BlueLep: Blah. 13,144 10
03/13/2007 01:30 PM

It didn't.

Jaggy - the angel on top of the tree 11,895 13
03/13/2007 01:37 PM

Yes it did, sometime today I think.

SquidBoy 19,912 12
03/13/2007 02:42 PM

<action>punches Jeff in the junk.</action>
I knew it.

Ms. I'm giving you up for Lent, Trixxie 65,026 15
03/13/2007 02:44 PM

So everybody who guessed that was what it was supposed to say - Wins !!!

Phuc 237,919 21
03/13/2007 02:52 PM

I'm waiting for the haters to go to the stadium and check if that wasn't actually filmed there.

Stone Cold Bikini 62,262 18
03/13/2007 03:13 PM

I don't see how everyone didn't guess. It's John. The options were Zug.com, "Buy Prank the Monkey", or "I am John Hargrave, master of all that is dot-comedy!! Shudder and know my greatness!!!" and frankly, zug.com was the only one close enough to the right length.

Pumpkin Noggin-Looking for Erin to go Braless 56,642 8
03/13/2007 03:17 PM

But wait...what about the theory of a SECOND Message....over on the grassy knoll?

Phuc 237,919 21
03/13/2007 03:18 PM

over on the grassy knoll?

I hope John doesn't kick my ass for giving it away. It said, "Bears suck."

TheFoye 55,700 16
03/13/2007 03:21 PM

Best. Prank. EVAR.

Pumpkin Noggin-Looking for Erin to go Braless 56,642 8
03/13/2007 03:21 PM

I hope John doesn't kick my ass for giving it away. It said, "Bears suck."

SWEET! (says the Colts fan)

Ms. I'm giving you up for Lent, Trixxie 65,026 15
03/13/2007 03:27 PM

Maybe it's subliminal:

Stone Cold Bikini 62,262 18
03/13/2007 03:41 PM

I hope John doesn't kick my ass for giving it away. It said, "Bears suck."

I don't think it's John you have to worry about; if you're insulting bears, Declan might start taking things personally.

TableTopJane 173,958 15
03/13/2007 04:14 PM

AL!!!


Can you go over to John's and make sure he's alive. I'm concerned that the video is on some other website and we had to hear it from the kiwi. If John was alive and breathing I'm sure we would have heard it from him.

Hydrant-monkey 9,888 23
03/13/2007 05:06 PM

I bet it says zug.com...

I could be wrong.

Zaphod Beeblebrox 31,599 13
03/13/2007 06:10 PM

Still, Jeff doesn't say anything about it not going as planned, and based on that video you'd get the impression that the "ZUG.COM" message was actually clear as day to the millions of people who watched the super bowl.

Blaming the lack of news coverage on anything other than the fact that the message was illegible is bullShakespeare.

Phuc 237,919 21
03/13/2007 06:36 PM

Jeez, Frostnut, you are as colossally stupid as you are douchebaggy.

Zaphod Beeblebrox 31,599 13
03/13/2007 06:41 PM

I may be douchebaggy, but I'm not stupid. The fact still remains that he is trying to blame the lack of news coverage on something other than the fact it didn't go as planned. The message was unreadable. Frostin' deal with it.

Zaphod Beeblebrox 31,599 13
03/13/2007 06:42 PM

And as far as I can tell, this video is just another attempt to get some recognition and media attention for his prank.

TableTopJane 173,958 15
03/13/2007 07:14 PM

Oh, Beebs honey. I don't think you're allowed to talk about someone else doing something for attention.

TableTopJane 173,958 15
03/13/2007 07:14 PM

Trust me, I know about attention whores. We can smell our own.

Daves not here. 52,827 16
03/13/2007 07:17 PM

Funny pbit of trivia, after a week in a steamer trunk the uniqueness of a person's smell is amplified, but after 6 weeks they all smell exactly the same.

Fratberry 283,018 53
03/13/2007 07:26 PM

Beebs, if all you can do when you are here is be an unfunny jackhole AND complain about the website, its people and its creator then maybe you just Frost right off.

Right Off 56,642 8
03/13/2007 07:31 PM

maybe you just cuddle right off.

NO THANKYOU! I don't want him either!

Zaphod Beeblebrox 31,599 13
03/13/2007 07:35 PM

People have been bitching about the prank in one way or another for weeks, so go find the other superbowl threads, and make sure you get offended by each and every negative comment about the prank, Jeff, or the website in general (which I don't think I said a damn thing about). I'm both entitled to my opinion and the option of posting it here, so Frost off.

It's no secret that you have some kind of problem with me, Frat, and I don't give a Shakespeare. Now send me an email to confirm you want to play fantasy baseball, mkay?

Zaphod Beeblebrox 31,599 13
03/13/2007 07:36 PM

I'm supposed to be shopping for a new motorcycle today, and instead I do this. I've got to get my priorities straight.

Christopher L. 6 6
03/13/2007 07:36 PM

Also, SeanQ was the first to solve the puzzle.

300 Spartans and a Taco 61,976 36
03/13/2007 07:38 PM

Hammerhead
2/15/2007 4:09 am [J2Gd03_2xU6CNJ3ekQd0VQ]

I still say it looks like "zug.com". C'mon, John, that pic is really blurry. Your camera man couldn't do any better? Tell us what it says.

No, he wasn't.

