# Fuck you, you tacky bastards (9-11)! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 16, 2002, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-tacky-bastards-9-11/103933 "2002-04-16T13:29:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-tacky-bastards-9-11/103933/1 "2002-04-16T13:29:18Z")
(I think this is my first Pit thread) Tacky barely begins to describe [this](http://www.pds.com/cgi-bin/stores/0911.cgi?prod=frontpage.html&) ! Eeesh…they even had to put an image of the WRECKAGE on it, instead of just a flag or the standing towers…If you want to see someone profiting from anothers pain, well, here ya go! I still want a chunk of the Berlin Wall, though… ---
**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-tacky-bastards-9-11/103933/2 "2002-04-16T13:36:35Z")
I get a “wrong url” notification. What is it exactly? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-tacky-bastards-9-11/103933/3 "2002-04-16T15:06:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by istara \* > \*\*I get a “wrong url” notification. What is it exactly? \*\* Me too. ---
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-tacky-bastards-9-11/103933/4 "2002-04-16T15:30:06Z")
d’oh! try this: [http://www.pds.com/cgi-bin/stores/0911.cgi?prod=frontpage.html&uid=QojY6gAA1018970758&company=0911&msrc=](http://www.pds.com/cgi-bin/stores/0911.cgi?prod=frontpage.html&uid=QojY6gAA1018970758&company=0911&msrc=) ---
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-tacky-bastards-9-11/103933/5 "2002-04-16T15:32:29Z")
I found it, of all places, in the Opera ad banner at the top of my browser…almost makes me want to buy the damn software outright so I won’t have to see the ad anymore… ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-tacky-bastards-9-11/103933/6 "2002-04-16T15:38:39Z")
Sweet Mother of God, that’s tacky to the max. Wow. What kind of people _buy_ this? ---
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-tacky-bastards-9-11/103933/7 "2002-04-16T15:48:27Z")
My (least) favorite bits: “Own a Piece of History TM” “We Will Never Forget TM” and “\* Plaques are not made entirely from the World Trade Center Towers metal and the exact percentage of metal used in each plaque will vary.” ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-tacky-bastards-9-11/103933/8 "2002-04-16T15:56:09Z")
Is this actually being condoned by the port authority, or is that a line of BS? I thought they were going to stay out of the marketing nonsense that sprang out of the tradgedy. You’d think they’d want their name kept out of it, and especially supplying any actual remnants of the building. ---
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-tacky-bastards-9-11/103933/9 "2002-04-16T16:06:48Z")
Well, their “history” section says “It was the New York/New Jersey Port Authority, through the We Will Never Forget™ association with D.A.R.E., that made possible the acquiring of a portion of the World Trade Center’s remaining standing steel structure. This portion of metal was processed and used to insure that plaques would have the symbolic amount of metal from the remaining structure.” I think it’s a fancy way of saying they bought some of the scrap metal, probably without saying what they were going to do with it…not that fancy, though, as “acquiring” would be better off as “acquisition”. D.A.R.E. has disassociated themselves, though… ---
**Author:** ![funkynige](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@funkynige](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funkynige)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-tacky-bastards-9-11/103933/10 "2002-04-16T16:21:04Z")
> [@](#): > > We will never forget No shit, Sherlock. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-tacky-bastards-9-11/103933/11 "2002-04-16T16:26:47Z")
This hovers somewhere between sick and pathetic. It is, however, in keeping with a long line of similarly tacky “memorials” and “soak the suckers” schemes down through the years. At least teh USS Maine plaques (many made from scrap from the wreck) were mostly set-up in public parks and the like. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-tacky-bastards-9-11/103933/12 "2002-04-16T16:33:06Z")
My favorite has always been the commemerative plates of the fireman carrying the dead baby at OK city. How’d you like to invite the parents of the baby over for dinner and use that to serve them? ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-tacky-bastards-9-11/103933/13 "2002-04-16T16:33:18Z")
man, tacky doesnt begin to describe it. voracious, unscrupulous, blood-sucking… someone help me out here. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-tacky-bastards-9-11/103933/14 "2002-04-16T16:54:35Z")
do these people sleep at night? ---
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-tacky-bastards-9-11/103933/15 "2002-04-16T16:55:40Z")
no…they’re obviously vampires and sleep during the DAY… ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-tacky-bastards-9-11/103933/16 "2002-04-16T18:05:05Z")
I would counter that monstrosity with [this](http://www.somethingawful.com/photoshop/ww2propaganda/bagpuss-). Suitable for framing. See the rest of the carnage from Something Awful [here](http://www.somethingawful.com/photoshop/ww2propaganda/index.htm). “Go Long!” ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-tacky-bastards-9-11/103933/17 "2002-04-16T18:29:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sofa King \* > \*\*I would counter that monstrosity with [this](http://www.somethingawful.com/photoshop/ww2propaganda/bagpuss-). Suitable for framing. > > See the rest of the carnage from Something Awful [here](http://www.somethingawful.com/photoshop/ww2propaganda/index.htm). > > “Go Long!” \*\* Whatever “this” is, **Sofa King** , it cannot be found - bad link. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-tacky-bastards-9-11/103933/18 "2002-04-16T18:48:30Z")
I think he was trying to link to [this](http://www.somethingawful.com/photoshop/ww2propaganda/bagpuss-terrorist.jpg). The caption on the original page (found [here](http://www.somethingawful.com/photoshop/ww2propaganda/index-08.htm)) is, “Bagpuss [the creator] has no problem admitting that he’s a horrible monster for making this image”. ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-tacky-bastards-9-11/103933/19 "2002-04-16T19:08:33Z")
Thanks, **Max**. As always, the _best_ propaganda looks like the enemy’s propaganda. ---
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-tacky-bastards-9-11/103933/20 "2002-04-16T19:22:51Z")
I bet Osama ordered a dozen of those plaques, y’know, like a trophy… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-you-tacky-bastards-9-11/103933.md?page=2)