What was Neil’s reaction? Did he play along?
If you feel like pitting someone else carnivorousplant might I suggest The Onion?
The Hitler loving, Jew hating, anti civil rights, selfish glutton of an obese, lazy nine year old? The jack booted mods would disappear it in an instant! 
Still, this thread proves that someone can offended by almost anything. Depends on perceptions, sensitivity, personal experience, humour threshhold, and a shit load of other stuff. Carn has the right to feel that way. Thing is, you don’t have to agree. Beautiful system, innit?
Now, if this were an interaction in real life, I would say it was low class. But it wasn’t. It was a satirical parody lampooning a certain perceived attitude.* Not everyone’s cup of tea, I understand, but still.
Just for fun, synonyms are: caricature, burlesque, parody, travesty, satire, lampoon
From Dictionary.com:
Not to defend cartman, but he didn’t actually kill them. He set them up into getting killed, but he didn’t actually kill them. After all, it’s not terribly bright to be sneaking around the farm of a crazy redneck like Jenkins in the middle of the night.
but he still stole the bodies and mutilated them.
Methinks you need to watch the show more.
And he doesn’t care about facts. Facts are for the “intelligestias”, who read “books”. He looks for the truth…in his gut.
He cracked a smile and they moved on quickly. It was a small offhand joke, nothing to take offense to unless someone is looking to take offense.
Jim
Or was at Kent State when it happened!
SHUT THE FUCK UP!
YOU DON’T KNOW ME!
YOU DON’T KNOW ME!
I DO WHAT I WANT!
(Lord, I apologise…)
(Seriously, to Carni, just sick humour man. Like me in an ENT thread. Not always funny, sure to offend someone, but really fun to do.)
I thought the ashtray joke was a branch davidian joke.
But I suppose it could just as well be world trade tower tenants, Beslan students, or any of a number of fiery travesties.
I heard it in a history class in high school, in the 70s, after watching a Holocaust film. I would wager it is much older. But I would also wager it was first coined as a Holocaust joke, since even in my 1977 hearing of it, it had a Volkswagon, a German car, in it. Doesn’t quite work as truly sick humour otherwise.
I heard it around the same time and found it pretty sick then too. In the end it isn’t much worse than dead baby jokes though.
Jim
He has moved one to getting at the truthiness of issues.
one = on oops
I love the Volkswagen joke. Literally one of my most favorite jokes ever.
Many moons ago I dated a Jewish girl named Hannah. Her grandfather, Martin, was a holocaust survivor. One night we were camping out under the stars. She told me many stories about grandaddy Martin and all his exploits after WW2. Finally, I asked her:
Me: What about your grandmother?
Hannah: She’s a bar of soap.
Me: :eek:
I was mortified, speechless. But Hannah started giggling, I started giggling. Sometimes the most awful things are funny. I guess.
Maybe this is a generation gap thing, but it’s probably a humor gap thing.
Man, I hope nobody tells this guy that almost all Holocaust jokes are told (and best appreciated) by Jews.
Slacker, there was an Onion Pitting about six weeks ago.
Well, maybe Colbert was killed at Kent State. Did you ever think of that?
I think my all-time favorite joke that I hate myself for loving is:
Q: What’s the opposite of Christopher Reeve?
A: Christopher Walken
OK?
It would be very truthy of him.
Q: What’s worse than biting into an apple and finding a worm?
A:The Holocaust!
Seriously, carniverous, Colbert agrees with you. He’s making fun of fascist assholes like Anne Coulter. It’s called satire.