July 25th, 2005
Display this animation full-screen when they ask you to open your laptop during a security check on the subway.
**Under no circumstances should ANYBODY use the previous animation when they ask you to open your laptop during a security check on the subway, or in any other manner during which the display of the animation could be interpreted as a hostile act. Please defer all legal action to Penn & Teller, who gave me the idea in their 1997 book, “How to Play in Traffic.”
that’s the bomb!
07.27.05 at 8:08 pm
Nice. Real nice. I lost my brother in the London bombings and all you can do is mock.
07.28.05 at 3:34 pm
wow, I’m sorry Jeff. I didn’t think you’d blow up about it.
07.28.05 at 4:53 pm
How can I get this file? I would like to use it for my windows start-up.
10.15.07 at 8:46 am
cannot open this file
10.22.07 at 12:26 pm
I also can’t open it… =(
10.24.07 at 3:48 pm
Eto pisdata :D:D 4ut li ne osralse ot smeha! :D
10.28.07 at 11:29 am
att the site to the trusted zone in IE7, then the animation will display
10.30.07 at 2:07 pm
To download the file :
use “Download embedded”, an additional module in firefox.
(countdown.swf)
11.13.07 at 12:23 pm
Allaaaah akhbaaaar!
11.17.07 at 8:18 am
I asked one of my arabic friends and it doesn’t mean anything!
11.22.07 at 10:04 am
11.22.07 at 3:05 pm
next time i’ll close this site! don’t make fun of arab letters or from our heroes
11.23.07 at 9:34 am
Right, don’t make fun of arab’s letters:)
It hearts the letter’s feelings and insults arab’s ignorance.
11.27.07 at 3:43 am
is it supposed to have sound ?
11.30.07 at 5:47 am
To our Muslim brothers :
please don’t be oversensitive, it’s mean to me you feel concerned and debased.
I think being oversensitive can cause incomprehension.
Please don’t feel insulted, it’s not question of hurting anybody.
I think we can make fun with any alphabets we want, it’s the base of the freedom.
Cyrillic, Hebrew, Sanskrit or any alphabet you want.
They belong to humanity, not to a religion.
To attack humor can be the beginning of dictatorship, I think.
Let’s have the same smiling patience we can have with kids.
It’s what I think, and I’m sincerely sorry if its hurts you. Please receive all my respects.
11.30.07 at 11:11 am
I read that all comments about the download of the file receive bad scorings.
I wanted to precise it’s not piracy contribution: it’s simply the only solution to play the animation without an Internet connection, like in public transport in many cases.
Sorry for the misunderstanding.
11.30.07 at 11:26 am
eudoros, i wanred to score you way up for saying that, but i can only give you one +
12.05.07 at 12:35 pm
i can’t open it! please send me the file!
12.13.07 at 5:38 pm
12.13.07 at 5:45 pm
Tips to make things interesting.
Step one, Calmly, and eeriely open up your Laptop on a plane or Subway (lobbies are safer!)
Step two, sit next to the biggest Prick you can find there, the big suit snobbed nose business types work nicely
Step Three, Whilst sitting next to your oblivious compadre, start up your laptop, and open up this program, or get it ready to go on a clicks notice.
Step four, slowly, say something under your breath, and open the laptop screen for all to see, the timer slowly ticking away, and your buddy next to you either beating his head with his own passport in attempt to escape the coming fireball, or screaming for security and anyone with a bomb defusal kit handy.
Hope you didnt try any of that! remember, bomb threats are not cool kids.
Just go smoke dope or something harmless like that.
xP
12.20.07 at 8:25 pm
To our Arab Brothers,
Please do not be offended by the joke. And if you are, that’s your problem. I got to go……my BBQ Pork Sandwich is getting cold.
01.11.08 at 3:19 pm
this doesnt hurt me, or insult me.. I even lauhgt on it.. but, why u used arabic letters for this kind of joke? when IRA,… n other terorristic organisations, usin this method to terrorise world, n those orgz dont use arabic letters.
4 Dubrro, that BBQ that u eat, that pork, that pig, has eaten human leavings minute aggo.. so.. have a nice mael m8, hope u joing it.
here is one pork BBQ…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCHFqpBggzw
02.20.08 at 11:42 am
actually those letters are’nt random, if arabic readers read it from left to right it says egyptian forces on exchange! doesnt make sense i know, but it says that…..
03.06.08 at 8:18 am
hi..
my englis is bad =)
wanna dl this file but i cant …
firefox dont show me the Download button…
plz help…
can someone send it me per icq ? 230216879
THX
03.13.08 at 10:13 am
Hi guys!
That’s amazing!
At first I was slightly shocked by the file, and what was the funniest thing - I wasn’t able to move for a while to understand what’s going on;)
Thanks
Margo
03.14.08 at 3:38 am
to download the animation right click the link http://www.thecleverest.com/countdown.swf and click “save target as …” then safe it.
greetz
03.16.08 at 7:04 pm
cool…i found this countdown on one other page, it’s really - “hahaha”… i don’t know what to say… greedings from croatia!
03.17.08 at 7:02 am
Really nice.
I’ll use it in the nearest fligth to hamburg))))))
03.20.08 at 3:22 pm
Can’t see anything exept white screen….why???
03.21.08 at 4:22 pm
I also cant open the file, what should I do, could you please send me a link or something to help me open it
Thanks
03.27.08 at 4:06 pm
OMG! I’ve seen this before…
03.29.08 at 2:06 pm
Okay, so I’m not muslim, but I don’t understand why this is offensive. I think it makes more fun of america than the middle east, and our ridiculous paranoid racism towards every person who utters the word Muhammed on a plane. The use of random arabic letters just furthers ridicules america, in that we don’t even know about the culture we’re persecuting.
04.13.08 at 8:44 pm
Cool!Very Good.
04.18.08 at 3:50 pm
hey Mike: did you make this swf? if so, could you send me the *.fla (original file) please?
thnx
my email: elamster@gmail.com
04.22.08 at 10:20 pm
This is racist…. Allah is great!
04.23.08 at 4:04 am
u!!!!! u w8 till the day this happens it will b my last…
05.05.08 at 11:04 am
Thank u my good friend…i shall spare u…
05.05.08 at 11:05 am
es’ carlos’ picaso se verde yar
05.06.08 at 11:40 am
eh esey get me sandwich… vomin’os… comprenday?
05.06.08 at 11:44 am
ok but it will be ur finnal… enjoi ut
05.06.08 at 11:45 am
eh? wut u saY ESEY?
05.06.08 at 11:47 am