# Unintentionally evil (if perhaps morbidly funny) things you've seen **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 15, 2013, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439 "2013-05-15T18:44:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/1 "2013-05-15T18:44:35Z")
The super popular American Girl Dolls series has one called Addy. She’s an escaped slave. But, you can [buy her for $110](http://store.americangirl.com/agshop/static/addydoll.jsp). ## Too rich for your blood? Go to eBay where you can find her being [auctioned off](http://www.ebay.com/sch/Addy-/95231/i.html). ## There’s a large nursing home close to where I live with a long columned front porch on which there are rockers and tables. It overlooks a huge cemetery. Anything strike you as unintentionally evil lately? ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/2 "2013-05-15T19:04:51Z")
The board game [Puerto Rico](http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3076/puerto-rico) is wildly popular – Boardgamegeek has for some time listed it as the 4th best board game and strategy game (at one point I believe it was #1). It was designed by a now-famous German game designer, and is regarded as a leading example of [the German school of game design](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German-style_board_game). (This is relevant to the unintentional evil.) The game _is_ pretty good. I like it personally. Leaving aside the (innovative) game mechanics, the premise of the game is you are setting up a colony in Puerto Rico in the 1500s to grow things on plantations and ship those goods back to Europe. An essential requirement of a successful colony is to have enough colonists working in your plantations and town. These colonists are brought over from some unspecified source on a ship. These plantation workers you have shipped to your colony are represented by little abstract wooden disks. **The disks are dark brown.** ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/3 "2013-05-15T19:10:35Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Too rich for your blood? Go to eBay where you can find her being [auctioned off](http://www.ebay.com/sch/Addy-/95231/i.html). I saw sweet potato spoon, cookie and savory meat pie accessories, but no chains. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/4 "2013-05-15T19:11:40Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > An essential requirement of a successful colony is to have enough colonists working in your plantations and town. These colonists are brought over from some unspecified source on a ship. These plantation workers you have shipped to your colony are represented by little abstract wooden disks. > > **The disks are dark brown.** Yes! It’s a great game, but every time I play I’m wondering, are they TRYING to make me feel bad about bringing more people over? Usually we just call them slaves, since that’s obviously what they are, and we crack bleak jokes about it, but good grief, how hard would it have been t omake your “colonists” purple or something? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/5 "2013-05-15T19:12:12Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I saw sweet potato spoon, cookie and savory meat pie accessories, but no chains. That would fall under “shipping and handling”. (Who, when escaping from slavery, thinks “ooh, be sure to bring the sweet potato spoon”?) In keeping with the historical atrocities theme… Hernando de Soto was the first European to explore much of what’s now the southeastern U.S. and he was an absolutely total bastard. His men killed southeastern Indians by the thousands with guns, steel, and dogs (literally- they would throw them to the dogs they carried), they tortured and raped and stole their way from what’s now Florida through Georgia and the Carolinas and Georgia and Tennessee and Mississippi and Arkansas and Louisiana, they burned towns and destroyed millennium old cultures, and that’s not including the multitudes who died from the diseases they introduced. Thus DeSoto Caverns, a tourist trap in north-central Alabama, chose him as their mascot, [Happy Hernando](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Wl42iJaz4VE/S7f_tDDIM8I/AAAAAAAAFKE/X9PkQQrnq-g/s1600/DeSoto+Caverns+038.jpg)! (“Hey boys and girls, would you like some smallpox? Or would you rather go and pet Señor Fluffy the War Mongrel?”) ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/6 "2013-05-15T19:25:13Z")
There is a funeral home in the Chicago suburbs that prominently advertises their cremation services. They’re named Adolf Funeral Home. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/7 "2013-05-15T19:30:59Z")
There’s an eye doctor and vision center in Tuscaloosa on [Helen Keller Blvd](http://www.superpages.com/bp/Tuscaloosa-AL/Davis-Eye-Clinic-Thomas-M-Davis-Jr-MD-L0117326196.htm)… ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/8 "2013-05-15T19:48:34Z")
Not sure this is exactly what you’re looking for, but last night I was reading my daughter a Thomas the Tank Engine book, and I mentioned to my wife that Sir Topham Hat looks a lot like [Varys](http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Varys), from Game of Thrones. After that I started reading his lines in a Varys voice, and his comments about “Hurry back, Thomas, or else _someone else will pick up the children_!” took on a whole new meaning, and my wife punched me in the arm. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/9 "2013-05-15T20:34:18Z")
From [another thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16098904&postcount=17). Saw one the other night. I was watching music videos on OnDemand and came across Rooster by Alice In Chains (via Havoc OnDemand). It was sponsored by the Army. Huh??? 😕 Either someone wasn’t paying attention or has a sick sense of humor to pair those two. The video is full of horrors of war imagery from the vietnam era, some real footage, some reinacted. The absolute kicker was a little [goarmy.com](http://goarmy.com) bug popping up in the lower right as a ticker reads “There’s strong and there’s Army Strong”. What was the video showing at this exact point? An incredibly graphic scene where a soldier is getting his legs blown off by (what I think is) a land mine. At least it wasn’t real footage being shown there. There was a recruiting ad after the video, featuring a soldier giving a testimonial about how the Army was right for him, but I doubt it’s going to be very effective… [sub][sup]I’m not intending to be critical of the video, btw, just that there’s something incredibly off about mixing it with Army ads.[/sup][/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/10 "2013-05-15T22:47:34Z")
