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How can there not already be a thread on this?

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/31/bos...are/index.html

BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Electronic light boards featuring an adult-cartoon character triggered bomb scares around Boston on Wednesday, spurring authorities to close two bridges and a stretch of the Charles River before determining the devices were harmless.

Turner Broadcasting Co., the parent company of CNN, said the devices contained harmless magnetic lights aimed at promoting the Adult Swim network's late-night cartoon "Aqua Teen Hunger Force." Law enforcement sources said the devices displayed one of the Mooninites, outer-space delinquents who appear frequently on the show, greeting visitors with a raised middle finger.

"While the concern is lessened as a result of the investigation, I'd like to remind citizens to treat any suspicious devices with care and to call 911 if any such device is found," Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said.

The devices had been placed as part of an "outdoor marketing campaign" in 10 cities, a Turner Broadcasting statement said.

"Parent company Turner Broadcasting is in contact with local and federal law enforcement on the exact locations of the billboards," the statement said. "We regret that they were mistakenly thought to pose any danger."

Turner said the devices had been in place for two to three weeks in Boston; New York; Los Angeles, California; Chicago, Illinois; Atlanta, Georgia; Seattle, Washington; Portland, Oregon; Austin, Texas; San Francisco, California; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

A Turner Broadcasting source said the devices were a component of a third-party advertising campaign conducted by the New York advertising firm Interference Inc. That company had no comment on the incident.

The discovery of nine of the devices around metro Boston led state, local and federal authorities to close the Boston University and Longfellow Bridges, and block boat traffic from the Charles River to Boston Harbor.

In addition, the Pentagon said U.S. Northern Command was monitoring the situation from its headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colorado, but said none of its units were sent to assist.

Davis said police "are going to fully investigate this and get to the bottom of it."

The first suspicious device turned up Wednesday morning at the Sullivan Square commuter rail station, near the suburb of Somerville. Wednesday afternoon four other devices were reported -- near the Longfellow and Boston University bridges over the Charles, at New England Medical Center and near the intersection of Stuart and Columbus avenues in the city.

Three others turned up in other locations around Boston as well, Davis said.

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:04 (eighteen years ago)

OH MY GOD. that billboard has been there forever! LOL

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:08 (eighteen years ago)

How can there not already be a thread on this?

shocking, isn't it? maybe just too perfect?

― literalisp (literalisp), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:13 (eighteen years ago)

we need the full link. the SA-style link truncating isn't working here.

― kingfish moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:16 (eighteen years ago)

this is my favorite notice so far. who says there's no more culture gap?

Fox News reports, "According to the Cartoon Network, the show is an animated comedy about three detectives in the shape of human-sized food products that live together in a rental house in New Jersey. Master Shake is the self-appointed team leader, while the 'reasonable' Frylock is a box of french-fried potatoes, and the Meatwad character is a round mound of meat.

[my italics]

― literalisp (literalisp), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:16 (eighteen years ago)

this was all over NPR on the way home, complete with clips Mayor Menino decreeing dire consequences for those perpetuating this "hoax."

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:20 (eighteen years ago)

I had an IM off a friend at 4:30 asking if I'd heard about the bomb scares then, not 10 mins. later, an official email from HR warning there might be servere delays due to the pending police investigation. My trip home was a breeze and was then able to read what really happened. So embarrassing! So great!

― ENBB (expatrica), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:20 (eighteen years ago)

i'm pretty sure at the time he made that statement, they didn't know it was a marketing campaign, just that the "devices" were not bombs.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:21 (eighteen years ago)

This is too funny. I wonder who is going to get in trouble for this.

― Jacob Sanders (LolVStein), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:23 (eighteen years ago)

http://cbs4boston.com/topstories/local_story_031135507.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanderlin/358742603/

― kingfish moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:25 (eighteen years ago)

how long was that hoax on public display before the shit (finally) hit the fan?

I keep hearing three weeks.

― don weiner (don weiner), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:25 (eighteen years ago)

possible upside --

viral marketing now classified as a terrorist activity; thousands of bloggers forced to find honest jobs.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:27 (eighteen years ago)

we need the full link. the SA-style link truncating isn't working here.

