Non-Dumb DUers - Don't you wish some goofs here would get in a train wreck

[WilliamPitt]

Seriously. Smash. "I'm sorry, I don't have time to squabble over Dean and Kerry and whatever else, because I've been in a train wreck."

Music to my ears.

:)

On edit: This is a joke. Duh.

[kiahzero]

1. Not really

I'm not sure if I'm one of the flame warriors you're referring to, but anyway...
I don't want anybody hurt - I just wish some people would think more logically.

[Hav]

2. hahaha

That tops it all haha.

[edzontar]

3. No. I think it would be dumb to wish ill on my colleagues

Just because their thinking is less than clear.

This is a very dumb suggestion.

[WilliamPitt]

15. Oh, you're so grim and serious and intense

I'll bet you just vibrate with righteousness. Sounds like you need a train wreck.

:)

[edzontar]

56. I just thought the idea was dumb.

Actually I am told I have a very good sense of humor.

[RandomKoolzip]

4. All of those threads are highly offense to anyone who's

ever actually been in a train wreck.

/sarcasm/

[Snivi Yllom]

5. you forgot to mention Nader

Dean Kerry Nader

Ok, now where is that train wreck we are supposed to be in.

[CivilRightsNow]

6. wow... what a sentiment

I guess you consider yourself one of the Non-Dumb Duers, eh?

Im just curious. How many people on DU do you think consider themseleves "Dumb"?

It looks like a fuckload consider themselves so much more intelligent then others. Reminds me of the current Administration.

[Robb]

12. "How many people on DU do you think consider themseleves 'Dumb'?'

Yo. :hi:

Hell, I just clicked to see what Will was sayin' to the smarties.

[5thGenDemocrat]

88. I'm with you, Robb

Once I couldn't even spell "stoopid." Now I are one.
John
Thank goodness that when Election Day comes around, all I have to do is look for the candidate with the (D) after his name. I don't even much care who it is (but that's just stoopid little ol' me).

[legin]

96. Is a 'Dumb Goof' a promotion for me

usually I'm a 'European cockroach' down in the basement, or is it a case of once you hit rock bottom then you can only go sideways.

I suppose I should have an opinion on the wisdom of the thread title but I just don't have what it takes interlectually. Sorry.

Vote moot of the Dumb Goof party in 2004

[TrogL]

99. Robb is a dingbat

You're not dumb.

[mmonk]

7. train wrecks are a little much

maybe stumping one's toe?;-)

[buddhamama]

8. no.

the past few days have been highly amusing, though.

this is how Democracy is supposed to work,people!
Citizen Participation is crucial.

[maxanne]

9. it's a shame

so many are fanning the flames of discord, then pretending to occupy higher ground.

[Cheswick2.0]

44. bingo

!

[DancingBear]

10. Non-life threatening, of course

:)

For me, this board is fast becoming an inverse relationship - the more petulant the posters, the less interest I have in taking part.

I'll bet that holds for a few others, as well.

[Adelante]

24. DancingBear

:hi:

I see fewer and fewer threads of interest. I've hidden more threads than ever before. That sentiment holds.

[boxster]

45. I agree completely.

My participation is likely to continue declining, as well.

The bitterness and sheer hatred of Kerry and Edwards displayed by some posters is appalling, and the number of truly asinine arguments is increasing exponentially.

Example - one Edwards supporter used a poll that showed that Kerry was behind Bush in one area - jobs, if I remember correctly. Said Edwards supporter failed to mention that Edwards was 13% behind Kerry in the exact same poll. Oops.

[woofless]

70. YUP! But it will all be over soon I hope.

[mzmolly]

11. Dumb is in the eye of the beholdee

;)

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[WilliamPitt]

17. I've just lost faith in your sense of humor

and your ability to get a pretty obvious joke. Go on back to your Marx readings. :)

[Sean Reynolds]

27. Joking about ones death isn't humor to me.

[WilliamPitt]

30. See post 25

with thanks. :)

[Walt Starr]

52. I'm with you, Sean

Wishing ill on fellow human beings, even in jest, is simply not funny.

It reeks of the worst in people.

[regnaD kciN]

119. I disagree!

I would like to see some posters here get in a train wreck...particularly those who "wrote a book"...

