I Never Trusted That Rat Bastard
Posted on June 17, 2008 Posted by John Scalzi 42 Comments
Incontrovertible proof that Chuck E. Cheese in league with Al Qaeda:
Yes, that’s right, he’s performing a terrorist fist jab. But it’s not just that. He’s training our youth how to perform terrorist fist jabs! Look at that adorable moppet whom he is leading down the path of iniquity! Why, that tousle-haired child is performing that terrorist fist jab as if there’s nothing wrong with it at all. That’s how it starts. And what makes it worse: It’s from an ad on Nickelodeon this morning. Thousands of children were indoctrinated in terrorist hand signals in between episodes of Spongebob! This shall not stand.
Here’s a computer-enhanced version of the terrorist fist jab, so you can gaze up on it in all its incipient evil. Can you not see the menace that drips from the rodent’s curled fingers? Why does the rat wear fingerless gloves? All the better to fiddle with the bomb fixin’s, I say.
Clearly something must be done. First, I call for a ban on all future Chuck E. Cheese commercials, pending a review by a trusted committee of experts who will comb the spots for terrorist lingo, code and body movements (I suggest ED Hill, John Yoo and Antonin Scalia). Second, I suggest all Chuck E. Cheese locations be closed until such time as the FBI and Homeland Security can comb through them to look for clues for Bin Laden’s whereabouts (ever notice how much his “cave” looks like a Chuck E. Cheese animatronic stage?). Third, I suggest rendition with prejudice of Chuck E. Cheese himself. He’s animated, you know. That means he’s not a citizen. Heck, he’s not even real. He can’t possibly have habeas corpus rights. Scribeas corpus rights, possibly. But there ain’t nothing in the constitution about that.
Let’s get on it. Before the rat bastard indoctrinates yet another child. I know when Athena watched the commercial today, she said “their fists didn’t touch! They’re doing it wrong.” When even my own precious child knows the terrorist hand signs, we know we’ve let this go too far, for too long.
OMG! I left the kids at home today, and _they_ were watching SpongeBob. I’ve got to get home!
Man, my two-year-old offered up a fist jab to his grandfather the other day, and he doesn’t even watch Spongebob (he’s an Elmo man). Al-Queda is recruiting in daycare now! Home school your children! It’s the only way to keep them safe from unwholesome terroristic thoughts and actions!
The terrorists have infiltrated themselves much deeper than Mr. Cheese.
Jon Hansen – You cracked me up with the “he’s an Elmo man” line. Thanks for that.
looool! this just reminded me of jeff vandermeer’s chuck e cheese story!!!
Came here from Twitter to see the Latin joke (yes, I’m a geek). Although I think it’s funnier and easier to get the way you wrote it, technically it should be scribes corpus. You see, scribo is first conjugation, not second, and therefore has -em, -es, -et in the subjunctive, not -eam, -eas, -eat.
And if anyone wants to add adjectives to the phrase, let me hasten to mention that corpus is neuter.
Lapsed Latin teacher powers…deactivate.
LMAO, and I just fist jab with a child the other day. Someone lock me up for my own good!
I’m sorry, but I’m having a little trouble believing the REAL John Scalzi would believe this! There’s only one conclusion I can come to after reading this: a certain “news” television station infiltrated the Scalzi compound this morning and attached one of their Puppet Master slugs to his neck! NOOOOOOO!!!
Of course, it could also just be vintage Scalzi sarcasm. Which is great, you know. It’s just that I can also see something like this ending up as an actual story on said news station (which shall remain nameless out of my fear they may track me down and accuse me of being a terrorist because I wore an orange shirt to work today).
I missed something. Did someone take a terrorist potshot at Obama for doing that with his wife when he got the nom?
And y’all, lock me up right now, because I know the correct term for the “fist jab”…it’s called giving dap. I am totally a terrorist.
I believe it was Fox News that called Obama fist-bumping his wife (at her prompting) as a “terrorist fist jab.” I saw it on The Daily Show. My brain died a little when I saw it.
I agree that Chuck E. Cheese should be renditioned and all, but not because of the “terrorist” fist jab. He’s just freaking creepy.
So glad my nieces and nephews are now too old to have birthday parties at that rat bastard’s “restaurants.” *shudder* I may have flashbacks for the rest of my life.
Julia: Did someone take a terrorist potshot at Obama for doing that with his wife when he got the nom?
Oh yes. Yes, they have. On Fox News, of all places!
Why am I not surprised.
Al Qaeda’s roots go deep, though. I’ve been giving dap since I was a child in the late 1980s. The proper protocol is as follows: If someone does something you appreciate, or shares an experience you know all too well, or a similar feeling of goodwill and camraderie, raise up your fist as seen in the Chuck E. Cheese commercial, and say “Gimme dap!” or simply “Dap!” The person should smile and give you dap with an encouraging phrase such as “Yeeeaaaah” or “Right on” or “Straight”.
And then you apparently go bomb something? I missed that part.
The first time I took my daughter to to C.E.C., I taught her to yell “Pizza Rat! Pizza Rat!” My wife’s family was not particularly amused . . . .
If you’re going to engage in this depraved activity, you should at the very least do it when it’s appropriate.
Let’s form a rat stomping militia. I’m off to Wal-Mart to buy a shotgun…err…terrorist eraser.
@Julia: *of course* they did. Do y’think Mighty Whitey on the Other Side of the Aisle is gonna put up with the gangstas movin’ in on their ‘hood? And they can’t *say* that without Sharpton pulling the “R” word out of the hat… so they play the Universal Stink Card: HE’S A TARR’IST!
I gotcher terrorism right here: It’s called Fair Elections. Strikes terror in the heart of fundamentalist pinheads worldwide.
