and then I’ll quit. I promise!
(Tasteless humor alert. You’ve been warned.)
Farah Fawcett reached the Pearly Gates. Saint Peter met her and said, “you’ve lived a pretty good life and fought disease bravely. We want to grant you a wish.”
Farah thought for a moment and said, “I’d like for the children of the world to be safe.”
And Michael Jackson had a heart attack.
There is no funeral planned for Michael Jackson. He has so much plastic in his body that the family is having him melded down and cast into Legos.
That way, he can continue to play with little children.
this is grotesque, i have always looked at you as a mature adult and an amazing father figure. i am honestly ashamed of you. you are poking fun at people who have passed away and that is not cool. do you have no sympathy? do you realize how many people are very upset by his death? this is unacceptable and i am hurt.
Thank you Bonnie!! I couldn’t have said it any better.
Oh, please! First he tells you it’s tasteless and then gives you a warning. You keep reading anyway and become offended? Carlin told us years ago that the easiest time to get a laugh is when laughing is forbidden.
It was tasteless, but it doesn’t offend me. The only time that lack of taste offends me is when it’s on my diner plate.
Hey Bonnie, how do you think the kids that Michael Jackson molested felt when he was still alive? Remember the Jesus juice incident? How about coaxing a 12 year old boy to lay on top of him while Michael had an erection? And we’re supposed to feel sorry for this guy cause he’s gone now? Give me a break! All his activities in the recent years point to one thing and that is the grooming of an underage children for sexual purposes.
Need I mention his uncanny parenting skills? I mean what child under a year old wants to be dangled by his father two flights up? Oh, and btw, that childs nickname was “Blanket”. THAT is class, my friend. I mean, the next one could have been Pillow or Mattress for Christ’s sake!
Farah Fawcett was guilty of doing some white powders in the 80’s. Sure her kid is a screw up, but at least she wasn’t going around repeatedly molesting little kids.
Sure, Michael Jackson was a “brilliant musician” and a “fantastic lyricist”, but he was also a pedophile, and in my eyes, “it doesn’t matter if you’re black or white”, but a pedo is STILL a pedo.
And what makes me even angrier is the droves of people making a pilgrimage to the a$$hole of the United States (i.e. Los Angeles), to pay their “respects” to this man. I bet he’ll get more attendance than Pope John Paul II did when he died.
The thing that gets me though is Farah suffered for years with a horrifically debilitating cancer before it finally devoured her in its entirety. Michael on the other hand? Short, sweet, and no pain, in addition to completely overshadowing the news of Farah’s demise. There’s cosmic justice for you.
Kinda makes you think that the Gods must really be crazy.
So, Cajun, incredible job as always! You’ve made me laugh a few times today (and yesterday as well). Keep up the awesome commentary!
P.S. I thought Ambulance driver had a great take on it…
P.P.S If you really want to be upset about someone’s passing, I suggest you Google “Neda Soltani”.
Hear, hear, PawPaw!
I too am shocked and outraged at these jokes. No pardon me while I go retell them again to some people that havent heard them. =)
LOL… sent the joke along. :)
I think it’s important to honor Fawcett, who ended a relatively vapid life with a class act fight against both a nasty disease and a nasty public. There will be many people who are treated early or saved altogether from cancer because she stood up, when everyone tried to put her down.
Jacko, otoh, has been among the undead for 20 years or so. He wasn’t really such a great anything, either. Jackie Wilson, Wilson Picket, Otis Redding, Little Richard, James Brown, Sam Cooke, and my personal favorite, Ernie K-doe all did what Jacko did musically before him and better. The only difference was marketing, which amounted to child abuse and exploitation and later just grotesque sexualized gesturing, which he then passed on to future generations. That was the tragedy of his life, not his death. His passing is a blessing to everyone, if for no other reason than not having to see another BS report about his nose falling off.
From my judge friend in San Diego:
What did Michael Jackson say to the ambulance driver?
No, not UCLA, Children’s hospital, Children’s!
The strange thing is that one of the most life changing, and expensive, bills to be presented in Congress is almost ignored due to the death of professional performer. I’m thinking the priorities of the press are either screwed up, or on track.
Again, Bleh
I guess if you ignored the “Stay off the grass” sign and ended up with dog-crap on your shoe you’d be expecting the owner to have his dog euthanized too??? The warnings were there, you chose to ignore them, thereby forfeiting your right to criticize the content.
I’m sorry, but any contributions he may have made to the music industry (20+ years ago) were far over-shadowed by his disgusting actions since. Had he not been such a popular figure (ie rich as hell) he would have ended up in San Quentin, or somewhere similar, where the other “guests” would have explained in no uncertain terms what even the worst criminals think of pedophiles.
you deleted my comment. shame on you.