ON PRE-EDIT: Just like Mr. Pitt's original post, this is a joke.

[LittleDannySlowhorse]

14. I would be happy if they just got tendonitis

or carpal tunnel syndrome. No need for them to die. Just the tragic loss of the use of their typing mittens.

[KC21304]

16. Oh my gosh, Will. Some of the non-dumb DUers thought

you meant a real honest to goodness train wreck. As opposed to the allegorical kind we have heard about here for days. Go figure.

[WilliamPitt]

19. I want everyone to die! Die!

Or not.

:)

[mmonk]

23. or maybe its joking around

no doubt.

[Walt Starr]

18. Nope, not even close

Wishing that one's fellow human beings has a way of backfiring on oneself. Some people call this KARMA.

[WilliamPitt]

You're hilarious by accident

which is even more hilarious.

[mmonk]

28. or maybe

taking things too serious?

[Walt Starr]

58. Joking about people being harmed

is not joking, IMO.

Rememeber, if you joke about a president being harmed, the Secret Service will pay you a visit.

At best, joking about people being harmed is an example of the worst possible taste.

[woofless]

72. Do you TRULY not get it?

Do you honestly believe Will literally wants people involved in a train wreck? Does figurative speaking elude you completely? Obviously you don't have enough things to be enraged about.

[MadHound]

Sad Will, very sad

Not a good thing when I see one of the more articulate, intelligent posters on this board joining in on the whole grouphate mentality currently sweeping through here. Legitamite, even passionate criticism is one thing. Wishing for physical harm to others is beyond the pale. This is not becoming of you and the others around here expressing the same sentiments.

[WilliamPitt]

22. I've got your face

:)

[demnan]

20. I think an ego-removal operation

should be the order of the day.

[nomaco-10]

21. Thanks for raising the level of discussion here....

We've been needing to debate the important issue of train wrecks for a long time. Too much time is spent on shallow discussion like IRW, The Patriot Act, the Environment, Corporate Corruption, BBV, The Industrial Military Complex and other unworthy topics like Tax Cuts and No Child Left Behind. Leave it to Will to get us all back on track. :eyes:

[WilliamPitt]

25. THE BEST PART OF THIS THREAD

are all the self-righteous dorks castigating me for 'wishing harm on others.' I laugh in your general direction. I thought my train wreck reference to the other train wreck threads was kinda funny. You people, however, are a god damned laugh riot. Oh man. Thanks.

[atre]

92. This guy gets away with way too much just because he wrote a book....

Whoop-de-dooo! I'm published, too. That doesn't give me a license to go around telling people I wish them harm and then suggest they're stupid if they don't think my "joke" is funny...

Will, I've noticed you tend to let your emotions get the best of you sometimes. I'm sure even you'd admit that you wear your heart on your sleeve... May I suggest that you'd do your cause more good if you didn't direct your anger so often at people you might stand a fair chance of converting to your cause???

Some food for thought.

[Bozola]

26. Death to the non-believers, eh?

It seems to me I've heard that chant some where before...must have been something historical I read.


Either you're with us of you should die in a train wreck? Is the difference between a liberal and a conservative that a conservative kills you in a private vehicle, while a liberal prefers public transportation?

[WilliamPitt]

29. See post 25

You're funnier than I could ever hope to be.

[Bozola]

63. That much is obvious.

[bigtree]

31. Trouble with you is

The trouble with me
Got two good eyes
but we still don't see
Come round the bend
You know it's the end
The fireman screams and
The engine just gleams

-Robert Hunter, Casey Jones

[WilliamPitt]

33. THAT'S what I'm talkin' about

:)

[PVnRT]

32. Sweet, sweet music

n/t

[Mrs. Overall]

34. I get frustrated with Non-Humor Duers

who are so hyper-sensitive that anything mentioned involving pain, or harm, or hurt in a joking or sarcastic manner causes them to come out and tell us that things like train wrecks are "bad."
Simile, metaphor, and figurative language can often involve unpleasantries to get across points--hence train wreck, and we know those involved in the train wreck aren't dead because they can think and reflect on their situation as opposed to fighting about candidates.
I felt the same way yesterday when people were so upset about the *'s dead dog and upset over people making very funny cracks about * regarding the dead dog.
Humor is our saving grace--even dark humor--.

