The new-look Booble and its surfers were stunned to discover the increasingly popular adult engine was hacked and hijacked by religious rightists Friday morning.
The Booble logo was replaced by a look-alike logo showing two Bible book spines with slim white crosses down the middle, instead of the familiar breast-line "oo." And where Booble normally has its "adult search engine" below, the hijackers replaced that line with "because sex is just wrong."
The rest of the hijacked home page showed a television set image with an old woman speaking, cartoon-balloon style, "Get your hand off that dirty thing mister!!" To its left was a star burst with block lettering saying, "Booble is gone. Say hello and amen to Biible.com."
The hijack was made to appear as though executed by either Fox News anchor-commentator Bill O'Reilly or fans of the outspoken conservative. And along the left-hand side of the replacement page, viewers found buttons marked "Bible Search," "Book Burning," "Impersonals," "Date John Ashcroft," "Chastity Belts," and "Saltpeter Store," an indication that the hijackers were looking for satire as much as sabotage.
And if you believe that any of the foregoing is true, we have some land to sell you—in Brooklyn, for the Dodgers' long-overdue homecoming.
For one thing, moving your cursor over a banner at the bottom of the Biible.com page showing O'Reilly's image and the caption, "Proudly featuring fatuous and bigoted opinions by Bill O'Reilly," will switch to a similar banner showing former Screw publisher Al Goldstein and the caption, "Proudly featuring the outrageous and bigoted Al Goldstein."
"Last year, we did our fake (initial public offering), which really pissed Google off and made them feel like they'd have to settle with [us]," he told AVNOnline.com the night before Booble hatched the fake hijack. "We're hoping that by making fun of the religious right enough, liberals will write about us to keep us in business."
Booble and Google settled quietly last year over Google's ire at Booble parodying the search kings' simple and phenomenally popular search engine home page. The Booble-Biible parody was the brainchild of Booble chief designer Susie.
"She couldn't resist," Booble Bob said. "She went right to town on this project."
After April Fool’s Day, Booble will keep the parody page online, but you'll have to hit a link on the real Booble home page to see it again.
"I think everybody in the industry knows that laughter is the natural companion to sex and porn," Booble Bob said. "But Bill O'Reilly likes to accuse others of spinning, and really, when you're arrogant enough to believe that the world revolves around you, it only looks like people are spinning."
Booble originally planned to use the Rev. Jerry Falwell in the O'Reilly banner, until Falwell was stricken with his recent heart attack. "Therefore, we chose a more opportunistic target," Booble Bob said. "With O'Reilly's penchant for self-serving moralizations, we felt that he'd be ideal fodder for a light-hearted parody."
Booble has already heard from one faithful surfer about the O'Reilly side of the parody. "Nothing can kill your sex drive," said Michael Civins, of Brooklyn, N.Y., "like seeing the pumpkin-shaped face of Bill O'Reilly, man. He's like anti-Viagra. I immediately turned my computer off, washed my eyes with antibacterial soap, and curled up in the fetal position behind my couch, trying to shake that horrific image from my mind. I still haven’t been able to keep down solid food.”
