Hundreds feared dead in Coors Light Party Train crash.

[A HERETIC I AM]

"At it's normal speed of over 27,000 miles per hour"

[leftyladyfrommo]

1. This is from the Onion n/t

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. Figure that out all by yourself there, did ya? n/t

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. No. I'm from Missouri.

This is the Show Me state. I have to double check everything before I believe it.

[Eleanors38]

3. "Don't worry, there's a million more where they came from" --

From Fat Freddy's Cat.

[Jazzgirl]

15. LOLOLOLOL!

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one that remembers Fat Freddy and his cat!

[Eleanors38]

23. Is there an on-line site showing those cartoons?

I've tried, but couldn't find one.

[Zambero]

5. Did unfortunate victims realize what was being served on the train?

Too bad about the crash and all. Victims and families would certainly have grounds for a major class action lawsuit here. Unbeknownst to them, they and their loved ones were being served flavored and color-enhanced carbonated water, in other words a bogus imitation beverage commonly known as "Coors". The thought of so many revelers being hoodwinked into a fraud of such massive proportion is tragic news indeed. Possessing advanced technology sufficient to harness massive amounts of energy from frigid polar air masses, it boggles the mind that the company in question did not have the means to manufacture the basic commodity known to many over the centuries as "beer".

[Kaleva]

6. Posted this important news in LBN. Then I self deleted it.

[A HERETIC I AM]

7. LOL...really?

Sorry...but didn't you look at the video first?

If nothing else, this is an interesting experiment on how DU'ers look through headlines on the first page of GD

[Kaleva]

8. Thought it'd be a pretty good joke to post in LBN

Left it up for a few minutes and then deleted it as it was sure to get locked.

[A HERETIC I AM]

10. Got ya..ok LOL

No sense of humor over there, eh?


Much like GD sometimes.

[Kaleva]

12. Yes. I wonder how many SOP alerts that generated the short time it was up.

[A HERETIC I AM]

24. Well, apparently this got alerted on...

so I am told by a little birdie.

[Kaleva]

25. Your OP got alerted on?

[A HERETIC I AM]

26. Yup. n/t

[In_The_Wind]

29. ffs

I used to get a lot of those ... thought you would get a laugh outta this PMs telling me my post had been alerted on.

[pintobean]

9. Uh-oh, DA is on vacation.

I hope she wasn't on board.

[pipi_k]

11. OMG what sort

of monsters are we *giggle* that we can *hah* make light of *hahaha* such tragedy?


bwahahahahaha!!!!





Thanks...this made my morning...

[A HERETIC I AM]

13. LOL...glad you liked it! n/t

[Coyotl]

14. They sure know how to make a big party look like a bad accident

[petronius]

16. Well damn - I guess that destroys any hope of ever getting high speed rail

in this country. A tragedy like this will be a game-changer.

I weep for the victims, and for the future...

(Any word on whether they've had to cancel the Super Bowl?)

[A HERETIC I AM]

18. Naaah...since it was a magical train that ran without rails....

We should be fine as a nation.

The Super Bowl will go on as planned. Coors will have another magical train ready in time.

[petronius]

20. Whew, that's a relief! Thank god for the hard-working patriots at Coors!

What would we ever do without them?

[A HERETIC I AM]

21. "What would we ever do without them?"

Have fewer crappy beer choices made by companies owned by right-wing tools?

[JVS]

30. Or high speed ale

[PCIntern]

17. Great!!!

Love it! Thanks! K and hearty R!

[A HERETIC I AM]

19. LOL

I'm wondering how many DU'ers looked at the headline and decided NOT to comment because it was a satire piece?

I also wonder how many thought it was real till they got a certain portion into the video.

[PCIntern]

22. I don't know...

strangely, I used to watch that ad and think, "can you imagine if you were on the street and this train came flying down at superspeed?" I thoguht of the old National Lampoon's "Nose to the Grindstone" issue where they had a pic of a guy with his nose plastered against this grindstone and blood and body parts everywhere.