[WilliamPitt]

36. See post 25

which cements our agreement. :)

[mdmc]

40. Train wrecks are ruining DU

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=382730#386394

[Dookus]

74. Why is THAT thread ruining DU

but not the Kerry trainwreck thread that precipitated it?

[Walt Starr]

48. I get frustrated with "slapstick" humor

Wishing ill on fellow human beings, even in jest, is simply not funny, IMO.

[Mrs. Overall]

57. To say "Aww, go jump in a lake," is going too far?

Again, just wondering where we must draw the line with humor. So, nothing that hints at "wishing ill to fellow human beings"--well have you said mean things about Bush or the administration on this board that could be construed as wishing ill upon Bush--he is our fellow human being.
Do you dislike animals, then, if it is only "human beings" we can't wish ill upon?

I'm just trying to figure out where people draw the line with their humor, because obviously, we all draw out lines at different places. Frankly, people with strict humor lines are not much fun to be around (imo).

[littlejoe]

87. In the realm of humor walt, there is no boundary.

There are times when I feel just like George Carlin, who said, "Wouldn't it be great if you could make someone's head explode just by looking at them?"

[shance]

35. Kind of a narcissistic joke - you implying youre smarter than everyone?

If anyone is keeping the fire burning on the Kerry/Dean deal, you may want to take a look in the mirror WP.

[WilliamPitt]

37. Oh, you got me, I'm so shallow...and you should read post 25

:)

[KC21304]

46. I guess you can count me in with the dumb ones.

I didn't know that all those original train wreck posts were referring to real train wrecks with people getting KILLED ? :shrug:


Does anyone have a death toll, and names ? I would like to send my condolences.

[atre]

93. Post 25....

Post 25 is just more "laughter" at people who don't respond favorably to the OP, supposedly because they're too "dumb" to get your sinister joke. Classy.

[SiobhanClancy]

38. I always thought it was Republicans...

who were lacking a sense of humor.
:hi:

[LandOLincoln]

53. No, it's not just Republicans. The wing...er, the persons at

the far left of the political spectrum are just as humorless and puritanical as those on the far right. It's getting harder and harder to tell them apart.

[boxster]

39. Yes, yes, yes, yes.

You would think people could be a little more fricking creative than to use the "train wreck" analogy over and over and over and over and over....

But, no.

[Newsman Matt Drudge]

41. I don't really qualify to answer this post, as I'm not non-dumb

But I think that the squabbling is refreshing. I think train wrecks are refreshing. I think Diet Chocolate Shasta is refreshing. This one time I was drinking a Diet Chocolate Shasta and eating a Some Hershey kisses, and it was like a lot of chocolate stuff at one time. I almost got an upset stomach, but then I took some Tums and I was ok.

Best Regards,
Matt

[BL_Zebub]

42. Mr Pitt, I must protest your attempt at tampering with Hell's immigration

To suggest that entire trains full of people should wreck because they disagree with you, would be to put an undue burden on Hell's economy as I would have to pay my construction crews overtime for the 666 hour shifts they would be working to prepare these new accomodations.

[Cheswick2.0]

43. that's about par for the course

[KC21304]

47. No, actually I think that was a hole in one.

[chiburb]

49. Nah, dontcha know Pitt's the "bogey-man"? n/t

.

[YNGW]

50. The original post was a train wreck..

... while trying to make a joke about a train wreck which is just a subset of an even larger train wreck.

What a train wreck!

There's a story about a guy who got hired at a railway station and whose job it was to switch the lines. After going over how it worked, his supervisor asked him, "Now if you got a train going West on Line 'A' and another train going East on Line 'A', and they're heading right at each other going 80 mph, what do you do?" The new hire said "I'm gonna yell "R.C." The supervisor goes "I don't think you understand. Let me say it again. Now if you got a train going West on Line 'A' and another train going East on Line 'A', and they're heading right at each other going 80 mph, what do you do?" The new hire says again "I'm, gonna yell R.C." The supervisor goes "No, that's not what you would do. But let me ask you, why would you yell 'R.C.?'" The new hire says "Oh, I'd yell R.C. I'd yell R.C. just as loud as I could yell it. You see, my friend R.C. ain't never seen a train wreck that bad."

