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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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?
Is Boston that stupid? Nope, they're even stupider.
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.
"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."
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".
That thing looks like Wilt Chamberlain.
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...
hahahaha... you guys are so bad!
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.
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!
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!"
Maybe Dr. Weird moved his laboratory from the Jersey Shore to Cape Cod.
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.
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but Boston abuses the privilege.
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
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