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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: JB73 on May 27, 2005, 12:48:59 PM
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NOT a funny joke:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050527/ap_on_fe_st/yearbook_prank;_ylt=ApsyE1n8_lYhQKVm8Ac.DcRG2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
WIDEFIELD, Colo. - High school yearbooks were recalled so that administrators could black out a joke caption under one student's picture: "most likely to assassinate President Bush."
Mesa Ridge High School officials recalled about 100 yearbooks earlier this month and had staffers use markers to obscure the words in them and in the still-undistributed copies. The Secret Service even launched an investigation.
"They kind of ruined our yearbook," said Christina Tredway, who just graduated from the school just south of Colorado Springs. Most students thought the blacking-out was a bad idea since the caption obviously was a joke, she said.
Widefield School District officials called the caption a prank that wasn't caught before the yearbooks were printed, and district spokesman James Drew said future yearbooks will be triple-checked before printing.
Lon Garner, special agent in charge of the Secret Service's Denver District, said the agency would look into the incident because all threats against the president must be investigated.
"That's our mission," he said. "That's what we do."
There were several other joke captions in the book, including "most likely to forget his gown at graduation." Names of those involved were not released.
in bold... what dumb **** students are these? and who the he11 is teaching them?
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yea,
kids will be kids. Youth is still waisted on the young.
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:rolleyes:
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OMG hE is teh terrrorist!!!!!!!!!
Not terribly great judgement for the teen, but the reaction seems overblown. I keep forgetting that it's 'Freedom of popular speech'. If there's no real threat, then... meh. Wait, I can see the followup response:
OMFG alwys remembr COluMBINE!!!!!!!!!!!
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you do know it is a felony to even make a joke about killing the president?
OMFG let teh l337 kid5 pretend to ki11z peeps
maybe it is ok to let them put in a caption "most likely to kill his parents" or "most likely to rape and murder small children"
makes sense to me
if they make this a national news supreme court issue it is not overblown in my opinion
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73, take a chill pill. Didn't you do anything dumb when you were a kid? I know I did.
The SS knows the Pres isn't in any danger, they just have to make a big showing and go through the motions.
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Lon Garner, special agent in charge of the Secret Service's Denver District, said the agency would look into the incident because all threats against the president must be investigated.
"That's our mission," he said. "That's what we do."
maybe we should find him a different job. it seems to me that "what we do" doesn't need to be done.
the kid never said he was going to kill the president. (at least the story doesn't say he did).
somebody else joked that they think this kid is the mostly likely kid in his graduating class to do such a thing. thats not a threat on the president it's a joke on the character of the kid.
we could have saved everybody some time (and us tax-payers some change) if the secret service would have called the kid and asked him.
"do you have plans to kill our embarrassment of a president? no? OK, another case solved. next."
hell in HS I was voted "most likely to be implicated in a plot to overthrow the gov't". in 21 years I haven't been involved in any revolutionary activities.
these are high-school joke predictions, not prophecy.
if you don't have a sense of humor, please see about having one installed.
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I find it more troubling that the men and women tasked with protecting our President can have the name of their service initialed "SS".
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if i put in my signature line:
"Most likely to murder family"
skuzzy would skin me alive, and ban me. no one would find it funny, even though if they were offended they could just choose "do not show signatures" in their board options.
even if i found something like that in my sig funny, i would not put it there because of morality and taste.
it's not about having a sence of humor, it is about respect for your country period.
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Joking about presidential assasisnation is not funny and will get you investigated. Even young people in high school know this, or at least they should, and a small select group of them appear to be getting a good education on the subject currently.
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So, just so I anderstand better, your problem is really that who ever wrote that broke the law? What is the point you are trying to make?
As always in this country, something harmles is going to get blown over proportion and hopefully and up spending a million dollars on it and destroy a kids life by making an example out of nothing. Really, the person from the secret service that gets this assignemnet should be fired afterwards. There is really no need for him if this is the only thing he had to do in the past month.
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Ya know, after reading JB73's comments I'm glad the guy has me on ignore... I'd hate like heck for people to think I am one of the few guys he likes and agrees with.
