Just goes to show ya… There are still things money can’t buy. Like a new pancreas.

Blame the Gypsies. Those mean, evil Gypsies.

Not funny, clever or witty. That is at the level of a Yahoo News commenter. Shame.

I don’t get it.

1) I don’t get it either.

2) Sorry to OT this so early, but Balloon Juice is having a good morning (Texas immigration thing). Honorably mention to the commenter who put it so succinctly:

If illegal immigration is just that goddamn important, then people can do without their cleaning ladies. if it isn’t then people should shut the fuck up about what a problem it is.

Gracias, hombre. Tienes totalmente razon.

I still think he’s cute. And it’s a pretty awful way to go, one I wouldn’t even wish on Glenn Beck. OK, maybe just a little.

Have another “I don’t get it.” Sure, I’m pretty much out of it culture-wise so my not getting it is no bellwether but when several Sadlynaughts don’t get it you ought to reconsider maybe.

Besides, since I am so out of touch about the only thing I would come up with would be biblically based.

I’m sorry I missed the IPA thread. Victory, up in PA, makes two worth looking for, Hop Devil and Hop Wallop (I saw the latter labeled ‘Hop Wallet’ at Yankee Spirits in Sturbridge). I agree with OBS about Deschutes but never liked the Bridgeport much. It’s been too long since I was on the left coast.

TruculentandUnreliable said,

March 3, 2011 at 15:08

At least y’all can drink beer. Hmph

dude, ur preggers too?

It’s unfortunate, but it happens. It also happens to people who can’t get buy the medical advice, and they die faster.

I’ve got nothing against Jobs and my business has helped enrich his company. But until we have universal healthcare in the U.S. I won’t be spending my time feeling sorry for a man who has had the best care there is. It’s luck of the draw and he got a crappy hand.

For those that don’t get it, it is a reference to Charlie Sheen’s “winning!”

Only, it isn’t the slightest bit amusing or thoughtful in any way.

Shorter Dan: chagrinning!
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Thanks, Dan. I still don’t get it because I have no idea what CS was talking about or any context vis a vis CS to begin with but I have no desire for such knowledge. Hence the explanation is sufficient for me.

Only, it isn’t the slightest bit amusing or thoughtful in any way.

Okay then, let us try harder.

He’s got Tiger Leopard Snow Leopard Lion blood!

For those that don’t get it, it is a reference to Charlie Sheen’s “winning!”

Oh okay… Still don’t get it.

Can we stick with wingnut douchebaggery, plz? You know things like, “What do you know, every problem can be fixed by bombing brown people”.

Still don’t get it. Did Steve Jobs die? Only thing I can find about him in Google News is that he didn’t get knighted.

Ah, okay – I guess I’m obligated to produce another post to drive this lead balloon down the page …

On the other hand, glad to see Aristophanes back at the masthead. Tintin’s herculean efforts to keep the place going have been herculean.

I guess I’m obligated to produce another post to drive this lead balloon down the page …

Robert Plant…TOO SOON!

Football discussion
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Thin different.

If it makes you feel any better, Australia has it’s share of wingnuts too. Just don’t want you to feel alone in your suffering.

Not funny. At all. I’ve never commented here before, and I’m probably not ingratiating myself to most of you, but fuck that. Dude is dying from cancer. Lay off. And yes I’m hyper-sensitive about it, since pancreatic cancer took both my grandfather and my dog in about 14 months’ time.
That said, I LOVE this blog. Why you gotta do me like this? 😛

not funny

How about this instead:

Police Chief David Blough said the Rev. Ignatius Kury, 35, of the Holy Ghost Ukranian Byzantine Catholic Church on Brown Street in Akron, offered to have sex with the police officers and made numerous other sexual comments while in the township jail.

ya know-

They say you can’t be too rich or too thin. Steve Jobs is going to prove them wrong.

Who wants a sandwich?

I guess I’m obligated to produce another post to drive this lead balloon down the page …

Yayyys!

I kinda liked the joke. Even the most die-hard Apple fanboi has to admit that Steve Jobs has a slight Sheen of egomaniacal hubris. But the execution is lacklustre, which is quite surprising. Jobsheen? Thinning?