Whoops! Thanks for the heads-up: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/31/boston.bombscare/index.html

I am a little disturbed by the suggestion that because someone went off half-cocked it's somehow the billboard's fault. Also, is Boston really the only city these are up in?

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:33 (eighteen years ago)

hahah. nice headline, alex:

Stoners, Media Conglomerate Responsible for Boston Bomb Hoax

― kingfish moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:33 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/172/375967773_9dfcbfa8af.jpg?v=0

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:52 (eighteen years ago)

“It is outrageous, in a post 9/11 world, that a company would use this type of marketing scheme. I am prepared to take any and all legal action against Turner Broadcasting and its affiliates for any and all expenses incurred during the response to today’s incidents. Boston will look to coordinate our efforts going forward with Cambridge, Somerville and any other affected agencies.”

LOLZ

― grbchv! (skowly), Thursday, 1 February 2007 01:05 (eighteen years ago)

Also, is Boston really the only city these are up in?

No, they're also in 9 other cities where residents are intelligent enough not to mistake a light brite for a bomb.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 1 February 2007 01:07 (eighteen years ago)

I do like the idea of terrorists that make a cute little cartoon on their bombs

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 1 February 2007 01:08 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe Al Queda will create a cute little mascot now.

― Super Cub (Debito), Thursday, 1 February 2007 01:10 (eighteen years ago)

"Scaring an entire region, tying up the T and major roadways, and forcing first responders to spend 12 hours chasing down trinkets instead of terrorists is marketing run amok," Markey, a Democrat, said in a written statement. "It would be hard to dream up a more appalling publicity stunt."

Yeah, putting up an ad that looks nothing like a bomb and then "forcing" emergency services to "respond" to them is much more appalling than death by water poisoning.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 1 February 2007 01:10 (eighteen years ago)

http://microrevolt.org/reblog/archives/bomb_knit.jpg

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 1 February 2007 01:12 (eighteen years ago)

http://members.aol.com/chrispyk16/frylock.gif

I am Frylock from Aqua Teen Hunger Force!!

Which Aqua Teen Hunger Force character are you??

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 1 February 2007 01:12 (eighteen years ago)

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/US/01/31/boston.bombscare/newt1.1827.boston.wcvb.jpg

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 1 February 2007 01:14 (eighteen years ago)

OH NO they tied up the T!!!

This is like saying "they made snails go slower."

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 1 February 2007 01:14 (eighteen years ago)

how much you wanna bet those bomb squad guys were all wtf lol thats no bomb the second they looked at it.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 1 February 2007 01:15 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.jtf.org/america/ooo.02012006.muslim.terror.danish.cartoon.turban.bomb.175.jpg

xpost

― S- (sgh), Thursday, 1 February 2007 01:16 (eighteen years ago)

the bird photoshopped out for media purposes?

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 1 February 2007 01:17 (eighteen years ago)

that is amazing

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 1 February 2007 01:19 (eighteen years ago)

the bird photoshopped out for media purposes?

now he's just a disgruntled waiter.

― literalisp (literalisp), Thursday, 1 February 2007 02:05 (eighteen years ago)

'here's your fucking pancake, boston'

― roger goodell (gear), Thursday, 1 February 2007 02:06 (eighteen years ago)

All I'm saying is that Al Queda is getting a HUGE kick out of this. HUGE.

Also - what fucking legal precedent is there for prosecuting anyone on this? Littering? Vandalism, maybe?

Good Christ, people! There are like 7 thousand colleges and universities in the Boston area, and some of them are among the best in the world. Is it something in the water that made people be stupid today?

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 1 February 2007 03:32 (eighteen years ago)

I feel enemies being emboldened somewhere.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Thursday, 1 February 2007 03:33 (eighteen years ago)

more on the culture gap, from another write-up:

"The cartoon also includes two trouble-making, 1980s-graphic-like characters called "mooninites," named Ignignokt and Err - who were pictured on the suspicious devices. They are known for making the obscene hand gesture depicted on the devices."

