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Urgent and key discussion: let it commence.

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Creepy but stripey... I like that hes a saboteur. He seems a bit retarded.

― jeskam, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Mayor McCheese lives!

http://209.197.121.190/ephem/photos/full/SCAN_mayor_mccheese.jpg

― N., Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Hamburglar nabbed on Intellectual property theft charges

― N., Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Is it a new group? Or are we talking about the man who creeps into our Happy Meals while we're asleep?

― PJ Miller, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

It's true about the retarded saboteur aspect.

Alan T / P Baran to thread?

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

N's link proves GRIMACE existence!!

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.straightdope.com/art/1999/990827.gif

vs.http://www.stevienixed.com/mark.jpg

oh no! FITE!! oh NO!!

― N., Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

New group? pfff (This is the Pinefox we're talkiing about)

― Graham, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Hamburglar I get

Mayor McCheese - though somewhat bizarre - I also get.

But what the hell is that Grimace thing???

― C J, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Grimace explanation here (with curiously similar question)

― N., Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

And Anthony complains that the intellectual content of this forum has been eroded?

― Matt, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

And the intellectual property STOLEN.

― Graham, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

The Gosh Guys: "What the Fuck is Grimace?"

― Kerry S., Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

This isn't true, but you'd be amazed at how many folks believe that it is, and it HAS affected the cost of the basses.

― Colin Meeder, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

One of my college friends told me this story once about calling up a McDonald's 1-800 line to get the scoop on what Grimace was. The representative who took the call (probably a high school kid on his summer job) could only muster: "Uh...I dunno...Grimace is a fat, purple fuck!"

― Joe, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

When I said 'new group' I meant 'new Pinefox side project'. Sorry for not making that clearer earlier.

I believe Hamburglar has a couple of diminutive accomplices. I will go and sit in the kiddies section tomorrow to make sure.

― PJ Miller, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic thread!

If any of you couldn't be arsed to click onto, as I believe the computer buffs say, N.'s link to 'Hamburglar nabbed on Intellectual property theft charges' I reproduce the following:

"We do not believe that the ordinary reasonable person, let alone a child, viewing these works will even notice that Pufnstuf is wearing a cummerbund while Mayor McCheese is wearing a diplomat's sash," the appeals court wrote.

― Tim Bateman, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I never ate a hamburger until I was twelve.

I was talking to someone about the hamburglar just recently. mcdonald's advertisers don't utilise him enough no more.

― RJG, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

McDonalds has dumped the hamburglar, the fry kids, grimace, and mayor mccheese like yesterday's garbage. It's super unfair. Ronald pops up once in a while, but he's scary and not in a big foam costume, so therefore sucks.

― Mandee, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

The original Grimace was actually the only truly threatening figure in McDonaldland and apparently was all scary and shit with like eight arms and got to be called "The Evil Grimace" - but look at him now! His evil grimace reduced to a goofy duh-huh grin and his eight arms are merely futile flipper stubs. Poor old Grimace.

― Kim, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

>>> "so therefore sucks".

I love the redundancy.

Grimstitch = Grimace relative?

― the pinefox, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

There was a girl in college who was known as Grimace. It wasn't very nice.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I prefer Mr. Wimpy.

― youn, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Wasn't there also a character for the Big Mac (that's "Le Big Mac" in French)? He was dressed as a cop, and bigger than Mayor McCheese... Pop Culture Analogy:
Rumble: Laserbeak: Mayor McCheese
Frenzy: Buzzsaw: ?Big Mac Guy

― Joe, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

A-HA! It was "Officer Big Mac". Go to:

http://rintintin.colorado.edu/~grayd/McCheese.html

(3rd photo down)

― Joe, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Mr Wimpy - the hip Beefeater. I've just spotted that huge satellite dish behind Mayor McMuffin. Have they put one of those electronic tagging devices on Hamburglar?

― PJ Miller, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Nope. No relation at all pinefox. Just a happy co-inky dink.

