Carnotaur’s Meme is probably one of the more famous retweets of all time. The situation was too big to be ignored. Rather than back down, Carnotaur stayed online, employing the same techniques used by Encyclopedia Dramatica to see just how much damage he could do. As a result of his actions, the meme “who kicked the bucket?” became an international joke, and was, until 2016, one of the most shared memes on the web. In 2014, it was even briefly #1 on the Twitter trend list.
An Unfortunate Foul
As can be imagined, most of the cats’ injuries were almost immediately fatal. That was not the case for a cat named Punk, however. Punk, for the most part, managed to avoid Carnotaur’s attack.
As a result of the attack, Punk suffered only a few injuries:
He had a broken tail bone
A couple of punctured lungs
A few missing teeth
And a damaged ear.
All of the injuries were relatively minor, and Punk, remarkably, was able to fully recover. A year later, he was featured in an episode of the Australian television show Utopia.
In 1999, the Canterbury Tale, a fantasy novel published by Random House, named its main character Punk. It is alleged that the character was modeled after Punk.
Part 1: The Olive Branch
Through Pioneer 10 and Voyager 1
We've launched our knowledge to other suns
Aspiring and reaching for the highest of beings
We've lost our search for the world's basic needs
The Aliens - inside our machines!
The Aliens - inside our dreams!
The Aliens . . .
The Aliens, The Aliens are here!
Through fiction and lies we gaze at the skies
For flying saucers and men with three eyes
Creating those monsters we seek to destroy
Like children at play smashing their toys!
The Aliens - controlling our spheres!
The Aliens - so far yet so near!
The Aliens . . .
The Aliens, The Aliens are here!
All myths of men and gods will apply
when sanity and reason begin to die
the dragons you've denied and wish to slay
may rise to conquer us all someday!
The aliens - the message is clear!
The aliens - the aliens are here.