# Another talk show, another murder...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-talk-show-another-murder/26921>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 26, 2000, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-talk-show-another-murder/26921 "2000-07-26T16:29:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tally-Ho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@Tally-Ho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tally-Ho)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-talk-show-another-murder/26921/1 "2000-07-26T16:29:41Z")

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This time it’s Jerry Springer.

For more details:

[http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/07/26/springer.slaying.ap/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/07/26/springer.slaying.ap/index.html)

And my friends wonder why I **don’t** watch these freak shows. :rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-talk-show-another-murder/26921/2 "2000-07-26T16:32:05Z")

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You didn’t see this coming?!?  
Christ, I’m suprised the mortality rate for Springer guests isn’t hovering near 50%.  
I chalk it up to thinning of the herd.

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**Author:** ![KimKatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@KimKatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KimKatt)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-talk-show-another-murder/26921/3 "2000-07-26T16:42:47Z")

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[total dripping sarcasm on] You don’t watch Springer? Heathen! I’ll bet you don’t watch pro-wrestling either![/total dripping sarcasm off]

Ditto on your comment, **Jack**. One would think more of the guests would at least have been subjected to mercy killings.

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**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-talk-show-another-murder/26921/4 "2000-07-26T16:46:34Z")

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I’m mostly convinced half that show is cons anyway. I’m in denial that people are that bad. I know it’s bad out there, but come on…

I don’t like the random culling of the human race, but I have to admit stupidity can be fatal sometimes.

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**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-talk-show-another-murder/26921/5 "2000-07-26T17:41:49Z")

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“It’s been one week since the show about  
Psycho killers with problems they should work out…”

–“Jerry Springer” by Weird Al Yankovic

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**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2000, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-talk-show-another-murder/26921/6 "2000-07-26T19:09:03Z")

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Come on! Weren’t you ever curious as to what the people they show on “Cops” do during the day?

(Not original, but can’t remember who said it first…)