I think it would have worked if you had shopped some hookers and blow into the pic.

My dog (the best dog ever!) also died from pancreatic cancer, and I’ve lost a couple other close relatives to various cancers. Sucks, but I still thought this was somewhat funny. I’m even an Apple fanboi, and owned a fucking NeXT cube back in the day — Jobs is awesome, and will be missed (unfortunately, probably soon). Still, sorta funny. Probably the worst part is that it was a bit too obscure a reference for most to get it.

Yeah, it’s sick humor (see what I did there?), but really, this is beyond the pale? Here? I’ll just agree to disagree.

And here I’ve been waiting for SN to post something witty snark about the current misogynistic, straight-out-of-a-fucking-Margaret-Atwood-novel bullshittery that is going on in South Dakota/Nebraska/Ohio (hello, testifyingfuckingFETUS anyone?!) and instead this is what you come up with? Trashing on some dude with pancreatic cancer? Holy fuck, talk about jumping the shark day. Not cool. Sadly No, I am disappoint.

Also Jobs has six billion dollars and a jet. Get well soon, guy, but maybe you could spend five billion dollars on sandwiches for those who need ’em and still feel validated.

I guess I’m obligated to produce another post to drive this lead balloon down the page …

Sooner rather than later, please. If this was supposed to be funny in any way imanaginable it’s an epic fail.

Think of all the hookers and blow you could get with six billion dollars! And a jet!

Also Jobs has six billion dollars and a jet.

He does not, however, own a flying car.

Think of all the hookers and blow you could get with six billion dollars! And a jet!

It’s tough do drive the jet slowly along the curbside by your mom’s place.

“To”.

Deep do, too.

Julia Gillard reminds me of this fine actress.

much like upthread poster I thought it was a Stephen King reference

FYWP — “anon” above was me. The hamsters are really fucking slow today.

“He does not, however, own a flying car.”

Pbpppht. Lemme know when he gets a flying Hoveround.

Also, I think DA may be too hip for the room.

flying Hoveround

Windows Vista compatible only.

The hamsters are really fucking slow today.

Apple fanboi DDoS.

If Ted Kennedy owned a Volkswagen he’d be President today. Except that he got cancer and died a while ago.

PROOF!

Take that WP!

That “thinning” caption is so wrong. Male pattern baldness is no laughing matter. If you have a shred of decency you’ll take Lunch Lady’s hint and cover his head with a giant sandwich. Otherwise you’ll not see my likes around here again.

“Windows Vista compatible only.”

Well, at least it wouldn’t balk at Flash charging stations.

Yesterday, in the Ohio capitol, no hearbeat was detected in the fetus as it “testified.” Hmmmm. Should it not be charged with contempt? Should we not have an inquest to determine if foul play was involved?

Political asylum, a growth business. Looks like I might have a new neighbor.

Apple killed Flash.

Should we not have an inquest to determine if foul play was involved?

Word on the street is that to successfully see a 9 week old fetus you need to do a vaginal ultrasound and for some reason the fetus host chickened out about showing her hoohaw to the assembled crowd.

Also Jobs has six billion dollars…..

At least he’s not spending it on vilifying teachers.

And yet, the Kock brothers do not suffer from a hideous wasting disease.

Let me try a different take: We could spin this in a new direction, away from Steve jobs and Charlie Sheen.

We could discuss death. What you have observed or felt about people dealing with death, either as victim or survivor. Or social and cultural expressions of how death is handled. How do you want your end-of-life and funeral to be? What inscription on your grave?

(When I taught composition in college, I had an exercise in which I asked the students to write their obituary. It could be serious or whimsical or whatever they wanted. (“Hey, it’s your life.”) The exercise was really about formatted writing (and style); there is a distinct format & style in obits.)

We can spin this thread as we wish. I know there are Sadlies who have observations from recent personal experiences….and all Sadlies have encountered death in some form or another.

Plus there are opportunites for all sorts of dark jokes and word-play.

