More dastardly Spongebob revelations!



Full disclosure: I'm a Spongebob fan, and I should mention that I'm very tolerant of the fact that sea sponges are really hermaphrodites. So Squarepants' enemies may wish to stay clear.

Random fact: Spongebob Squarepants is called Spongebob Schwammkopf in Germany. That translates to Spongebob Spongehead, which seems a lot less funny than Squarepants.

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Sissy Willis said…
You appear to have hijacked my #1 spot in the Google and Google Images searches for "spongebob."

This is the second time this has happened to me, the previous one unwitting and corrected. You can read about it here:

http://sisu.typepad.com/sisu/2008/08/weve-been-robbe.html

Please correct the error at once. Thank you very much.
13 November 2008 at 16:51
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