# Sick? Funny? I'm going with funny. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 24, 2011, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-funny-im-going-with-funny/607248 "2011-12-24T03:57:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-funny-im-going-with-funny/607248/1 "2011-12-24T03:57:40Z")
A friend of mine posted on Facebook today: > [@](#): > > I just remembered the other day driving on the highway somewhere I saw a dead deer alongside the road. Someone had put a red nose on it. Such a strange thing…sick humor or not funny. I’m on the fence. Not only do I think it’s hilarious, but I’m shopping for a couple of red clown noses to keep in the glove compartment of my truck, just in case… ---
**Author:** ![UFC\_Is\_Sux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/46a35a/32.png) [@UFC\_Is\_Sux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UFC_Is_Sux)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-funny-im-going-with-funny/607248/2 "2011-12-24T04:00:11Z")
Santa having a close encounter with an airplane: [![](http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQmhmCcrdSVTlhrHYBDs6xZNNIerM9diUoI03w0jUuLvN8vZLD7EfyfdGJtbw) ](http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQmhmCcrdSVTlhrHYBDs6xZNNIerM9diUoI03w0jUuLvN8vZLD7EfyfdGJtbw) ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-funny-im-going-with-funny/607248/3 "2011-12-24T05:14:57Z")
The idea of doing this to actual roadkill seems disrespectful to me. That said, an old friend wanted to make a display for her yard that had Santa kneeling and holding a reindeer up by the horns (like [this](http://www.google.com/search?q=deer&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=G131Tuu6N8eNsAKil42mAQ&biw=1440&bih=775&sei=Hl31TuCIF8PCsQKKusXcAQ#um=1&hl=en&safe=off&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=shot+point+deer&oq=shot+point+deer&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=4053l4940l3l5154l5l5l0l0l0l1l223l857l0.4.1l5l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=bdf985e3f647aac1&biw=1440&bih=775), if you need a visual) and that had the deer’s nose light up and then fade out. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-funny-im-going-with-funny/607248/4 "2011-12-24T05:26:51Z")
It would depend on how well preserved the deer was. As long as it didn’t look overly gruesome, I would find it funny. If it were gruesome, then I would find it sick. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-funny-im-going-with-funny/607248/5 "2011-12-24T05:29:04Z")
Both. Funny, but it makes you wonder who would actually do that. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-funny-im-going-with-funny/607248/6 "2011-12-24T05:37:06Z")
> [@cornflakes](#): > > The idea of doing this to actual roadkill seems disrespectful to me. That said, an old friend wanted to make a display for her yard that had Santa kneeling and holding a reindeer up by the horns (like [this](http://www.google.com/search?q=deer&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=G131Tuu6N8eNsAKil42mAQ&biw=1440&bih=775&sei=Hl31TuCIF8PCsQKKusXcAQ#um=1&hl=en&safe=off&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=shot+point+deer&oq=shot+point+deer&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=4053l4940l3l5154l5l5l0l0l0l1l223l857l0.4.1l5l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=bdf985e3f647aac1&biw=1440&bih=775), if you need a visual) and that had the deer’s nose light up and then fade out. I agree - no problem with the lit up deer “bleeding out” Christmas lights, but you shouldn’t be disrespectful to an actual dead creature. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-funny-im-going-with-funny/607248/7 "2011-12-24T05:47:37Z")
If someone had Photoshopped it that way I’d think it was funnier. It’s still… kind of funny? But less funny because you have to imagine someone actually going up to a dead animal and messing with it. That’s kind of gross and messed up, which for me detracts from the funny. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-funny-im-going-with-funny/607248/8 "2011-12-24T05:58:08Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > I agree - no problem with the lit up deer “bleeding out” Christmas lights, but you shouldn’t be disrespectful to an actual dead creature. Eh? It’s dead. it can’t possibly care. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-funny-im-going-with-funny/607248/9 "2011-12-24T05:59:13Z")
Once I saw a one-armed man pushing branches into a wood chipper. I laughed. It’s sick and funny, like a clown with the flu. ---
**Author:** ![Critical\_Mass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@Critical\_Mass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical_Mass)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-funny-im-going-with-funny/607248/10 "2011-12-24T07:28:59Z")
[Santa’s check flight.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50vE47DGEy4&feature=share) ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-funny-im-going-with-funny/607248/11 "2011-12-24T08:19:35Z")
