Comments on: Bush/Cheney Poster Creator

Bush/Cheney Poster Creator

plemeljr — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:58:05 -0800

Bush/Cheney Poster Creator
Best use of web resources to reach the masses, or easiest.culture-jam.ever? You be the judge.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:00:28 -0800

I can't make it work. "Sorry, there was a problem with the page you requested. Please try one of the pages below. Systems administrators have been notified. "

By: plemeljr

plemeljr — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:02:07 -0800

Well, crap. I just tried it again, and there is something wrong. Damn. I lay myself down for the eventual stoning, via here or MeTa.

By: grabbingsand

grabbingsand — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:03:55 -0800

It's not your fault that the Bush-Cheney machine is incompetent and unable to produce anything worthwhile.

By: machaus

machaus — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:10:45 -0800

I just tried: "Don't change horsemen mid-apocalypse." and it didn't work.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:11:09 -0800

It only works in Windows/IE with popups unblocked. It pops a PDF open, which you have to take a screenshot of. Here's one I just whipped up: Many more here.

By: brownpau

brownpau — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:15:57 -0800

Heh, I saw this on Wonkette and was on my way to post it here. Apparently it blocks "Hitler", but they say you can get around that by using the freeform "Town" field. ;) Still more here.

By: urlnotfound

urlnotfound — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:19:58 -0800

I don't get what I am requesting. I tried to make "ruining the economy" and got "People who don't learn from their mistakes". Fun.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:21:15 -0800

I might actually put this one up in my car:

By: Tin Man

Tin Man — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:21:26 -0800

Interesting that "Natural Resources" is listed under "Coalition Groups." And when I looked at "Firefighters" and "First Responders" really quickly, they morphed into "Fistfighters."

By: Peter H

Peter H — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:23:10 -0800

Am i right that he's sucking the life-force out of this poor crippled orphan!!?

By: Witty

Witty — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:24:55 -0800

Settle down Matt.

By: agregoli

agregoli — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:25:41 -0800

Yeah, it would be great if it worked. Don't know what the problem is.

By: wsg

wsg — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:27:27 -0800

Keep it up, Matt.

By: plemeljr

plemeljr — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:27:42 -0800

For some reason, using this url works better than the one I posted. Adding ?type=color to the string seems to work.

By: Bag Man

Bag Man — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:28:12 -0800

I can't seem to get the thing to work either...Man, there's got be some out of work Deanieacs (sp.?) that can help Bush out with his Internet problems.

By: Peter H

Peter H — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:31:18 -0800

CAPTION: "Do I need to shove? Off to war, kids! There's money to be made!"

By: Ufez Jones

Ufez Jones — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:31:22 -0800

Willies are for HOO HAS!!!! Heh,

By: mr_roboto

mr_roboto — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:35:37 -0800

I found a weird bug using Mozilla on XP: It accepted my text ("We are not men, we are Devo!"), but the poster it generated contained someone else's message ("Drag queens for..."). Some messy web design in the Bush-Cheney camp.

By: Peter H

Peter H — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:35:38 -0800

"Leading America into Decline! Lemmings! Follow!"

By: agregoli

agregoli — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:37:30 -0800

Yeah, I got it to work, but instead of accepting text, it outputs random things. What's the deal? I think I'll stick with Photoshop.

By: Peter H

Peter H — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:37:52 -0800

"Ma'am I'm sorry your husband and you lost your life-savings from Enron. I have good news though, your son just died in Iraq."

By: Peter H

Peter H — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:39:44 -0800

"Excuse me while I readjust with my left hand, here. My right hand will show you what the left hand is doing."

By: fenriq

fenriq — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:40:41 -0800

Peter H, those are excellent! Made me laugh out loud.

By: LoopSouth

LoopSouth — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:42:16 -0800

"Sorry about Iraq, but we just saved a bunch of money on our car insurance."

By: Peter H

Peter H — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:45:08 -0800

thanks fenriq!, join in too! it's fun everyone can have. how bout "Thank you for going off to war. I don't care if you survive. But if you do survive and manage to return, I promise you'll be unemployed! And your family will be in debt!"

By: Peter H

Peter H — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:47:16 -0800

"Proudly wearing the WHITE RETARD HELMET since 2000"

By: Peter H

Peter H — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:52:04 -0800

Oh darn, they're all out If you wanna give your own caption, Here's the urls for img src'ing for here or (if you don't have a metafilter account) for posting on your own weblog: http://www.georgewbush.com/images/headers/1.jpg and just replace the number at the end, up to http://www.georgewbush.com/images/headers/6.jpg

By: FullFrontalNerdity

FullFrontalNerdity — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:52:11 -0800

Has anyone bothered to try different encoding schemes for words that have been rejected? The site looks like its broken (again). I'd like to try the hex/UTF-8 encoded versions of various words to see if they make it through...

By: terrapin

terrapin — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:53:55 -0800

As has usually been the case this election cycle, this sign-creating tool was started by the Dean web site. As early as last summer one could create their own Dean signage through an app like this.

By: Quartermass

Quartermass — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:55:10 -0800

Peter H comes into his own in this thread. Damn funny. (oh, except for the super offensive "Retard Helmet" comment"), but that sucking the life force out of that lady is gold.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:58:04 -0800

Peter H, you're missing the point entirely. It's not making fun of the headers, it's the automated sign maker that is the subject of this post.

