatings and public executions). Oh well...guess funny pictures in the spirit of mockery are better than nothing.....
Since Bert appears to be Canadian (re: South Park) to me, obviously this is a plot to pit the US against its good neighbors to the north!
Just had to do this. I couldn't help it.
"On the Internet, everyone is an equal until they prove themselves to be a moron." - Emmanuel Goldstein
Almost everyone knows who Bert is. What have those Al-Qaeda folks been doing, living in a cave? On second thought...
Hahaha,
I always knew that there was something wrong with that guy [Bert], but now, honestly what does this do for Bin Laden's credibility? well I guess that after blowing up the WTC you don't have to worry about credibility.
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The scoop
Or so they say...
Writers imply. Readers infer.
Have the posters shown up on ebay yet? When they do they're gonna be expensive.
Wonder if "Tourist Guy" is on the phone screaming at his press agent about being upstaged.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
If you look carefully you will find a lot more evidence about bert and ernie.
Now also wired makes news from something they find on google.... 8-)
The second one is REAL! I found bert on two defferent pictures in the same poster
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1) http://www.wired.com/news/gallery/0,2072,47450-19
2) http://nu.nl/document?n=43967
Privacy is terrorism.
That warning could also be a pre-arranged message to field agents. A certain warning could be plan Z...
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?
It is kind of funny. In the Philippines everyone knows who Bert is, but I guess in Pakistan no one does.
This shows how clueless the government is: such actions can do nothing. Such cluelessness about the internet is worrying for other reasons too.
And it makes me wonder about something. After the Sep11 attacks, bin Laden gave a video interview. Would you like to know what he said? I found transcripts available from BBC, CBC, and CNN. The CNN version is really different from the other two. Someone else posted a comment on this, and the replies suggested that it might have just been due to rushing things. Maybe not: maybe listing the inaccurate transcript was deliberate.
You think Afghanistan is in trouble now?
Just wait until the U.S congress finds out that they've violated copyrights!
They're doomed now!
I ask this with respect, so please excuse my ignorance.
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 do you need?
-- Gnus. Lots of Gnus.
That Ernie and Bert are homosexual is an old and tired joke. Its not so much distasteful as it is lame. The kind of humor for those who are wise enough to see through sesame street, but not wise enough to see past junior high.
Being a homosexual is not a shameful, therefore funny, thing. Fining for innuendo in childrens programming, where children are being tought to socialize, does not require much of an imagination. See? Its lame.
I learned more from Ernie and Bert than I ever learned in school. Long live Sesame Street.
Hey! Wait a minute!
.... are the own propierty of a Big Nasty Corporation that goes for RIAA, DMCA and PYOAH (Put Your Own Acronym Here)!
IANAL but...
Bert images are copyrighted. Bert images cannot be used without express authorisation (and royalties money exchanging hands) of Bert's creator and/or his descendants.
Bert images, including all pictures, sounds, AquaBert Themes, KBert applications
So, now Bin Ladin is in deep trouble!
According to tomorrow's edition of The Walled Street Joornal , Bin Ladin has been sued:
"...Our Big & Mean Entertainment Corporation(TM) Cannot and Will Not Rest(TM) until the defendant, alledgedly Bin Laden, gets dragged into Court to defend himself for alledged copyright violation of the DMCA law. "
"(...) I don't know what those terrorists were thinking, an unknown VP commented. We offer [terrorism] prime time coverage of their activities [see 20010911 news] for a fee, as stated in the Chapter 17, Title 4, Point 3B of the DMCA) and what do we get in return? Copyright Infringement! Make No Mistake, He Will Be Sued. And the same holds true for his associates, The Taliban Trust For International Terrorism and Women Repression Inc. "
"(...) They [Bin Laden and the Talibans] will all pay *Huge* fines thay lay in the billions and billions (Carl Sagan's trademarked voice goes here) of Good Old American Dolars..."
Talibans, be warned!
If you thought that the US Air Force & Cruise Missile Delivery Co. was a bunch of bad ' n ' nasty guys, well, now you are beign confronted by the Entertainment Industry!
We all know that "Open Sesame" is a traditional passphrase in the Islamic world. The connection is obvious.
