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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. Google Image search strikes again by Cato+the+Elder · · Score: 5, Interesting
    A search for "bin laden" shows Bert and Osama on the second page of pictures. If the protestors made their collage out of that, it would explain a lot.

    Hmm, I guess it would be proof if the two random people showed up on the poster as well.

  2. The reach of the internet ... How this started ... by pgrote · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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?

  3. Bert's getting promoted! by pbryan · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

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  4. Re:Legal recourse? by Shelled · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I know someone who used to play Counter-Strike as 'USAma Bin Laden' and always was terrorist.

    I was the only Bin Laden for the longest time on Firearms servers, but dropped the name after the attacks to avoid the friction. Ironically, I was quickly replaced with dozens of Bin Ladens or variants of the name.

  5. already some bomb pics.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    check out 7 pics of marked-up bombs at http://www.ehowa.com/.

  6. I don't mean for this to sound crazy, but.. ;P by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    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.

  7. THE CIA IS OBVIOUSLY BEHIND THIS by YIAAL · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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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    1. Re:THE CIA IS OBVIOUSLY BEHIND THIS by dillon_rinker · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Yup. If they don't like you, they threaten to kill you. If we don't like you, we laugh at you.

      Draw your own conclusions about which approach is morally superior and which culture is more advanced.

  8. Log Correlation? by mackman · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

  9. So obviously intentional... by Telek · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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...

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  10. Re:Actually, yes they do - I've seen it by n3m6 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    the sesame street was also dubbed in arabic and shown in saudi arabia for several years.. i can remember watching it in arabic when we were kids.. they used to call bert "baduru" or something..

  11. Bad News: your joke turned out partly true by Sara+Chan · · Score: 3, Interesting
    According to a recent BBC story, the US government has just got US television executives to agree to "exercise judgement" in broadcasting statements by Bin Laden and his associates. The Government warned that those statements may include coded incitements to violence.


    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.

  12. Re:This makes a twisted sort of sense by syates21 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Anybody here ever see a movie, play, or TV show called "The Odd Couple".
    It's just funny to have two different types of people as roomates, and Bert and Ernie are just a derivative of Oscar and Felix.

    Get over it.