Nov 05 2009
Wot no Bonfire Night doodle? Google’s 5th November snub has web users fuming
Google have sensationally declared the Cookie Monster’s 40th birthday as more important than Bonfire Night by choosing to use Sesame Street as the subject of their 5th November doodle (pictured above).
Shocked internet users have taken to Twitter to moan about the injustice in their droves, whilst others have resorted to the drastic measure of directly emailing the California-based company to complain about the issue. Yet more have sent hate mail to the Cookie Monster himself:
I h8 Cookie Monster. Hes a blue piece of bumfluff. i want to stick a Catherine wheel up his bum and watch him spin round like a windmill. — Anonymous Twitter user
We shall give them the benefit of the doubt, however, as the expected doodle could well appear on Saturday. As everyone knows, a lot of 5th November parties occur on the nearest weekend to Bonfire Night, so they could still redeem themselves, but our money is on them not even knowing what Guy Fawkes Night is. They don’t celebrate it in America, remember.
In the absence of our dear departed friend Welephant, heed the warnings of Rob Brydon this Bonfire Weekend and stay safe.
I don’t like bonfire night anymore. I’m too old to stand outside watching 10 minutes of fireworks that have cost the council £50,000 or something
Yeah, these days I can’t watch firework displays without thinking ‘Gordon Bennett, they paid all that money just for THAT’, unless they’re really massive ones like the one on the Thames on New Year’s Day.