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I'm only supposing that they came from the Great Satan's oppressive factories.
They could be Japanese or Korean or something else. I always find weird to see some Toyota or Isuzu pickup carrying a machine gun in some third world war.
If the photos are from an oil-rich country, they could be American cars.
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Men with no respect for life must never be allowed to control the ultimate instruments of death.
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So... do they share the same bed?
I can see it before me:
Bert: Osama, there is a banana in your ear!
Osama: What bert? What did you say?
Bert: There is a banana in your ear...
Osama: I can't hear you Bert, there is a banana in my ear!
Would Ernie be Bush's new pet?
42 + 1 = 42
Check it out here: Bert is Evil?
...that this is a set-up by Ernie, in a bid to get Bert's fortune in Microsoft stock.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
http://www.j-roen.net/bert/how/how.phtml
Folks, we live in a really weird world.
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The doctored photo is the one with Bert and Bin Laden, but that was incorporated into the poster. If you see an image of the poster without Bert, it's because the poster was doctored to remove Bert.
The poster said nothing of fractalcow.com in his post.
Chill out, bi-yatch! Its a joke.
And it IS funny as all hell to see how ignorant these people protesting us are.
On Canada's version of Sesame Street, carried on the national TV station CBC, Bert and Ernie came out of the closet a couple of years ago, to teach children that it's OK to be gay.
I'm dead serious. Look it up. Oh yeah, and I don't know about the US, but in Canada, they also killed off Grover to teach kids about death.
Like woodworking? Build your own picture frames.
Thank you for your perfect example of why the rest of the world views the US as an arrogant hypocrite.
FYI, the US is not the only one bombing Afghanistan. Or does the U.K. not exist in your world?
Like woodworking? Build your own picture frames.
From the Fox story:
... very unhappy with the sudden connection between a lovable character with a penchant for penguins... and the most wanted man in the world."
"Sesame Workshop
So now he's a Linux enthusiast? Probably Osama's crypto mastermind too.
Oh, yeah, it's not easy to pad these out to 120 characters.
Bin Laden's secret past
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"Yes, I have breasts. Now quit looking at them"
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I did a little research into this subject matter and found it to be basically true. (at least for certain fundamentalists) This got me thinking. If we put a baby pig on every airline flight then all suicide terrorists would abort their missions as they would not want their souls to go to hell.
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
"It was a summer's tale: Just a boy, his Linux, and a head full of dreams..."
10. Smells better than the lavatory after lunch has been served
9. Squealing drowns out screams of colicy infants
8. Convenient disposal of inedible airline food
7. Alternate meal choice
6. Cockpit guard pig
5. Kick around the ol' pigskin for fun
4. Kids love 'em
3. Can be used as flotation device
2. Cowboy squeal
1. You can whee-whee-whee all the way home
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I continue to be shocked by the short-sightedness of most Americans when it comes to international affairs. Was someone really so surprised by the revelation that kids in Afghanistan don't watch the same TV shows as kids in Iowa that they moderated that comment Insightful?
Citizens of a democracy have a responsibility to educate themselves. Citizens of a democracy that bombs other countries have a responsibility to educate themselves about those other countries. Americans, please get a clue about the rest of the world before it's too late.
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Yes, everybody. Be sure to educate yourselves on the other countries.
However, asking questions trying to educate yourselves on the other country is NOT a valid way to educate yourself. You should know it all before asking any questions.
sarcasm off
I felt that the question asked (do they get PBS) was a VERY valid question that I was even asking myself. Just because you know all the answers doesn't mean that everybody else does.
All your al-queda are belong to us.
What nobody mentioned is how they caught this photo. It was not some eagle-eyed newphoto watcher. Rather it was the FBI's face-matching software scanning the Internet. That image raised a big "Suspected Terrorist" alert... checks of the logs show that Bert's was the only face in that whole picture to trigger the alarm.
Go figure...
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BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
That poor woman must have made such a face at whoever the hell asked her that! LMAO
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
The poster was doctored BEFORE the fact. The photos are genuine, and there are 2 versions of the poster. Obviously, a jokster (possibly j-roen) put together the doctored collage. Then the print shop in Bangladesh does a google search for the bin-laden collage, and ends up with the doctored one without noticing.
