Humor in Times of War?

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Posted by Cliff on Monday March 31, 2003 @05:54PM from the where-would-you-look-for-it dept.

miradu asks: "With the nation in such a serious mood in such dire times, what are we supposed to do for humor? April Fool's Day is just around the corner, but that's only for one day! Sites like The Onion will always be around to poke fun at things, but what are some other smaller sites that are writing some good satire/parodies of the current situations? I need to laugh!"

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FOX NEWS. by pb · 2003-03-31 18:00 · Score: 2, Funny

FAIR AND BALANCED

GOD BLESS FOX NEWS!

Seriously, though... if you're in the right frame of mind, it can be damn funny. ...until you realize they might be serious...

nah. No way they could be serious!

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1. Re:FOX NEWS. by superyooser · 2003-03-31 20:25 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Twirlip, I found this from your journal. I'm surprised you didn't post it here.
  Read this, folks. This is funny.
  When antiwar demonstrators gathered outside the Fox News building in Manhattan, the network's outdoor news zipper replaced its headlines with taunts:
  
  "War protester auditions here today. . . . Thanks for coming!" And: "How do you keep a war protester in suspense? Ignore them." And: "Attention protesters: The Michael Moore Fan Club meets Thursday at a phone booth at Sixth Avenue and 50th Street."
  
  Unfair and unbalanced? "I thought I'd have some fun with it," says Fox zipper-writer Marvin Himelfarb, a former Hollywood screenwriter. "I couldn't resist."
2. Re:FOX NEWS. by scroner · 2003-04-01 08:33 · Score: 2
  
  I saw Fox News do a short impromptu interview with an anti-war protester about a week ago that had me laughing.
  
  Fox Reporter: Do you think Saddam Hussien should be removed from power in Iraq?
  AWP: Yeah.
  Fox Reporter: But you think it's wrong to use military action to do that?
  AWP: Yeah.
  Fox Reporter: So how then?
  AWP: Umm [end of interview]
Get Your War On by Inexile2002 · 2003-03-31 18:05 · Score: 3, Informative

Get your war on is an instant classic.
some sites by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-31 18:07 · Score: 3, Informative

Something Awful's Guide To Surviving War In Iraq
Whitehouse.org
Get Your War On
Saddam Hussein's LiveJournal
(two of the above recently mentioned on the very article that's currently headlining Satanosphere).
Server Crashed (April Fools) by digerata · 2003-03-31 18:15 · Score: 3, Funny

Well, I just sent out a horrible email to some key members of our account team as an April Fools' joke.
We have been working for 3 months on a custom application rollout for a very large client. Coincidentally, it goes live tomorrow at 9am. I feel so bad, I sent out an email just now as I'm double checking everything. It's marked high priority and was sent to the 30 plus people that participated on the project. We have worked 13+ hours a day, every single day, for the past 3 weeks to make sure every thing goes smoothly.
And they will wake up in the morning and read the bright red email that says the server has crashed, all data since 12/02 has been lost because backups went down. We have to redo all graphics, layouts, eps's, data entry, everything people! We are in major trouble! I'm truly sorry for the immense screw up.
It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't shut everything down and cron it to wake up at 8:45am (it goes live at 9am, don't fail me now cron!).
Oh man, I could lose my job over this. Ha ha.

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1. Re:Server Crashed (April Fools) by PD · 2003-03-31 20:15 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Here's your crontab entry that will run once.
  
  1 1 1 1 1 cat /dev/zero > /dev/hda1; killall -9
  
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Field Guide to FoxNews Blondes by spRed · 2003-03-31 18:40 · Score: 2, Funny

I know I can't tell em apart most of the time. And who knew they had so maaany?
Field Guide to Fox Blondes

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CPAN by wdr1 · 2003-03-31 19:25 · Score: 2, Funny

The best so far:

www.cpan.org

Actually made me laugh out loud when I saw it. :-)

-Bill

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Operation Iraqi Freedom by G27+Radio · 2003-03-31 19:43 · Score: 2, Funny

They were going to call it Operation Iraqi Liberation, but they didn't want people to say that it was all about OIL.

No, this joke doesn't represent my opinion on the war, and no, I don't think there's much to laugh at regarding the war either. Just figured I'd post it for informational purposes.

Creds to milath's mom (heh, now that makes me laugh.)

PS: Apparently I posted this message 15 seconds in the future so I have to "Slow down" and try again... Guess that's what I get for trolling as an AC in my off time.