OK, see, there was this one video game? From the late 70s, in fact? Not that "graphic-like" makes any sense anyways, but ...

― literalisp (literalisp), Thursday, 1 February 2007 03:46 (eighteen years ago)

thanks, kingfish

― say it with blood diamonds (a_p), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:09 (eighteen years ago)

what fucking legal precedent is there for prosecuting anyone on this?

There is legal precedent for prosecuting someone for a bomb-scare, obv., but it will certainly be interesting to see if they can prosecute someone for an unintentional bomb scare.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:10 (eighteen years ago)

Wanda Higgins, a 47-year-old Weymouth resident and a nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, heard about the threat as she watched television news coverage while preparing to leave work at 4 p.m.

"I saw the bomb squad guys carrying a paper bag with their bare hands," Higgins said. "I knew it couldn't be too serious."

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:27 (eighteen years ago)

TV Network Takes Responsibility For 'Hoax Devices'

"Anytime you get a report of a suspicious device, it is always a concern," U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Scott Carr said. "We went ahead and shut down the waterways so we could clear the area and keep everybody safe."

"Our device was not an active device. We are still treating the area as a crime scene. There were no injuries. Everyone was evacuated properly, and everyone now back to their locations," Tufts New England Medical Center's Brooke Hynes said.

― seriously? (bundgee), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:28 (eighteen years ago)

This country is NUTS.

Less LED viral marketing, more miniature flags on cars in car dealerships!

― King Boy Pato (patog27), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:30 (eighteen years ago)

A visibly angry Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino said he would ask the Federal Communications Commission to yank TBS’s broadcasting license for what he called ‘‘an outrageous act to gain publicity for their product.’’
The officials said the campaign was especially reckless given Boston’s sensitivity to terrorism threats, after planes that left Logan Airport on Sept. 11, 2001, were hijacked and flown into the World Trade Center.
In a statement, Menino said: ‘‘It is outrageous, in a post-9/11 world, that a company would use this type of marketing scheme. I am prepared to take any and all legal action against Turner Broadcasting and its affiliates for any and all expenses incurred during the response to today’s incidents.’’
But others said they realized it was not dangerous.
April James, 32, said she saw one of the devices in a sandy area under the Longfellow Bridge about three weeks ago.
‘‘I kicked it first, then I picked it up,’’ said James, a hairdresser who says she walks and jogs over the bridge nearly everyday.
‘‘It looked like a bomb. I picked it up, pulled the tape off it, and there were batteries, two on the top and three on the bottom.’’
James said she was not frightened by the device, which she said she returned to its original spot, near the sidewalk in front of the bridge, before continuing with her walk.
‘‘I should have moved it, put it in a bin’’ James said, while looking down from the Longfellow Bridge in the area police had gathered to detonate the bomb just minutes earlier.
Bryan Richards, 34, said the prank was a tasteless joke.
‘‘This city’s too beautiful to blow up,’’ Richards said.

‘‘It’s not funny when someone threatens other people’s lives and when the police mobilize, I get upset.’’

They've also arrested the local guy who was hired by Turner's ad agency to put up the signs. Only in Boston.

― govern yourself accordingly (dayan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:35 (eighteen years ago)

The media seem to have already taken the line that the devices were SUPPOSED to look like bombs -- in fact the article immediately above refers to one as a "bomb"

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:39 (eighteen years ago)

"hoax device"

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:45 (eighteen years ago)

Haha, spot the filler:

By Maria Cramer and Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff

The man who sent city and State Police rushing to defuse what they believed were explosive devices around the Boston region was arrested tonight.

Attorney General Martha Coakley scheduled a 9 p.m. press conference to announce the arrrest of Peter Berdovsky, an Arlington artist.

On his personal website, he posted pictures of a small group installing the figures -- little square-shaped men frowning and making an obscene gesture -- on the exterior wall of a hospital, on the awning of a Cambridge bar, at an Urban Outfitters, and a bridge.

On another website, he describes himself as adroit at painting, animation, video and sound design, sculpting and installation art.