I couldn’t find a cite for this, but I have a Disney 1993 holiday catalog featuring a variety of items, including a faux fur coat for children with _Dalmatian spots_. The description calls it “real enough to fool Cruella”. It’s on the page featuring _101 Dalmatians_ merchandise. ---
**Author:** ![Rollo\_Tomasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/58956e/32.png) [@Rollo\_Tomasi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rollo_Tomasi)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/11 "2013-05-15T22:58:05Z")
Not sure if this is what you’re looking for, but it’s definitely morbidly funny… There was a building on the main street of my hometown that housed one business in the front (facing the street) and another, completely unrelated one in the back. But they both shared the sign that was out on the street. On the top half of the sign? “Veterinary Hospital.” On the bottom half of the sign? “Catering.” ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/12 "2013-05-15T22:58:16Z")
[This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilNZ6g6LJ8k) Sabra Hummus commercial. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/13 "2013-05-16T00:05:15Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Yes! It’s a great game, but every time I play I’m wondering, are they TRYING to make me feel bad about bringing more people over? Usually we just call them slaves, since that’s obviously what they are, and we crack bleak jokes about it, but good grief, how hard would it have been t omake your “colonists” purple or something? …And the fact that it’s a German-designed game makes it funnier; the stereotypical German attention to detail and the stereotypical German failure to notice that in some cases said attention to detail might be offensive. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/14 "2013-05-16T01:16:39Z")
> [@Flywheel](#): > > [This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilNZ6g6LJ8k) Sabra Hummus commercial. It ain’t bad. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/15 "2013-05-16T02:39:01Z")
In a slightly different vein… A kids book (in rhyme) that we own features, at one point, a bunch of kids going off to do garden work for their mother. _Off they went, with tools on shoulders Bob, the rake, and Jill, the hoe_ We think Bob the Rake and Jill the Ho sound like a pretty good match for each other. ---
**Author:** ![Renifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Renifer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renifer)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/16 "2013-05-16T04:39:17Z")
I saw this unfortunately titled book at the library today: > **[Kings of the Road: How Frank Shorter, Bill Rodgers, and Alberto Salazar Made...](https://www.amazon.com/Kings-Road-Shorter-Rodgers-Alberto/dp/054777396X)** > > Kings of the Road: How Frank Shorter, Bill Rodgers, and Alberto Salazar Made Running Go Boom \[Stracher, Cameron\] on Amazon.com. \*FREE\* shipping on qualifying offers. Kings of the Road: How Frank Shorter, Bill Rodgers, and Alberto Salazar Made Running... Obviously published before a certain notorious event. ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/17 "2013-05-16T07:28:57Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > There’s an eye doctor and vision center in Tuscaloosa on [Helen Keller Blvd](http://www.superpages.com/bp/Tuscaloosa-AL/Davis-Eye-Clinic-Thomas-M-Davis-Jr-MD-L0117326196.htm).. An advertisement for Helen Keller sunglasses: [![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uGJA20ZTgXo/UN0hvklTrhI/AAAAAAABHCw/SCBfLpkgxsk/s800/IMG_0466.JPG) ](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uGJA20ZTgXo/UN0hvklTrhI/AAAAAAABHCw/SCBfLpkgxsk/s800/IMG_0466.JPG) This isn’t evil, but I’m posting it here because it’s too small to have a thread of its own: I can’t believe they named the CPR doll Resusci Anne and not Resusci Kate!!! ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/18 "2013-05-16T08:12:26Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > …And the fact that it’s a German-designed game makes it funnier; the stereotypical German attention to detail and the stereotypical German failure to notice that in some cases said attention to detail might be offensive. _Settlers of Catan_, probably the most widely popular and successful German game, has a board with hexes representing several types of terrain. It also features a piece called the Robber. The Robber always begins the game on the desert. The piece representing the Robber is a [vaguely human-shaped black pawn](http://memebase.cheezburger.com/verydemotivational/tag/settlers-of-catan). ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/19 "2013-05-16T12:14:02Z")
> [@AaronX](#): > > This isn’t evil, but I’m posting it here because it’s too small to have a thread of its own: > I can’t believe they named the CPR doll Resusci Anne and not Resusci Kate! [Tate](https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=is+tate+a+girl+or+boy+name&oq=is+Tate+a+girl%27s&gs_l=hp.1.1.0j0i22i30.0.0.1.114594.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0...1c..12.psy-ab.EuZUmwKauMo&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.46471029,d.dmg&fp=26303561b7f89a61&biw=1920&bih=1106) appears to be a regular name, used for either gender. ---
**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:** [May 16, 2013, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439/20 "2013-05-16T12:56:32Z")
There’s a retirement place around here that my company used to deliver to. When they first opened up they had a banner that said “Senior Living’s Best Kept Secret”. I don’t know if it was on purpose or not, but they mostly dealt with people with Alzheimer’s. C’mon, that had to be a joke, right? I’m sure part of it was because when they built the location it was way out in a part of the city with nothing built up around them for miles and it was hard to find…but still “best kept secret”…the people that live there don’t have a good memory anymore, you be the judge. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-evil-if-perhaps-morbidly-funny-things-youve-seen/658439.md?page=2)