[LittleDannySlowhorse]

51. Q: How many DU-ers does it take to change a light bulb?

A: That's not funny!

[redqueen]

55. The train wreck thing is tired

but this was funny!

:7

[LittleDannySlowhorse]

59. Tee hee

I mean... NO IT WASN'T!!!!

[BL_Zebub]

60. A: We won't know the answer until the DLC tells us who they think

Is able to change the light bulb.

Right now, their most "lightbulbable" candidate is an Amish guy whose never touched an electrical socket in his life, but that's OK because at least he's not opposed to GE funding the light bulbs :evilgrin:

[redqueen]

65. Now THIS is good!

Funny is good, but funny with a meaningful message is oh so very very much more necessary. :D

:yourock:

[5thGenDemocrat]

90. That's a trick question

DUers would be incapable of changing a light bulb because half of them would want to spin it one way and half the other. This doesn't include those who want to ask "If Ralph Nader doesn't see the light bulb, does it exist?"
John
Now back to the foodfight.

[SeattleRob]

54. .....

sound of a tumble weed blowing by....

[TheDonkey]

61. It is sarcasm, but still a little too close to home.

I wouldn't want to joke about DUers getting into a train wreck.

Freepers on the other hand ;).

[GumboYaYa]

62. What a weak attempt at humor. This sounds like one of my

four-year old's jokes. What's next, are you gonna run around the room screaming "poopy"?

Laughter sometimes is the best medicine. It just helps if the jokes are actually funny.

[Mrs. Overall]

66. I think there's a difference between a joke and a sarcastic statement--

sarcasm usually isn't ha, ha funny. It causes us to think....
maybe about the way we are supporting/squabbling about the candidates.

See beyond the train....

[Eloriel]

73. Also a difference between a joke and the passive-aggressive

taunt it masquerades as.

Let Will and his fan club call me humorless. That's far less an insult than the insult to my intelligence inherent in thinking I wouldn't be able to see through the pseudo-humor to the thinly veiled and nasty but entirely characteristic aggression underneath it. Yeah, I'll take "humorless."

[Mrs. Overall]

97. The issue really isn't Humor but William Pitt--

I am not part of his fan club, although I read Truthout occasionally, but I haven't read his book.
Whenever William Pitt posts there are always people who seem to love him and others who just seem pissed at him. I haven't been around DU long enough to know the history behind this. I always find the love and hate that he incites very interesting.

[newsguyatl]

112. thank goodness

for you eloriel.

[VelmaD]

75. Heeeeeee

That wouldn't be half so funny if there hadn't been all the "poop" nonsense from some of the Dean supporters a while back.

Poopy poopy poopy

[John_H]

64. I Agree. I just....Shit! My train just derailed!

[sangh0]

67. Hey, it takes a special kind of intelligence

to think that the DLC is powerful enough to keep the Democratic Party from moving to the left, but not powerful enough to keep Nader from forcing the party to go to the left.

[Name removed]

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[maxanne]

69. it's not you

this thread is spite masquerading as humor.

[edzontar]

71. I was thinking a little spirits might have played a part her too

As you noted, this "spoof" is not very funny.

I'd call it not only spiteful, but frankly a little weird.

[WilliamPitt]

77. I try not to drink before 10am

:eyes:

[King Coal]

82. I hope you mean Eastern Time.

I saw a car run into a train once. Does that count? I am a little dumb, but it all evens out in the end.:toast:

[WilliamPitt]

84. Greenwich Mean Time

The sun's over the yardarm somewhere in the world. :)

[King Coal]

86. The yardarm with the Scurvy Dog tied to it?

Wow! Right beside the snack bar!

[regnaD kciN]

116. Well, if at first you don't succeed...

...try, try again!

ON PRE-EDIT: Like Mr. Pitt's original post, this is a joke.

[Scott Lee]

76. "This was a joke"

The trap door escape for any dumb ass post.

Wunderbar.

[sangh0]

79. Was this post a real joke?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=780914&mesg_id=781733&page=

[WilliamPitt]

80. Now *that's* funny

Sic semper DU predictions.

[ArkDem]

78. This will cheer you up

[WilliamPitt]

81. See, now you're getting nasty

:)

[SeattleRob]

106. ha ha Now that's funny!

as a Met Fan, who hasn't had much to cheer about, I give the photo a thumbs up!

