# Something you laughed at and felt like slime after

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 26, 2024, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-laughed-at-and-felt-like-slime-after/999406 "2024-03-26T17:56:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2024, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-laughed-at-and-felt-like-slime-after/999406/21 "2024-04-01T23:57:22Z")

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I remember that and also thought it funny.

But to be honest, I’ve never felt bad about thinking something is funny.

I just don’t hold anything sacred enough to feel bad about laughing at it.

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**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2024, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-laughed-at-and-felt-like-slime-after/999406/22 "2024-04-02T10:29:09Z")

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> [@teelabrown](#):
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> Someone called in a fake story about the disaster to a reporter with made-up pilot names for her to read on the air. She breathlessly read them without realizing she was being pranked or how the names sounded. The fake pilot names were:
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> Sum Ting Wong  
> Wi Tu Low  
> Ho Lee Fuk  
> Bing Dang Ow
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> When I heard this I’m afraid I laughed hysterically and then slapped myself. I’m a bad, bad person.

I laughed too, but my laughter was directed at the astonishing gullibility of the media bodies that accepted/reported the story as legit.

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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2024, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-laughed-at-and-felt-like-slime-after/999406/23 "2024-04-02T12:17:19Z")

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> [@dougrb](#):
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> someone came in proclaiming “I just got back from burying my sister”. And my dad said “I hope she was dead”

Right after xmas one year I stopped at my landlord’s house to drop off my January rent. My landlord was all dressed up in a suit and tie.

I made a big deal about how good he looked, assuming he was headed to a party. He interrupted my praise with, “I guess you haven’t heard my mother died”.

I 100% thought he was making a bad joke. I had seen his mother recently and she was fine. I chuckled, then realized he’d started crying.

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**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2024, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-you-laughed-at-and-felt-like-slime-after/999406/24 "2024-04-02T12:21:51Z")

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I recently got around to watching _Kentucky Fried Movie_ for the first time.

I found it pretty funny, but even as I was laughing at a lot of the material I was realizing how the constant barrage of sex/racial/gay jokes would be absolutely unacceptable if the movie were made today. For example, a sketch in which an Evil Knieval-type stuntman is dressed up in full gear for his most dangerous stunt yet - walking up to a group of black guys shooting dice, stepping into the middle of their circle, yelling “N\_\_\_\_RS!” at the top of his lungs, and taking off running.

It works as a joke, but the Twitter discourse if you told it today would be unbearable.

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