The other day, my husband drove by a dead raccoon on the side of the road that someone had put a red bow on. Bizarre. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-funny-im-going-with-funny/607248/12 "2011-12-24T08:55:47Z")
It’s an old joke along Texas highways to put an empty beer bottle in the upward-splayed feet of a dead armadillo lying on its back. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-funny-im-going-with-funny/607248/13 "2011-12-24T15:03:43Z")
Quite a few years back, I was driving I-64 from Evansville to Louisville sometime in December. There is a lot of forest in that trip and many of the deer crossing signs with the silhouette of the leaping deer. Someone had taken the time to stop at EVERY sign and put a little red reflector on its nose… my dad and I thought it was hilarious! A man I used to work with was a hunter and bagged a big buck one year; he spray painted a tennis ball red & put it on the deer’s nose, then called his grandkids out and told them he had bagged Rudolph. He laughingly told this story and how the little 4 year old granddaughter burst into tears. THAT I found no humor in at all. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-funny-im-going-with-funny/607248/14 "2011-12-24T15:20:31Z")
Odd to see the term “disrespectful” used in this context, as respect is a purely human invention, ascribed to fellow humans and human institutions. There is the idea of “respecting nature,” but that really implies things like “don’t try to ride a hippopotamus or you’ll almost surely die” and “don’t leave your campsite strewn with Big Mac wrappers, asshole,” et cetera. One shouldn’t be _cruel_ to animals, but a dead animal feels neither pain nor humiliation. Given the opportunity, many animals would happily gnaw off your face if they found you lying dead (or at least helpless)—how’s \*that \*for respect? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-funny-im-going-with-funny/607248/15 "2011-12-24T15:33:49Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > If someone had Photoshopped it that way I’d think it was funnier. It’s still… kind of funny? But less funny because you have to imagine someone actually going up to a dead animal and messing with it. That’s kind of gross and messed up, which for me detracts from the funny. That’s my feelings. _Reading_ about it is funny. Seeing some random facebook post that may or may not have actually happened or just be a random comment is funny. But if I actually happened across it I’d have to envision someone pulling over, getting out of their car and messing with roadkill…not so funny. FTR, I don’t really care about the ‘disrespectful’ angle of it. It’s a dead deer, it’s more that it just seems kinda gross to go and mess with a dead animal on the side of the road. At least to do that. OTOH, if I actually did see it I might at least chuckle at it. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-funny-im-going-with-funny/607248/16 "2011-12-24T15:43:36Z")
Reindeer got run over by a Grandma… ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-funny-im-going-with-funny/607248/17 "2011-12-24T18:07:10Z")
Folks’ attitudes to wildlife depend a lot on where they live. I’d be flat amazed if any of my fancy-pants suburban neighbors woud get out of a car to attach a red nose to roadkill. I’m irreverent enough to think of doing it but would probably lack the oomph to actually follow through. That some rural guy who farms or ranches & hunts & sees critters dead or alive every day would do it seems very easily believable. I vote “funny” if you’re rural or irreverent. And “sick” if you’re upright or suburban or urban. ---
**Author:** ![Terraplane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Terraplane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terraplane)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-funny-im-going-with-funny/607248/18 "2011-12-24T18:14:49Z")
That’s horrible. That’s a wretched and terrible thing to do. It’s sick, twisted, and just absolutely horrible. And, kinda funny. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-funny-im-going-with-funny/607248/19 "2011-12-24T20:34:23Z")
> [@PapSett](#): > > A man I used to work with was a hunter and bagged a big buck one year; he spray painted a tennis ball red & put it on the deer’s nose, then called his grandkids out and told them he had bagged Rudolph. He laughingly told this story and how the little 4 year old granddaughter burst into tears. THAT I found no humor in at all. Now that is cruel, like the Xbox kid. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-funny-im-going-with-funny/607248/20 "2011-12-24T20:45:21Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > It’s an old joke along Texas highways to put an empty beer bottle in the upward-splayed feet of a dead armadillo lying on its back. Huh. I’ve never seen an upside down dead armadillo, which might explain why I’ve never seen one holding an empty beer bottle. And I hope the OP knows that my husband is, even now, out searching for red clown noses, because of this thread. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-funny-im-going-with-funny/607248.md?page=2)