Pumpkin Noggin-Looking for Erin to go Braless 56,642 8
03/13/2007 07:58 PM

pretty much general consensus was HH had it from the get go. And you'll be hard pressed to find someone who says different (except your "friend" there)

Fratberry 283,018 53
03/13/2007 08:12 PM

It's no secret that you have some kind of problem with me, Frat, and I don't give a Shakespeare.

1: I'm sure I'm in the minority on that.
2: If you don't give a Shakespeare, stop responding.
3: No.

Christopher L. 6 6
03/13/2007 08:50 PM

Okay, but technically that's not "solving the puzzle" that's "guessing what the blurry lights probably say", which is something probably everyone guessed at one point or another.

Pumpkin Noggin-taglineless for now. 56,642 8
03/13/2007 08:51 PM

But whining constantly about how much time you spent working out the "puzzle" and constantly posting about it....well then....that makes you "SUPER" in our books.


Now SHUT THE Frost UP already.

syncope 49,019 14
03/13/2007 08:54 PM

I think the secret message is "Christopher L. and SeanQ are having teh buttsex."

Christopher L. 6 6
03/13/2007 09:01 PM

I'm not whining about how much time we spent on the puzzle. I think Sean spent maybe 10 minutes, tops, figuring it out.

I'm just saying Sean cracked it before anyone else did and should be credited in the video, especially since John's press release specifically references "internet sleuths" on a "month-long treasure hunt" to "reveal the message", as opposed to "a forum member guessed it on Feb 15th."

You did read John's press release, right? Of course you did.

Professor Nutbutter 181,311 35
03/13/2007 09:01 PM

I think SeanQ should get credit for solving it. Pretty much any of us morons guessed it was Zug.com at one point or another. But SeanQ was the first to offer actual proof.

The funniest part about SeanQ's posts though was him bitching about this being a lame prank and John being a whore and the prank not working yet SeanQ never even posted here before this prank, he spent a lot of time obsessing about it, and in the end he, more than anyone else, proved that although the message may not have been clear, the prank did what it was supposed to do, bring people to Zug who otherwise wouldn't be coming here.

Crackalicious 68,758 11
03/13/2007 09:04 PM

You did read John's press release, right? Of course you did.


Well, I was going to, but I had this thing I had to do, and well, you know how it is...

SeanQ 179 6
03/13/2007 09:21 PM

I think SeanQ should get credit for solving it. Pretty much any of us morons guessed it was Zug.com at one point or another. But SeanQ was the first to offer actual proof.

The funniest part about SeanQ's posts though was him bitching about this being a lame prank and John being a whore and the prank not working yet SeanQ never even posted here before this prank, he spent a lot of time obsessing about it, and in the end he, more than anyone else, proved that although the message may not have been clear, the prank did what it was supposed to do, bring people to Zug who otherwise wouldn't be coming here.

Okay, you and Zaphod better stop with this rational posting and making sense and stuff, this place has a reputation to uphold.

For the record, it was the review of the book on spinnwebe.com that brought me back here, it just happened to coincide with the first post about the super prank. I actually used to read this site alot wayyyyyyyy back when, I even won the "Name the Middle Manager" contest. I even used a couple of those prank faxes John made.

And trust me, if I had any inkling how wrapped up I'd get in this lame-ass stunt, I never would have clicked.

Professor Nutbutter 181,311 35
03/13/2007 09:25 PM

Let me apologize for my fellow Gabbers. Rational posts and making of the sense and whatnot doesn't go over to well here.

Fratberry 283,018 53
03/13/2007 09:26 PM

YOU'LL GET NO CREDIT AND YOU'LL LIKE IT!!!

Smokatronic 2,388 9
03/13/2007 09:30 PM

If you don't like it here, then go display your drivel elsewhere. I'm sure we'll all miss you, pickle-buffer.

Pumpkin Noggin-taglineless for now. 56,642 8
03/13/2007 09:30 PM

YOU'LL GET NO CREDIT AND YOU'LL LIKE IT!!!

You reading my mail again, Frat? That's EXACTLY what the letter from Amex Black said.

SquidBoy 19,912 12
03/14/2007 11:15 AM

Okay, but technically that's not "solving the puzzle" that's "guessing what the blurry lights probably say", which is something probably everyone guessed at one point or another.

Probably because in the beginning, there wasn't a puzzle. It was an afterthought to put a new spin on publicizing the prank, instead of just admitting that it equated to an amazing setup for a joke with a bad punchline.

Hell, I could put together a puzzle, using PTM as the reference, that results in a scrambled photoshop revelation that the Pope fellates hermaphroditic goats, but it doesn't mean that the book was intended to be the "key" to solving the big mystery.

Ms. I'm giving you up for Lent, Trixxie 65,026 15
03/14/2007 02:35 PM

Mon Dieux, don't anybody realize the larger implications here.


Jeff is trying to use the internet to TAKE OVER THE WORLD!

SquidBoy 19,912 12
03/14/2007 02:41 PM

But Jeff is neither Pinky nor The Brain, so I think he's Shakespeare outta luck.

Whistler P. McManus 186,122 44
03/14/2007 02:44 PM

I don't visit a lot of other comedy web sites, but I do read a lot of newspapers and news magazines and visit a lot of news sites.

In any case, the only places I have seen any media attention given to the Super Bowl prank are here and at places that have been linked to from here.

So, I'll give John an A for effort, and an A+ for the flair with which he put forth that effort, but I still bet there won't be a second printing of Prank the Monkey.