Let's Ban All Theater and Drama!

Continual idiot–and everyone’s favorite (or maybe second-favorite, now with Nifong) almost-disbarred lawyer–Jack Thompson is once again trying to use current events to blame video games, in this particular case, Counterstrike. The idiotic Phil McGraw has tried to blame video games as well. Besides the irony of Counterstrike being a team game, and not even being a light-gun game at that, the man wrote really bad plays. Obviously, there is only one reasonable response: Ban all drama. Down with Andrew Lloyd Webber and Stephen Sondheim! Down with Tennessee Williams! Enough with that bloodthirsty bastard Shakespeare! No more Thornton Wilder! We can no longer abide the religion and violence (and incest!) from Sophocles and Euripides!

Come, my fellow Americans! We must ban all drama before another massacre can occur!

If we ban all drama, then this thread is doomed.

Doomed I tell you.

Why can’t I stop thinking “Is this the end of zombie Shakespeare?”

Maybe we should just all Jews and homosexuals out of the theatre?

Who would write the jokes and design the sets? :confused:

It’s hopeless! Hopeless!

Without Jews and homosexuals, there IS no theatre!

[ Larry Sanders Show ]
Artie: Don’t you know who runs this town?
Phil: The Jews?
Artie: The gay Jews!
[/ Larry Sanders Show ]

How about we just ban Andrew Lloyd Webber?

If it weren’t for drama, I wouldn’t have gotten laid for a looooong time.

The article mentions that when the police searched Cho’s room they didn’t find a single videogame. And Cho’s roommate said in an interview on Hardball that he never saw Cho playing a videogame.

Yet, even with overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Thompson still blames videogames. He’s a nutcase.

Nah, just a Drama Queen. :cool:

Can’t we just hit him with a stick?

Here I was, enjoying my lazy day, successfully avoiding any sort of conversation about the shootings, and you snuck one up on me. Damn you.

Works for me.

When I read the thread title, I thought for sure we were going to talk about this.

Apparantly, Yale does not really want to ban Andrew Lloyd Webber. They just want to hit him with an obviously fake sword.

Ffffft.

Uhh… I have clocked some serious time on Quake, Quake II, Rainbow Six, Unreal, Sin, Half-life, etc… and I’ve got some pretty impressive frag-counts. Consistently smoked my flatmates and friends.

…then I went target shooting. Fat lot of good all that “training” did me. :rolleyes:

A first-person shooter is a gun simulator in the same way that Atari 2600 “Bi-Planes” is a flight simulator.

What an idiot.

That article makes me giggle.

Not because of the shooting. It goes without saying that it was a terrible tragedy.

But it is to laugh, because good ole Jack isn’t going to let pesky things like FACTS get in the way of his blame apportioning…

"Dear Jack:

You are a loony.

Regards,
Bill"
I would give a lot of money to see that happen.

I’d just like to say, I play Counter Strike.

BE AFRAID. BE VERY AFRAID!!!

Bwah bwah bwah.

Ok - I mean, Andrew Lloyd Webber can go. Seriously. But Sondheim? LEAVE STEPHEN ALONE.

If were going to take the murdering, the blood guts and gore, revenge killings, incest, slaughter of innocents, plagues, all that… can we take the bible out too? I mean, shit, have you read that thing?

Yikes! :wink:

Elly, Musical theatre and theatre geek.