# This is way, way beyond bad taste **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 19, 2004, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-way-way-beyond-bad-taste/246059 "2004-05-19T23:36:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Balle\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@Balle\_M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balle_M)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-way-way-beyond-bad-taste/246059/21 "2004-05-20T13:35:02Z")
This is jist the latest in a _l-o-o-o-n-g_ series of radio spots featuring Mark Down. The voices they use are rather distinctive…as soon as they started talking I knew what it was. Of course, if it’s the first time you heard one it wouldn’t obviously be a commercial until the last 5 or 10 seconds. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-way-way-beyond-bad-taste/246059/22 "2004-05-20T13:54:09Z")
Oh, yeah? Well, YOUR CHILDREN ARE DEAD! Dead serious about drinking new Capri Sun, that is. Now with vitamin C. Buy some today! ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-way-way-beyond-bad-taste/246059/23 "2004-05-20T14:10:53Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > I think the ad is unfathomably cruel. My sister was killed by Walmart’s falling prices. The weight of the savings just snapped her vertebrae in two. > > I’m sorry, this is just too painful to type. Thank you, AerynSun, for reopening wounds with this rant. You think this is _funny_? Are you trivializing people with snapped vertebrae? :mad: ☹ :dubious: 🙂😛 ---
**Author:** ![Mayfield\_St.Cloud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@Mayfield\_St.Cloud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mayfield_St.Cloud)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-way-way-beyond-bad-taste/246059/24 "2004-05-20T14:28:46Z")
**Enderw24** , I’ve been reading this board for nearly 5 years now, and I put that in my top 10 funniest posts I’ve ever seen. Bravo. Unfortunately, I was taking a break at work. Does anyone know the best way to clean these little bits of granola bar off the monitor? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-way-way-beyond-bad-taste/246059/25 "2004-05-20T14:28:52Z")
> [@Exgineer](#): > > I’m with **Cisco** on this one too. Just the description in the OP had me laughing like and idiot. **Ender** didn’t help matters, either. > > I think some of you are overly sensitive. I don’t think not finding ads parodying people being terrorized and killed by a co-worker funny is overly sensitive. Maybe you’re _underly_ sensitive. I don’t think practical jokes are funny either. I just think they’re mean. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-way-way-beyond-bad-taste/246059/26 "2004-05-20T19:58:40Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > I don’t think not finding ads parodying people being terrorized and killed by a co-worker funny is overly sensitive. Maybe you’re _underly_ sensitive. I don’t think we really get to choose what’s funny. Something either strikes us funny or it doesn’t and then we either choose to admit it or we don’t. > [@](#): > > I don’t think practical jokes are funny either. I just think they’re mean. Saying practical jokes are mean as a generalization is overly sensitive. Period. Now…on to the important stuff. What market does Mark Down appear in? Does he have a website? ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-way-way-beyond-bad-taste/246059/27 "2004-05-20T20:02:27Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Oh, yeah? Well, YOUR CHILDREN ARE DEAD! > > Dead serious about drinking new Capri Sun, that is. Now with vitamin C. Buy some today! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Llama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@The\_Llama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Llama)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-way-way-beyond-bad-taste/246059/28 "2004-05-20T20:10:34Z")
> [@](#): > > Oh, yeah? Well, YOUR CHILDREN ARE DEAD! That and the walmart one… comedy gold. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-way-way-beyond-bad-taste/246059/29 "2004-05-20T20:40:25Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Oh, yeah? Well, YOUR CHILDREN ARE DEAD! > > Dead serious about drinking new Capri Sun, that is. Now with vitamin C. Buy some today! [Obligatory _South Park_ Reference] Simpsons did it! Simpsons did it! [/OSPR] [Obligatory _Simpsons_ Reference] Baby-proofer: Your baby is dead! [horrified, Homer and Marge scream] That’s what you’d hear if your baby fell victim to the thousands of deathtraps lurking in the average American home. [hands Marge a business card] Marge: Springfield Baby-proofing? Homer: [panting] You, you really scared us. Baby-proofer: Sorry about that. But the truth is … your baby, Maggie Simpson, is dead! [Homer and Marge scream once more] Dead tired of baby-proofers who don’t provide a free estimate. Let’s start in the kitchen. [walks in] [/OSR] ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-way-way-beyond-bad-taste/246059/30 "2004-05-20T20:52:12Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > I don’t think practical jokes are funny either. I just think they’re mean. Yeah? Well, pull my finger! 😛 What makes the joke “practical”, anyways? :dubious: I’ve checked about 4 online encyclopedias, which define what it is, but not why it’s practical. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-way-way-beyond-bad-taste/246059/31 "2004-05-20T21:10:02Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > I don’t think not finding ads parodying people being terrorized and killed by a co-worker funny is overly sensitive. Maybe you’re _underly_ sensitive. _snort_ Good one! “…_underly_ sensitive…” Ha! ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-way-way-beyond-bad-taste/246059/32 "2004-05-20T21:23:31Z")
