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Old 24 July 2007, 06:37 PM
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Icon86 CNN "goatse"'-ed during YouTube debate

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http://duggmirror.com/2008_us_electi...E_TV_PICTURES/
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Old 24 July 2007, 07:47 PM
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The images in the linked site don't appear. Bummer. (So to speak.)

I can believe it possible; one disgruntled employee is all it takes. (Disney and the topless pics in the Rescuers being a prime example.)

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Old 24 July 2007, 07:52 PM
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The pictures work, sort of. I'm guessing they are getting high bandwidth, or something, and not always showing. They aren't very good images anyways, if true, they only show a camera shot of the tv screen, and they're small.
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Old 24 July 2007, 08:42 PM
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False, most likely. as per the "article",

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The incident in question came during a question about our nation’s healthcare system. The user who submitted the video was speaking innocuously into the camera when the image of “goatse” was flashed for the briefest moment in 1/24th of a second, ranging just above the framerate treshhold with which television broadcasts.
Italics mine.

Here is Jason Koop's question, which had nothing to do with healthcare.
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Wonkette says hoax, and links to the video itself: http://tinyurl.com/ys7kjf
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Old 25 July 2007, 05:13 AM
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Ok I was searching for a picture of the "mind bleach" someone passed me elsewhere, that guaranteed to scrub "goatse" from your brain, and can you believe this turned up? http://members.aol.com/JesusImages/I...06/trucker.jpg

Ok, mind bleach? Please?
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Old 25 July 2007, 04:40 PM
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Ok I was searching for a picture of the "mind bleach" someone passed me elsewhere, that guaranteed to scrub "goatse" from your brain, and can you believe this turned up? http://members.aol.com/JesusImages/I...06/trucker.jpg

Ok, mind bleach? Please?
Maybe it's just me... Jesus looks a bit like Johnny Van Zant in that drawing. (Or some other member of Lynyrd Skynyrd.)
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Old 26 July 2007, 12:51 AM
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Jesus looks a little psycho in that drawing. Like he's hijacking while on angel dust.
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Old 26 July 2007, 01:09 AM
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That trucker will have Donal Logue with him...always.
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Old 26 July 2007, 02:01 AM
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Ok I was searching for a picture of the "mind bleach" someone passed me elsewhere, that guaranteed to scrub "goatse" from your brain, and can you believe this turned up? http://members.aol.com/JesusImages/I...06/trucker.jpg

Ok, mind bleach? Please?
Is what you're looking for? Unfortunately, it's only 98% effective against goatse.
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Old 27 July 2007, 09:50 AM
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Maybe it's just me... Jesus looks a bit like Johnny Van Zant in that drawing. (Or some other member of Lynyrd Skynyrd.)
Jesus is wearing eyeliner.
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Old 27 July 2007, 08:40 PM
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Jesus looks a little psycho in that drawing. Like he's hijacking while on angel dust.
Glad I wasn't the only one who thought so.
Poor trucker-Jesus hijacked him and is now forcing him to drive out to a deserted field, whre he will be slaughtered into his componant parts, some of which will be manufactured into trinkets that Jesus will carry with him always.
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