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...And now the battle between us and them has begun. JYD-4-LIFE. | posted on 10-11-2001 @ 2:05 PM | ||||
O&A Board Veteran Registered: May. 00 | The image of the unlikely duo -- the ``Sesame Street'' character and the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 hijack attacks in the United States -- has been splashed across spoof Internet sites over the past month. Mysteriously, the image made the jump from the virtual world to the real one, appearing on bin Laden placards at anti-American Muslim rallies in Bangladesh over the past week. The posters, which show a tiny Bert tucked between two images of bin Laden, were clutched by seemingly unsuspecting demonstrators at rallies on October 5 and 9. The banana-shaped Muppet is easy to miss at first glance. Photos of the protest placards have been posted on scores of humor and news Websites after circulating around the globe via e-mail. Astonished Internet users first noticed the appearance of Bert on Wednesday morning. By Thursday, it had become a raging debate on the Internet. ``Bert working with bin Laden?'' reads a headline on Swedish Website www.lindqvist.com. A debate follows on the site as conspiracy theorists try to figure out the mystery of how the spoof photo made it onto the streets of Bangladesh. Sesame Workshop, the non-profit company based in New York that oversees licensing of ``Sesame Street'' products, said in a statement it was exploring all legal options to stop unauthorized use of its property. ``We're outraged that our characters would be used in this unfortunate and distasteful manner. This is not at all humorous,'' a spokesman said. ``HONESTLY FREAKED OUT!'' Part of the mystery can be traced to California. A San Francisco artist, Dino Ignacio, in 1998 started a conspiratorial spoof site called ``Bert is Evil,'' in which Bert is inserted into famous historical photos. He has appeared alongside Adolph Hitler and among a crowd in Dallas as John F. Kennedy's motorcade passes. Ignacio put a statement on his site, www.fractalcow.com, on Wednesday denying he was the creator of the Bert and bin Laden image. ``I just wanted to say I had nothing do to with this!'' the statement reads. ``This image has been e-mailed to me countless times since September 11. Yesterday a lot of you alerted me to a picture of a Taliban propaganda poster with Bert!'' ``Reality is imitating the Web!'' the statement continues. ``I am honestly freaked out!'' The Bert-bin Laden poster contains a montage of bin Laden photos. One shows him holding a microphone and another wearing military fatigues sitting beside a propped-up Kalashnikov rifle. Bert, wearing a menacing open-mouthed expression, appears between two of the images. The posters were photographed by news organizations including Reuters, and distributed to newspapers and news sites around the world. Across the field you see the sky ripped open See the rain through a gaping wound Pounding on the women and children Who run Into the arms Of America-U2 | ||||
Ken'sPen [Sarcasm] Doesn't Live Up To The Hype [/Sarcasm] I should have stayed OVER THERE | posted on 10-11-2001 @ 2:23 PM | ||||
O&A Board Regular Registered: Aug. 01 | I saw that picture in the NY Daily News under the headline: OK THIS WILL ACTUALLY MAKE SENSE TO WHAT HAPPENED TODAY I PROMISE | ||||
I Need An Old Priest And A Young Priest | posted on 10-11-2001 @ 2:27 PM | ||||
O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Why do I feel another letter from a certain company coming? ;) opieanthony.com; Like a retarded yoyo, you will keep coming back. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" Charles Dickens | ||||
spitfire421 | posted on 10-11-2001 @ 2:27 PM | ||||
O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00 | Man, Elmo sucks and Bert's a queer... we need to send over the original cute and furry monster: Super Grover :) to go kick their asses We Have Not YetBegun To Fight NEVER FORGET!!! | ||||
...And now the battle between us and them has begun. JYD-4-LIFE. | posted on 10-11-2001 @ 2:31 PM | ||||
O&A Board Veteran Registered: May. 00 | quote: ken that was just the eyes, this is the whole pic ok??????;) Across the field you see the sky ripped open See the rain through a gaping wound Pounding on the women and children Who run Into the arms Of America-U2 | ||||
IrishAlkey Chucky Official OA.com Homo CUNT ROCKETTE Look who's laughing now, fuckers!!! Is It In Yet? JYD-4-LIFE [Sarcasm]Subzero316 fan since day one!!1!![/Sarcasm] "my mod powers are on temporary hiatus" This status is sponsored by: P®oJë©T M@¥hέm | posted on 10-11-2001 @ 2:33 PM | ||||
O&A Board Veteran Registered: Aug. 01 | I have a pic of Osama with Gonzostyle. :) | ||||
Sephiroth | posted on 10-11-2001 @ 2:36 PM | ||||
O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00 | This is the original photoshopped picture. My guess is that the man was making a masive sign for the demonstration, made a collage of various Bin Laden pics, and came across this one. How he could have missed it, i have no idea. Maybe he assumed it was a personification of the Great Satan.
