# Osama bin Laden and All Your Base **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 20, 2001, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-and-all-your-base/82700 "2001-09-20T00:02:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![evilhanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba8739/32.png) [@evilhanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilhanz)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-and-all-your-base/82700/1 "2001-09-20T00:02:54Z")
Is it just me or are there an astounding number of parallels between Osama bin Laden and Zero Wing? 1. Osama’s organization is known as al Qaeda which translates to **The Base**. _“All **The Base** are Belong to Us”_ 2. The American operation to thwart Osama is called Operation **Infinite Justice**. _“Take off every Zig … for **Infinite Justice** ”_ 3. In AD 2101, War was happening. Well, almost … _War beginning in AD 2001_. 4. Osama is the Arabic word for “Lion”. That means Osama is … _CATS!_ Hmmmm … Conspiracy? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-and-all-your-base/82700/2 "2001-09-20T00:06:35Z")
oh lord. well, hell, I’ve got nothing better to do tonight. What say we try to convince the world of this? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-and-all-your-base/82700/3 "2001-09-20T01:09:16Z")
mmm-HMM… well, rather than discuss this, howsabout we light oily rags on fire and throw them into a cornfield? and then stand in the middle? i guess you can tell… i don’t like AYB. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-and-all-your-base/82700/4 "2001-09-20T02:30:12Z")
Somebody set us up the plane. _oh, man, am I ever going to HELL for that one!_ ---
**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-and-all-your-base/82700/5 "2001-09-20T11:15:23Z")
What! {sideways guy in anguish} ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-and-all-your-base/82700/6 "2001-09-20T11:33:05Z")
Damn you. I had just recently gotten that out of my head, but I’m too tired to flame you. Consider yourself uncomfortably warmed. ---
**Author:** ![Karellen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/779978/32.png) [@Karellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karellen)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-and-all-your-base/82700/7 "2001-09-20T11:41:30Z")
Well, one of the best “fake” Onion headlines from yonder thread was: \*\* Bush to Osama: Al Your Queda Are Belong To U.S.\*\* ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-and-all-your-base/82700/8 "2001-09-20T19:05:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by saepiroth \* > \*\*well, rather than discuss this, howsabout we light oily rags on fire and throw them into a cornfield? and then stand in the middle? > > i guess you can tell… i don’t like AYB. \*\* I admit, after reading the OP I was tempted to turn my [“All Your Dumb Fad”](http://www.digiserve.com/eescape/shirts/Store.phtml) shirt into an Osama bin Laden parody, but decided it would be in bad taste… ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-and-all-your-base/82700/9 "2001-09-20T19:46:50Z")
Oh god, isn’t it mentioned in the bible somewhere that when people get this bored the apocolipse will come? ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-and-all-your-base/82700/10 "2001-09-20T19:53:44Z")
No, we should get Bush to make a video, make millions oc copies and drop em all over Afghanistan just for the possibility that OBL would see one. I think it has a good deal of annoyance power and wer should use it. Just like we did with whatshisname in Panama. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-and-all-your-base/82700/11 "2001-09-20T20:03:53Z")
In AD 2001, war was beginning. Bush: What happen?! Cheney: Somebody set up us the bomb. Powell: We get signal. Bush: What! etc. ---
**Author:** ![atypicalcarl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@atypicalcarl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atypicalcarl)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-and-all-your-base/82700/12 "2001-09-20T22:17:31Z")
For the sake of the theory, why assume it was Osama? Hint: It was called _Another pearl Harbor_ 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![atypicalcarl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@atypicalcarl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atypicalcarl)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-and-all-your-base/82700/13 "2001-09-20T22:19:28Z")
oops! I meant to say, “why assume osama acted alone?” ---
**Author:** ![Kalashnikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@Kalashnikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalashnikov)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-and-all-your-base/82700/14 "2001-09-20T23:55:43Z")
[http://rigel.cyberpass.net/~klash/pix/AYB\_Osama.gif](http://rigel.cyberpass.net/~klash/pix/AYB_Osama.gif) ---
**Author:** ![CheapBastid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8baadc/32.png) [@CheapBastid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheapBastid)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-and-all-your-base/82700/15 "2001-09-21T00:10:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kalashnikov \* > \*\*[http://rigel.cyberpass.net/~klash/pix/AYB\_Osama.gif](http://rigel.cyberpass.net/~klash/pix/AYB_Osama.gif) \*\* It is about time! ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-and-all-your-base/82700/16 "2001-09-21T00:49:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kalashnikov \* > \*\*[http://rigel.cyberpass.net/~klash/pix/AYB\_Osama.gif](http://rigel.cyberpass.net/~klash/pix/AYB_Osama.gif) \*\* I love it! ---
**Author:** ![hampster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/53a042/32.png) [@hampster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hampster)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-and-all-your-base/82700/17 "2001-09-21T00:57:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kalashnikov \* > \*\*[http://rigel.cyberpass.net/~klash/pix/AYB\_Osama.gif](http://rigel.cyberpass.net/~klash/pix/AYB_Osama.gif) \*\* heh. 🙂 Dubya-sama: “Omea o korusu Bin Laden!” ---
**Author:** ![hampster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/53a042/32.png) [@hampster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hampster)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-and-all-your-base/82700/18 "2001-09-21T01:03:40Z")
_ **Gah!** _ Stupid typo! Ah hell, it’s not worth bugging a mod about, yes IK it’s Omae o korusu. hampster no baka ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-and-all-your-base/82700/19 "2001-09-21T01:25:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > **Somebody set us up the plane!!** What you say!! ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-and-all-your-base/82700/20 "2001-09-21T11:21:08Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by evilhanz \* > \*\* > 2. The American operation to thwart Osama is called Operation **Infinite Justice**. “Take off every Zig … for **Infinite Justice** ”_\* Except it’s “for great justice” in the original. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-and-all-your-base/82700.md?page=2)