August 18, 2004

• That's is a completely ridiculous request and without any legal merit. For your protection ... we will be controlling information, that's not a new one but it is surprising to see it here.
• Um, did you just link to their website to make this post? YOU ARE A TERRORIST! I'm calling Athenscroft.
• So we launch a massive linking campaign, right now?
• That's a very naughty suggestion, tracicle, and you should be ashamed of yourself. Actually, I've had a better idea than writing to them asking for permission to link. Write to them apologising profusely for linking without permission, explain that you've been doing some soul-searching, and asking what the appropriate punishment and restitution for such an act might be...
• If we could embed images, I would link to them using....dumdumdum! The ATHENS 2004 Emblem! Maybe this is enough inspiration to actually make that webpage. Though, considering that forbidding this kind of thing is begging for it to happen, who will lay money on this all being a ploy to up the number of links to that crass spectacle?
• jb, I like that drumming-up-traffic-for-the-crass spectacle-theory!You know, it's just the kind of thing crass spectacle organisers would do. Oh, all right. Lest anybody accuse me of being a grumpy-boots: Noble pinnacle of human acheivement
• Citibank! Cokius! Macdonius!
• Feh. Maybe I misread, but I didn't see anything about punishment. What do they do in Greece?
• Performance Enhancing Drugs! Bribery scandals! Shotputting is the dullest sport on the face of the planet!
• Oh, and I like how "Athens 2004" is trademarked. Have the Olympic hosts always done that? And the bit about "In the true spirit of the games" has me torn between irritation and glee.
• The IOC are such a bucket o' cocks.
• I can just see it now: a department of clerks who watch the referers [sic] of all HTTP requests coming into athens2004.com; who check the originating domain against the approved list (being those linkers who sent letters of request); if there is no match, the clerk fills out a form and sends it to the IT department, who will program the system to serve cease-and-desist messages to anyone coming into the site with that unauthorized referer. Of course, the computers could do it all for them automatically, but I doubt an organization with policies like this would be that sophisticated. The cost of the Olympics just increased another half million.
• Apparently, they're afraid that someone just might link to their site using the words Britney Spears Nude! or something. It would truly be a shame and a tragedy if someone were to do such a thing, and whoever would do so should be ashamed of themselves.
• d'oh! I'll get the hang of HREFs at some point. crazy model sex party!
• Also, I feel I must add... President Saparmurat Niyazov - or Turkmenbashi, as he likes to be known - has just banned linking to the Athens2004.com website. I'm sure beeswacky can surely come up with some fine referrer-log material...
• Maybe they aren't stupid. It's pretty obvious the what would happen by having this stupid policy: links out of spite. Then page views go up, and the guys in IT can show the numbers to the bosses "look how awesome we are!" But just in case -- Helicopter Fucking at the Olympics!!!
• Damn. I wish that I was smart enough to figure out how to create a link to the 2004 Athens Olympics. Sadly, I am not wise in the ways of the web. What's that? I did WHAT? WOW! Hey, look everyone -- I actually created a link! Gosh, I could do this all day!
• Hey guys, I was wondering where I might find a link to the official Athens2004 website? I heard they're a bunch of asshats drunk on the spirits of cockpunch.
• For the wave to reach one's bottom, one would need to eject a hefty pellet at tremendous velocity.
• My favourite is crass spectacle. I vote we googlebomb crass spectacle -> athens2004. Then again, maybe I'll go have some (freshly baked peanutbutter) cookies instead.
• I second crass spectacle
• Crass spectacle? sounds good!
• whois athens2004sucks.com No match found for 'athens2004sucks.com' Hey, any takers?
• I have been requested by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company to contact you for assistance in resolving a matter. The Nigerian National Petroleum Company has recently concluded a large number of contracts for oil exploration in the sub-Sahara region. The contracts have immediately produced moneys equalling US$40,000,000. The Nigerian National Petroleum Company is desirous of oil exploration in other parts of the world, however, because of certain regulations of the Nigerian Government, it is unable to move these funds to another region. You assistance is requested as a non-Nigerian citizen to assist the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, and also the Central Bank of Nigeria, in moving these funds out of Nigeria. If the funds can be transferred to your name, in your United States account, then you can forward the funds as directed by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company. In exchange for your accomodating services, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company would agree to allow you to retain 10%, or US$4 million of this amount.
• They're acting like a bunch of tards.
• Pepsi. Halliburton. Goatse. Corruption. Monkeyfilter. Fleshbot. Special Olympics. Dickhead Cheney. Cunts.
• I forgot Burger King.
• Yikes, Argh, I'm torn between wanting to laugh at that (which I actually did) or shaking my finger at you. And can I just say, flashboy is my new hero!!!
• ....explain that you've been doing some soul-searching, and asking what the appropriate punishment and restitution for such an act might be... Well, I for one am more than willing to submit to being forced as a "Full body rub-down with oil" girl in their little Olympic (fuckfest) Village, if I must.
• I'd never call the Athens 2004 Olympics a crass spectacle.
• *Falling off the chair, stomach muscles all cramped up from suppressed laughter* ... Oh yeah, and poo! *flings it*
• For the wave to reach one's bottom, one would need to eject a hefty pellet at tremendous velocity. I should not laugh that hard at work.
• This is hilarious! Of course, to turn the whole thing on its head: Athens 2004. I think that's the right link anyway. Assuming it is, it would be NSFW...
• I just thought a link to that spass craptacle might be in order.
• It's craptacular! Okay, stopping now and backing away from the keyboard...
