Okay. After YEARS of dodging email drama related to politics and such with friends and family and running from Facebook like a nun runs from a porn convention I’ve finally got my first flesh wound.
Back story. Got a wiener dog. Had always heard they were headstrong little shits (but loveable mostly). I guy I used to work with often told tales about his. And it sounds like his house was being destroyed by them as well.
Well, mine is no different. But I can certainly see the attraction if you can take the bad to get the good.
Anyways. So I shoot off an email along the following lines:
Figured out how I am going to dress my dog for Halloween. Put a few bags labeled anthrax on. A few long red sticks with fuses sticking out. Maybe some radioactive warning labels on there as well.
A Wiener of Mass Destruction if you will.
Okay, does that get your folks “can’t joke about terrorism” panties in a twist?
Whether that is actually a crime against comedy is another thread
And here is the reply:
Eeeew! Your community much have more humor about such things than mine.
Okay, they don’t think it is terribly funny. Fair enough. But the Ewww in combination with the “community” part just sets off my “fuck your sanctimonious observations” subroutine. Oh, and that is the WHOLE reply which also doesn’t IMO improve the feel of the response.
The notion of a Weiner of Mass Destruction makes me giggle. The humor may well be lost on those who don’t know the nature of the breed. Far too many people see to go out of their way to be the first to be offended.
‘Math Instruction’ is a good play on words. ‘Wiener’ not so much. Still hard to see someone actually offended by an obvious joke. ‘Not funny’ should be the worst result of the OP’s joke. If it was patently unfunny and about the actual use of a WMD maybe someone could take offence.
I’m not offended and I don’t think folks in my neighborhood would be.
We wouldn’t get the WMD joke unless it was spelled out for us, and I’m not sure it’s all that funny.
I would be a little concerned that some hysterical parent might think it was a real threat and call the police. Not sure how likely that would be to happen, but I know some types who are paranoid about that kind of thing.
The “Wiener of Mass Destruction” is only marginally funny. Try dressing him up in a little Nazi uniform and a sign saying “Anne Frank Detector Dog” and watch the heads explode. I don’t think your friends would find that funny either.
Maybe just a sign around his neck saying “Brown Lives Matter”, or one saying "Philando Castile " his trick for trick-or-treat can be to sit up and raise his paws, and then fall over and play dead.