Berdvosky's lengthy resume boasts a 2005 bachelor's degree "completed with distinction" at the Massachusetts College of Arts, his second place finish at the 2004 Massachusetts College of Art All School Show, and a merit scholarship he received from MassArt in 2000.

On his website, he also lists several authors who have inspired him, including Douglas Adams and Leo Tolstoy, and included passages that moved him. One sentence from Tolstoy's "Confession" was underlined:

"It became clear to me that art is an ornamentation of life, something that lures us into life. But life had lost its charm for me so how was I to charm others?"

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:51 (eighteen years ago)

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c186/simonquilty/ATHFdevice.jpg

― kingfish moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:56 (eighteen years ago)

I wish I could ban the use of "suspicious" as a modifier of anything other than a person who feels suspicion of something.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 1 February 2007 05:04 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.zebbler.com/friends/ATHF/mission1/mission1.html

Photos of the signs being installed around Boston. Not even the Stata Center and Do Re Mi escaped the Mooninite threat.

(Boston people may know this dude as one of the old Eventworks bookers, FWIW; he set up that Lightning Bolt show at the Mass Art iron pour a few years ago.)

― govern yourself accordingly (dayan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 05:04 (eighteen years ago)

that guy!

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 1 February 2007 05:23 (eighteen years ago)

The man who sent city and State Police rushing to defuse what they believed were explosive devices around the Boston region was arrested tonight.

This is the guy who put the signs up right? He didn't also call in the bomb threat did he? The idiot who did that is the one who should be arrested. God this is making my blood boil.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 1 February 2007 05:26 (eighteen years ago)

http://a417.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/45/l_3cc65a83ca978cb452fec87c53b9dd20.jpg

― literalisp (literalisp), Thursday, 1 February 2007 05:30 (eighteen years ago)

"http://www.zebbler.com/friends/ATHF/mission1/mission1.html"

i bought good records once at that mojo music! sorry, that's all i have to add.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 1 February 2007 05:32 (eighteen years ago)

"The threat level has been raised to 'moderately funny when stoned'"

but seriously, i walked by 2 to 3 of these every day for as long as they were up, never even saw them.

― sublime frequency (sublime frequency), Thursday, 1 February 2007 05:46 (eighteen years ago)

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To: happinesswithoutpeace
But what was the threat?
Are you stoned?
What would you do if there was an unknown package in your car?
Sheesh! If the children want to play, let them go back to the "panty raids" of the 1950's.
We live in very dangerous times. If I saw someone planting a "package" where I live I would kill them and worry about the consequences afterwards.

447 posted on 01/31/2007 4:54:53 PM PST by LibKill (ENOUGH! Take the warning labels off everything and let Saint Darwin do his job.)
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― Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Saturday, 3 February 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

okay, one more, and then I have to go light myself on fire:

To: Doghouse Riley
You said:

"The surest defense against terrorism is to refuse to be terrorized. Our job is to recognize that terrorism is just one of the risks we face, and not a particularly common one at that. And our job is to fight those politicians who use fear as an excuse to take away our liberties and promote security theater that wastes money and doesn't make us any safer."
-Bruce Schneier

Sounds like you are in the wrong forum pal....See, most Freepers 'recognize' that the best defense against terrorism is to either join the US military or work like hell to defeat morons that want to lay down and accept terrorism as a 'risk we all face'!!!

Screw 'Bruce The Dove Heart'!!

IBTZ!!!

560 posted on 01/31/2007 7:24:34 PM PST by penelopesire
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― Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Saturday, 3 February 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

"We live in very dangerous times. If I saw someone planting a "package" where I live I would kill them and worry about the consequences afterwards."
FUCK YOUUUU FEDEX TERRORISTS!!!!!!!!!!

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Saturday, 3 February 2007 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

i think those are hoax posters

― grbchv! (skowly), Saturday, 3 February 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

hooks posters

― a.b. (alanbanana), Saturday, 3 February 2007 19:50 (eighteen years ago)

rumors now are that the FCC is looking into it.

no one of import is going to be fired, but basically it was a P.A. who hired the guerilla mktg firm.

nobody at CN is laughing this off. big people in high places are pretty upset.

