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Boston: The Dumbest City in America
Bob Parks: Black & Right ^ | 1/31/07 | Bob Parks

Posted on 01/31/2007 8:04:39 PM PST by bocopar

It was bad enough when cartoons caused rioting in Muslim countries. As a native Bostonian, I am embarrassed at the level of hysteria caused by cartoons in my home city.

In an effort to promote a late night Cartoon Network show called “Aqua Teen Hunger Force”, Turner Broadcasting hired some guerilla marketers to attach magnetic boxes with the lighted image of one of the characters on several locations around the city of Boston.

Now I don’t know much about making terror bombs, but city officials were notified and later considered the boxes dangerous. Have any of us ever heard of a bomb with the lighted image of a “mooninite” on it? Was there any reason that cable news stations spent the whole afternoon on a non-story?

Is Boston that stupid?

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boston; bostonbombthreat; bostonboobs; cartoonmooninite; graffiti; happytimeharry; littering; meatwadmoneysee; nationalsecurity; postnobills; rockulikeacop; trespassing
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To: Straight Vermonter
Well, they do root for the Red Sox after all...

So when are they going to change the name to the Blue Sox? Or maybe "Red" is actually reflective of their commie roots. How about Yellow Sox?

81 posted on 01/31/2007 11:45:50 PM PST by Solitar ("My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them." -- Barry Goldwater)
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To: bocopar; All
Meet one of the suspects...27 yr old Peter Berdovsky of Arlington (at 12:30 am WBZ radio reported the arrest of another suspect, 28 yr old Sean Stephens of Charlestown)

82 posted on 02/01/2007 12:42:05 AM PST by raccoonradio
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To: bocopar

Is Boston that stupid? Nope, they're even stupider.


83 posted on 02/01/2007 12:45:11 AM PST by Princip. Conservative
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To: bocopar

No surprise from the State that keeps reelecting Kerry The Traitor, and Kennedy the Murderer who never worked a job in his life for Senators. That speaks volumes about the people in Massachusetts.


84 posted on 02/01/2007 12:52:20 AM PST by Sprite518
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To: bocopar

"We did not make the Boston stupid."

"Yeah, they did that on their own."

"But we exploited it."

"We're the exploiters, man!"

"The exploiters who exploit the exploitable."

85 posted on 02/01/2007 1:19:11 AM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel-Robert Frost)
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To: bocopar
Yes, Boston is that stupid!

I hate everything Boston.

I have never met anyone from Boston who wasn't a complete, pompous a**hole!

Oh, I need to add -- "with all due respect to Boston Freepers".

86 posted on 02/01/2007 1:35:37 AM PST by Rum Tum Tugger
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To: Larry Lucido

That thing looks like Wilt Chamberlain.


87 posted on 02/01/2007 2:11:24 AM PST by Route797
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To: bocopar
I'll concede that "Meatwad" looks innocent enough, but it could all be just a ploy...

What insideous terrorist plots are being brought to fruition inside his evil genuis mind?

As far as the Boston scare: dumb, dumb dumb. People are on the edge just waiting for the next hit and everyone with half a brain is looking for something out of the norm that might indicate a problem. Random electronic components strewn across a city based on an obscure cartoon that 99% of the populace have no idea of? It's like throwing firecrackers at cows. Of course there going to get scared.

Well, on the bright side of marketing, now everyone knows about this cartoon.

The best part of it all is that Ted Turner's network is going to get his @ss handed to him for the expenses incured. It's a beautiful day...

88 posted on 02/01/2007 2:24:08 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Straight Vermonter

hahahaha... you guys are so bad!


89 posted on 02/01/2007 2:31:04 AM PST by SunnyUsa (No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.)
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To: dr_lew
Your concept is right, but the numbers matter.

If the probability is 99.99999% non bomb and 0.00001% bomb, you very quickly run your response forces (and probably your ecoonomy) into the ground by "evacuating" (in both senses of the word) for every situation that is perceived as a threat by any group of nervous nellies.

90 posted on 02/01/2007 3:48:18 AM PST by Doghouse Riley (No war unless it's total war for total victory.)
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To: bocopar

You're the Mayor of a large city, and you get a chance to hit Ted Turner for $1 Billion? Yes you're stupid if you don't!


91 posted on 02/01/2007 4:08:12 AM PST by Waco
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To: Waco
You're the Mayor of a large city, and you get a chance to hit Ted Turner for $1 Billion? Yes you're stupid if you don't!

'Rat fight!!!!

Pass the popcorn!

92 posted on 02/01/2007 4:12:36 AM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: bocopar
Good thing it didn't look like the Teletubby with a TV antenna on its head. Barney Frank would have had to throw himself on the detonation.
93 posted on 02/01/2007 4:15:37 AM PST by Bernard (Immigration should be rare, safe and legal.)
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To: bocopar
Suddenly there's were a lot of liberal Bostonians who had to admit that the threat of terrorism isn't overblown. Even if they won't admit it to anyone but themselves.
94 posted on 02/01/2007 5:22:16 AM PST by atomicpossum (Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
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95 posted on 02/01/2007 5:45:38 AM PST by syriacus (30 months in Korea =30,000 US deaths (Truman sent them to fight a "police action" vs "bandits"))
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To: lesser_satan
Is Boston the dumbest city in America?

I have questioned this on a few occasions. But in their defense, probably the majority of people seeing the Mooninite boxes probably weren't regular Adult Swim viewers.

Interesting, though, that they're so strongly "blue state" up their and dismissive of the WOT -- but they're the first to jump like scalded cats at the merest thought of a threat.

I still remember the first few days after 911, when all of my liberal friends would come to me, the one out conservative, and confide in me: "I'm so glad Gore didn't win..."

It's like they know that, deep down, they're p*ssies, but they just don't want to acknowledge their wrongness on so many levels.

Just an observation. Supposedly, one of my best friends, a comic book shop manager, is on some news clips discussing the reaction. Haven't seen it yet, but he says he's been on some of the news stations.

But as Carl would say, "AWESOME! FRIGGIN! AWESOME!"

96 posted on 02/01/2007 7:02:02 AM PST by RepoGirl ("Tom, I'm getting dead from you, but I'm not getting Un-dead..." -- Frasier Crane)
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To: Clemenza

Maybe Dr. Weird moved his laboratory from the Jersey Shore to Cape Cod.


97 posted on 02/01/2007 7:03:37 AM PST by AuH2ORepublican (http://auh2orepublican.blogspot.com/)
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To: ishabibble
I can only think of one word. Cruel.

Really? I can think of a whole lot of words. Ignorant. Stupid. Mindless. Simple...oh wait, you're talking about the person who put the signs up? I thought you were talking about the police and the idiot that actually called this in to the authorities. Oh well in that case. Brilliant. Cutting edge. Marketing genius. He has created a buzz for the movie in groups that had probably never heard of this cartoon.

98 posted on 02/01/2007 7:10:14 AM PST by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
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To: bocopar

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but Boston abuses the privilege.


99 posted on 02/01/2007 7:18:52 AM PST by mort56
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To: bocopar
Well, Ted Turner has it half-right.

He entered his show in the absolutely-proper market for his brainless, juvenile, late-night "adult cartoon show" beamed specifically at moronic insomniac Democrats, retarded stay-at-home, sleep-in welfare recipients and sophomoric Hahvahd professorial intellectuals.

Leni

100 posted on 02/01/2007 7:32:15 AM PST by MinuteGal (The Left takes power only through deception.)
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