see here–
http://www.scrappleface.com/MT/archives/001133.html
DON’TTHEY HAVEANTHING BETTERTO DO?****
With my tax money…? :mad:
sailor
August 17, 2003, 4:51pm
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Um, not to spoil your enjoyment of your outrage but that sounds like satire to me. You ever heard of “The Onion”? They do that kind of stuff. Satire. Look it up. You’ll like it.
sailor
August 17, 2003, 4:56pm
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Coalition Troops Pull Out, Peace Returns to Iraq
Expert Traces Path of Blackout Surge
A janitor noticing the spill at 3:48 p.m. fetched a mop and began to swab the floor. While backing up to mop his own tracks from the floor, the janitor accidentally stabbed the butt of the mop handle through a plate glass window which triggered the factory’s security alarm.
The sudden blare of the alarm startled a large rat which was traversing a cable above one of the plants power transformers. The rat fell across two high-voltage lines, causing the the transformer to short circuit then explode. Results of the autopsy on the rat were inconclusive as to cause of death given the proximity of the jolt to the blast.
The explosion rocked a nearby vending machine, toppling a half-empty can of Mountain Dew which a careless worker had left atop the machine. The sticky sweet fluid ran down the wall and bridged the prongs of the vending machine’s plug, causing another short circuit and a brief power surge which blew out several light bulbs including one above the head of the worker who had originally spilled the mayonnaise. He is the plant electrician.
As he staggered about his work station feeling for a flashlight, his elbow inadvertently bumped a lever which controls the flow of power to assembly line number three. The line stopped with a jerk, causing another autoworker to drop a rather large pneumatic wrench on his foot.
Just that morning, the employee had accidentally dumped a full cup of coffee into his left steel-toed boot, forcing him to come to work in ordinary hiking boots. The impact of the wrench on his great toe caused him to bend at the waist suddenly. His head smote the side-view mirror of the car upon which he had been working.
(It continues)
Tee
August 17, 2003, 4:58pm
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at the bottom:
“Please note: ScrappleFace readers are intelligent enough to express themselves without obscenities.”
jjimm
August 17, 2003, 5:04pm
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Oh man, how embarrassing.
I hear ya. If I couldn’t tell a comedy/satirical news site from a legitimate one, I’d be embarrassed too. I notice the OP has yet to post anything else to the thread…
Brutus
August 17, 2003, 10:45pm
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Is this a whooshing, perhaps? Scrappleface is oft referred to in OpinionJournal ‘Best of the Web’; Maybe Bosda is having a bit of a sarcastic moment?
Gadfly
August 17, 2003, 10:49pm
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Eh, I don’t really like Scrappleface myself, so… Cite?
And both my damn TV and my damn VCR broke today, too.
Balls.
I think I’ll go read a book. The Internet is too dangerous, today.
Brutus
August 17, 2003, 11:48pm
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Best of the Web has a semi-regular section, generally called ‘<whatever> imitates Scrappleface.com ’, as seen about halfway down here . From the OpinionJournal.com homepage you can search for other references to scrappleface.
By way of apology, I offer this alternative news post.
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/waiwai/0308/0813s&m.html
Given the way you’re tearing into me, I’m certain it’s exactly to your tastes.
Bosda , without wishing to put too fine a point on things, if you took the time to synopsize the articles you give links for, this blunder might have been avoided. I am beginning to routinely ignore your posts and threads because you almost always neglect to explain anything pertaining to what you’re linking to.
:smack: :eek: :wally
