A Silent Thread ...

[NanceGreggs]

... in memory of all those who lost their lives in the Bowling Green Massacre.





They were our countrymen, our fellow citizens. And despite the fact that they never existed, they should never be forgotten.

[chillfactor]

1. good one...

[lastlib]

124. Remember the "Bowling Green Seven"!!....

(Or is it "Six"? No, wait, it was "Twelve", wasn't it? Or maybe "Ninety-Two".......I have such a hard time keeping all these alternative facts straight.........)

[lamp_shade]

2. ....

[nikibatts]

3. OMG!! I can't breathe!!!

Have you folks sent your tweet to Matthews yet? Kellyanne steam rolls his all the time. He ought to lose his job. I bet Joy would never have allowed he to get away with that crap.

[malaise]

4. Tweety will have the last laugh

trust me on that - he'll tear her a new one when he's ready. CONway is a pathological LIAR

[Warpy]

33. Maybe he'll tell her that her teeth are showing

Honestly, she looks like she spends her off camera time biting the wings off flies.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

80. OMG......ROFLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!

Hope you don't mind if I commit that line to memory and look for opportunities to use it in political conversation as often as possible.

[Warpy]

102. Oh, please do

There's a hell of a lot more snark where that came from.

[malaise]

89. Oh that is good

[Hekate]

94. Nibble nibble. Can't stop laughing

[lastlib]

137. ...and her canines need brushing.....

[adigal]

88. Im going to be brutally honest here. I think he is hot for her

He called her "brilliant" last night.

Yeech.

[calimary]

109. Maybe she used to be "brilliant." She's making mistakes now.

Really glaring ones. She's built herself a whole new label with the "alternative facts" that will kill her credibility - well, at least with aware, awake, and thinking people.

[Maraya1969]

136. Oh that sucks. Did some tingly happen down his leg again?

[starshine00]

90. she reminds me of soooooooo many girls I went to college with

their lives were already set and prefabricated at the age of eighteen... this is them 30 years and thousands of downers later

[Sherman A1]

5. It was a sad day

and one I still can't remember.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

130. I wish it never happened.

Or I wish it didn't not happen, or I'm glad it happened the way it didn't happen, or ...oh fuck it, I've lost my mind.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

131. I woke up that morning praying it was just a bad dream ...

... hoping beyond hope that it didn't happen ...

[Achilleaze]

6. If you don't remember something that never happened

it is nearly impossible to forget.

[MoonRiver]

10. That was heavy.

[bigbrother05]

34. Deep

[Achilleaze]

60. Well, yes, of course. I studied with The Master

[smirkymonkey]

64. I love Deep Thoughts!

That particular one happens to be one of my favorites.

[montana_hazeleyes]

91. He's a poet,

and don't know it!

[Oldtimeralso]

115. Well Finish...

But his feet show it,
Longfellows

[montana_hazeleyes]

116. I didn't even know there was more lol

Thanks Oldtimeralso.

[yardwork]

55. ROTFL!

[uponit7771]

63. ssssssip, word............phphphph... cough ... cough :-)

[n2doc]

7. It was so terrible I've blocked out memory of that day

It's as if it never happened!

[Useless in FL]

8. Love it!

Perfect!

[msanthrope]

9. Just like I'm never getting over Macho Grande.

https://m.

[rzemanfl]

11. To all of us also. Drumpf doesn't care if we exist or not,

nor care if we live or die. Being, as we are, all Losers.

[bluecollar2]

12. .....

[jimlup]

13. All the more catastrophic that

they never existed. They never had a chance to feel a warm spring breeze or appreciate a sunset.

So tragic! shhhhhh!

[NightWatcher]

14. Nearly a Brazilian were almost killed in the nonexistent massacre

[Fantastic Anarchist]

132. It's as if they never truly lived life.

Such empty lives they had. Just merely shells of their former selves.

Died way before their time. I mean way before their time, as in died before they were born. Possibly aborted.

The place was a ghost town.

I guess in this case, "absence of evidence is evidence of absence."

May they rest in peace, and by that, I mean, may they sleep peacefully at night.

[central scrutinizer]

15. Think of the families!

This is not the time to politicize the loss of the alternatively existed.

[Hortensis]

142. !

[mwooldri]

16. ... but the "bowling green massacre" is real!

Please keep Nick Brett in your thoughts and prayers. The Scots gave him a good thrashing...

http://m.bbc.com/sport/bowls/38776983

[johnp3907]

17. Never forget.

[Vinca]

18. Hysterical. I needed that.

[hwmnbn]

19. ...

[Donkees]

20. Davy Jones and Verne Troyer were there! RIP

[kentuck]

21. Still mourning...

I remember it well...

[Buckeye_Democrat]

22. The terrorists took more than their lives. They took away their existence in history.

[Sophiegirl]

23. Twitter is having a field day with this.

Guys, these Bowling Green Massacre jokes are a little too soon. Out of respect, we should wait until it takes place.