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Originally posted by dedalos
So, just so I anderstand better, your problem is really that who ever wrote that broke the law? What is the point you are trying to make?
a few points. first is correct, the person / persons who decided this should b printed broke the law.
second, not one person who has posted in this thread cares about threats on our president even if the original intention was in jest. it is not something you "joke" about.
that';s the double standard i'm making. if i were to in my mind jokingly threaten someone here ala mr. black i would be ostracized.
we are all insignificant, and making a possible threat on a bulletin board to someone i dont know is meaningless, yet looked down upon by you all more than the same comment towards the president of the United States.
basically the impression i get from you all is it should be fine to say or print whatever threatening / damaging thing i can about the president, as long as i come out later and say "it was all a joke"
what next? "whoops, sorry i didn't mean to pull that trigger, it was just a joke"
it sickens me to think what children are being taught today, if this community is any representation of society in part or whole.
i am dropping out of the conversation on this, i am too emotionaly irritated, and i dont want to type something to get myself banned or something.
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Originally posted by JB73
if i put in my signature line:
"Most likely to murder family"
skuzzy would skin me alive, and ban me. no one would find it funny, even though if they were offended they could just choose "do not show signatures" in their board options.
even if i found something like that in my sig funny, i would not put it there because of morality and taste.
it's not about having a sence of humor, it is about respect for your country period.
It would be much different if say I had "Most likely to murder family" referring to you in my sig line than if you had it in yours referring to yourself.. It was probably not something the kid said but as others have already stated was a joke applied to the kid in relation to something about his character..
See, I can have that in my sig line and still respect my country at the same time as I make a joke about you..
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Originally posted by JB73
if i put in my signature line:
"Most likely to murder family"
skuzzy would skin me alive...
As skinning you alive would be a murderous act, are you accusing our moderator of murderous intent?
If so, IN!
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Originally posted by JB73
a few points. first is correct, the person / persons who decided this should b printed broke the law.
second, not one person who has posted in this thread cares about threats on our president even if the original intention was in jest. it is not something you "joke" about.
that';s the double standard i'm making. if i were to in my mind jokingly threaten someone here ala mr. black i would be ostracized.
we are all insignificant, and making a possible threat on a bulletin board to someone i dont know is meaningless, yet looked down upon by you all more than the same comment towards the president of the United States.
basically the impression i get from you all is it should be fine to say or print whatever threatening / damaging thing i can about the president, as long as i come out later and say "it was all a joke"
what next? "whoops, sorry i didn't mean to pull that trigger, it was just a joke"
it sickens me to think what children are being taught today, if this community is any representation of society in part or whole.
i am dropping out of the conversation on this, i am too emotionaly irritated, and i dont want to type something to get myself banned or something.
Honestly, you are really confused. What makes you think some one tought the kid to do that? Why do even think this is a threat? Why do you have to strech something so far, going from a joke to pulling the triger? Why do you drop out a meaningles converation you started because you become so emotional over nothing? Would you have the same reaction if the kid was talking about the previus president?
Point is, it was not a threat. Some peopl though will try take this as far as they can. Also, I bet you break the law everyday several times just by driving. Thats OK though becuase its you?
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Originally posted by JB73
you do know it is a felony to even make a joke about killing the president?
So I guess JB73 needs to be reported for his subject header...
:rolleyes:
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a few points
you're right. a person who makes a joke in bad taste should be looked down on. it's only when take to the level of a secret service investigation, censorship and nation-wide press that I begin to have a problem with it.
second nobody made a threat. some kids jokingly said (in a format that has is known to be comedy to anybody who is educated enough to read the joke in the first place) that of all the kids in their class he was the most likely to kill the president. not that he was going to do it, just that he was the most likely to.
guess what. in any group of people one of them is going to be "most likely to" do anything. so somebody in that class is 'the most likely to try and kill Bush', these kids just speculated as to who that might be.
anybody with 2 brain-cells to rub together should have been able to put together the facts that this is a joke, high-school kids aren't known for witty humor, and even stupid speech should be protected.
and finally, nothing "threatening or damaging' was said about the president. no comment was made about him at all. it was a comment from one group of students about the character of another student, in a comedy forum. the only one with a right to be offended is the student the caption was made about and he isn't the one launching the investigation.
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If it was worded as a threat, I would be 100% behind a full investigation. But it wasn't.
For someone to say so and so is the kind of person that could do such and such without said persons knowledge or consent can hardly be translated as a threat.
The most likely to... is a well known format in year books and not to be taken seriously by anyone.
dang, you guys beat me to it.
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If you think jokes are not to be taken seriously, joke next time you pass thru security at the airport.
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
If you think jokes are not to be taken seriously, joke next time you pass thru security at the airport.
Yep, thats another way everything gets blown out of proportion. Offcorse, what does security at an airport has to do with a comment in a highschool year book, its beyond me.
But hey, we are all safe now that those highly trained and educated guys make us turn on our lap tops at the check poind. Atlist if one of those went off, we would die on the grown and not in the air.