It's a perfect hack. I'd give the guy a medal. Now all these angry demonstrators have been parading their idol as a homosexual alcoholic, both things very, very bad according to most islam, and especially for Taliban.
-- Another senseless waste of fine bytes.
... like this brings up the evilbert image on the very first page. Also note, that it is one of the pictures with a bright background. So if someone searched google for an image of bin Laden for a poster collage with a sandcolored background, this one would be first choice.
"By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself." -- Bill Hicks
The whole point is getting attention. Would this be news if it weren't Bert or a bottle of JD? It's a great, effective, free way to disseminate information globally to people who can't actively seek out information for fear of being detected. They sure as hell can go to wired.com or ./ though. Good job guys, let's make sure that all the terrorists know that WE'RE GOING WITH PLAN A, IS THAT CLEAR?
See? Worked like a charm. The information finds you. Smart guy.
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Representatives of the CTW and Jim Hensen Enterprises today told the US embassador that unless specific evidence was provided, they would not turn over Bert.
"Bert is a guest of Seseme Street. He does not have the resources to know Osama."
CTW also stated that they did not know the exact whereabouts of Bert, or his right hand man Ernie. It is rumored that they are still living together.
"Perhaps they are in the bath tub with the ducky." the representative stated.
In closing, CTW hinted at the possibilty of a Jihad if any further action was taken against Seseme Street, the letter P or the number 3.
As it emerges, that bert apparently appeared on the real poster, i wonder what kind of mindset the person has, that put him there. I think the practical joker approach is out of the question, since making practical jokes including bin Laden are probably quite deadly with fundamentalists. Nevertheless, that muppet sitting next to bin Laden looks quite funny, so to include it in the poster it's maker either didn't think at all, doing just what he was told, or he didn't dare edit/censor anything that included bin Laden. It's those kind of mindless followers, doing only what their superiors tell them, that empower people like bin Laden.
"By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself." -- Bill Hicks
WTF?
We dance to all the wrong songs.
--Refused.
Bert's soft spot was for pigeons. Haven't you ever seen him do the pigeon dance? Osama has loved pigeons for years too. He once sent out an order to "bomb American's favorite mode of transportation!" For years, I thought my car was pooped on because I parked it under trees. But, now, I know that BIN LADEN WAS RESPONSIBLE!!!
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Seasame Street produced a special episode in which Bert is diagnosed with leukemia and dies. The purpose, of course, was to teach kids about death. So many parents wrote in objections to it that they never aired the episode, however all subsequent episodes made do have Ernie & Bert in it -- for continuity's sake. I bet a little web-searching would turn up an article but I'm too lazy. ;P
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now you all know what method laden uses to send messages to his qiada network!! looks like the new guy has his work cut out for him.
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;). Justice is coming swiftly to that villain, no need to worry about that. But a lot of kids have fears relating to the attacks. If looking for Bert posters and laughing at them helps relieve those fears, Sesame Street should use that.
> Sure was meant as a joke...a tasteless,
> hurtful joke. Why is it not more funny that
> Bert has been actually linked to real evil? I
> would think your average person who thinks
> "Bert is EVIL!" is funny would find the real
> thing twice as funny. Look, either being
> hurtful is funny, or it's not.
No, what that evil man did on Sept. 11 was not funny. That isn't the point. Neither is the "evilness" of Bert the point.
The point is that this vile person wants us to feel terrified. He wants us to despair. If we do that, he has won. Anybody buying a gasmask, stockpiling antibiotics, wallowing in depression (instead of getting help), or mindlessly attacking a person because they are Islamic or of Arabic decent is handing bin Laden the victory on a silver platter.
Thanks to the silly "Bert is Evil" sites and the sheep-like stupidity of bin Laden's followers, now I can look at a picture of him and *laugh*! How can he terrify anyone when his idiot supporters are holding up pictures of Bert? He may be public enemy number one, but he is a complete failure as a terrorist. Here it is one month after he committed the most terrible act of terrorism in history, and people all over the world are laughing in his face!
