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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My favorite part...

[Cutriss]

Is the last paragraph of the Wired article...

"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'? :D

Re:My favorite part...

[sharkey]

Maybe they aren't allowed to say "life-partner" on PBS.

This makes a twisted sort of sense

[ckd]

Here's the "logic":

• Jerry Falwell says that gays "helped this happen."
• Bert and Ernie have been living together for how many years? Haven't you ever been a little bit suspicious about them?

Obviously this explains the whole thing.

Re:This makes a twisted sort of sense

[taniwha]

Were these two imstruments of clever manipulators ?

geez - they're puppets - of course they are instruments of clever manipulators ....

Google Image search strikes again

[Cato the Elder]

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.

Re:Google Image search strikes again

[update()]

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.

Re:Google Image search strikes again

[T. Will S. Idea]

OK, so here's what we need to do. Everybody fire up Gimp and start putting out really embarrassing pictures of Bin Laden. Show him in suggestive poses with drugs, booze, women, etc like some of these here here and here. Distribute them to your friends who can put them on their web sites. Eventually the whole front page of Google's image search will be full of these images. Then unsuspecting protesters will construct their posters out of these and hey presto, score one for the good guys. (Hey if they were careless enough to put Bert on their poster who knows what else they might overlook?)

Some days you have to take delight in the simple pleasures.

The reach of the internet ... How this started ...

[pgrote]

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?

Legal recourse?

[Xerithane]

The scary thing about this is I'm sure the original Bert and Bin Laden was meant as a joke, as is Bert and Pamela Anderson or Kevin Costner.

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.

Osama bin Bert

[zpengo]

It's a widely known fact in the intelligence community that Sesame Street has been a form of communication between al-Qaeda leaders and the various semi-independent cells around the world. Through sometimes cryptic phrases and symbols, unintelligible to outsiders, they have broadcast messages to all the world that can only be truly understood by a few. Some examples:

• "C is for cookie, that's good enough for me."
• "Seven! Seven jumping jackrabbits! Ah, ah, ah!"
• "I am Captain Vegetable, with my carrots, and my celery."
  

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.

Re:Osama bin Bert

[Xoro]

I'm hoping bin Laden's next appearance on a children's show will be a short cameo on The Electric Chair Company.

When? Immediately, immediately, immediate-l-y!

Next Thing....

[Peridriga]

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 :-)

Re:Next Thing....

[tswinzig]

There must be some geek somewhere loading bombs onto these planes. For the love of god, please paint "All your base are belong to us" on one of these suckers, and send us a picture!

Re:Next Thing....

[British]

And of course...

"Someone set us up ME!" - good message intended towards bomb handlers.

Culturally owned...

[jamesmartinluther]

...by the B3rt xpl0it.

Clear Concise Explanation

[Apreche]

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.

Confirms my theory

[poemofatic]

..that Osama was merely a puppet, while Bert was the true Mastermind. No wonder Condi is worried that Osama's speeches contain secret messages.

CNN Breaking news: Sesame Street has been banned!

[albat0r]

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...

You blew his cover!

[wiredog]

The CIA finally gets someone close to bin Laden and you slashdotty bastards blow his cover! Now the taliban is probably gonna put him through a shredder! What'll we tell Ernie?

I wonder what Big Bird is up to?

Re:You blew his cover!

[Moonshadow]

I wonder what Big Bird is up to?

I've got your Big Bird right here.

Afghan TV Guide

[Anonymous Coward]

AFGHAN TV GUIDE

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"

Here is

[G-funk]

Here's the original Bert is evil page.

Turns out they were right all these years :-)

In 2001 AD, war was beginning...

[The Milky Bar Kid]

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.

Al Qaeda threat assessment

[nobodyman]

Guess the FBI can cross out "Photoshop Skills" from their Al Qaeda dossier.

Sesame street

[iomud]

I guess T is for Taliban today.

In Other news...

[neema]

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."

Dubya bin Laden

[slickwillie]

Looks like we now know what happened to Ernie. He rigged the election in Florida, and is now occupying the White House.

Re:The next thing, translated

[warpeightbot]

Al your Queda are belong to us.

No, no, no.

Al your Qaeda are belong to U.S.

Get it right. :)

Re:The next thing, translated

[On Lawn]

what USA!!

Re:Bert is simply...

[Leven Valera]

I think Bert has been deep undercover with Agent Ernie for about a decade now. We think he's gone native.

Give credit where due

[ez76]

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

Parody

[sdo1]

From the Fox news article...

"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."

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

Please Support The Muppets

[TheMonkeyDepartment]

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.

Nukes back on the table?

[imadork]

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!

Open Sesame

[Pseudonymus Bosch]

We all know that "Open Sesame" is a traditional passphrase in the Islamic world. The connection is obvious.