I just thought of a few:
Eat My Dust!
My other vehicle is German-engineered
If this shuttle is a rockin’ don’t come a knockin’
WARNING: Every part on this vehicle was manufactured by the lowest bidder
If found, please return to Kennedy Space Center
BAD launch control. No donut!
Yeah, I know I’m sick … anyone else want to add to this list?
No.
Please, no.
Too sick, too soon.
You folks obviously weren’t around for 9/11 if you think this is too much too soon.
Here’s the 9/11 thread on Possible ONION Headlines that was started on 9/16/01.
I must say that I thought it was good to laugh at that thread.
You had plenty of descriptive warning from the thread title. Why did you even open it if it’s too soon for you folks?
I’m disappointed I haven’t heard the sick jokes as quickly as with Challenger. Of course, it probably helps that I was in high school when that happened.
The few I heard were so bad (in the bad joke sense, not bad taste) that I cannot repeat them here.
I come from a family very given to morbid humor. For instance, my dad was horrified when he began losing teeth, so my sisters and I started calling him “Chopper” and my mom left white Chiclets all over the house.
The summer I was 14 (1990) and still fully expected to become an astronaut when I grew up, I visited the space center in Huntsville, Alabama with my parents. My father and I were talking outside as he smoked, and the ash from his cigarette dropped onto the ground. He pointed at it and said, “Challenger exhibit.” I started crying. It’s funny to me now, but then, even years after the Challenger exploded, it was still too raw. (Plus, I was just youngun.)
Some things just tug people’s heartstrings. A shuttle exploding is small enough to get your mind around, unlike the enormous events of September 11. You see each person’s face and hear each story, so it’s a more personal. Add to that the death of such a powerful symbol of big dreams and high aspirations…I can see how it would be a little too soon for some people.
That said, you were warned.
Fair comment.
“I break for insulating foam.”
(Yuch. I feel dirty.)
This was actually a Challenger joke, but I guess it applies here as well. What does NASA stand for?
Need Another Seven Astronauts
Twinkle, twinkle little… oh,never mind.
Kennedy or Bust.
If you’re close enough to read this, we better be on the ground.
When it absolutely positively has to be there sometime in the next six months.
Safer than your Pinto.
“My Other Rocket is a Soyuz”
“Visual Whirrled Pieces”
(Star Trek humor as well)
We’ll never let Troi drive again!
Bad Zebra! Bad!
No Re-Entry Humor Please. It Breaks Me Up.
I agree, this is a little too soon.
That having been said . . .
We Brought Duct Tape This Time!
Must go take shower now to wash off immense feelings of guilt . . .
Gallows humor has long been a way for people to relieve feelings of sadness, loss, grief and so forth. I feel terrible about the tragedy, but I won’t make any apologies about being human and seeing very dark humor in the situation.
So …
The ACTUAL last words from Columbia: “Damn it! I thought I turned on the ‘NO SMOKING’ sign.”
…but back to the bumper stickers …
“12,000 to Zero in 2.4 seconds”
“Have a HOT time in Houston!”