Didn’t delete it. It got caught by the spam filter and I left it there. It wasn’t your best work.
You need to pay attention to your grammar and punctuation. There’s a difference between ‘there’, ‘their’ and ‘they’re’. Learn what it is. You rightly pride yourself on your writing, so play the part. Look on the words you put down as art and science, the vessel by which your ideas are poured out on your readers, and treat your readers as if they are intelligent and interested and waiting to see and understand your thoughts.
MC (and dad)
Ahhh like father like daughter…..just taking up a different cause.
dad- my style of writing is different than yours. you often misspell words also.
and “pawpaw”, mostlycajun is my father. i read all his posts and i have a right to say whatever i feel about them. back off.
Bonnie–
Kind words for Paw Paw… He’s my friend. You were doing okay until you got to “back off.”
We (you and me) can go back and forth, and that’s okay. You’re eighteen, hard-headed, and opinionated (I don’t know WHERE you got that) and entitled to speak, but you have to be nice to my friends, so when you argue, SMILE.
At the end of the day we all have to sit down at the same table. And Paw Paw’s got a permanent seat.
Also, I SELDOM misspell. I OFTEN mis-type. Style is one thing. However, there-they’re-their and your-you’re, well, YOU of all people shouldn’t be making those errors.
Further, don’t give me ONE BIG PARAGRAPH, even though **I** know that’s the way that you talk sometimes. Others, however, are not used to Bonnie when she’s on a roll, Separate your thoughts.
Remember, this is just like the patio in the shade of the evening with friends dropping by. We can all laugh, banter, argue, discuss and tell stories of dubious veracity, but at the end of the day we don’t want fist-fights, ruined appetites and permanent harm. Okay?
Thank you
MC (and dad)
“Remember, this is just like the patio in the shade of the evening with friends dropping by.”
Great metaphor!
geez, i didn’t know i was such a nuisance.
Bonnie–
Don’t try the “hurt little girl with the lip stuck out” thing here. people here can’t see your big blue eyes. You know you’re not a nuisance, but you do need to conduct yourself as an adult. If you do that, everybody will be very happy you’re here.
You don’t have to agree with everything written, but you are expected to conduct yourself with decorum. Just try NOT to be the most immature sounding comment in the string.
MC (and dad)
dad- i’m awesome, and definitely not the most immature comment in the string.
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Bonnie, joking about death is tasteless, yes, but it’s also how some folks deal with it, instead of becoming so obsessed that they can’t function (or worse, putting the recently deceased on a pedestal, no matter how much they were a scoundrel). I only got to wait a day when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded, before folks started telling “dead astronaut” jokes. One of them was a recycled “dead Jew” joke: How many astronauts can you fit in a Volkswagen? Two in the front, two in the back, and seven in the ashtray. How many Jews can you fit in a Volkswagen? Two in the front, two in back, and six million in the ashtray.
I ain’t a doctor, but there was something messed up in his head, for him to think that it was okay for a 40-something year old man to sleep in the same bed with several different children who were not direct family! It’s one thing for a child to crawl into their own parent’s bed after a scary dream, it’s quite another for a non-kinfolk adult to do the inviting!
One thing you might consider, and I think you’ve sorta learned from it, that if someone else’s blog blocks your comments as spam, or they delete your comments, you can go start your own blog to get your thoughts out without “censorship” (I call it policing your own blog to your personal standards of decency and decorum). It’s said that Freedom of the Press is useless without owning your own printing press; the Internet (and blogging) has given everyone their own press, to post whatever is important enough for them to want to post it. Censorship is when the Government tells you what you can and cannot say (see: Iran and Red China, and some political correctness here in the US); if somebody deletes your comments on THEIR blog, they’re just cleaning up their own place for whatever reason, not stifling your “freedom of speech”.
mattexian- i do have my own blog. and MC is my dad and he didn’t delete my comment. i’m not defending michael jackson, i wasn’t a big fan of him or anything, i just think it’s wrong to poke fun at someones death.
Wow, kinda personal for comments-pm or im anyone? I feel like I should be offering everyone a fresh drink on that patio. Deep breaths, big swigs, all better.
I don’t think it matters if Michael was innocent or guilty or whatever. That is water under the bridge. It is not whether he was the King of Pop or just some guy living under a bridge somewhere. We are not talking about his lifestyle. We are talking about his death. The point is that it is just not nice to joke about someone’s demise. Anyone’s!!! What if you had a son, daughter, wife, husband, etc…and they died? Would you want to hear tasteless jokes about them? It is just disrespectful to make fun or jokes about anyone’s death. Let him rest in peace!