I did however, once write a short story called "The Boy in Mayor McCheese" that was about a kid that was getting slightly too old to be playing in his local McDonald's Playland, yet was foolish enough to continue to do so despite that. One day he just barely squeezed himself through to get inside the big circular Mayor McCheese head in the centre of the Playland, this was the kind with a slide and bars all around it's sides so the children could look out, and as you can well imagine, the boy couldn't get out quite so easily as he got in. He became trapped inside Mayor McCheese. The rest of the story was eerily not unlike "Bubble Boy", as he grew up inside the head, had many adventures, and fell in love. I always pictured the giant Mayor McCheese head silhouetted on a sunset beach, the boy and his girl holding hands through the bars. A real tear-jerker. Easily my best story ever. Well that and the one about the Sequin Mines on planet BG- 79. But I'll save that for another day.

― Kim, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

For some reason I think Nelly could make a really good Hamburglar song.

― bnw, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I have never seen The Hamburglar in a McDonalds advert but on seeing him now he deeply deeply upsets me.

― Graham, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

The Fry Guys and Birdie, apparently. Courtesy of our firends over at Sinister Central. I bet Birdie was responsible for the mayonnaise.

― PJ Miller, Friday, 28 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Were there no characters represnting Chicken McNuggets?

― MarkH, Friday, 28 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

oh there were http://thorndon.co.nz/thorndon/mcnugget- buddies.jpg

― chaki, Friday, 28 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Looks like Boris Becker's been at it again, perhaps INSIDE MAYOR McCHEESE this time!

― PJ Miller, Friday, 28 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

!!!!! ?????

― the pinefox, Friday, 28 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

The two OBVIOUS things which have gone unsaid:

1) 'Robble, robble' - connotes 'rob'??

2) How Mark S kickstarted this whole discussion the other night.

― the pinefox, Friday, 28 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

ok well the things *i* wd like discussed are

i. macdonalds anthropomorphism => cannibalism
ii. he is a burglar = we endorse theft

― mark s, Friday, 28 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Can you think of a better pun on hamburger, sinXor?

― Graham, Friday, 28 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.salon.com/07/departments/booger.gif

― mark s, Friday, 28 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

That's still sorta cannibalism.

― bnw, Friday, 28 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

The fact that Mr Wimpy is a BEEFEATER cracks me up every time. And it's so delightfully British.

How about a picture of Mr Wimpy?

― PJ Miller, Friday, 28 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.stairwaytohell.com/games/o/Ocean-MrWimpy.jpg

― Graham, Friday, 28 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

The end of an era?

Janey, five, said: "I don't think he is funny at all, I don't like him. I think he should go away."

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 9 September 2002 08:59 (twenty-two years ago)

The shit kept on hitting the fan

More dancing on his grave

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 9 September 2002 09:06 (twenty-two years ago)

By capturing our very heritage, McDonald's has achieved a striking revenge over Bové.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 9 September 2002 09:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I wonder what N is researching for work today.

― RickyT (RickyT), Monday, 9 September 2002 09:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Not this.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 9 September 2002 09:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooh, ooh, is this a game? I say he's researching the links between Polly Toynbee and the Russian Mafia and their counterfeit Jaffa Cake smuggling ring, and I'm not prepared to be proved wrong.

― Graham (graham), Monday, 9 September 2002 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually I'm researching sod all.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 9 September 2002 09:56 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2002411022,00.jpg

http://www.papalazarou.com/put_up_poster2.jpg

do you see?

andy
first attempt at graphics... joe, it was easy. 8)

― koogs, Monday, 9 September 2002 10:02 (twenty-two years ago)

curse the sun and their fancy hyperlinkage...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2002411022,00.jpg

andy

― koogs, Monday, 9 September 2002 10:03 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2002411022,00.jpg

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 9 September 2002 10:05 (twenty-two years ago)

i always thought it was "roggle roggle"!

i suppose "robble" makes more sense but,like all such things, is all the worse for it.

― bob zemko (bob), Monday, 9 September 2002 10:21 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

It's back!

