# The local news must not have much of a sense of humor **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 25, 2012, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-local-news-must-not-have-much-of-a-sense-of-humor/613917 "2012-02-25T03:22:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-local-news-must-not-have-much-of-a-sense-of-humor/613917/1 "2012-02-25T03:22:11Z")
[Here’s a local story about a missing person](http://www.wistv.com/story/17012280/some-progress-in-search-for-missing-hospitality-executive). Whatever the case, I don’t think it will end well. My comment, which was deleted within about two hours: “What I wanna know is, ‘Did they find the pitchfork?’” ETA: Compared to some of the really nasty stuff they let slide on stories, I thought this was mostly inocuous, and was adding a little levity to a grave (probably literally) situation. But, it’s their website, and apparently they saw things differently. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-local-news-must-not-have-much-of-a-sense-of-humor/613917/2 "2012-02-25T08:29:14Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > “What I wanna know is, ‘Did they find the pitchfork?’” 😕 ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-local-news-must-not-have-much-of-a-sense-of-humor/613917/3 "2012-02-25T08:42:34Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > 😕 **Mr Tucker’s** noticed that the missing person bears a resemblance to [this fella.](http://thefineartdiner.blogspot.com/2011/07/american-gothic-american-theology-grant.html) ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-local-news-must-not-have-much-of-a-sense-of-humor/613917/4 "2012-02-25T08:46:46Z")
Ah. Big picture didn’t load up for me. ---
**Author:** ![Ahoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/50afbb/32.png) [@Ahoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ahoy)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-local-news-must-not-have-much-of-a-sense-of-humor/613917/5 "2012-02-25T09:00:41Z")
The other commenters seem to have an issue with the man’s actions. Your comment is poking fun of his looks. Don’t get me wrong it’s all tasteless. I guess someone has to filter vulgar-tasteless from crass-tasteless. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-local-news-must-not-have-much-of-a-sense-of-humor/613917/6 "2012-02-25T12:04:11Z")
Considering that most South Carolinians probably don’t give half a shit about the work of some Iowa painter from the last century, you could also have been filtered out as a cultural elitist. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-local-news-must-not-have-much-of-a-sense-of-humor/613917/7 "2012-02-25T13:15:11Z")
“Grant Wood” 20th C. Regionalist painter, or supplication to the god Priapus. I gotcher cultural elitism right here! ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-local-news-must-not-have-much-of-a-sense-of-humor/613917/8 "2012-02-25T22:25:20Z")
One assumes you also saw the brilliant headline “Pedestrian fatally hit by fire truck driven by naked man” today? ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-local-news-must-not-have-much-of-a-sense-of-humor/613917/9 "2012-02-25T23:34:05Z")
Oh, yeah. Hey, it worked. I clicked on it. And, for a closer comparison of the [people mentioned in the OP](http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm119/badger60/?action=view¤t=sponsgoth.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-local-news-must-not-have-much-of-a-sense-of-humor/613917/10 "2012-02-25T23:47:21Z")
> [@WotNot](#): > > **Mr Tucker’s** noticed that the missing person bears a resemblance to [this fella.](http://thefineartdiner.blogspot.com/2011/07/american-gothic-american-theology-grant.html) The resemblance is so vague that I wouldn’t say it’s the local news that has the problem with humor.