Wasn't Frederick Douglass the guy that rescued everyone from the Bowling Green massacre?

During the Bowling Green Massacre a young black woman shielded me from the barrage of bullets. Turns out that woman was Harriet Tubman.

[MountCleaners]

31. I like this one:

Link to tweet

[Sophiegirl]

37. Ha!!!

[world wide wally]

82. I forgot how they were dropping like flies in the onslaught

[Mister K]

24. Amen Nance

[MoonRiver]

25. It's always a sad day, when something doesn't happen.

[Squinch]

26. Is this about the little elf-y guys in the Rip Van Winkle story playing ninepins when Rip woke up?

I LOVE that story!

They're not dead are they????

[Squinch]

27. PS: Let us proceed with our alt-grief.

[JHB]

28. And were it not for the heroism of Frederick Douglass, still more would have been lost...

He's getting more and more recognition for the amazing things he did there, I notice.

[Hekate]

96. Harriet Tubman led me out, led all the survivors out

She was as heroic as Fred. Can I call him Fred? I feel so close to them now.

[JHB]

107. No surprise. Did the same at Macho Grande when everything went to shite...

One tough ol' bird.

[lastlib]

140. Was he over Macho Grande?

(I don't think I'll EVER get over Macho Grande......! OR Bowling Green!--It was a MASSACRE! Innocent lives were....well, you know...)

[stonecutter357]

29. .

[fishwax]

30. several sources confirmed that among the dead was Captain Tuttle

Though his remains were never found. He was memorably Eulogized by his friend Hawkeye Pierce, who wore the traditional "bowling Green green," in honor of Tuttle and all the other made up victims.

https://m.

[benfranklin1776]

32. The loss of Captain Tuttle in the massacre was especially painful

[Mendocino]

99. He's not really gone,

there's a little Tuttle in all of us, in fact we all sort of made up Tuttle

[benfranklin1776]

114. He even donated his GI insurance to the orphaned children of the victims.

A great man till the end.

But remember Kellyanne knew him first and worked closely with him.

[Warpy]

35. Sorry, can't keep silent over a tragedy of this magnitude

giggle giggle snort snicker

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

36. I live in Kentucky.

We still don't talk about it to this day

[A HERETIC I AM]

139. .....

[bmpbmp]

38. It's really quite unpainful.

Thanks to the OP for posting this, as it didn't hit close to home for me.

One of the people who perished that day wasn't my former dental hygienist.

It doesn't seem like just yesterday, she was suggesting I could improve my gumline. And the jokes we never told!

She had no family, no friends. I can't believe I never invited her to dinner.

What hurts most is that all these years, no one mourned her, no one cared.

It's stragic.

[annabanana]

48. hee. . .very good. . . n/t

[MountCleaners]

39. More tweets

https://twitter.com/hashtag/BowlingGreenMasacre?src=hash

[IndianaDave]

40. Thank God you brought this up!

I was traumatized by the event, and I have uncontrollable urges to weep and drink lots of beer. The weeping doesn't seem to help, but the beer sure as hell does. Also, I was deeply moved by Kellyanne's empathy for the families of the victims who all meet at her house every month for support. Those families are just blessed that she's so personally involved.

[mcar]

41. My heart breaks for our lost brethren

[workinclasszero]

42. Why do they put that stone cold liar on TV anyway?

She wouldn't know the truth if it slapped her in the face!

[IndianaDave]

61. I've been messing around here -

but, one of the things that bothers me the most about her is that I believe she knows the truth, but also has the disgusting skill to remain calm, distort her face with a fabricated smile and openly lie with the appearance of sincerity. That takes a level of hypocrisy which - when indulged in over a long period of time - diminishes and dehumanizes her. I hate to admit that I have no respect for her. I try to be accepting of everyone, but she has earned my revulsion and rejection.

[Hekate]

97. Too right

That woman is a piece of work

[Buckeye_Democrat]

43. Their Sun will be taken away this year too.

Won't anyone stop it?!

[dalton99a]

44. Don't forget the widows and orphans

[IndianaDave]

45. How can we forget? Kellyanne is keeping our thoughts transfixed on the victims.

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[bigtree]

46. .

[annabanana]

47. HA! . . . .n/t

[flamingdem]

49. ..

silencio por favor..

[spanone]

50. ....

[Turbineguy]

51. Another day in the trump administration.

You go to bed for a night of fitful sleep and nightmares and get up in the morning to a new massacre.

[DashOneBravo]

52. President Obama hid it

And buried the bodies at the local FEMA camp under the old Walmart.

[adigal]

92. I think Hillary hid them in the walls of the DC pizzeria where she was running that HUGE

child sex ring.
Won't someone stop her???

[Quayblue]

101. Lulz

[Gothmog]

53. I can not wait to see the movie on this event

[IndianaDave]

54. I could not bear to relive it.

Of course, if they need extras on set, I'd be willing to put my feelings aside - for the right price, of course.

[jpak]

56. ...