Sieze the intiative and bend the topic ourselves. We don’t have wait for D.A. to hammer up a new one. Fatal disease, the end of life, death, grief. (I had a moving encounter yesterday afternoon with my automobile mechanic. His good pooch had been put down the previous day. He wept as he told me the story. Grief comes in other forms, too. The death of a marriage, fer instance.

Just tossing the idea out there.

(BTW. I once again get to play Chorus to Spengler: It is good to see you back Mr. Aristophanes!)

Commemorating the release of the iPud 2.0? In MY Sadly,No!? It’s weirder than you think.

How DARE you mock this poor innocent helpless billionaire! If this sort of unspeakable abomination is ever repeated, I swear, I will perform a butthurt flounce that’ll make your head spin!

Plus: It’s dead-on. Jobs is indeed very high on Jobs. Not to mention the borderline/nasty humor … very economical in delivering that takes-your breath-away ZOMG-factor for which I’ve always got a soft spot in my heart (a defect that will eventually rupture my left ventricle).

Minus: See “very economical” above. It looks like this took about three minutes to do. Gonna have to be MUCH funnier before I’ll be able to see past that – I can get that flavor of weak shit any time from Atrios or some HuffPo twerp. Also, a lot of Sadlies had/have no clue what you’re even trying to say. Also too, he’s neither a wingnut nor a gratuitously kitschy “rawk en role” video, so he sticks out here like a sore PENIS.

And yet, the Kock brothers do not suffer from a hideous wasting disease.

Diseases of the soul do not count.

Yeah, DA, it’s good to see you back and I’m not about telling people what they should do on their own blogs and I know that humor around here straddles* a fine line, but Imma have to join the chorus. (Jesus, I never thought I’d see the day when a large portion of us agreed that something was tasteless).

Actually, any reference to Charlie Sheen makes me a little ralphy anyway.

dude, ur preggers too?

OH JESUS FUCK NO. I just have terrible genes and it makes me sick. It’s really the only thing I miss these days.

*VRCGR

“I am on a drug. It’s called Charlie Sheen. It’s not available because if you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.”

When asked if he was bipolar by interviewer Andrea Canning, he replied: “What’s the cure? Medicine? Make me like them? Not gonna happen. I’m bi-winning. I win here. I win there.”

Who’s got the Reality Distortion Field now Jobs?

We could discuss death. What you have observed or felt about people dealing with death, either as victim or survivor. Or social and cultural expressions of how death is handled. How do you want your end-of-life and funeral to be? What inscription on your grave?

Oh yayyy! This is sure to bring teh funneh out. Since it’s unlikely that a biography will ever be written about me, I guess Wasted Potential also works as an epitaph.

See “very economical” above. It looks like this took about three minutes to do. Gonna have to be MUCH funnier before I’ll be able to see past that – I can get that flavor of weak shit any time from Atrios or some HuffPo twerp.

Yeah, that’s my thing…I’ll laugh at a joke about a dude dying from pancreatic cancer, but it’s gotta be good.

Then again, I only have a peripheral idea of what happened with Sheen, and I have NO idea how Steve Jobs acts, so I’m not the best person to evaluate the lulz payoff of this particular joke, so maybe I should STFU.

“March 3, 2011 at 20:21

Apple killed Flash.”

Thats the thing though: it’s dying a slow death. And in the meantime, its lingering presence is enough to make my mobile devices REALLY irritating times. Not to mention all the Flash vids people link to here. Hell, my own gallery is Flash. Can’t see it on my ipad. Grrr.

I’d probably feel differently about this if I didn’t happen to have an aunt who underwent the very same pancreatic surgery as Steve Jobs at the very same hospital just two days ago. True story.

Then again, the fact Jobs is still alive when that surgery generally gives people a prognosis of just a year or two does give me hope.

I will toss out two observations about condolences.

First, many Christians–earnest though they are–do not help survivors by saying “She is in a better place now. She is with the Lord.” or similar things. (It may be helpful for very deeply religious survivors, of course.).

