and another thing... what was so bad about the Kent State sign? That referenced an event 44 years ago. What is wrong with a little humor around such events that long ago?

I've heard a couple good JFK jokes (relating to the assassination).

One of the funniest jokes I've ever heard was "Ok, so other than that Mrs. Lincoln... what did you think of the play?"

Heck, Hogan's Heroes was broadcast in the mid-1960s, about 20 years after World War II ended. And the subject matter of that sit-com was close to (not directly, but close to) the activities of the regime that committed The Holocaust... in POW camps that surely had similarities to concentration camps!

And finally, I bet plenty of you guys chuckle regularly at one of the most popular shows on TV today. A Sunday evening animated show that has:
- had no less than FOUR tasteless jokes/references/skits about September 11th, 2001
- joked about Elizabeth Smart (a 14 year old raped 3-4 times daily for almost a year)
- has made fun of Natalee Holloway's mom (the Alabama teen murdered in Aruba)
- mocked Ron Goldman's dad (son murdered by OJ Simpson - and yea, I left 'allegedly' out on purpose)
Who still watches? Who protests that?

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Posted by TN Bhoy

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Posted on 9/11/14 at 3:37 pm to JPinLondon

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JPinLondon

You are either a complete idiot or a troll.

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Posted by JPinLondon

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Posted on 9/11/14 at 4:35 pm to JPinLondon

Oh and as a bolstering of my comments above (top of Page 11)...

Did you know that Nike had the following shirts made, and FULLY INTENDED to keep them in production?

The only reason they pulled them off the shelves was that the Boston Marathon Bombings happened a few weeks (or a few months, or a year or so, I'm not certain) after the release of the shirts. However, had those bombings NOT occurred, you could find these shirts, ostensibly mocking one of the most tragic events in American history (the 1770 event), aimed at a couple of baseball sweeps, worn and sold to this day.

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Nike has pulled a sports T-shirt emblazoned with the bloodied words “Boston Massacre” in the wake of last Monday’s marathon bombings. A spokesman for Nike told ABC News the retailer has now pulled all of the “Boston Massacre” shirts from their outlet stores, as well as from large online retailers like Fanatics Inc. (ABC News)

The sweeps came to be known colloquially among fans of the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry as the first and second “Boston massacres.”

This post was edited on 9/11/14 at 4:42 pm

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