Cancer joke WAS NOT funny

I'm sorry but that partcular joke was going TOO far. I've had a very dear
friend die from cancer, and don't even one of you dare say "lighten up" because
cancer is a serious topic. So many people have lost loved ones to this disease,
how can you laugh? Would you laugh if anyone YOU knew died from cancer?
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SnowCalico wrote in message ...

because

disease,

If you look at it that way, neither were all of the Jewish jokes. About 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust. That's South Park for ya...

Richard Hunt

SnowCalico wrote in message ...

I'm going to be one who says "lighten up" and don't try the "you don't understand how serious cancer is" bit because my father died of it in 1980 and it had a *huge* impact on my life. So yes, I know someone who died of cancer, and yes, I know how serious a disease it is... and I still laughed because I thought Scott was funny - and I thought T&P's reaction to it was funny, as well. I liked the "duck back behind my buddy here so he can't get me" move.

Maybe I just have a warped sense of humor, I don't know. But I try not to take cartoons too seriously.

Tirya

lighten up, dude...it's just a SHOW!

Did anyone else think that Scott wishing cancer on T&P sounded a LOT like when Howard Stern wishes cancer on his "enemies"?? I thought it was pretty darn funny.

And SnowCalico, I will not tell you to "lighten up". That is your own personal feeling and you have every right to it, and others should at least respect that that's how you feel. Everyone has their own "line" that is too far. I have mine, but Southpark hasn't crossed it yet. I can't even predict how I will react when or if they do, so I will certainly not try and tell you how you should react. I do hope you will stay around the newsgroup though, because I also enjoy your posts.

LM

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This looks like a troll, though there's a good enough chance it isn't that I'll bite and take it seriously.

Guns are a serious topic, too... and the Klan, too, and chemical warfare considering that Saddam wouldn't have built five zillion chemical and biological weapons just to impress chyx. And anyone who's suffering Gulf War Syndrome will probably agree with me.

In fact, South Park has mocked many serious issues and cancer is pretty tame, especially compared to things I've seen on MAD TV, SNL, and even Seinfeld. Seinfeld actually has a character pretend to have cancer so that people would be nicer to him, whereas South Park only had some guy wishing cancer on some other guys.

I'm sorry about your friend, but it's the nature of things. Sometimes humor hits a nerve. The only thing you can really do is try not to take it personally.

the least of them. And the show's cancer references to date are

<snip SnowCalico, sorry...>

She's not. She's one of the FEW intelligent voices here...

Hell, George Costanza actually portrayed a handicapped man, just for the "benefits"...

Agreed. No offense to Snow, I know (yes, i do) how difficult things like that can be, BUT... I don't think they were making fun of your friend personally, and therefore things like that shouldn't be TAKEN personally.

actually i used to know someone who died of cancer and i actually did laugh it was funny

It's funny how we'll laugh at everything else but when something we don't like is made fun of, we go ape-shit and get pissed about it. I'm not gonna tell you to lighten up, but remember, there are alot of other serious issues on the show that are made fun of and I don't hear yoiu complaining about that. Either like it all, or don't like any of it. Stop with the double standards.

Ricky

P.S. I have known a couple of people that have died from cancer. In fact, my friends mom is suffering from breast cancer as we speak. I know how it feels. I've been there, done that.

SnowCalico wrote:

I too have lost loved ones to cancer. My uncle is doing cancer research down at Johns-Hopkins. Guess what? I thought the cancer joke was funny, and have been doing it to my brother all day.

Laura

A while ago, SnowCalico begot:

My father died of cancer. I was laughing my ass off through this episode. Get over yourself.

   Being able to laugh at life and at yourself for that matter is one of
the main devices of getting from day to day!
   My father died of kidney cancer 12 years ago and, within the past
month, my mother had a malignant lump removed from her breast. It was
caught very early and she's gonna be fine, thankfully.
   I'll admit to chuckling at the line. But it was late, I had just
gotten home from work and was still getting over the April Fool's joke
part of the whole thing.

