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Bert Is Evil

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Clear Concise Explanation by Apreche · · Score: 4, Informative

    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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  2. Here is by G-funk · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's the original Bert is evil page.

    Turns out they were right all these years :-)

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  3. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 2, Informative

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  4. There's even animated version... by Mike+McCune · · Score: 2, Informative

    here:

    http://www.rense.com/general14/flagburn.htm

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  5. Re:Osama bin Bert ... a message by OmegaDan · · Score: 3, Informative

    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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  6. Re:Google Image search strikes again by update() · · Score: 4, Informative
    Yeah, a comment to the (now heavily /.'ed) Swedish site says:

    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.

  7. The new kilroy by moz711 · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  8. Re:You were expecting Miss Piggy? by Zalgon+26+McGee · · Score: 2, Informative

    Slander the man if you will, but at least Bert is kosher, and/or the Islamic equivalent! That would be "halal"

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  9. Re:Afghan TV Guide by ChadN · · Score: 2, Informative

    Dan Rather is a news commentator known for being fairly antagonistic to G. Bush senior (they had a heated exchange years ago on television, during an interview).

    So, apart from the other explanations, I interpreted it as saying that Dan is probably the favorite news broadcaster of the Taliban.

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  10. Re:Osama bin Bert ... a message by 10+Speed · · Score: 2, Informative
    I am sure if a plan was to be hidden in the contents of a photo that inconspicuos items would be used and something on the wall behind or parhaps hand positions etc....

    but a western 'icon' would most likely be avoided because of the extra attention such a photo would receive...

  11. Except that they got it wrong.... by tahini · · Score: 3, Informative

    Bert's soft spot was for pigeons. Haven't you ever seen him do the pigeon dance?

  12. Give credit where due by ez76 · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is about two years old and was originally "Iraqi TV Guide".

  13. REAL not photoshopped!! by Fuzzums · · Score: 2, Informative

    The second one is REAL! I found bert on two defferent pictures in the same poster

    1) http://www.wired.com/news/gallery/0,2072,47450-196 6~1965,00.html
    2) http://nu.nl/document?n=43967

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  14. Re:My favorite part... by pallex · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, they`re not gay!

    http://www.snopes2.com/radiotv/tv/gaymupp.htm

  15. Very good explanation at snopes.com by dimer0 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Check it out here: Bert is Evil?