Thinking Fool

I thought the plane crash, i.e. the playful spoof of the tv series "Lost" was funny. Conan was spoofing popular television shows and that was one of them. Lighten up, Hon.

One more thing...

Did you not see how the whole sequence was edited? The plane crash sequence would have been difficult to cut out, and it was probably not possible to shoot/edit a replacement segment the day of the show.

Oh, I didn't realize the plane crash was a spoof of Lost. Now, I totally understand the montage. Were the other scenes spoofs of popular television shows too? Like, I think the guy from House was in a scene with Conan and there looked like there was a spoof of the Office, but I didn't connect the dots until now. Of course I saw the whole sequence and knew that the whole sequence spoofed popular shows. However, on the day an airplane crashed, it just seemed in poor taste to keep the Lost spoof. They had more than twelve hours to edit/figure something else out; I think they should have. But, that's what makes the world great - you say POE-TATE-OH; I say POE-TOT-OH. Actually, I wouldn't say poe-TOT-oh if you paid me. Nevertheless, the point has been made!

I'vealwayswonderedabout the post-martyrdom virgins......WTH happens say, 60 days after death? I mean, assuming the virgins are there for the obvious reason, how can the martyrs stay happy for eternity? Wouldn't they eventually be stuck with 60 sluts?

Femanator - that's the point. Train them to do what you want. :)

Meg-

Makes no sense. Why do they have to be virgins to learn? Sluts should be able to learn just fine. So why not just expect 60 sluts upon martyred death?

Fool - they're all supposed to be Muslims, of course. Reminds me of that episode of South Park where St. Peter says, "Sorry, the correct answer was Mormon. That's...Mormon."

Fermentor - Sluts are evil. Heathen. American.

The airplane sppof reminds me of the time I made a unabomber joke during my dissertation defense only to discover one of my committee members brothers was killed by the unabomber.

True story.

over_educated,

you must tell us more!

~fool

yeah, seriously. that's not something you hear every day. or every other day, even.

i am sure there were many car accidents the day before and the day of the academy awards, yet they still celebrated Crash

Well friends, allow me to tell you a tale.

In August of 2001 I was finishing up my dissertation at the University of Maryland. Part of the dissertation process is an "exit seminar" where you present your research to the entire department. This is a facile attempt to convince folks that you haven't just spent the last 6 years of your life studying meaningless minutiae with no practical import and banging dim-witted undergrads.

My research focused on one of the proteins in HIV. Since HIV kills a load of people ANY research into its life cycle is defacto important, so I usually got a pass on the "why is this important" questions. So folks had to come up with something a bit more novel. One of the professors asked, "so, what are you planning on doing after graduate school?"

Now at the time I had already been accepted into law school, but admitting to a room full of scientists that I was becoming "one of the enemy" immediately before my actual (smaller committee) defense seemed like a bad idea.

So I made a funny: "Oh you know, I plan to move to Montana, hole up in a shack, start writing my manifesto against technology and then begin the bomb making."

Everyone laughed except one professor, Dr. David Mossser (http://www.life.umd.edu/cbmg/faculty/mosser/mosser.html) ,sitting in the front. He got up and quietly walked out.

After the defense (it went well) I asked a grad student friend of mine from Dr. Mosser's lab why he left.

She responded:"Dude, didn't you know, Dr. Mosser's brother was killed by the unabomber."

My immediate response was "Yeah, right, good one. You know my enitre family was killed by the unabomber too, he really gets around."

She looked me dead in the eye and said: "No. Seriously. It's not funny."

http://www.unabombers.com/News/94-12-12-AJ-Mosser-5.htm

David's brother Thomas was general manager and executive vice president of Young & Rubicam Inc., a New York-based advertising agency. On Christmas Day Thomas Mosser recieved a package and went into the kitchen to open it. The rest of the family was in the living room when the bomb exploding, instantly killing Thomas and scattering his remains throughout the living room in front of his horrified family (which included his wife and 2 children).

Here are the words of Susan Mosser, who attended the Theadore Kascynski's trial (along with David).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/bkgrdstories/sentence050598.htm

"Lock him so far down that when he dies he will be closer to hell."

That was the last time I ever made a unabomber joke.

It's really weird making light of something you think is so far removed from you life it could never touch you only to find it is closer than you think. I imagine few people make 9/11 jokes because there may well be someone in the room who knows someone, or knows someone who knows someone who died on 9/11. But at the same time jokes abou tthe death of Abe Lincoln are hilarious. But I bet they weren't as funny to Mary Todd.

Don't worry, I don't blame myself, I like to think I'm just another victim of the unabombers murderous rampage.

I'm trying to post the story but it is not coming up.

over_educated,

it's up now. my spam filter caught it because of the number of links. i did what pretty suggested and defecated on the spam filter. he should be behaving himself now.

~fool