******** HAIL TO THE REDSKINS!!! ********

I totally agree with you on the cancer joke thing.     My dad has terminal
cancer and laughed his ass off when  I told him about it.   That prissy
little "SnowCalico" needs to calm down and realize that life is full of
tragedy but you need to be able to laugh about it sometimes  or else you
willbecome so damn bitter no one will want to be around you ever.

-I love endangered animals. Especially in a light cream sauce.

On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, mumford wrote:

In article "Heather J. Day" writes:

I lost my father when I was 14 to cancer (He was 46), and my Grandfather as well...

While I understand someone finding it in poor taste, I cannot be offended by a cartoon that farts - I Thought it was funny when Scott was waiving his hands and he says " I'm wishing Cancer on the both of you". T & P is such a retarded concept, how can ANYONE who likes SP be offended by it?

Steve Salerno

In article , "Heather J. Day" wrote:

A very good friend of mine got shot and then had his head impaled on a flagpole. I laughed like hell when I saw "Weight Gain 2000".

Remember, life is a shit-filled Twinkie, and every day is another bite.

-> Remember, life is a shit-filled Twinkie, and every day is another -> bite.

Haha! Well said!!!! LOL

In article , "Heather J. Day" wrote:

I thought this quote was appropriate: "Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think." Basically, if you think about things everything is funny. I'm really getting tired of the PC brainwashed drones. Thanks to PC, people have NO humor left whatsoever. It's a shame. That's my $.02 .

Prissy eh? Well heres prissy for you....I'll f*ckin kick your a** if you EVER
say anything like that again to my f*ckin Face. I am NOT a priss, heaven forbid
someone have a SOUL here. Oh yes, I forgot, we have to be desenitized to
everything. Listen you f*ckin newbie, I may have COMPASSION, but I can still
tell you what a d*mn a** you are. You have a problem that I cried so hard at my
friends funeral I did'nt want to live anymore? I'm sorry to disapoint you
people, but I have a heart. And you'll all have to f*ckin live with that.
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If that's true, then why the fuck can't you type all the fucking letters in fucking swear words, you prissy little choad-smoking wankstain?

He must've hit pretty close to home to get your panties in such a wad. On the playground that is Usenet, you're standing in a puddle of your own urine, throwing a tantrum.

You're just too precious for words. There aren't a whole lot of things you can post on Usenet that make you look like a bigger idiot than "I'll sue you" but "I'll beat you up" is sure as hell one of them.

Die spitting blood.

My guess is you're in the range of 14-16. A very creative 14-16, though.

Usenet is a playground? OK, fine. Where do the grownups hang out? I need to go there.

Wow... that's another. Want more? Read the rest of your post. Besides... The best insults were "fuck" free.

Maybe it's called fishing, and maybe you just swallowed SnowCalico's bait. Maybe not. Who knows?

Anyway, I don't give a hoot-n-a-holler about SnowCalico or her friend's cancer, but I must say I am way disappointed by the bulk of your post, except for the "choad-smoking wankstain" part. You must've found some other raving goober's post and just cut-and-paste.

Maybe you get sent to bed without dinner when you say "f**k" at home (isn't that just so precious the way I use asterisks in place of the "u" and the "c"? Maybe I'd even use little smiley-faces if I could.), so you use NGs as an opportunity to get it out of your system. Very clever.

And don't bother trying to give me cancer. Plain & Simple Cronan's already trying, and his brainwaves and yours would probably collide.

Pull the panties out of your crack, eat some chocolate, get a makeover, and go watch "Titanic" for the nineteenth time, you big girl.

j c

It's very unfortunate that that happened :-(

In order to appreciate the south park humor, you have to abstract it so it doesn't refer to anyone that you know. What is funny is that Scott was so pathetic and petty that:

1) he wants to KILL terrance and phillip simply because he doesn't liike their sense of humor.

