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RE: Fred Phelps "on the edge of death"
March 19, 2014 at 9:39 am
(March 19, 2014 at 9:06 am)Chad32 Wrote: I say we shouldn't waste space with a bunch of graves. Not that we shouldn't have anything to remember someone by, but the land could be used better than that. Boy.
I remember a routine that George Carlin was doing about finding more room for housing. He first offered up golf courses as a site that could be razed for housing, and the audience was just howling with laughter as he dismissed the needs of pansy rich folk to play a stupid game. Then he offered up cemeteries as his next example and there was one of those really awkward moments where people started to laugh and then choked it back when the words sank in. Carlin, being Carlin, wasn't slowed by this at all and barked about how useless it was to waste land on corpses, and the audience continued to laugh nervously with none of the energy it had just a few moments prior. The audience reaction made the bit that much funnier for me.
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RE: Fred Phelps "on the edge of death"
March 19, 2014 at 9:46 am
He's right, why waste an acre of precious land where a moderate sized mantelpiece would suffice?
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RE: Fred Phelps "on the edge of death"
March 19, 2014 at 5:45 pm
(March 17, 2014 at 9:22 pm)Brakeman Wrote: I hope he's buried at a public burial site so that homosexuals can "fornicate" over his grave as a practical joke.
I was thinking of using it as a urinal.
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RE: Fred Phelps "on the edge of death"
March 19, 2014 at 7:50 pm
Isn't the fucker dead yet?
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RE: Fred Phelps "on the edge of death"
March 20, 2014 at 11:40 am
(March 19, 2014 at 7:50 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Isn't the fucker dead yet?
I know a man in his late 60s, early 70s who has been in serious decline for a couple years and has been on the brink of death maybe four times in the last four months, but he keeps hanging on.
Some people hang on for a long time.
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RE: Fred Phelps "on the edge of death"
March 20, 2014 at 11:46 am
It just broke on Twitter that he is indeed now dead.
http://weaselzippers.us/180086-breaking-...elps-dies/
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RE: Fred Phelps "on the edge of death"
March 20, 2014 at 12:16 pm
(March 20, 2014 at 11:46 am)c172 Wrote: It just broke on Twitter that he is indeed now dead. http://weaselzippers.us/180086-breaking-...elps-dies/
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Not sure how I feel.
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