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Post number 11252

Kato — Tue, 09 Oct 2001 02:15:20 -0800

Hey You! Stop, Drop and Roll Am I going to hell because this made me laugh--albeit briefly and with pangs of guilt? Was it schadenfreude? Frayed nerves? An inherent appreciation of irony where I can find it? Or something far worse? (Are these enough questions?)

By: diddlegnome

diddlegnome — Tue, 09 Oct 2001 02:22:20 -0800

No comment on your final destination, Kato, but this sort of thing makes a person wonder -- where do they get all the flags they burn in places like Pakistan? I mean, they're very hard to come by in the U.S. these days. Maybe protesters in other lands have cornered the market, I dunno. And, um, since the guy looks like he's going to be fine, I feel OK in admitting I thought it was kinda funny, too.

By: bunnyfire

bunnyfire — Tue, 09 Oct 2001 02:33:44 -0800

Maybe you are just darned to heck. (I am glad the guy is going to be okay....and yes, the irony of it all, the irony of it all......) Relax, you are human. Now if you had only linked to ONE of those pics........

By: Kato

Kato — Tue, 09 Oct 2001 02:52:52 -0800

Shoot, didn't remember I should have linked to one image and not the "news photo" page. Being wired with insomnia does not help attention to details. {sigh} And good question, diddlegnome, on where they obtain the myriad large flags they trot out--do they purchase them just for flag burning on camera? The one he lit up seemed go up like flash paper - one of my fave items in my pyro kit bag. And overall I'm glad the fellow seemed okay afterwards; he missed becoming a quasi-Darwin Award candidate by seconds...

By: monkeyJuice

monkeyJuice — Tue, 09 Oct 2001 03:04:23 -0800

i laughed, but felt no guilt. what a wally!

By: Potsy

Potsy — Tue, 09 Oct 2001 04:30:54 -0800

I saw a link to this this earlier, and I was so inspired, I made an animated version of this. I'm definitely going to hell.

By: Potsy

Potsy — Tue, 09 Oct 2001 04:37:20 -0800

(Sorry for self-linking, but it is within the threads and not a front page link, so I figured it would be okay.)

By: Optamystic

Optamystic — Tue, 09 Oct 2001 04:37:51 -0800

Brilliant, Potsy. Absolutely inspired.

By: Outlawyr

Outlawyr — Tue, 09 Oct 2001 05:40:13 -0800

Add the music "Burn baby burn (disco inferno)" to it and you've got something.

By: monkeyJuice

monkeyJuice — Tue, 09 Oct 2001 06:05:43 -0800

go hobbs! go hobbs!

By: isildur

isildur — Tue, 09 Oct 2001 07:16:28 -0800

Horrible. The man obviously scorched his face and you twerps are laughing about it. Definitely worse than schaudenfreude. Fortunately for you, hell doesn't exist. diddlegnome: Nearly all American flags are Made in China, and Pakistan is a little closer to them than we are.

By: jragon

jragon — Tue, 09 Oct 2001 08:07:26 -0800

He's fine. Get over it. In other news, everyone behind the man appears to be smiling/laughing.

By: schlaager

schlaager — Tue, 09 Oct 2001 08:26:34 -0800

Rather ominous, don't you think? They burn us, we burn them... isildur: What makes you think Hell doesn't exist, when God makes it perfectly clear that it does?

By: Hildegarde

Hildegarde — Tue, 09 Oct 2001 09:03:52 -0800

Not even slightly funny. Not even a grin out of that. Would it have been funnier if it were a woman and her hajib caught fire? Ha ha.

By: Foosnark

Foosnark — Tue, 09 Oct 2001 09:59:26 -0800

instant karma.

By: th3ph17

th3ph17 — Tue, 09 Oct 2001 11:54:00 -0800

without the digital enhancements i never even noticed calvin and hobbes in the crowd, that makes me sad they would be at such a rally.

By: owillis

owillis — Tue, 09 Oct 2001 13:17:54 -0800

As my friend would say: "That's what you get".