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Bert Is Evil
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.
Hmm, I guess it would be proof if the two random people showed up on the poster as well.
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?
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.
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... ;-)
299,792,458 m/s...not just a good idea, its the law!
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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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MONDAYS:
8:00 -"Husseinfeld"
8:30 - "Mad About Everything"
9:00 - "Suddenly Sanctions"
9:30 - "The Brian Benben Bin Laden Show"
TUESDAYS:
8:00 - "Wheel of Terror and Fortune"
8:30 - "The Stench is Right"
9:00 - "Children Are Forbidden From Saying The DarndestThings"
9:30 - "Afganistans Wackiest Public Execution Bloopers"
10:00 - "Buffy The Yankee Imperialist Dog Slayer"
WEDNESDAYS:
8:00 - "U.S. Military Secrets Revealed"
8:30 - "When Northern Alliance Attack"
9:00 - "Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pita Bread"
9:30 - "Just Shoot Everyone"
10:00 - "Veilwatch"
THURSDAYS:
8:00 - "Matimallahoasillalama Loves Chachi"
8:30 - "CBS Evening News with Dan Rather"
9:00 - "Veronicas Closet Full of Long, Black, Shapeless Dresses and
Veils"
9:30 - "My Two Baghdads"
10:00 - "Diagnosis: Heresy"
FRIDAYS:
8:00 - "Bob Patterson (Must Have His Hand Cut Off)"
8:30 - "M*U*S*T*A*S*H"
9:00 - "Everybody Loves Anthrax"
9:30 - "Achmeds Creek"
10:00 -"No-witness News"
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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.
-- This post is about truth, beauty, freedom, and above all things, Karma
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.
I guess T is for Taliban today.
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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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."
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.
"Make it ten--I am only a poor corrupt official."
--Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains), Casablanca
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.
Bush: Al your Queda are belong to us
Laden: What you say!!
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.
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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Personally, I found this article pretty funny. It's been asked for before, now you can get it!
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Good news.
Both Hamsterdance and Mr. Winkle are safe for now from pro-Osama Bin Laden forces.
Phew!
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Where will it all end?
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?
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
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!
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 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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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
#$%@^*(!@?
[Lameness filter avoidance device activated...]
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.
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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.
There is a fine line between being a cultivated citizen and being someone else's crop. - A. J. Patrick Liszkie
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.
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
Yes, I know that's the right way to say it, but if you write it on a bomb, the ME reference is funnier.
Almost everyone knows who Bert is. What have those Al-Qaeda folks been doing, living in a cave? On second thought...
> Therefore part of the "joke" is that he is the Taliban's favorite broadcaster.
Ehrm, yeah. "Liberal Left" just jumps immediately to mind whenever I hear the word "Taliban".
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
I never have any mod points when I need 'em.
-- MarkusQ
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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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.
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"
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.
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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.
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
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
Translated text:
"ALL YOUR BERT ARE BELONG TO US"
Original text:
"MALAKA-HAI MALAKA-HAY MALAKA HEINY-HO"
All the best sites with images have been taken down - any mirrors out there?
Sesame Street has stopped the `bart is evil` website!
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