― don weiner (don weiner), Sunday, 4 February 2007 00:00 (eighteen years ago)

of course, they're not actually upset. This is amazingly good pr. So they just act sorry and nothing happens.

Fucking embarrassing that all these public officials are more interested in saving face at MORE huge cost to taxpayers.

― UART variations (ex machina), Sunday, 4 February 2007 01:23 (eighteen years ago)

"It's this guy. Aht this guy, and this lady and this talking guy and this talking lady and the guy with the haircut, and apparantly everyone's retarded."
That line alone made those Zorbo greasies awesome to me.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Sunday, 4 February 2007 05:21 (eighteen years ago)

http://pr0n.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/b/b3/Athf911.jpg

― UART variations (ex machina), Sunday, 4 February 2007 08:17 (eighteen years ago)

I wish I was fluent in Italian because the Italian news presenter had a baffled "what the FUCK is wrong with Americans?!" expression on her face.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 4 February 2007 08:38 (eighteen years ago)

Correction： ZEBRO greasies.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Sunday, 4 February 2007 08:57 (eighteen years ago)

Looks like TBS/marketers have to pony up $2 mil for the city of Boston's idiocy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/05/us/05cnd-hoax.html?hp&ex=1170738000&en=b1d9c22ed146dca0&ei=5094&partner=homepage

― Stuh-du-du-du-du-du-du-denka (jingleberries), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

suppose they weren't lite-brites but BOMBS! we'd be all fucked now, wouldn't we!

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 5 February 2007 23:18 (eighteen years ago)

This no longer a country where 'no harm, no foul' applies...apparantly.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:59 (eighteen years ago)

Infiltrating Islamic groups, keeping tabs on mosques, applying heightened scrutiny to Muslims in order to track the extremists among them -- we tend to find such activities distasteful, awkward, even un-American.

But if we intend to win the war the jihadists have declared against us, they are unavoidable.

― grbchv! (skowly), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 02:33 (eighteen years ago)

Heard on the radio that someone in boston was arrested for videotaping the removal of one of them.

he was arrested for videotaping(as in, pointing a camera at) the removal of(as in, it WAS there, being harmless, it was proven to be harmless during this process, then it was over) a light board.
He was arrested for LOOKING AT SOMETHING.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 03:03 (eighteen years ago)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070209/ap_on_re_us/suspicious_devices

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 9 February 2007 20:16 (eighteen years ago)

i really hate how often the prase "this is what's wrong with our country" gets tossed around, but i really feel it applies here.

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Friday, 9 February 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

there's a lot more story to the guy resigning than being reported.

― don weiner (don weiner), Friday, 9 February 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

"The stunt did not translate into much of a boost for the show. The cartoon averaged 386,000 viewers last week among its targeted audience of 18-to-24-year-olds, according to Nielsen Media Research. The previous week, the show averaged a virtually identical 380,000."
WHAT???
They DIDN'T SHOW IT THIS SUNDAY.
it was a Family Guy marathon.
Why do people like to play reporter so much?

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Friday, 9 February 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

there's a lot more story to the guy resigning than being reported.

well tell us, don! spill it!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 9 February 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

SEX SCANDAL?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 9 February 2007 23:19 (eighteen years ago)

barney_humping_wilma.jpeg

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Friday, 9 February 2007 23:21 (eighteen years ago)

What makes me sad about all this is my least favorite thing ever (Adult Swim and it's worst show (That I've seen anyway)) is getting hyped like it's some super...thing. It means I have to see moononites against my will.

― Abbott (Abbott), Friday, 9 February 2007 23:26 (eighteen years ago)

Too bad for you.

I'm offended by the fact that the media is so damned one-sided and doing such a poor job.
90% of the 'news' on this subject is a big game of 'Telephone.'

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Friday, 9 February 2007 23:31 (eighteen years ago)

you're nuts, athf is great. or at least it was.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 9 February 2007 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

It's hit or miss but there a couple episodes--the Ghost of Christmas Past one, and the one where all the villains are on the moon--that made me laugh as hard as I ever have.

― max (maxreax), Friday, 9 February 2007 23:54 (eighteen years ago)

Hand Banana is the bestest episode of anything ever.