Gee. And I’ve always thought car lot ads to be the pinnacle of what is good and creative advertising. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-way-way-beyond-bad-taste/246059/33 "2004-05-20T22:00:16Z")
> [@harmless](#): > > Yeah? > Well, pull my finger! 😛 > What makes the joke “practical”, anyways? :dubious: > I’ve checked about 4 online encyclopedias, which define what it is, but not why it’s practical. Practical in the sense of “concerned with actual use or practice” as opposed to theoretical. A [practical joke](http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=practical) is “a joke put in practice; a joke the fun of which consists in something done, in distinction from something said.” I don’t like them much either, but every once in a while there’s one that cracks me up, so I can’t really make a blanket indictment. I probably would have been annoyed by the commercial in the OP if I had initially been scared that there really was an employee on the rampage. I hate being scared for no reason (listen up, local news sweeps promo writers!) ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-way-way-beyond-bad-taste/246059/34 "2004-05-20T22:03:20Z")
Of course, the real question here is whether or not there were any dead hookers in the trunks of the cars for sale. :eek: 😃 FB ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-way-way-beyond-bad-taste/246059/35 "2004-05-20T22:12:15Z")
> [@harmless](#): > > Yeah? > Well, pull my finger! 😛 > What makes the joke “practical”, anyways? :dubious: > I’ve checked about 4 online encyclopedias, which define what it is, but not why it’s practical. Well, for one thing, pulling your finger wouldn’t be practical. Not for me, anyway. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-way-way-beyond-bad-taste/246059/36 "2004-05-20T22:31:01Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > Practical in the sense of “concerned with actual use or practice” as opposed to theoretical. A [practical joke](http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=practical) is “a joke put in practice; a joke the fun of which consists in something done, in distinction from something said.” I don’t like them much either, but every once in a while there’s one that cracks me up, so I can’t really make a blanket indictment. > > I probably would have been annoyed by the commercial in the OP if I had initially been scared that there really was an employee on the rampage. I hate being scared for no reason (listen up, local news sweeps promo writers!) Merci! 🙂 I read an Ann Landers or such where a lady was complaining about how adverts. use police and ambulance sirens. I understand the feeling! I hate being in traffic around such vehicles. I’m always concerned they will get an emergency and my dumb butt would muck things up trying to get out of the way. :rolleyes: So when the radio plays such an ad, my heart jumps into my throat until I hit “mute” on the stereo and realize it’s a commercial. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-way-way-beyond-bad-taste/246059/37 "2004-05-21T00:12:24Z")
> [@AerynSun](#): > > Maybe they’ll follow it up with a wacky reference to Columbine! “We’re going to burn all prices! Cassie Bernall prices!” “We’re Dylan…deallllllyynnnnn!” “We’re bold to cut prices by as much as 50%! Klebold to cut prices!” Sorry, just had to. ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Scene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Bob\_Scene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Scene)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-way-way-beyond-bad-taste/246059/38 "2004-05-21T00:23:13Z")
Looks like our car lot has been taken over by Abu Ghraib MP’s! And they’re _abusing high prices!_ ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-way-way-beyond-bad-taste/246059/39 "2004-05-21T01:10:45Z")
This thread suc ------ ceeds at making a valid point. Just kidding. Lighten up, dude. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-way-way-beyond-bad-taste/246059/40 "2004-05-21T01:24:34Z")
> [@FaerieBeth](#): > > Of course, the real question here is whether or not there were any dead hookers in the trunks of the cars for sale. > :eek: 😃 > FB I’ve never seen so many dead hookers! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-way-way-beyond-bad-taste/246059.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-way-way-beyond-bad-taste/246059.md?page=3)