The worst thing a person can say or write is “I know how you feel.” No one knows that. Each death, each experience of loss is unique. Moreover, “I know how you feel” is so self-referential. The focus should always be on the grieving person…and the person who is gone.

Word on the street is that to successfully see a 9 week old fetus you need to do a vaginal ultrasound and for some reason the fetus host chickened out about showing her hoohaw to the assembled crowd.

I would get pregnant and volunteer to do that just so I could moon all those assholes.

so he sticks out here like a sore PENIS

A lot of us do. It’s what gives this place flava. PENIS flava.

OT: To paraphrase, “Wisconsin Republican senators declare missing Democrats in contempt”

Oops:
Article 5 Section 15 – Exemption from arrest and civil process
“Members of the legislature shall in all cases, except treason, felony
and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest; nor shall
they be subject to any civil process, during the session of the legislature,
nor for fifteen days next before the commencement and
after the termination of each session”

uberuber said,

And here I’ve been waiting for SN to post something witty snark about the current misogynistic, straight-out-of-a-fucking-Margaret-Atwood-novel bullshittery that is going on in South Dakota/Nebraska/Ohio (hello, testifyingfuckingFETUS anyone?!)….

Done
~

Speaking of Sheen

I wanna see some sperm testify, is what I want.

TU, whew (for you). I seem to remember you mentioning something about celiac disease. There are some gluten free beers out there .

I actually think that this place could use a little more Charlie Sheen and Steve Jobs, but def need sammies shopped in as upthread commenters have noted.

I wanna see some sperm testify, is what I want.

I think it would be cool if they testified more in the gospel sense.

kg, there are, but they’re few and far between and most of them aren’t very good. I’ve had three, and there’s only one that I’ll actually pay $9 a 6-pack to drink, and that’s only when I’m reeeeealllyyyy hard up. I’ll drink the Budweiser shit if somebody gives it to me.

There are more coming on the market, but it’s taking a while.

In the meantime, I’m exploring the ever-expanding world of craft ciders.

Sheen: Superhero-style.

Plus there are opportunites for all sorts of dark jokes and word-play.

Zombie died.

Again.

Nobody laughed.

Yeah, my first ultrasound was actually at 10 weeks, and it was a vaginal one. (I was like “ummm. OK… wasn’t aware that’s how these things were done.”) It’s funny having one done with 3 people in the room. I probably wouldn’t want to do it in front of Congress.

TnU,
Mrs. Willy got a hold of these GF beers. Their Belgian style dubbels and trippels.are pretty good, GF or not.

Death is for FAGGOTS. I plan to live forever. So far, so good.

Spengler is right. After all, Rock Hudson IS dead, isn’t he?

Thanks, Willy! I’ll check them out.

Oh yayyy! This is sure to bring teh funneh out.

Some of the most interesting strands here to read (and participate in) don’t have much of teh funneh. There was a memorable, earnest conversation of the wimmin Sadlies recently–T&U, VS, bbfk, tigris, others–that was illuminating to read.

Death, dying, and grief are largely taboo subjects in American culture. (Sort of like the homeless: Look away and pretend they aren’t there. It’s so uncomfortable. Don’t want to think about it.)

New thread up.

Couple links:

Uncooperative (mortified?) fetus

If you think the Jobs joke is unfunny…

Steve Jobs is dying? I guess I need to start reading a few more blogs.

Quite the salesman right to the end.

Go Steve!!

I think it would be cool if they testified more in the gospel sense.

The Flash animation that conjured in my head was pretty funny.

I thought it was hilarious, because of my view that Apple products are produced only for rich hipster douchenozzles. Jobs is annoying, and making fun of awful people on their deathbed should be a national pastime.

“If you gave Falwell an enema you could bury him in a matchbox.” Then again, that sack of shit was already dead at the time.

Steve Jobs has had an enormously productive and successful life. It is sad that he has had pancreatic cancer and is in poor health, I wish him well.
But NOTHING is off limits for humour, this fucked up world needs as much humour as it can get. Now this joke needs a bit too much background knowledge but that’s not the jokesters problem, handing out current affairs tests before each joke is going to kill the humour pretty quickly.
I think that we would pay Jobs the respect he is owed by making a joke about his thinness, laugh in the face of death, him and his fucking scythe can wait until I’m finished laughing

I wanna see some sperm testify, is what I want.
I think it would be cool if they testified more in the gospel sense.

