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rubysue
Skeptic Friend
USA
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 Posted - 10/10/2001 : 19:07:21
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OK, there's been a lot of tension on this board lately (most of it caused by me, I know, since I don't march to the proper beat), but I couldn't resist this bizarre story (some of you have probably seen it today) and the link to it as a way to relieve the tension. This is truly theatre of the absurd:
http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,47450,00.html
Apparently, the bin Laden poster makers in the back alleys of Quetta or wherever the hell they are know how to use Google but have no clue what they've pulled down from the images to paste on their tributes to Mr. Megalomaniac. In the Wired link, click on the thumbnails or go into the article and link up with the Swedish tabloid and check out Bert and bin and bin with his "Jack Daniels" (although it looks more like Johnny Walker Red to me).
I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it.
rubysue
If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.
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rubysue
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Espritch
Skeptic Friend
USA
284 Posts |
 Posted - 10/10/2001 : 21:39:18 [Permalink]
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Actually I think Nostrodamus predicted this. Consider Quatrain 42 from Century 21:
When the high towers have fallen
in the great city of light,
the puppet shall meet the bearded one
and the end time will be at hand.
OK. So maybe I made that up just a little. But if Nostrodamus didn't predict that one, he dang sure should have. 
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Donnie B.
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 10/11/2001 : 07:18:19 [Permalink]
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Seems to me the bin Laden network has made a fatal mistake. I mean, dealing with the U.S. military is going to seem like, er, Sesame Street once they get a load of the lawyers from Children's Television Workshop...
-- Donnie B.
Brian: "No, no! You have to think for yourselves!" Crowd: "Yes! We have to think for ourselves!" |
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Tokyodreamer
SFN Regular
USA
1447 Posts |
Posted - 10/11/2001 : 07:28:39 [Permalink]
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Didn't Saddam have a campaign in which he transmitted to U.S. troops that their wives were back at home having sex with Bart Simpson?
This reminded me of that, for some reason... 
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And if rain brings winds of change
let it rain on us forever.
I have no doubt from what I've seen
that I have never wanted more.
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 10/11/2001 : 08:27:51 [Permalink]
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That was a Johnny Carson routine. And it was Homer.
However, recent releases of formerly classified documents reveals that Dan Quayle actually was having sex with Bart Simpson at the time. Eat my shorts Mr. Vice President!
quote:
Didn't Saddam have a campaign in which he transmitted to U.S. troops that their wives were back at home having sex with Bart Simpson?
This reminded me of that, for some reason...
Stop the murder of the Iraqi people.
http://www.endthewar.org
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ZaphodBeeblebrox
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 10/16/2001 : 05:05:03 [Permalink]
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Here's what Snopes has to say about it:
http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/radio/baghdad.htm
Scary how a Joke, can become a Rumour, huh?
If you Ignore Your Rights, they WILL, go away.
Edited by - ZaphodBeeblebrox on 10/16/2001 05:05:34
Edited by - ZaphodBeeblebrox on 10/16/2001 05:06:46 |
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Mespo_man
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 10/16/2001 : 10:39:48 [Permalink]
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Here's the Urban Legends (Snopes) on this one - it's authentic and there are more links!
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/bert.htm
rubysue
What an incredible opportunity for Internet mischief. Since Disney studios are always blamed for subliminal messages in their animated cartoons, how about contracting them to make a beautiful portrait of Osama with obscene anti-Osama curses woven into a tapestry of clouds surrounding his head.
Let's see who's stupid enough to bite. 
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Tokyodreamer
SFN Regular
USA
1447 Posts |
Posted - 10/16/2001 : 11:20:53 [Permalink]
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Here's what Snopes has to say about it:
HA! Told you it was Bart!
[oops.. um... HA! We're BOTH right! ]
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And if rain brings winds of change
let it rain on us forever.
I have no doubt from what I've seen
that I have never wanted more.
Edited by - tokyodreamer on 10/16/2001 11:24:31 |
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