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Subject: 
Something slightly lighter?
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Date: 
Thu, 11 Oct 2001 04:30:17 GMT
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Evil Bert?(1)

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,36218,00.html

Quoting:

"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."

I just want to know, are they talking about the sites putting up the pics or
are they planning to sue bin Laden supporters for copyright violations? I
smell class action lawsuit! Sic the lawyers on him.

1 - can't be. The guy liked penguins WAY before Linux was cool.

++Lar



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  Re: Something slightly lighter?
 
(...) That's...wow. I'm not sure if that's funny or not. I mean, the entire situation is bizarre, but I find it absolutely uproarious that in this exultation of an avowed enemy of the American way of life, one of *the* cultural icons of Western (...) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Something slightly lighter?
 
I must admit, I was laughing out loud at this! Whew! I hope nobody picks on Dino Ignacio, the guy who initially made the doctored photo of Bin Ladin with Bert when he was running his "Evil Bert" website years ago. I still think it was a funny idea (...) (23 years ago, 12-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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