… clutching their little spermatozoic testicles…

I wanna see some sperm testify, is what I want.
I think it would be cool if they testified more in the gospel sense.

… clutching their little spermatozoic testicles…

Sperm recursion! This is how black holes form.

Steve Jobs is dying?

We all are, some quicker than others.

laugh in the face of death, him and his fucking scythe can wait until I’m finished laughing

Yeah, save the seriousness for when it’s needed… I have to go to a wake for a 12 year old tonight, I’ll save my tears for this occasion.

Jeebus, B^4. I don’t think there’s enough booze in the state for that.

Tell me about it, old chum. This is going to be a tough, tough weekend.

Kia Kaha BBBB.

I heard someone once say that the definition of “sacred” is “something you cannot laugh at”. I have given that a lot of thought, trying to decide if there is something out there that I can’t find humor in, or if it is true that, for an atheist like myself, nothing is truly sacred. Granted, jokes about someone dying of a horrible disease may be tasteless, but I refuse to consider Steve Jobs sacred.

They say you can’t be too rich or too thin. Steve Jobs is going to prove them wrong.

Laugh? I thought I’d pee my pants

See, now I thought the post title was a reference to me own oeuvre (e.g. here at 0:30).

Flash needed killing.

The iPad isn’t the only Apple product that’s gotten thinner!

What kind of wood doesn’t float? Natalie Wood!

How did they know Vic Morrow had dandruff? They found his head and shoulders in the bushes!

What do Michael Jackson and Wal-Mart have in common? They both have little boy’s pants half off!

What does NASA stand for? Need Another Seven Astronauts!

Didja hear about the new NASA theme park? Six astronauts over Texas!

Who is the saddest man in Hollywood? The last one to get a piece of the Rock (Hudson).

i also vote for not funny. my very large extended family just lost a dear uncle to pancreatic cancer this past weekend. he found out he was sick a month ago.

Steve is going to cross the rainbow bridge soon.

He’s been thinking about this for a long time.

What this thread needs is a Righteous Janus script.

My wombat died last week when she pilfered a thimble. I will miss her very much.

i might not have this perfect but the “comedy formula” per the great Ronny B is something like this:

person x time/event=joke
.
…so if, let’s say, Tom Hanks dies tomorrow of a sudden heart attack then there should be some time before jokes are made, some time to mourn…..now if Tom Hanks dies in a car accident because he was being blown by a tranny and lost control and the tranny bit his dick off and he bled out…now, while tragic, the division-by-event allows for almost instant jokes….

Classy.

Finally just put Mom to bed, after spending the last six hours tending, feeding, toileting and wiping. After several years of this literal shit and ? to go, only thing I can tell y’all is however I check out, it’d better be while holding a mostly-full mental deck. All other awfulness is taken for granted, but spare me teh alz drama.

(Note to S,N! denizens: pls let me know if early symptoms are detected, so’s I can auto-snuff it while still grasping a a thin thread of cognizance.)

Late to the thread and partially incapacitated by compensatory imbibing, but Look at the silly m0nkey!!!!!

“Hell, my own gallery is Flash. Can’t see it on my ipad.”

I’d venture to say that the mistake was in using a proprietary, resource-hogging plugin for your gallery.

Hey D.A. if you’re pushing the boundaries and being truly funny sometimes, you’re going to eat shit. And yes, this time you did. But that’s ok. SN is still one of the best written sites on the web.

Hang in there. Do better next time.

Substance McGravitas wrote: “Also Jobs has six billion dollars and a jet. Get well soon, guy, but maybe you could spend five billion dollars on sandwiches for those who need ‘em and still feel validated.”

To be fair to Jobs, he seems the type that, if he was going to donate money, he’d do it anonymously. He doesn’t seem like the type who gets his name on a new cancer wing.

Or maybe he hasn’t donated anything.