― It's a hard world for little things... (papa november), Saturday, 10 February 2007 00:18 (eighteen years ago)

What's the one where David Cross is the angry doll?

CLASSIC

― Edward III (edward iii), Saturday, 10 February 2007 00:20 (eighteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v735/lonsdoggit/handbanana26.jpg

xpost, yeah that one is pretty awesome too.

― It's a hard world for little things... (papa november), Saturday, 10 February 2007 00:21 (eighteen years ago)

the only thing I can say is that Adult Swim is a part of Cartoon Network, and it's tricky to promote adult fare in what amounts to a kid environment.

Let's just say that certain people who may or may not be involved with certain governmental communications agencies might consider the middle finger to be inappropriate given the channel's context.

― don weiner (don weiner), Saturday, 10 February 2007 01:18 (eighteen years ago)

that's no answer! spill the dirt, weiner!

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 10 February 2007 01:36 (eighteen years ago)

xxxpost:

best episode ever, danzig as himself:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b258/wolfgang45df/GlennDanzig-AquaTeenHungerForce.jpg

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Saturday, 10 February 2007 01:53 (eighteen years ago)

Let's just say that certain people who may or may not be involved with certain governmental communications agencies might consider the middle finger to be inappropriate given the channel's context.

And what about the MPAA? This was also meant to advertise a movie right? That would be funny if the real repercussions from this had less to do with homeland security and more to do with appeasing the morons at the mpaa.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Saturday, 10 February 2007 02:06 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, grady--that one! that one fucking rules!

― max (maxreax), Saturday, 10 February 2007 02:44 (eighteen years ago)

didnt he buy the house next door because the sprinkler system solely because it shot blood instead of water? and then he wouldn't hang out with the athf dudes when they wanted to?

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Saturday, 10 February 2007 02:46 (eighteen years ago)

that's no answer! spill the dirt, weiner!

every politician in Mass was looking for a big head to serve on a plate at the Retard Ball. Even that useless fat fuck Teddy the K was making phone calls.

I'll put it to you this way: the guy didn't resign over the non-fake bomb. read my other post above and you can figger it out.

― don weiner (don weiner), Saturday, 10 February 2007 04:41 (eighteen years ago)

At this point I'm more curious as to why yu won't just say it.
Seems like all this beating around the bush is more work for everyone.
To be honest this makes me NOT want to look above.
Bit of a contrary reaction, but so is just NOT telling us.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Saturday, 10 February 2007 05:26 (eighteen years ago)

From the Boston Herald article: “This event caused a lot of pain and suffering in Boston,” Menino said. “This should send a message that guerrilla marketing will not be tolerated here,” he said.

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Sunday, 11 February 2007 06:58 (eighteen years ago)

xpost yeah and the robot is like "that guy is SO weird." plus it makes sense 'cause DANZIG is from NJ like the rest of aqua teen

― max (maxreax), Sunday, 11 February 2007 07:00 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2007/02/best_sign_at_rsa.html

― oink am0n (ex machina), Sunday, 11 February 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

Everyone over 40 somehow thinks the signs did it(People that believe the news, I guess) and everyone under it blames Boston.

I guess they don't care about their futures in politics.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Sunday, 11 February 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://vimeo.com/1765474

― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Friday, 19 September 2008 20:07 (seventeen years ago)

My favourite bit is still Fox blurring out the 3 odd LEDs that are the "middle finger"

― Jarlrmai, Friday, 19 September 2008 23:46 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

tonight ... YOU

― I saw the future, but Chris Christie ate it. (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 16:47 (fourteen years ago)

ten months pass...

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― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:32 (thirteen years ago)

man i was just thinking about this. hard to believe it was 07; seems like something that could only happen in the 02-03 true terror hysteria days.

― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:36 (thirteen years ago)

we're still in those days.

― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:39 (thirteen years ago)

five years pass...

10 years ago today

― Wozniak on Kimye's Baby (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 16:56 (eight years ago)

five years pass...

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— adult swim (@adultswim) January 31, 2022

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 31 January 2022 16:10 (three years ago)

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