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Under JB73s picture :Most likely to forget his anti-psychosis medicine.
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Threatening to kill another person, even if it is meant as a "joke" , can get you......killed.
Perhaps the yearbook should include: "Pinhead Most Likely To End Up As A Darwin Award Winner"...........
C.
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I feel a "Numpty" award coming on.
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"I feel a "Numpty" award coming on"
I WIN, I WIN!
*runs up to the microphone*
iud like to thank my mom and my...WHAT LET ME GO I WON I WON STOP IT NOOOO
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
I feel a "Numpty" award coming on.
Can I have it? can I, can I can I? Please? I never got one of those :lol
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Originally posted by JB73
... i am dropping out of the conversation on this, i am too emotionaly irritated...
LOL, are you frikking kidding?
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(http://www.elfeyes.com/games/images/q-cre-troll.jpg)
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He went from
"we are all insignificant, and making a possible threat on a bulletin board to someone i dont know is meaningless.."
to
" i am dropping out of the conversation on this, i am too emotionaly irritated, and i dont want to type something to get myself banned or something."
in eight minutes...a new Bulletin Board record for the fastest Flip Flop.
I like waffles!
:aok
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The next time you walk through an airport security checkpoint, I dare you to make a joke about your friend being most likely to bomb an airline (and make sure everyone can hear you). Let me know how funny it is after they get through with you.
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so stupidity one place justifies stupidity elsewhere?
how many planes have we lost to bad jokes?
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What was the caption under? A picture of a pretzel?
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Originally posted by JB73
a few points. first is correct, the person / persons who decided this should b printed broke the law.
second, not one person who has posted in this thread cares about threats on our president even if the original intention was in jest. it is not something you "joke" about.
that';s the double standard i'm making. if i were to in my mind jokingly threaten someone here ala mr. black i would be ostracized.
basically the impression i get from you all is it should be fine to say or print whatever threatening / damaging thing i can about the president, as long as i come out later and say "it was all a joke"
it sickens me to think what children are being taught today, if this community is any representation of society in part or whole.
You've got to be kidding me. All this righteous indignation from the guy who almost got fired for joking about putting a bomb in the children's hospital restroom?
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Wait a sec. did he write that about himself or was that somebody making the statement about him?
Yes I think it makes a difference.
Either way I think its blown out of proportion
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you don't pick your own "most likely to"
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lol, you yanks get so worked up about the dumbest things. It's a damn highschool yearbook, not the NY Times. The caption was probably under a doped out white hippie kid too...
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The 1st amendment is toast. Before long they will be censoring Leno and Letterman. It's just easier to indoctrinate the kids to the process.
Same thing happened to a high school in California where kids made a poster for their student play. It was a comedy about American history and the poster had a picture of President Bush as Groucho Marx. The school made them tear down the posters.
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.. would be cheny. Then Rumsfedt would emp is pacemaker.
does this mean the black suburbans are comming back?
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"somewhere in a dark dimly lit room, Echelon is working overtime on this"
Karaya
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Originally posted by wetrat
lol, you yanks get so worked up about the dumbest things. It's a damn highschool yearbook, not the NY Times. The caption was probably under a doped out white hippie kid too...
Yeah, doped out hippies are never dangerous.
(http://www.absolutecelebrities.com/i/mugshot/MansonCharles.jpg)
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I was voted "most likely to be found naked in a clock tower with a high powered rifle". Doesn't mean I ever actually DID it. Well, unless you count that one time....
As far as investigating EVERY threat against the president, the Secret Service would keep pretty busy here in Canada. Anti-Bush sentiment is growing quite rapidly.
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Be careful kids! JB73 will cut your right arm off if you try to kill the chancellor.
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maybe there was a reason they put the caption under his picture, Columbine?
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Originally posted by john9001
maybe there was a reason they put the caption under his picture, Columbine?
Great justification for restricting rights, eh? :rolleyes:
Somebody needs to tell these kids about the Patriot Act- we don't critisize or dissent anymore, otherwise you're unpatriotic.
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airhead, you will feel different after hillary becomes president.
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Originally posted by john9001
airhead, you will feel different after hillary becomes president.
God forbid.
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Originally posted by wetrat
lol, you yanks get so worked up about the dumbest things. It's a damn highschool yearbook, not the NY Times.
It it had been the NY Times, it wouldn`t have been given a second thoght. It is Nationaly understood that the Times is a joke in itself. :)
I was posted as "Most likely to win the Indy 500" in my yearbook. Ain`t happening and I`m trying to figure out what went wrong. :)