Humor in Times of War? 74
miradu asks: "With the nation in such a serious mood in such dire times, what are we supposed to do for humor? April Fool's Day is just around the corner, but that's only for one day! Sites like The Onion will always be around to poke fun at things, but what are some other smaller sites that are writing some good satire/parodies of the current situations? I need to laugh!"
FOX NEWS. (Score:3, Funny)
GOD BLESS FOX NEWS!
Seriously, though... if you're in the right frame of mind, it can be damn funny.
nah. No way they could be serious!
Re:FOX NEWS. (Score:2)
- The United Nations-- remember them?
- A group of Iraqis attacked Coalition forces today by driving a bus into the side of an armored vehicle on purpose. So the gunner opened up on them with the vehicle's 25 mm machine gun... on purpose.
Yes, I watch Fox News. Yes, they have a fairly unique notion of "equal time." That doesn't necessarily mean they're always wrong.Heh... (Score:1)
And I could say the same many times over about Rush, too. I find him to be quite entertaining, unlike some of his fans, who are just... creepy.
Re:FOX NEWS. (Score:3, Funny)
Read this, folks. This is funny.
Re:FOX NEWS. (Score:2)
That's what kind of day I'm having: I plum forgot about it. Thanks for the hat tip, though.
Re:FOX NEWS. (Score:2)
Fox Reporter: Do you think Saddam Hussien should be removed from power in Iraq?
AWP: Yeah.
Fox Reporter: But you think it's wrong to use military action to do that?
AWP: Yeah.
Fox Reporter: So how then?
AWP: Umm [end of interview]
Re:FOX NEWS. (Score:2)
Re:FOX NEWS. (Score:2)
Re:FOX NEWS. (Score:2)
Re:It's just so sad... (Score:2)
A picture is worth a thousand [jordantimes.com] words. [ericblumrich.com]
It is absurd that these people are suffering undeserved deaths with our support and tax money - and most seem to be concerned that economic inconvenience will disturb their leisure and recreation.
The RHF archive (Score:2)
Get Your War On (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Get Your War On (Score:2)
It has everything... (Score:1)
Anyway, if you don't mind the popups, some of the links are actually pretty funny, and there are a lot of current events-related humour sections.
some sites (Score:3, Informative)
Something Awful's Guide To Surviving War In Iraq [somethingawful.com]
Whitehouse.org [whitehouse.org]
Get Your War On [mnftiu.cc]
Saddam Hussein's LiveJournal [livejournal.com]
(two of the above recently mentioned on the very article that's currently headlining Satanosphere [satanosphere.com]).
Re:some sites (Score:1)
Server Crashed (April Fools) (Score:4, Funny)
We have been working for 3 months on a custom application rollout for a very large client. Coincidentally, it goes live tomorrow at 9am. I feel so bad, I sent out an email just now as I'm double checking everything. It's marked high priority and was sent to the 30 plus people that participated on the project. We have worked 13+ hours a day, every single day, for the past 3 weeks to make sure every thing goes smoothly.
And they will wake up in the morning and read the bright red email that says the server has crashed, all data since 12/02 has been lost because backups went down. We have to redo all graphics, layouts, eps's, data entry, everything people! We are in major trouble! I'm truly sorry for the immense screw up.
It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't shut everything down and cron it to wake up at 8:45am (it goes live at 9am, don't fail me now cron!).
Oh man, I could lose my job over this. Ha ha.
Re:Server Crashed (April Fools) (Score:2, Insightful)
I was reading this and reading this and trying to find the joke. Especially since I would BEAT YOU WITH A STICK if you did that and were on my team.
But then I read:
and realized I was overreacting! Now I get it! The joke wasn't you did it, the joke was the post! The key was right there!
It's a one-time job! You don't use cron(8) for
Re:Server Crashed (April Fools) (Score:2)
But I did just realize this was entirely off the topic of the original post. My apologies...
Re:Server Crashed (April Fools) (Score:2)
thanks for giving me the chance to laugh at you laughing at him!
Re:Server Crashed (April Fools) (Score:2)
To the best of knowledge (and after re-reading the cron man page), I don't think it's possible, but I'm interested in finding out if I'm wrong.
