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Not funny. Too soon.
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*wails and sobs*
However, disregarding my trollz-tourism, I didn’t really find this funny. Maybe it’s because, while it’s an exaggeration, it isn’t figuratively speaking that much of an exaggeration?
I thought it was wishful thinking…
My very first thought was “I wish”.
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If you start getting more of my thoughts, get help, or at least REM suppressors.
I’m used to being in here with me and I’m not keen on it…
I didn’t find it funny either, but only because it’s too easy, and it’s been done to death here.
The metaphor I probably would have come up with is “circling the drain”, or “down the toilet”, but an explosion is much easier to represent with a visual image.
I find it amusing that the day this makes it on the front page, the DOW is up over 100 pts (as of this typing anyway).
If it would just go up and stay up…
I wish I could buy a house while it was this low. Unfortunately I signed a lease a few months ago.
I’m sure the rates will be low for awhile, you should start looking a few months before your lease is up.
Assuming he still has a job (meant as a slam on the job market, not jules).
That’s the wisest choice, but if a good deal comes aong, breaking a lease is a relatively small expense.
I certainly hope so. I was forced to buy a new car at the beginning of August and I work retail. All this talk about Depression is freaking me out because I know just how unstable my job is at this point. My company’s doing decently as far as I know and our share prices are slowly crawling upward, and I know my district is doing decently, but we’re about 20 stores out of roughly 750.
um, in bed?
Win!
Now that’s the best use of “in bed” I’ve seen yet! ; )
That’s what *she* said. D’oh!
Some of the greatest increases in the Dow occurred during the great depression. There’s just no stability and a general downward trend.
I imagine soup kitchen stock is soaring…
It’s a shame nukes are so dangerous. The mushroom cloud from a big one is one of the most majestic things created by man.
I think you’re right and that’s a real nice photo of one.
I know, I’ve always thought it would have been amazing to live out west when they were doing the testing. Of course I’d probably be dead from some bizarre cancer from the fallout….so there’s a downside. I would love to have been able to see it, though.
I was just wondering how close you can safely get to one, they must have some sort of mechanism for getting those photos… I can’t imagine it would be safe to stand so close.
When i did live out west we were travelling, i forget where, part of the southwest desert. there was a missile test area on the horizon, it was beautiful to watch the explosions at night from far away
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I do love watching the scientific tapes of the explosions, to just see the blast wave travelling over the ground, or seeing the initial wave hit a subject like a house and it just turns to dust, then on the backdraft disapears. pity they are so dangerous.
I agree, it has aesthetical beauty, but I can’t help but think about Hiroshima/Nagasaki when I see those films. I always have thoes double emotions about awe-inspiring weapons, though. Death looks good, but isn’t all that much fun, or something.
I like watching things like tornadoes and lightning, extreme weather also can kill you but still so awesome to watch (from a distance!).
that was possibly the only thing i liked while living in arizona. the storms at the horizon where the air was right so you could see all the lightning arcing around the clouds, but where you were it was still nice, maybe even sunny.
feeling.
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As for the hiroshima/nagasaki thing. I suppose that’s why I stick to scientific tapes. wonderful footage and I’m terribly detached about it. It’s just that bomb, no attachments to the terrors of humanity. I can’t watch real explosions where terribly things happen to people and still have the same
I spent about 2 years working in the Marshall Islands on Kwajalein, and while I didn’t get to see nukes going off, I have seen warheads coming in from California (click on name). It’s pretty damn cool to watch these coming in!
Ooooh, pretty! (As long as they aren’t coming towards you, I guess!) Thanks for posting that.
There were so many better captions for this one. Link in name to what a friend of mine had to say about it.
See now, that one was quite, quite chuckleworthy.
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That one kind of reminds me of those “famous last words” jokes…”Hey, what’s this button do?”
Hehe, yes.
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P Anway, that cartoonist is great, all his work is a bit like lol captions, and often somewhat absurd. One sample: http://www.art-bin.com/art/gjan8.html )
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There’s a Swedish cartoonist who made something like this once – you see a mushroom cloud and in the foreground a somewhat shoddy living area, and the caption is:
That “crazy” lady up in Jersey who keeps everything in control, suddenly lets go.
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(Of course he didn’t say Jersey, but a suburbian area, and I can’t think of any in the US, at all.
“(Of course he didn’t say Jersey, but a suburbian area, and I can’t think of any in the US”
New Jersey (in the US) is often referred to as “Jersey”, and a lot of my relatives live there, and at least some of them could be debatably considered “crazy ladies”, so you and the cartoonist were right, after all.
Oops! Wrong button!! (might have been a good alternate caption)
Or, “Hey Bob, watch this!”
One of my favorite jokes: (Just so we’re clear, I’m a country raised white boy)
What’s a redneck’s last words?
“Hey! Lookie what I can do!”
That was very chuckle-worthy. I agree.
Funny!
Hah! I love it!
Perhaps it should be Detroit as well!
Is that Indiana in a refrigerator ?
No, this is when the hyper-inflationary effects of the Fed creating $10,500,000,000,000 hits the markets. Spring 2009.