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Poll: Does The Onion amuse or offend you?

Discussion in 'Other Sports' started by haven, May 11, 2001.

  1. Nuggets4

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    11-0.

    And if anyone has a link to the "Jesus Returns to the NBA" article, it'd be greatly appreciated if you posted it.

    Right now, the Nuggets only hope is to trade for him. [​IMG]

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  2. gr8-1

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    12-0. It's very funny.

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  3. haven

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    Here's the email (the pertinent part):

    Mark,

    this really went too far. i enjoy sarcasm as much as you, but you really shouldn't mock stuff that's as important as faith. just because someone has the bad taste to write something like this doesn't mean you should spread it. i hope you think about what's important to other people in the future before forwarding something offensive. my relationship with god is important to me and it should be with you. don't screw up that relationship by being irreverent.

    Regards,
    michael sanders

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  4. Achebe

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    thanks haven, but you might want to hide your friend's name. [​IMG]

    You should resend the article to your friend, they apparently didn't read it. There's no way a rational person could have found it not funny.

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  5. dylan

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    You call that scathing? Man, I thought that was a pretty nice way of stating his feelings. He didn't call you any thing derogatory, didn't insult your family lineage, hell he didn't even include the rolling-eyes-smiley face!

    Lighten up a little. Just like he over-reacted to your forward I think you may have over-reacted to his feelings.


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  6. haven

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    Heh... you'd have to know the guy. In Michael-language, that means "you b*stard, stop being such a bleeping prick."



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  7. Behad

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    I love it!

    19-0

    I still crack up over the article about Russia's new TV game show "Who Wants to Eat a Meal?" Based on "Millionaire", contestants answer questions that win them a crumb of food at the beginning to a full course meal as the grand prize. Hilarious!

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  8. Relativist

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    Better make that 20-0, although that article didn't really tickle my funny bone. I thought the Pornstars one was cute, though.

    Haven, you probably should take out his name, even though it has no significance to the rest of us.

    I'm sympathetic to his assertion that you shouldn't make fun of other people's beliefs, but satire's about making fun of something. I like satire. I agree that it would be much nicer if we could all poke fun at ourselves and goodnaturedly give and take jokes. What offends me is Jesse Helms denouncing certain schools' withdrawal of support for the Boy Scouts as an "assault by homosexuals" (CNN Headline News) Why is this guy in office? Oh well; I'm just a 'goddam' liberal. [​IMG]

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  9. Rocketman95

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    I have the Onion "Our Dumb Century" day calendar.

    Here's the headline for yesterday, May 15th:

    "San Francisco Grocer Henry Nakamura Chief Suspect in Pearl Harbor Bombing"

    'I Am Loyal American Citizen,' Scheming Jap Declares'


    Very, very bad, but very, very funny.

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