[Snotcicles]

50. Hey man I loved it. Sometimes you just gotta pick your days to come on here.

Some days ya laugh so hard the side pains lingers all day. Other days they rip ya to shreds.

[Jamastiene]

27. !!!

[A HERETIC I AM]

28. YAY! Another DU'er with a sense of humor!

I was getting concerned!

[Jenoch]

31. This is so stupid it was not worth the effort to post it,

and it certainly was not worth my effort for this reply.

[PCIntern]

32. Uneeda sensayuma! Nt

[A HERETIC I AM]

34. And yet, here you are!

Thanks!

[ProdigalJunkMail]

36. you need a beer...

or a sense-of-humor transplant... or maybe a removal of thy self importance whine...

sP

[Demo_Chris]

33. But what happened to the boring BBQ that Coors was rushing to save?!

[A HERETIC I AM]

35. It may have been overrun by frozen, bikinia clad train passengers. n/t

[mainer]

37. Might i suggest all parody sites be posted to the Lounge?

I get irritated clicking on headlines only to find they're from The Onion.

[A HERETIC I AM]

38. I'm just going to chalk this one up to....

"I get irritated clicking on headlines only to find they're from The Onion."

...."Failure to read"

Sure, you can suggest it. I doubt it will do any good. I am not the only DU'er that tries to lighten the mood in GD on occasion (thankfully).

I realized shortly after I posted this yesterday morning that it has the making for a really good experiment regarding how DU'ers choose what to look at and whether or not they will respond to a given thread.

I figured the "view" count would have been through the roof if the headline had just said "Hundreds feared dead in train crash".

Admit it...that is what you saw, that is all you saw and you opened the thread. It took you just a bit of time after that to realize it was a parody when in fact, if you had ACTUALLY READ the thread title line and taken the couple of extra milliseconds to comprehend it, you would have figured out that it was a joke.

But you didn't, did you?

You aren't alone, I am quite sure, as the view to post count ratio would indicate.

I think this is appropriate here;

"We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who
Comes on at five
She can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam
In her eye
It's interesting when people die-
Give us dirty laundry"

-Don Henley and Danny Kortchmar

It's almost too bad that this is a fake story, isn't it?

[NightWatcher]

39. I'm OUTRAGED!!! How dare you. I'm telling on you. Alert Alert Alert

How dare you attempt to inject humor into a message board that only discusses hard hitting topics.

Please turn in your key and security pass. Someone will escort you to the parking lot, where you will be flogged with a giant, wet noodle before being sent home to think about what you've done.

[A HERETIC I AM]

40. Ummmm......I walked here.

Can we just do all that on the sidewalk out front?

[NightWatcher]

41. um, sure

[A HERETIC I AM]

42. Cool

Cuz I hafta pee.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

43. Damage? Easy to fix ..

Coors can spin off the Coors Light Party Train Inc as a separate corporation. Then CLPT Inc can file for bankruptcy, eliminating the inconvenience of actually paying for the damage caused.

Hey, if it can work in West Virginia ...



Great video, thanks.

[A HERETIC I AM]

48. LOL...glad you liked it! n/t

[Dr. Strange]

44. Why the fuck wasn't the train running on tracks?

This is why we need regulation!

I haven't been this upset since Geico started allowing camels to roam their buildings unattended!

[A HERETIC I AM]

47. You just can not regulate 27,000 MPH magic trains.

You just can't. Sorry. Camels in offices notwithstanding.

[Snotcicles]

52. Don't over regulate. Compromise, strap a diaper on that dude.

[Octafish]

45. Were the train on the way to the Secret Alpine, er, Rocky Mountain party redoubt?

[A HERETIC I AM]

46. Yosh and Stan! Yay!

The late, GREAT John Candy.

"Cabbage Rolls and Coffee" on Letterman, ca. Feb, 1985

[Octafish]

51. Awesome!

Cabbage Rolls and Coffee! Mmm. Mmm. Good!

[Renew Deal]

49. One of the best Onion pranks ever