(OTOH: Chuck-E-Cheeze? Oughta be banned anyway. The pizza SUCKS…. not as bad as Domino’s, but still. They’re teaching our children to like sucky pizza! This cannot stand!
Of course, if you’re in Trader Joe’s neighborhood, you can go get Real Dough and make it yourself… but who the heck cooks these days? *sigh*
Well, it’s common knowledge that their “pizzas” are nothing more than sophisticated biological weapons. True, they’re slow acting, but the cumulative effects, once they reach the tipping point, are not pretty.
In Soviet Russia SpongeBob is watching YOU!
(sorry, couldn’t help it)
Not to mention the fact that the animatronic animals are robo death soldiers in disguise. Where do you think the terminators will eventually come from?
Crave pizza. Real pizza. Chicago stuffed pizza (and not that Uno’s Chicago deep dish stuff), a la Edwardo’s, Giordano’s, etc. Dare we call them “freedom pies?” I think so. Thank goodness Grand Rapids MI has Joe Chicago’s Pizza — we had one last week.
The Rat Bastard Must Die. It’s the only decent democratic thing to do in a Right Thinking economy.
Dr. Phil
It’s just preparation for their later graduation to California Pizza Kitchen where they’re taught that you can put fruit on a pizza, like the Mango Chicken Tandoori ‘pizza’. Talk about undermining the American Way of Life!
Chuck E. Cheese is obviously a terrorist, because his godawful pizza cannot be described as anything other than a crime against humanity.
Amen to that, jm.
Re Dr. Phil At #20: Pizza place 3 blocks from my house used to have REAL pizza. Not a chain, totally indie. Named Possum Holler. Too bad it was not just a name. Damn health department & regulated meat laws. But at least they never dressed an employee as a possum.
Boy this takes me back to my teenage years when I worked at Chuck E Cheese and had to dress up in that ridiculous costume to entertain the kiddies.
I still can’t believe I did that for minimum wage!
Spend a few minutes in that sweltering costume and you’ll be ready to kill someone. Thats probably where those nasty terrorist got their best ideas.
I suggest all Chuck E. Cheese locations be closed until such time as the FBI and Homeland Security can comb through them to look for clues for Bin Laden’s whereabouts
Er, we really need a reason? Can’t we just close them for, oh, the sake of humanity? For crimes against pizza?
Sadly it’s just a matter of time before Fox news anchor begin to think that everything is related to Terrosim. In envision a glorious future in which brushing one’s teeth, hugging our children, eating cereal and mowing the lawn are all attributed to terorrism.
God I hate blogs.
Even worse, soon everything will be related to Tarotism!
It’s in the cards.
Don’t read them, then.
Am I missing something? When did fist-bumps become terrorist?
Ari, Fox News will teach you TEH TROOOF!
Also, people with beards can be terrists. Don’t trust them.
*notices reflection*
CHRIST!!!!!!!
That, sir, was FUNNY! I recently discovered and subscribed because of the “Baby Mama” post, and your blog doesn’t disappoint.
Ari & Julia,
The “terrorist fist jab” thing seems to have originated with either Cal Thomas or a commenter on a column of his at Human Events, reading, apparently, thusly:
Slate originally said it was Thomas and then said it was a commenter, but the original remark seems to have disappeared (responses in the comment section remain), so it’s tough to see who there originally said it.
Fox News talking head E.D. Hill seems to have picked up on that. Media Matters summarizes her moment of infamy this way:
She lost her show out of it but remains with the network in some capacity.
I have doomed my sons to a life in caves and camps. We do a pair of vertical bumps, a horizontal bump, and then a high-five. I suppose that I should have sent them straight to Guantanamo myself after I taught them:
It’s a shame. Sad. I used to like C.E.C. I use to go all the time. I couldn’t wait until my nieces or nephews had a b-day, hell I’d take em just for the hell of it. Now after all this time I find out I was supporting Terrorist. I don’t know what to do. Chuck damn you for fooling me DAMN YOU and I thought you were cool.
I SAY BAN C.E.C. anyone with me (holds fist straight out)
I’ve been laughing right along with everyone else but then had a rather sobering thought.
Fox News thinks we’re gullible enough to believe this.
No that’s not it.
There actually are people gullible enough to believe Fox News. That’s the one that just depresses the crap out of me.
I keep hoping for something better.
On the other hand, the last time I had to go to CEC’s the damn skeeball machines were all broken and I say
SEND THE SAND RAT TO PRISON.
Steve, I much appreciate the full lowdown with linkage. My god, it’s even sadder than I thought it was! I was at the theatre tonight for rehearsal and gave everyone terrorist fist jabs while telling them what it was…we were all terrorists tonight! And when theatre gets in on the terrorism…humanity is doomed. Seriously, you guys, do you really want another A Little Night Music? (Although since that’s the show we’re doing right now…)
Kind-of off topic, but… that’s supposed to be a rat?
Huh. No, this is a rat. Rats have long pointy noses. And whiskers. And their ears emerge from the top of their heads, not the sides (unless they’re dumbo rats, in which case they don’t stick up at all).
If that’s supposed to be a rat, whoever designed it was too scared of people’s rat phobias to actually make it look like one.
“Clearly SOMETHING Must Be Done.”
I strongly urge the Department of Homeland Security to add the following to their ‘internal border security checkpoint’ protocol.
After asking “Are you a US citizen?” they should then ask
“Have you been to a Chuck E Cheese today?”
Now Obama volunteers are discriminating against muslims? http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11168.html
I guess they were trying to avoid a picture that could be used on Fox, but there is really no excuse for any campaign to treat Americans this way.