[MountCleaners]

57. More video of the tragedy

Link to tweet

[lapislzi]

58. The Ministry of Truth approves this message.

Your generous donations to the Memory Hole will never be forgotten.

[Tanuki]

59. I refuse to remain silent! I'll say it...the Everly Brothers killed it!

[SidDithers]

62. ...

Sid

[ismnotwasm]

65. .

In honor of this, I will read some really bad science fiction

[Gothmog]

66. Never forget

[NurseJackie]

67. Heartbroken. I'll never forget.

[sheshe2]

68. Forever young ;(

[George II]

69. trump and Conway will be going to a memorial service for the victims - February 29, 2017.

[sheshe2]

70. Forever Young

[NastyRiffraff]

71. Impossible to forget

or remember. I'll have a beer in remembrance, or forgeterance.

[GoCubsGo]

72. I normally don't participate in silent threads, but that was just so devastating.

[randome]

73. I personally saw thousands of Muslims celebrating this non-event.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Meredith McIver approves of this post.[/center][/font][hr]

[herding cats]

74. Peace to their imaginary families, and nonexistent loved ones.

The loss of those who never existed is always so difficult to bear.

[greatauntoftriplets]

75. My heart BLEEDS for these forgotten people...

even though they never actually existed.

[Donkees]

76. So sad...

[Hekate]

98. It's so moving to see a bipartisan display of grief, for this non-event

[mahina]

77. !

[First Speaker]

78. Keyser Soze is suspected of being the mastermind behind the Bowling Green Massacre...

...I expect someone to go to a police station and explain in excruciating detail how it all never really happened...

[Jamaal510]

79. ...

[IMG][/IMG]

[MrModerate]

81. I will never stop shouting to the rooftops . . .

Of the horror and loss that day when . . . nothing happened.

[world wide wally]

83. There is no telling how many lives were effected that day.

and KAC is just exploiting it for political purposes.

[Rustyeye77]

84. I'll never forget The Bowling Green Massacre

even though it never existed.

[madinmaryland]

85. God Bless those 22 young men who were mercilessly slaughtered...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028591152

[BlueMTexpat]

86. .

[adigal]

87. I'm getting into my #alternatefacts spaceship now to go mourn

I'll be back soon.

[riverbendviewgal]

93. Sad.

[shireen]

95. i died there

thanks for remembering me ...

[Rorey]

100. Best comment of all!!!

I WILL remember you, shireen!

Gosh, I can almost hear Sarah mcLachlan singing......

[Gothmog]

113. Did you get better?

Link to tweet

[mr_lebowski]

134. She turned me into a NEWT!!!

[Tarheel_Dem]

103. !!

[Guilded Lilly]

104. I'd kick this thread but I fell down laughing while reading it!

[old guy]

105. At a time of great sorrow like this

I have no words to express my feelings.

[tavernier]

106. If it wasnt for Kellyanne making it up,

we never would have even known about it!! I think we owe her a great deal of nothing!!

[dchill]

108. That which never existed...

Cannot be remembered. Therefore, it cannot be forgotten. I'm cursed with logic.

[Mickju]

110. That's funny!

[Gothmog]

111. From my twitter feed

Link to tweet

[Gothmog]

112. Two more from my twitter feed

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[McCamy Taylor]

117. Sorry. I tried to be silent. But you have me rolling on the floor laughing.

[NanceGreggs]

121. No problem, McCamy.

As you can see by the replies on this thread, many people use laughter to deal with their grief.

[The Wielding Truth]

118. HAHAHAHA! Kellyanne Conway is such a traitorous liar. Propagansda in the US us illegal!

[keepthemhonestO]

119. you

you made me chuckle

[In_The_Wind]

120. .

[mainstreetonce]

122. Have not been able to locate ...MeredIth McIver

I hope her name is not on the victims list when it is published.


She was traveling with John Baron.

[Ohioboy]

123. I certainly hope we will remember what didn't happen on this date and observe it always.

I will always remember where I was when I heard about this not happening.

[Equinox Moon]

125. NO NEWS TO REPORT TODAY

[imaginary girl]

126. That disaster

Was unpresidented!

[Lint Head]

127. I'm crying....... I can't stop crying....the tears are flowing like the Colorado River rapids..

because I'm laughing my ass off!!!!

[Initech]

128. It was a green blood bath!

[gopiscrap]

129. ...................

[NBachers]

133. If only we could go back to a point in time before it didn't happen.

boiling greens in memory of Bowling Green

[Watching]

135. Oh Dear God!

[A HERETIC I AM]

138. HEY! SHUT UP, EVERYBODY!

Spare me the framing of your gutter arguments and BE QUIET while I pick up this spare.

This is why I don't participate in "Silent Threads"

Some idiot (like me) will make light of a serious situation

[A HERETIC I AM]

141. BTW, Nance....

This is a perfect example of what the Brits call "Taking the piss out of em'" or simply "Taking the piss"

Superlative.