[littlejoe]

83. I do wish that everyone who has an opinion would make it

an informed one.

[rhino47]

85. Im dumb .Can I start a pac for the intellect challenged?

Oh and wheres the train schedule ?

[bobthedrummer]

89. "Well the engineer blew the whistle

and the fireman rang the bell..."

ABB.

[unfrigginreal]

91. It's better when you post to your peers Will

they all Love You.

[NoPasaran]

94. None of this

None of this embiggens any of us.

[joanski01]

95. I'm a non-dumb DUer

because I haven't read any of the train wreck posts (except this one). I always read Will's posts. He's intelligent and well-read. I'm one of his fans. Have been for three years. So there, ya'll!!!

[TrogL]

98. Right. Who kidnapped WilliamPitt and is posting in his name?

Alternatively, what's he on?

It's a pity watching a fine mind disintegrate.

First his ridiculous tintoil thread (which FINALLY got moved to the correct forum), now this "train wreck" thing.

[West Coast Democrat]

100. Heck, Ya!

There are some posters around here who are so petty, you'd think they were purposely trying to prove correct Ann Coulter's "Democrats are whiners" claim.

[Hav]

101. oh wow

I thought that Dookus was already quite clever and succesful by reversing the original train wreck thread.
This one was actually even more amusing (no offense to Dookus).
What made the threads so succesful were posters falling right into a hole.And I think that the posters didn't even intend to be succesful to fool one single poster as it were clear attempts of humour.
They must sit in their chairs, unstoppable to laugh as so many people here see it the right moment to claim the moral highground.
All following "train wreck" threads were in response to a certain thread, this thread was just humour and not in the slightest any sort of ill-wishing.
This tremendous amount of people now screaming "Oh what a horrible person you are Mr.Pitt! Joking about train wrecks!"... I guess even a great comedian can't build something up like this.

[JasonDeter]

102. Your post is a good post

A GOOD POST FOR ME TO POOP ON!

[ulysses]

103. of course not - we should kill them outright.

[sangh0]

104. Finally!!

A poster with some spine. :-)

[ulysses]

109. well, c'mon, let get right down to cases!

The keys to the kingdom are only given to the select, and I'm, without a doubt, among that number. After all, I'm published.

[maxanne]

111. ha ha

me, too, brave ulysses. Allow me to assist you. }(

[Cheswick2.0]

113. Hey I am published too..... now can I have my own syncophants?

I certainly deserve one or two of my own.... and the right to tell people I hope to see them dead and bloody by the side of the road. Well maybe I am not published enough to say dead. I guess I will have to settle for just bloody.

I'm off to the bourbon bottle! Woo hoo I like this new sense of entitlement!

[Eloriel]

117. The trouble with sycophants is

they tend to distort your sense of reality.

But you knew that. ;-)

Aw, what the hell. Go ahead, have some. But just for a week or two.

:evilgrin:

[JackRiddler]

105. you disturb me at times.

for a more edifying response:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=388551&mesg_id=388551

[DancingBear]

107. The fact that Will had to edit this post

with a "this is a joke " comment pretty much speaks for itself.

100+ responses on "what did he mean?" "how dare he!" "that isn't funny", etc. etc. etc.

Oh, and lest us not forget the subliminal messages contained within the original post:

Kerry sucks, or
Dean sucks, or
Edwards sucks, or
Kerry is good, but Dean sucks, or
Edwards is good, but Kerry sucks, or
Dean is good, and everybody else sucks.

"Say, why do you keep hitting yourself with that hammer?"
"Because it feels so good when I stop."

Over reacting, anyone?

I swear, some people in here would argue with a lamp post.

[chocolateeater]

108. You're only saying that because,

you don't know how contrary lamposts can be, especially when they get in the way.

[WilliamPitt]

110. Which makes posting threads like this so much fun

Fish. Barrel. Boom.

:)

[burned]

114. >>I dont get it<<

:/


but lookit my shiny new star after years of lurking.

[Crunchy Frog]

115. Isn't it fun in here now that they've

ended the rules?:evilgrin:

[regnaD kciN]

118. I don't think Mr. Pitt's messages were all that different...

...before they ended the rules.

[Name removed]

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