Could this be any funnier?
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/12/marine.finger.ap/index.html
Yes.
:rolleyes:
Yeah. It coulda been you.
Now that was funny.
Not ha-ha funny.
Then what sorta funny? It’s not odd, it’s not comedical, you could say it was ironic but not funny.
While the thought behind this was romantic, I think I would prefer my spouse to keep his finger and be damned with the ring. It is a symbol that can be replaced, the finger, will not grow back.
Ugh, that’s really unfortunate. Can’t believe that the doctors even agreed to do it, but perhaps his finger was so mangled already that maybe there wasn’t much to salvage anyway.
I’m hoping there wasn’t all that much finger to save, or the story really is more about how a retarded man becomes a Lance Corporal in the US Miltary.
Hell, they can be fixed fairly easily. I had a ring cut off so that they could suture up a deep laceration caused by the ring when it caught on the edge of the roof I slid off of (ah, memories). I can now no longer bend the last joint of that finger, but the ring itself was easily repaired. You could barely see the joint where it was soldered.
So you’re saying that it’s not odd? At all? :rolleyes:
It’s very odd. Limbs come first. The wife herself was like WTF, but then she understood how “lucky” she was. That is crazy. What would have happened he had a symbolic cock ring? :eek:
Kel, it’s time to ask a Mod to close this thread before it gets moved to the Pit. I don’t think you’re going to get the reaction you expected and you just might be digging yourself a deeper pit, here.
I see this as funny, in a bitterly ironic way. If this happened to me, I have no doubt I’d laugh at the irony of it once some period of time had passed.
Not particularly funny.
You take a guy, who’s willing to put a symbol of his love for his wife over his physical body? The case can be made either way that either the ring or finger are symbolic (one can be replaced, the other is rarely used), but the guy has guts. Not funny, but admirable.
Tripler
Irony at it’s best: The motto of the USMC is Semper Fidelis.
I can’t board with this one. Sure, he has guts, but this guy needs counseling. The motive had good intentions, but I don’t see how a limb can be considered symbolic. What else could it represent?
Flips you the bird
You tell me. p
Looks like the finger wasn’t in good shape anyway. My wedding band has been in my wifes family for a few generations. Had I been this marine, I would have made the same choice. And God knows, I’d be pissed as hell when they lost the damn ring anyway.
I feel sorry for the poor bastard.
[sub]And the guys name is Battle?! How much irony can fit into one story?[/sub]
What’s that saying about truth being stranger than fiction.
An extract from Merchant of Venice:
My reaction was summed up better by “D’OH!” than “Ha! Ha!”