By: terrapin

terrapin — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:58:11 -0800

The Dean blog even mentions the imitation = flattery angle ;)

By: digaman

digaman — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:00:11 -0800

"Matrix, schmatrix. It's a good ol' Texas steak and it's delicious."

By: Ufez Jones

Ufez Jones — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:15:51 -0800

Peter H, you're missing the point entirely. It's not making fun of the headers, it's the automated sign maker that is the subject of this post. Not to mention, all that hotlinking is costing us all untold fortunes in tax dollars!

By: lowlife

lowlife — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:19:03 -0800

... It accepted my text ("We are not men, we are Devo!"), but the poster it generated contained someone else's message ("Drag queens for...").... Sounds like they're using Microsoft's .Net CMS... I worked on the recently redone Canadian website for a "Seriously Huge International Food Manufacturer With Lots Of Well Known Brands," where we had the same problem. By default, the server caches the form content that gets submitted, so that everyone can share in your data. It's funny when it's drag queens; not so when it's some mother's personal information being broadcast to the world (at least if you're one of the programmers on the project, wondering why the hell the server is doing what it's doing).

By: Peter H

Peter H — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:27:20 -0800

mathowie - yes, sorry for the de-rail. but the headers have -both- the logo generated by the poster generator -and- photos. how could i resist? that and, like cr.davis, i couldn't get the sign maker to work and had to go grass-roots.

By: Peter H

Peter H — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:29:55 -0800

apologies for the retard helmet joke. please replace understandably offensive word with 'dipshit'

By: Witty

Witty — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:40:14 -0800

I gotta hand it to you people... you take the anti-Bush, Bush-bashing shenanigans to the extreme... all day, every day, and never seem to tire of it. It's impressive, yet sad and a little frightening in a way. [This is good]

By: Peter H

Peter H — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:54:25 -0800

oop, plemeljr's link works! on OSX at least. ha, this is fun! and a vector file of this logo is very priceless! (apologizes again for distracting the thread and leaves to go make posters ..giggling) Hey, we all know you can open a PDF file and edit it (text, addtl art, etc) anyway you want in Illustrator, right? So if a phrase gets turned down, just get one that works to get the PDF then edit however you see fit in illustrator. You can rasterize a pdf and alter it in photoshop, too, if you don't have illustrator that is. Just open the file directly through Photoshop and have fun. I found just typing in the word 'ham' gets you the file.

By: jackspace

jackspace — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:03:40 -0800

I couldn't get it to say: BUSH/ENRON '04 It said "invalid character." INDEED!

By: psmealey

psmealey — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:08:22 -0800

I couldn't get this thing to work... from the hamfisted. I was going use: "We'll get the economy good next time". Slightly less hamfisted than "Eat the Poor in 2004".

By: XQUZYPHYR

XQUZYPHYR — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:08:49 -0800

By: Witty

Witty — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:11:48 -0800

How is retard an offensive word if we're not calling "retarded people" retarded anymore? Doesn't that free up the word retard for open use?

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:19:16 -0800

BTW, Wonkette is keeping track of those cases where you submit one thing and it spits out another... some have a zen-like profundity. Others, not so much.

By: Holden

Holden — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:22:45 -0800

Finally, we get revenge for those Sore/Loserman signs in 2000.

By: me3dia

me3dia — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:54:46 -0800

Totally fuxored now, in IE or Firefox. I really wanted to make one that said No More Years!

By: theora55

theora55 — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:02:40 -0800

Give me cvil liberties or give me... Bush-Cheney 04 ==== Looks like these words are banned: Nazis, fascists, pedophiles, evil, bastards, dumb, chimp, Enron. and these are allowed: Halliburton, liars, fraud, dopey, fanatics, frog march. Shall we start a pool on how long it takes them to shut it down?

By: JakeEXTREME

JakeEXTREME — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:17:26 -0800

Well, since they only allow 44 characters, and apparently no ?'s... .. ..

By: normy

normy — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:43:24 -0800

By: cbrody

cbrody — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:50:43 -0800

I couldn't resist:

By: mcsweetie

mcsweetie — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:46:41 -0800

I have to say, I don't hate the guy. I don't even know him. I just think that he's a shitty president.

By: Ignatius J. Reilly

Ignatius J. Reilly — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 18:35:58 -0800

How is retard an offensive word if we're not calling "retarded people" retarded anymore? Because getting offended works oddly for some people: it's like a point-based game in which the person who has been offended the most can be determined to have proven his or her sensibilities to be beyond reproach. And like other popular pastimes with no real-world value, they seem to play simply "for the love of the game."

By: Ignatius J. Reilly

Ignatius J. Reilly — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 18:37:05 -0800

Oops. I've violated my pledge never to address witty. Sorry, man, I didn't pay attention to the name at the end.

By: Witty

Witty — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 20:03:13 -0800

It's ok. I enjoyed it... fantastic answer at that.

By: elwoodwiles

elwoodwiles — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 00:08:46 -0800

All I can say is great thread people, I'll be setting up a paypal donation page to replace my keyboard, get the necessary surgeries after passing three bottles of beer through my nasal passages, and to recover cost of said beer.

By: jpburns

jpburns — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 05:48:05 -0800

More words not allowed: Moron, liar, stupidity...

By: jon_kill

jon_kill — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:49:59 -0800

"é" is an invalid character. He really hates the French, eh?

By: punishinglemur

punishinglemur — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:16:45 -0800

No more custom messages. State or coalition group posters only. *sigh*... 'twas fun while it lasted.