― the bellefox, Monday, 28 June 2004 15:20 (twenty years ago)

ii. he is a burglar = we endorse theft

-- mark s (mar...), June 28th, 2002.

― the bluefox, Monday, 28 June 2004 15:20 (twenty years ago)

http://www.kingfishphoto.com/ftp.jpg

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Monday, 28 June 2004 19:39 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/may/14/hamburg.bundesligafootball

― the pinefox, Thursday, 15 May 2008 07:42 (seventeen years ago)

believe Hamburglar has a couple of diminutive accomplices. I will go and sit in the kiddies section tomorrow to make sure.
-- PJ Miller, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 Bookmark Link

Classic thread!
If any of you couldn't be arsed to click onto, as I believe the computer buffs say, N.'s link to 'Hamburglar nabbed on Intellectual property theft charges' I reproduce the following:

I never ate a hamburger until I was twelve.
I was talking to someone about the hamburglar just recently. mcdonald's advertisers don't utilise him enough no more.
-- RJG, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 Bookmark Link

― the pinefox, Thursday, 15 May 2008 07:44 (seventeen years ago)

I too never ate a hamburger until I was 12. I went to McDonalds, ate a hamburger and watched ET for the first time, all on the same day.

Things are never that exciting these days.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 15 May 2008 08:25 (seventeen years ago)

-- Kim, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (5 years ago) Link

I thought Evil Grimace only had 4 arms, for stealing shakes:

http://sixuntilme.com/blog-mt2/blog_images/2007October/evil_grimace.jpg

― RabiesAngentleman, Thursday, 15 May 2008 08:27 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/images/24/mcdonalds-grimace.jpg

― RabiesAngentleman, Thursday, 15 May 2008 08:28 (seventeen years ago)

Mayor McCheese visible in background

― the pinefox, Thursday, 15 May 2008 09:02 (seventeen years ago)

Is Grimace a gherkin?

― the next grozart, Thursday, 15 May 2008 09:45 (seventeen years ago)

no he's a milkshake innit!

― the next grozart, Thursday, 15 May 2008 10:02 (seventeen years ago)

Pickles are green and don't steal shakes (xpost).

― RabiesAngentleman, Thursday, 15 May 2008 10:03 (seventeen years ago)

Sweet, the Mr Wimpy game posted above: that games co. really does take me back, and I have an idea I *really liked* that particular game.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 15 May 2008 10:04 (seventeen years ago)

I think it was a Burgertime rip-off, that was a great game yes.

― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 15 May 2008 10:06 (seventeen years ago)

Hm ... Burger Time ... yes, that rings a bell too. Odd how some of the most basic games were so fun (if I am remembering aright). Chuckie Egg?

― the pinefox, Thursday, 15 May 2008 10:12 (seventeen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/sexymollusk/ronaldunderthehood.jpg

― latebloomer, Thursday, 15 May 2008 10:13 (seventeen years ago)

Chuckie Egg - Best Version

― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 15 May 2008 10:15 (seventeen years ago)

Everyone thinks it's this guy:
http://cache.idolator.com/assets/resources/2008/04/hamburglar.jpg

when it's really this guy:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1079/1317130199_e6bd8c6e52.jpg
(from here)

― Deric W. Haircare, Thursday, 15 May 2008 11:24 (seventeen years ago)

second one is much more threatening!

― the pinefox, Thursday, 15 May 2008 11:44 (seventeen years ago)

Right? Those hamburgers are fucking scared.

― Deric W. Haircare, Thursday, 15 May 2008 12:03 (seventeen years ago)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1137/1384646982_6ebbe2dcb2.jpg?v=0

they're almost like south park characters

― RabiesAngentleman, Thursday, 15 May 2008 12:05 (seventeen years ago)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1204/1381482210_469cd16270.jpg

FUCKING PEDO

― RabiesAngentleman, Thursday, 15 May 2008 12:07 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://www.reddit.com/info/6mnkk/comments/

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 00:41 (seventeen years ago)

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