I changed the thread title to be slightly less useless.
The real question - is Terry Schivo still dead?
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I have great hopes that our facination with these things will burn out when we realize how much energy was spent on this and things like it, and that death is a normal thing, even for famous people. Yes, its a shame when someone dies young, or dies tragically or unexpectedly. Its a shame when someone who touched you life dies (more tragic when they really did, instead of touching you through a television). That we will get “famous person death fatigue” and move on.
You know, that ‘mouse over’ function still seems to be working. Is it such a fucking bother that a reader must hover their pointer over a thread title and read a few lines to see what the thread is about. That is so fucking hard for our dear readers that you changed the thread title?
Because I am Dannielynn’s father, and I am Anna Nicole’s father too.
Well, now that “anna nicole smith” [post=7697092]is in the title[/post], a lot of people won’t even have to bother wasting time on a mouse over, jackass. Are you seriously so stupid that you think “Oh my god!” is a clever or even passable thread title?
Is it such a fucking bother that a single writer write an appropriate title, preventing many readers from having to mouse over? That is so fucking hard for our dear thread writers?
I hate poorly-described thread titles myself, unless the mouseover reveals sufficient information.
I can’t believe the antipathy expressed towards this thread and toward Zebra.
If you think any thread is not up to your standard, don’t bother entering into the discussion.
It’s a refreshing change to read a Pit thread in which no one has killed their family, clubbed baby seals to death, bilked the elderly out of millions, molested children, betrayed their country or a slew of other despicable acts that are usually the topic of conversation here in the Pit.
Sorry for sounding so judgmental, but come on kids, play nice. 
If you actually read the thread, you’ll see that the first few comments were about the inanity of starting a thread about something that you are sick of hearing about, just as you stop hearing about it. Then Zebra gets all haughty over his thread title getting changed to meet with board guidelines.
And if I didn’t bother to enter the discussion, how exactly would I have been able to express my antipathy? Answer me that, Pollyanna!
I’ll admit that the title isn’t descriptive. It’s goes with the screed that is the OP.
I hardly agree that the ammount of grief I’ve gotton over said title is appropriate as just about the entire OP is shown in the mouse over preview.
I apologize if for making people waste valueable time mousing over a thread title that they could have spent doing something important. Except that the Pit is nothing but a time waster so if they are reading anything here they are just wasting time.
The ‘complaints’ that really confuse me in this thread are the accusations that I am some sort of attention whore. I’m not really sure how I could possibly rant about something that pisses me off without calling attention to myself. It seems in fairness that people who posted that I’m some sort of attnetion mongerer, should post similar responses to every thread.
The crux of it, to me, is that people didn’t like the thread, so instead of a ‘meh’ or a ‘not very funny’, which means that I failed to entertain you, which I’ll admit was partly the reason for posting the thread, I get ‘attention whore’ and ‘not descriptive enough thread title’.
Another thing, I’m not sure if most people understand that my second post is directed at lissener. Autolycus just sort of snuck in there. Maybe they do, I don’t know.
Just so you know, all mouse-overs in all browsers are not created equal. With Firefox I get only this much of your post in mouse-over:
With IE, I get:
So you really can’t assume how much information a poster is getting without a clear title.
Well, the crux of it for me is that the overblown coverage of Anna Nicole was being roundly mocked in real time. It just seemed pretty idiotic to start a thread about it once the overblown coverage finally runs down. That doesn’t call for a “meh” it calls for a “What are you? Stupid?”
Yes, that’s right. He took your lame joke and broke its other leg. And what are you gonna do about it? NUTHIN’, that’s what! You’re gonna sit there and smile like a good little whatever-the-hell-you-are and help yourself to another heaping serving of shut-the-fuck-up with some grownups-are-talking on the side.
Zebra, I thought it was funny. I’ve often felt the same way.