This Just In: They're NOT Going To Leave Him Up There

The BBQ Pit
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Folks, as long as we’re going to have this semi small trend of our Doper pet peeves, I thought I’d throw one out that, for some, hormonal or medication triggered reason…is DRIVING ME BATTY.

Look, I’ll be honest. I really like 'N Sync, and as it happens, I find Lance Bass to be “the cutest” 'N Sync so there IS a soft place in my heart for him.

I also realize that everyone else really hates him and the band he rode in on. (Woah…stick that in your slash and smoke it :smiley: )…

I understand that we’re angry that he gets to go into space because…well, I don’t understand that…but that’s neither here nor there.

I tertiarily understand that we here on the board like to vent our hatred through humor, a technique I hope to immortalize in a thin book sold at airport bookstalls.

But I just have to break to all of you…

I don’t care if you pay for it yourself…
I don’t care if you hold a fund raiser at your school…
I don’t care if you want to chip in your lunch money ‘if only’…

THEY ARE NOT GOING TO LEAVE LANCE BASS UP THERE.

*HAHAHAAHOooHOHOHOho Get it? Because if they left him up there, he couldn’t be a pop star! GET IT? GET IT? LEAVE HIM UP THERE? GET IT? Here, let me put some smilies in so it’s funnier! :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue: HAHAHAHAHHAHAH *

Ahhhhh boy band jokes repeated 100 times. They never get old.

Oh wait…they do.

I first heard this joke, no lie, five or six months ago, and I’ve heard it told in numerous ways at least thrice on this board and a baker’s dozen times in various media outlets. And each and every one of those people thought it was a god damn priceless nugget of their own unbridled creativity.

If you’re going to bash the fuckin’ kid, at least get some original material, lest I be forced to reply to posts with the ROLLEYES SMILIE.

Thank you.

J

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Hang on while I crawl out from under this here rock.

A boyband singer gets to go into space?

Fer real?

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They aren’t sending him up there because he’s a boyband singer, Coldy. They’re sending him up there because he;s got $20Mil.

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I don’t get it.

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Ah, like that Tito guy. Well, wahey, Godspeed. Viva capitalism!

Anyone got 20 Mil to spare? I wanna go, too.

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I thought Lance had sponsors paying most of that twenty mil for him. Is that incorrect?

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Color me whatever color Colibri is right now…

Is that a play on some lyrics or something?
(NPR and college radio listener checking in - I wouldn’t know Nsync from the Backstreet Boys from Britney… well, I know HER).

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jarbabyj: Not to intrude on your rant or anything but, though I don’t share your affection for said band and singer, in the interest of feeding addictions I’ll point you to the the following site ( assuming you haven’t found it already ) : www.popgurls.com

Run by adults ( ostensibly :smiley: ) who are funny and fond of N’Sync ( among other things ). Well, in a slashy way at the very least. A friend of mine helps run it and her favorite is Lance as well :).

  • Tamerlane
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Britney is the most masculine.

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I think 'nSync sucks ass.

But I think it’s really cool that Lance Bass is trying to go into space. If I could leverage the $20 million, I’d go too. Who wouldn’t? It’s the chance of a lifetime.

Other pop celebrities spend their money on houses and Jaguars. Bass is spending some of his on a really cool dream, which IMHO means he’s got clearer priorities than a lot of his peers. Good for him. I hope he gets to go and I hope it’s every bit as cool as I think it could be.

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jar

Just reading the title of this thread I knew what it was about. I don’t hate 'N Sync. I find a lot of their songs very uh…singable. (this coming from a 70’s rock girl)

I must say that the people who are against this are most likely envious that they can’t afford to finance a trip to space as well.

If I had the bucks, I’d be blastin’ off.

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If I had the bucks, I’d endow a battered women’s shelter that had decent interior paint and [rant coming] NO CHEAP PINE MOLDING OR FAKE WOOD PANELLING!

And if I had another 20 million I would endow something nice for men, too.

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The joke is, for those out of the loop:

“I hear Lance Bass is going into space”

“OH…hey, do you think for an extra $5 they’ll leave him up there?”
HAHAHHAHAHAHA GET IT? GET IT? It’s comedy gold to every single person who makes it up all by themselves :rolleyes:

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Sorry, jarbabyj, but I don’t get it. Does this joke depend on knowing the lyrics of a particular N’Sync song or what?

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No, it’s just funny 'cause we all hate him, and it’d be funny to leave him in space. That’s it.

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Thank you, j66. I could not care less what Lance Bass does to entertain himself, but I’d really be more interested to hear that he collected $20 million bucks for something philanthropic.

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The joke is dependent upon knowing that Lance Bass is REALLY GOING INTO SPACE, no joke, and also upon knowing that because he’s a popular boy band member therefore everyone who isn’t a fan of his boy band hates him.

Go figure.

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It’s a Joke! I get jokes!

Put me in the camp that says “good on him” for doing what I’d love to do. If he’s interested in ‘good causes’, then chances are he’s also giving to them in other ways, and if he’s not, then he would have spent this money on a $20m house for his pet turtles or whatever.

I think this is also the time to point out to the knockers that, in this world, there are some people who will care about the bands that you like, but there is NOBODY who will give a damn about which bands you don’t like. It’s true - nobody cares, and once you get out of high school, you’ll realise why.

And just to prove my point, I’ll put it on record that I couldn’t sing an Nsync song if my life depended on it, and I wouldn’t know this guy if our space shuttles docked together.

There
…
does anyone care?

Of course not!

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Ugh. Does every one of these threads have to turn into the 'If I was rich I’d do better things" BS? If you get rich in a capitalist society, you can do whatever the fuck you want. When someone in your communist society is getting free rides into space and you aren’t, then bitch.

I don’t like teeny bopper bullshit music, and I don’t like Lance Bass, but I fully support him being a space tourist. NASA’s obviously not interested in granting access to space for normal people since they blew up the first one they tried, and so space tourism through another government or private company is going to be the only way to get into space for a while. The more people there are like Bass and Tito, the sooner it won’t cost $20000000 for a short vacation a few miles from Earth.

These run on sentences and general bitchiness brought to you by the Ben Corporation, required overtime, and twenty thousand bobdamn fucking diapers.

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The last I had heard, he wasn’t able to cough up the 20 million…Even though he had been training with the russians for the past 6 months or so.

The russian space agency said they would just send up a cargo container that was his weight if he didn’t pay.
On another note, I’m all for him going. While I don’t particularly care for his music, I don’t know him, so I can’t say whether we should leave him or not.