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FeelMyFunBags | posted on 10-11-2001 @ 2:48 PM | ||||
O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | Does this mean that they are no longer as upset about Gonzo (not GS) touching kids in sig pics? ;) But seriously, how the hell does Bert pop into pictures like that...ODD "I know every one of you, I know the sea of torment, doubt, despair and unbelief." -Walt Whitman USA | ||||
King f-tard | posted on 10-11-2001 @ 2:48 PM | ||||
O&A Board Regular Registered: Feb. 01 | I knew bert was evil, look at his unibrow. Thats the mark of evil. | ||||
King Shit *board owner* | posted on 10-11-2001 @ 2:56 PM | ||||
O&A Board Veteran Registered: Feb. 01 | quote: I guess that makes WG the anti-christ. I believe in the Faith... that can save me. I believe in the hope and I pray... That someday it may raise me... above these badlands | ||||
katya_ann That's Miss Jesus Cooze to you! | posted on 10-11-2001 @ 2:56 PM | ||||
Psychopath Registered: Apr. 01 | But he doesn't have a goatee.... How can he be evil??? Meanwhile, in a related story, several dead children were found burried under Big Bird's nest today. The corpses each bore over a thousand peck wounds. One body had been hollowed out and filled with bird seed, athorities said, and hung in the corner as a type of feeder. "I'll fly my country's flag outside my home everyday for the rest of my life, even if it's three inches tall and hoisted on a toothpick! GOD BLESS AMERICA!" --My dad | ||||
slackjaw The Cunt-Twat is my WORLD! The Great Pumpkin | posted on 10-11-2001 @ 8:38 PM | ||||
O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Currently newbieless...unbelieveable! | ||||
King Shit *board owner* | posted on 10-11-2001 @ 8:41 PM | ||||
O&A Board Veteran Registered: Feb. 01 | Nice Slackjaw... now Bert looks like Vladimir Lenin I believe in the Faith... that can save me. I believe in the hope and I pray... That someday it may raise me... above these badlands | ||||
The sky is blue | posted on 10-11-2001 @ 8:50 PM | ||||
O&A Board Veteran Registered: Oct. 00 | Damnit, I knew I shouldn't of let anyone see that... Wanna be the coolest kid on your block? Get an 'I love Froy t-shirt!' Add it to your sig today! Email me at [email protected] | ||||
Noellevious Teh cute. Look at that. You could bounce quarters off of it. Incredible. | posted on 10-11-2001 @ 8:55 PM | ||||
O&A Board Regular Registered: Sep. 01 | Elmo's too predictable. I'll be keeping an eye on Pikachu, though. One Nation...INDIVISIBLE. Graduated Summa Cum Laude from FollowThisLogic's Droog Academy "The first Jewish guy I ever really loved was Christ. And then came Louis Black." | ||||
prototype | posted on 10-11-2001 @ 9:30 PM | ||||
Psychopath Registered: Aug. 01 | LMAO And watch out for those two old bastards from the muppets. USA Bin Laden is a dead man Free Northern Ireland | ||||
Thrillhouse Alkey gave me my bonus points back. | posted on 10-11-2001 @ 10:02 PM | ||||
Psychopath Registered: Aug. 01 | did bert just recieve a cleveland steamer? Graduate of AFDude's Academy | ||||
Joe Soprano | posted on 10-11-2001 @ 11:23 PM | ||||
O&A Board Regular Registered: Sep. 00 | quote: Hell yeah... Statler and Waldorf would kick some ass in-between Geritol swigs... Then send that Muppet in Jennitalia's sig pic to suck off the corpses! <---- Kiss me helmet. | ||||
Spuds_Buckley | posted on 10-12-2001 @ 12:50 AM | ||||
O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | quote: line of the day... I hope he tells us to burn our pants...these things are driving me nuts! Hold on there maestro, there's a "New" Mexico? | ||||
GonzoStyle | posted on 10-12-2001 @ 1:22 AM | ||||
Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70 | yeah yeah yeah bring it on henson "These dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people for the people, shall not perish from the earth." -- Abraham Lincoln She-Mail Me Here | ||||
King Shit *board owner* | posted on 10-12-2001 @ 11:57 AM | ||||
O&A Board Veteran Registered: Feb. 01 | quote: Well, they're much more lenient about their characters being associated with terrorists than they are about them being associated with pedophilia. Go figure! I believe in the Faith... that can save me. I believe in the hope and I pray... That someday it may raise me... above these badlands | ||||
TFEC Coming Soon!!! The Grand Opening of The Junkyard Bar & Grill! | posted on 10-12-2001 @ 12:12 PM | ||||
O&A Board Regular Registered: Sep. 00 | quote: Does that mean that sesame street will will be renamed Leningrad Road? BYE BYE BIN LADEN!!! 11 Sep 01: A day we will always remember, a day those bastards will never forget!! Support the troops!! Lights on when driving!! | ||||
Noellevious Teh cute. Look at that. You could bounce quarters off of it. Incredible. | posted on 10-12-2001 @ 7:54 PM | ||||
O&A Board Regular Registered: Sep. 01 | quote: You actually know their names? One Nation...Indivisible. Graduated Summa Cum Laude from FollowThisLogic's Droog Academy "The first Jewish guy I ever really loved was Christ. And then came Louis Black." | ||||
katya_ann That's Miss Jesus Cooze to you! | posted on 10-13-2001 @ 5:43 AM | ||||
Psychopath Registered: Apr. 01 | I thought their names were Rosencrantz and Guildenstern..."I'll fly my country's flag outside my home everyday for the rest of my life, even if it's three inches tall and hoisted on a toothpick! GOD BLESS AMERICA!" --My dad | ||||
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