• Anyone need car insurance?
• Turkmenbashi?
• Hey, look. MonkeyFilter: Always one step ahead
• Crass Spectacle or Free Viagra or Free MP3s, DIVx, and MPGs? The good news of course, is that I just saved a lot of money on my car insurance by switching to Geico.
• BBF: I should not laugh that hard at work. I got one! *does happy dance*
• I for one welcome our new Olympic overlords
• Whoops. Where are my manners? Crass Spectacle! Rhythmic Gymnastics is not a sport!
• And neither is Road walking.
• Increase your penis size! (For women only, obviously.)
• Decrease your penis size!
• Puppies!
• Hot sluts want your enormous wang!
• didja know: Bridge (the card game) and Life Saving are both recognised Olympic sports, though not part of the crass spectacle to which we all unreservedly and unauthorisedly refer, and Tug of War once was, but is no longer? Ah, the golden age of Olympics, not the money-grubbing, dope-taking, motorcycle-crash-faking, market shilling, waste of public funds we so gallantly celebrate now. [the Brits won the last Gold in that one, by the way.] thank you, flashboy, for giving me a tiny significant fashion with which to continue my tiny, insignifcant anti-Olympic tirades
• Grass receptacle
• glass tentacle
• Class Ventricle
• Fergle. Blark. Shleng.
• My wisdom so antiquates known knowledge, that a psychiatrist examining my behavior, eccentric by his academic single corner knowledge, knows no course other than to judge me schizoprenic. In today's society of greed, men of word illusion are elected to lead and wise men are condemned. You must establish a Chair of Wisdom to empower Wise Men over the stupid intelligentsia, or perish. ************************************************* All knowledge of the human word animal, is insignificant, when his fictitious word world is compared to Nature's own Dynamic & Harmonic Time Cube's Creation Principle. Oh, and See Underage Shaved Asian Bisexual Horse-Loving Cock-Guzzling Sluts Get What They Deserve!!!"
• In Soviet Russia, International Olympic Committee links you!
• all your dope are belong to us
• This thread has been tested positive for the banned substance nandrolone
• Hey, Costas, tell me more about the Russian sprinter's bittersweet struggle with feline leukemia!
• steroids | sheep fucking | gay oil wrestling | dick cheney eats babies | discount office supplies | female impersonators | mcdonalds: creating billions and billions of lardasses worldwide | damn you all to hell | the goatse.cx it's ok to like | quonsar disqualified in 400m crapshoot | wrinkled ballsack | steroids | basketball: the gold medal the US thought it could just always have for free | trojan condoms keep atheletes from making the world a healthier place | greece sucks anyway | athens 2004 ate my balls | fuckmonkey | creatin is not a banned substance, it is? | see hot chicks do stuff your wife never would! | the russian team needs a bikini wax | china: removing our olympic team from cold storage every four years since 1968 | you're soaking in it | howard cosell: "just look at the little monkey run!" we miss your racist commentary, old buddy | winter sports are better anyway | i remember watching water polo in 1980, and cosell said the following (prompting my mom to turn the channel): "just look at the blood, sta-reaming from his nostril!" ok. i'm done. next!
• Bow before King Frogs, you blouse-wearing poodle walkers.
• Aint bowing - short blouse, not wearing cute underwear. Not sure I trust the poodle either.
• Montreal man doesn't link to ATHENS 2004 but to online casino. Charged with 5 months prison time.
• I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you.
• Come see the girls of Barely Legal 2004!
• (I'll admit that I'm really addicted. Viva the crass spectacle!)
• Here's another site that requires "express written permission" to link to it: Huntingdon Life Sciences (via Cage of Monkeys). Check the small print at the bottom. Oh, and NZ just won gold and silver at the crass spectacular. Yay!
• All forms of "linking" to this web site (or parts thereof) are strictly forbidden without the express written permission of Huntingdon Life Sciences Limited. Is "linking" different to linking?
• Interesting... If you type in crass spectacle in Google and press I Feel Lucky!, you get this thread.
• But no hits for "crass spectacle" and www.athens2004.com - do you think Google might be under pressure from the IOC to block attempted google bombs? (Because there must be a million diferent ones by now).
• from the Guardian -- the backlash hits the Real Media, with credit to the Blue. After all our fine work here, too.
• Well, at least the blue's thread links to ours.
• Actually, the original post doesn't (I don't think it came from here) - only wendell's comment does. I was googling "crass spectacle" only to find that mefi was often being given credit. (I also found an article from 2000 that describe the then Olympics so, so maybe that should have the credit : )
• Stynxno's page is currently the #2 website result for "crass spectacle". That'll teach him! The rest of you have been watching this crass spectacle on NBC, though, eh? That's spectacular!
• Olympics links now rule a Google search for crass spectacle. Most, I think, are credited to MoFi. Congrats to jb for coming up with the phrase... ;-)
• Spectacular Googlebomb misfirings, number 27346: Googling for crass spectacle now gives, as its third result... my Blogger profile. Athens 2004 still nowehere to be seen. Oy.
• You are a crass spectacle, though, flashboy...
• The crass spectacle is at the bottom of page 1
• More Olympic douchebaggery.
• They're going about it the wrong way. It's simple trademark theft, all they need to do is get a lawyer to write the owner a letter.
• The restaurant owner claims to have had the sign (and its Olympic rings) for over fifteen years. He's obviously not trying to capitalize on the winter games in Vancouver/Whistler. It would seem fair to have exceptions for existing established businesses, but I don't think he stands a chance once it goes to court.