Anyways, in the episode "Super Computer," (season 2 episode 4: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Aqua_Teen_Hunger_Force_episodes#Season_2:_2003) Meatwad discusses one of his favorite games which is called Clamdigger. (Or is it Clam Digger?) For some odd reason after watching it again recently I decided to see if this was, in fact, a real game.
Google searches returned a website called everything2.com with an article claiming that it was a real game; a game that the publisher eventually shelved amidst concerns that it might cause children to kill themselves. However, something felt fishy. A visit to the everything2 home page portrays it as something of a user submitted content page where you can submit whatever you feel like. There's quite a wide range of things on there. The entire thing is pretty much harmless. Except that there's a few websites (about.com and another) that have used it as a source to verify the actual existence of Clamdigger. For some reason this bothered me.
If you'll notice the ASCII image of Tyrone looks a lot like Ash Ketchum with his hat's logo changed to a T.
Maybe it's just me. Or maybe it's the fact that "Adrian Damenschnitzel" seems like a rediculously fake name. And then on top of that, "Damen Schnitzel" translated from German to English turns out to be "ladies shreds". Or that googling "Adrian Damenschnitzel" only returns the everything2 article and two places that use it as a source to verify the existence of the Clamdigger game.
I'm not saying there's a huge conspiracy. I'm not even really sure what I'm saying. I just think it's amusing that even about.com was tricked into believing that this game is actually real.
