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    A group of students at a famed U.S. university created a website that involved something cute and cuddly being subjected to an Asian technique normally applied to certain types of flora. What is this horrifying/hilarious hoax, which drew the wrath of various activist groups and was even investigated by the FBI?

    Question #80642. Asked by lanfranco. (May 18 07 4:12 PM)


    crotalus77

    		Could it be Bonsai kittens? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonsai_Kitten

    May 18 07, 5:03 PM
    lanfranco

    		It could be, crotalus, and indeed it is! Created by the ever-imaginative students at MIT (though originally using the address of the Art History and Archaeology Department at Columbia).

    A silver mace to you! And here's the Bonsai Kitten website:


    http://www.shorty.com/bonsaikitten/gray.html

    May 18 07, 5:36 PM

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