-Bill
Re:Server Crashed (April Fools) (Score:2)
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that's pretty close... from the manpage.. not what you wanted i know.. let me see what else i come up with...
i was wrong. however, if you read "Unlike other crond/crontabs, this crontab does not try to do everything under the sun. Frankly, a shell script is much more able to manipulate the environment then cron" that leads to my second thought... your entry for once in a year leads to a shell script that at some point removes the cron entry that calle
Re:Server Crashed (April Fools) (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:Server Crashed (April Fools) (Score:2)
Re:Server Crashed (April Fools) (Score:1)
BBSpot (Score:1)
BBSpot [bbspot.com]
later,
ajay
Official sites are fun (Score:1)
Too bad.... (Score:2)
Villain Supply has special offers on RIGHT NOW (Score:2)
Field Guide to FoxNews Blondes (Score:3, Funny)
Field Guide to Fox Blondes [mac.com]
well, there's the news... (Score:2)
journalists came to consensus today that the war plan that none of them have seen is definitely different from what is happening, and in a big way. "They way didn't plan on this!", many were heard to say, and others were seen writing that down attributing it to "a source"
A CNN column [cnn.com] calls Iraqi resistance "spontaneous":
Re:well, there's the news... (Score:1)
I know of a great site that always makes me laugh (Score:1)
i know (Score:2)
Charlie Chaplain (Score:1)
I remember discussing "The Great Dictator" in my German class in the context of the question whether or not humor about awful things was okay. I take the position, that humor is among other things our way of dealing with awful things. As long as we don't trivialize things that shouldn't be trivialized, I think humor is a healthy and appropriate way of wor
Re:Charlie Chaplain (Score:2)
As far as I know it's my own original observation that in the case of the pun the misfortune involved is that of the audience.
Borowitz (Score:2)
CPAN (Score:3, Funny)
www.cpan.org [cpan.org]
Actually made me laugh out loud when I saw it.
-Bill
Re:CPAN (Score:2)
Re:CPAN (Score:2)
http://www.scriptarchive.com/
*grin*
for full details:
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/122
-Bill
As always... (Score:2)
Darn you! You're trying to trick me! (Score:1)
Oh you do, do you? HA, you thought you could fool me, but I'm just too darn smart! Come on, just say it already... April Fools.
Operation Iraqi Freedom (Score:3, Funny)
No, this joke doesn't represent my opinion on the war, and no, I don't think there's much to laugh at regarding the war either. Just figured I'd post it for informational purposes.
Creds to milath's mom (heh, now that makes me laugh.)
PS: Apparently I posted this message 15 seconds in the future so I have to "Slow down" and try again... Guess that's what I get for trolling as an AC in my off time.
UK perspective (Score:2)
But then I'm biased:
Laugh, sure. But *PROTEST* is better. (Score:1)
Television/the web will do one thing - keep you riveted in one spot, inactive and docile.
The thing for Americans to be doing right now, if the war is getting them down, is *PROTEST THE WAR* AT ALL COSTS!
Re:Laugh, sure. But *PROTEST* is better. (Score:1)
Re:Laugh, sure. But *PROTEST* is better. (Score:1)
American arrogance is the new enemy.
Re:Laugh, sure. But *PROTEST* is better. (Score:2)
When was the last time you saw any REAL democracy where their "leader" gets 100% of the public vote??? That's what Saddam got in their last "election". I'll tell you right now there's no f*ckin' way he got 100% of the vote after killing over 150,000 of those people (you can never kill all of your opposition).
Anybody who today still believes that Saddam Hussein and his "government" are i
Try these (Score:2)
http://charges.globo.com/charges/20030321som.swf [globo.com]
http://www.markfiore.com/animation/corrections.swf [markfiore.com]
http://www.smart-blonde.net/ready/ready.htm [smart-blonde.net]
http://www.atmo.se/zino.aspx?pageID=12&documentID= 97 [www.atmo.se]
Re:Try these (Score:1)
Payback for April Fools Day (Score:1)
Bomb Iraq with halal marshmallows... (Score:2)
`April fool!'
Half of them will surrender on the spot. No telling what these crazy American bastards might do next.
A couple of sites (Score:2)
You Want Humor (Score:1)
Not the real Whitehouse... (Score:1)
www.whitehouse.org [whitehouse.org]
no way man, war is just what we need. (Score:1)
Nothing funnier than killing people that are different from you.
With their funny way of talking and their play money.
Hell - it is so cute the way they play government and even have those toy news stations.
Of course, they ain't 'merican, so it ain't real. That's why its okay to kill 'em.
Seriously though - if you need a laugh, just lean back in your chair and think of the French. Or the Canadianers. Or the funniest of
Silly Yank (Score:2)
Daily Show (Score:1)
In times like this... (Score:1)
http://www.ironycentral.com/archives/ejaculatio
http://www.ironycentral.com/babymain.html
About the politic satire now: The chimpanzee stops being funny when he has all the bombs.
The Boondocks (Score:1)
http://www.ucomics.com/boondocks/
New World Odour (Score:1)
There is a whole bunch of anti-war (and geek-related) satire over at the New World Odour [newworldodour.co.uk]. It's based in the UK but like US imperialism, humour flows around the world...