Ceci n’est pas une goatse.cx

September 12, 2004 9:02 AM

Ceci n’est pas une goatse.cx (sfw)
posted by madamjujujive (35 comments total)

There's a couple of nerds sitting around and snickering behind their hands, I'm sure.
posted by FunkyHelix at 9:05 AM on September 12, 2004

heh. I love that one of the joke goatse.cx images has been mistaken for a real photo so much that Snopes had to debunk it.

On the serious side, do people really think that Al Queda operatives are going to get into the US by following the paths of migrant workers through the wilds of Baja? Because that doesn't really seem likely to me, and it appears this is an election year ploy to drum up anti-immigration feelings.
posted by mathowie at 9:07 AM on September 12, 2004

heh, that's funny. and nice google ads for this thread
posted by t r a c y at 9:23 AM on September 12, 2004

Good call, good call.
posted by MattD at 9:28 AM on September 12, 2004

I don't get it.
posted by davidmsc at 9:29 AM on September 12, 2004

Semi-clever photos linked from the Snopes article.
posted by Kwantsar at 9:31 AM on September 12, 2004

And it's very Magrite-like too, what with the background clouds.
posted by condour75 at 9:34 AM on September 12, 2004

davidmsc, the cover graphic for this week is reminiscent of goatse.cx.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 9:45 AM on September 12, 2004

time magazine ... yhbt ... hth ... hand ... (snicker)

i wonder what discontent in the art department felt it necessary to do that ...
posted by pyramid termite at 9:52 AM on September 12, 2004

Yeah - definitely a designer/geek laughing his face off (though there's no wedding ring...)
posted by benzo8 at 9:53 AM on September 12, 2004

isnt Time a liberal magazine? in more ways than one, too!
posted by titboy at 9:57 AM on September 12, 2004

David, the french is the title for a celebrated painting by surrealist rene magritte, Ceci n'est pas une pipe, or in English, this is not a pipe.
posted by madamjujujive at 10:00 AM on September 12, 2004

Hahahahahahaha.

That's disgusting.
posted by paladin at 10:02 AM on September 12, 2004

well spotted
posted by quarsan at 10:18 AM on September 12, 2004

George Overuses Al-Queda To Scare Everyone
posted by pokeydonut at 10:43 AM on September 12, 2004

Missing a wedding ring. That would have been the clincher.
posted by machaus at 10:46 AM on September 12, 2004

The Toastmasters logo (SFW) reminds me of goatse.cx. I think I will never see things the same.
posted by riffola at 10:58 AM on September 12, 2004

Bigger Toastmasters logo (SFW).
posted by riffola at 11:01 AM on September 12, 2004

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!

I'm in Toastmaster's, riffola! Thanks very little! Now I will never see that logo the same.

I love the main story image! I know it had to be an inside job...
posted by PigAlien at 11:08 AM on September 12, 2004

Ah. Got it. Although I think that linking the Time cover to the graphic pix of goatse.cx is quite a stretch.

Heh.
posted by davidmsc at 11:29 AM on September 12, 2004

Wow, this is even better than the Newsweek article on Iraq where the text had been subtly altered to give a subliminal image of Tubgirl.
posted by kaibutsu at 11:51 AM on September 12, 2004

Member: Goatsmasters, International.
posted by Hackworth at 12:13 PM on September 12, 2004

THIS JUST IN...

GOATSE.CX WAS DAN RATHER...

NEWLY CREA...I MEAN DISCOVERED MEMO PROVES IT...
posted by HTuttle at 12:42 PM on September 12, 2004

I'm confident that this was merely the work of a, er, cheeky graphic artist!
posted by clevershark at 1:27 PM on September 12, 2004

Actually I find the idea of a goatse tribute site a little disturbing... I'm sure I'm not the only one...
posted by clevershark at 1:29 PM on September 12, 2004

Okay, this does some damage to my image of Time Magazine (which wasn't all that high anyway), but more disturbingly, it also does some damage to my image of madamjujujive for pointing it out (although the Magritte reference was just about the classiest way possible to frame it).
posted by wendell at 1:46 PM on September 12, 2004

Is the idea that illegals are sneaking into America through the back door?

/rimshot
posted by clevershark at 2:11 PM on September 12, 2004

she posted it simultaneously here and on her blog. the girl is fast. loose too.
posted by quonsar at 2:11 PM on September 12, 2004

This was the first, and so far only thing that has made me laugh out loud today. Thank you very much.
posted by i_am_joe's_spleen at 4:10 PM on September 12, 2004

I should have noticed that she had also blogged The Great Voltini, possibly, the Electronic Age Replacement for Goatse(?)
posted by wendell at 4:50 PM on September 12, 2004

heh, wendell, sorry if I have tarnished my *image.*

I blame quonsar - and do you see how he talks about me when my back is turned?
posted by madamjujujive at 5:35 PM on September 12, 2004

This is so going on my wishlist
posted by mathowie at 6:25 PM on September 12, 2004

Good catch, mjjj. But those of you who are going on about the wedding ring - wow, you've really studied the goatse image that closely? I don't know whether to be impressed or terrified.
posted by soyjoy at 6:55 PM on September 12, 2004

Soyjoy, it seems I'm not the only one fascinated by shiny things.

Also, when you see Mr. Goatse's business end by accident, the wedding ring is something to focus on instead of the, uh, other ring.
posted by chicobangs at 11:05 PM on September 12, 2004

Cover story title: "Who left the door open?"
posted by Ogre Lawless at 12:18 PM on September 15, 2004