There is another side to this. Bert is a New Yorker. The picture used to make the posters is of a very angry Bert. I think this probably is a very good representation of how New Yorkers feel about this attack. Bert's appearance on this poster gives a voice to bin Laden's victims, even in the midst of a protest in support of that madman.
The PTB behind Sesame Street are missing a golden opportunity to use Bert to teach children about just how bad intollerance can get (not to mention the evils and dangers of plagerism
"Lola, kindness is not enough, look for the reason of hatred and anger. When you find and understand that, love becomes the strongest power; stronger than courage or wisdom."
Belabera, "Mothra 3: King Ghidora Attacks"
And then the Armored Warrior appeared, and she destroyed the King of Terror forever! Mothra's heart can reach!
CNN just ran a report on the bottom of the TV stating that the creators of Sesame Street are outraged at the image of bert on protester's signs. This is so funny!
Sound waves should be free!
It's undoubtedly the case that some lazy/careless/pressured layout guy just nicked the pic off the web one day...might have happened quite a while ago--maybe the pic has been circulating all over the less-connected parts of Asia and the middle East on floppies for years.
The portayal of Bert with bin Laden is CIA disinformation. The true agent of evil is BARNEY!
Maybe it's just me and maybe I'm on crack. But has nobody else seriously considered the possibility that this might actually be secret message? The character Bert may have nothing to do with it, but these people aren't stupid. They knew enough to learn how to fly and hijack four planes. They know what kind of media coverage they get, and they know that a picture of Bert on a poster at a pro bin Ladin demonstration would be totally out of place and attract attention. The posters are huge, there are lots of clear pictures of them and the photographs around the perimeter could easily be seen as sequential (most likely counter clockwise around his head, since Arabic is read left-to-right) and symbolic. Does anyone know where those pictures came from originally and what events he was speaking at when they were taken and stuff?
I keep forgetting my place. Jesus is for losers. Why do I still play to the crowd?
From what I've heard he sent out a video tape wearing that knife about a week before the USS Cole attack.
Only after the attack did anyone notice...
Kids aren't dumb!
Why do people these days think kids are all braindead, confused retards incapable of thinking for themselves? Treat kids like they're braindead and they grow up as braindead adults.
Children understand a lot more than people give them credit for, they don't walk around in a confused state the whole time. We don't have to protect their "delicate impressionable little pathetic minds" from every stupid little idea that we don't like.
Translated text:
"ALL YOUR BERT ARE BELONG TO US"
Original text:
"MALAKA-HAI MALAKA-HAY MALAKA HEINY-HO"
This might really be a signal to his operatives. It's got all the requirements for one: It's very noticeable, so it gets widespread distribution; it means nothing to us; it's *way* out of character for an ordinary anti-U.S. protest.
These guys aren't stupid.
... are the letters 'R' and 'Q', and the number '11'.
-Hentai [in vita non pacem est]
Check out http://www.usatoday.com/news/gallery/terr1010/indo n.jpg
The caption on the USATODAY.COM site said " Muslims in front of the parliament in Jakarta, Indonesia, demand that their government break diplomatic ties with the United States. (By Tatan Syuflana, AP)"
Look at the woman in the front on the right of the picture. She has an interesting scarf. It is a Mickey Mouse scarf. Yet she's participating in a protest against the US. And I think Walt Disney was Jewish. Is that funny or what?!!!
All the best sites with images have been taken down - any mirrors out there?
Sesame Street has stopped the `bart is evil` website!
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Ceci n'est pas un sig.
The New York Post Cartoon for today shows the connection.
That's GNU/Open Sesame!
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Now that they have Bert on posters, we can soon expect to see an AP or Reuters picture of an Air Force member writing "This one's for Bert" on one of the bombs they're using.
Check out Yahoo Pictures (World) and look through the pics and you'll see some of the things they've been writing on them so far.
Cool!
Will in Seattle
Yes, now you've all blown Bert's cover. We in the CIA had infiltrated him into the top levels of the Taliban, and that's how we've been able to target some of the leaders.
But now we'll have to extract him before they torture him. He may be a Muppet, but he's an American Muppet, and a brave one at that.
Sincerely, Foggy Bottom
P.S.: hope we get him back, we had to put Cheney's heart in him so they couldn't tell he was a Muppet.
Will in Seattle