June 29, 2010

Let's test the sensitivity of our three readers.

First reaction: tragic or funny?

Posted by: Alice H at 09:21 PM | Comments (20) | Add Comment
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Sensitivity?  Isn't that a course in one of those librul arts skools?

Funny.

Oh, and the 1960s called, wanting that car back.

Posted by: Hermit Dave at June 29, 2010 09:45 PM (HSn53)

2 It really depends on who plays them in the movie, doesn't it?

Posted by: LeeAnn at June 29, 2010 09:46 PM (z4aOv)

3 the deaths are tragic. them going down one after the other. that's funny. i don't care who you are.

Posted by: redclay at June 29, 2010 09:50 PM (s011Y)

4

  What I got from reading this story:

 

  Why did this old couple think that their rats were Jewish?

 

(too soon?  It's only been 65 years, maybe I should have given it another decade or so)

Posted by: Russ from Winterset at June 29, 2010 10:14 PM (/MEFr)

5 It would be hilarious if none of the fucking rats died.

Posted by: Sean M. at June 29, 2010 11:13 PM (rLWHv)

6 It's like an old timey cartoon cliche!  I laughed, I am still laughing.  Sure it sucks that they died, but really?  Come on now, do they not have even the horror movie standards to make them pause and think?

Posted by: Elliott at June 29, 2010 11:14 PM (bYTjt)

7 Tragically stupid, like looking down the barrel of a gun to see if it's loaded. If everyone was in the know about this rat killing technique, then it's just plain stupid. There is a Darwin Award of this sort about several people trying to rescue a chicken down a well: http://DarwinAwards.com/darwin/darwin1995-01.html

Posted by: Metryq at June 30, 2010 07:54 AM (vHN1d)

8 The real tragic part is that Government Motors is stealing the design of the car for our next Green Mobile.

Posted by: dfbaskwill at June 30, 2010 08:25 AM (usjNq)

9

If granddaughter was a child = TRAGIC!!

Sometimes, when your grandparents don't come back after investigating toxic fumes they deliberately brought in the house, you gotta let it go, man....

Posted by: Brian at June 30, 2010 10:11 AM (BNlV7)

10 Tragically Funny.

I can't believe no one has said that yet.

Posted by: A. Weasel at June 30, 2010 10:40 AM (C2/T5)

11 I believe it was W.C. Fields who said "If I fall down the stairs and hurt myself, it's a tragedy.  If you fall down a manhole and die, that's comedy."

Posted by: MikeD at June 30, 2010 01:09 PM (FkL60)

12 I went to language school in Russia many years ago and this is freakin' hilarious.

Russians tell Ukrainian jokes like we tell Polish jokes, except they're more profane. I thought this was one of those jokes at first.


Posted by: phat at June 30, 2010 03:13 PM (T2t6l)

13 When I left for college, I had been living in the basement of my parent's home for over 10 years. Living down there with me was Peewee, our parrot. In that time he and I became buds, he would walk/fly into my living area when I was home but other then that, my family pretty much neglected him. By the time I was leaving, Peewee was very old, no one knew for sure, at least 60, was blind in one eye and hardly moved or really did anything. I thought it best to end it for him. My plan? Run a hose taped off to my exhaust pipe through a basement window into the laundry room. After about 20 minutes I went into the house, nearly fainted, expecting to see Peewee feet up in the bottom of his cage. No such luck but the whole damn house was full of car exhaust-probably the reason my sister is still a liberal, but that's another story

Posted by: MM at June 30, 2010 04:46 PM (ELVVE)

14 So instead of Poles or Ukrainians, this decade's jokes will be about MM?

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Posted by: xili123 at July 02, 2010 08:13 AM (GLSrt)

16

Okay - let's try this again.  YOU CANNOT SURVIVE BEING INSIDE AN ENCLOSED SPACE WITH A RUNNING INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE. 

These stories are so fricking tragic, because so many people die for the stupidest of reasons imaginable.  These folks died trying to rid their basement of rats.  These folks died because they didn't want to get cold out in their boat so they ran it with the mooring cover on.  (There was originally a suspicion that the propane heater is what did them in, but it was decided later that an exhaust leak on the engine filled the unventilated cabin with CO and killed them while they were underway.  The boat ran ashore soon after).  I was at the reservoir that weekend.  They shut the boat launch down and I had to leave my boat int he water overnight.  When we found out what had happened, it more or less ruined our weekend.  Poor people.  

So, again.  Even if the exhaust vents outside the space you are in, you will die if you go inside with a running engine.  Don't do it.  You will die, and so will your family.  It is not safe.   

Posted by: Goober at July 02, 2010 03:36 PM (QNRoi)

17 Tragic. An older gentleman, either due to age or lack of education, tried to do something and it led to a tragic moment. Not a Darwinian moment.

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