2) He is so desperate to kill them that he can't even come up with a good plan of doing it. Face it, telling someone that you are going to give them cancer through you MIND is so pathetic that is is funny.

3) Terrance and Phillip were actually SCARED by Scott's attempts to do it.

But Scott attempting to do that to terrance and phillip has no relationship to your friend dying of cancer. Note that the way kenny dies each time is SO BIZZARE that it doesn't trigger memories in people about how people they knew died.

I'm very sorry that your close friend died, but you have to stop feeling that everything you see refers to your friend's death, otherwise you will go mad very easily :-(

A typical AOL bunghole whore. Set your killfile to purge any posts from AOL, and they'll go back to the hell from whence they vomited from.

"Prissy" "Prissy" "Prissy"

No, sorry, that's not a "fuckin face", but a fucked UP one. Herpes was not nice to you, bitch...

You do. You have the sole of a boot up your ass. And in your mouth, too.

Let's put this to the test, shall we? Go throw yourself in front of a bus, and we'll see how desensitized to pain you are.

Spoken like a true AOHell denizen. Pot. Kettle. Black.

"Hey Wendy: what's a 'd*mn a**'??"

"It's bad Canadianeese for "I'm a horny slut who gets off when someone takes a piss up my ass while I'm farting".

Don't let us stop you, bitch. It's not too late, you know.

Regrettably it's a transplant from an artichoke.

No, we don't. Considering how shitty AOL is, it won't be long before you're gone anyway. And seeing how no respectable ISP would allow a worthless little sack of hippo excrement to connect to their lines, much less give you an account, once AOL punts you off you're history.

In any case, you can go fuck yourself, you bleeding cunt. You're so fucking prissy that you can't even type the word "fuck" without censoring yourself. I bet you're so damn anal-retentive that you scrub the toilet bowl before and after you take a shit, and then take a shower afterwards to make sure you've gotten all the shit and peanuts outta your asshole before you put your corncob back in.

Speaking of corncobs:

What the goddamn fuck is this, your IUD?

That should be Prissy Bleeding Cunt - Leader of Bleeding Cunts Who Love Spammers

I checked out this page. Wonder how long GeoCities is going to let you keep your pedophile support page up once they've seen how you've violated the TOS agreement. Especially considering you've got photos forcing some poor toddler to suck the blood out of your crab-infested snatch.

Enjoy masturbating with your bloody kotex, cunt. That way you won't contaminate the canine gene pool by getting knocked up by your pet pit bull.

[email] wrote: "a pile of shit"

OK, this is really getting boring.

Can we move on now?

Scott Newman Vancouver, BC Go Roughriders!

I'm with you. My cousin died from heart cancer at the age of 13, and it's not funny, at all. But it was all in good fun. I can see how people can take it offensovly though.

Lighten up - my cousin was flatten by a falling space station, but I laughed my ass off during "Pink Eye"...

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You think that's bad, my little sister was killed by mutant turkeys. Then rats ate her corpse. That's just not funny.

Yeah, my brother's, sister's best' friend's cousin's, uncle's, son-in-law was dragged 300 feet onto the train tracks by a go-cart. And get this, then he was run over by a train, and that's not funny at all.But I laughed when I saw it happen on South PArk.

Laura

You think thats bad, my friend was shot and then flew into the air only to land on a flag pole and slide down it.

Laura Cox wrote in message ...

it's not

laughed

thad a doria wrote:

You're a very disturbed little boy...

Hey. I've had pinkeye before, and its a bitch waking up and having your eyes all crusty. I was so pissed off when I saw that Halloween episode that I'm going to write my congressman to tell him to vote in favor of HR 3976 supporting the end of discrimination of those that have infectious diseases.

thad a doria wrote in message ...

it's not

laughed

Re: "Cancer joke WAS NOT funny", [email] shouted the following on 03 Apr 98 @ 01:27:40:

d> Lighten up - my cousin was flatten by a falling space station, but I d> laughed my ass off during "Pink Eye"...

And my cousin was sawed in half by a chainsaw-weilding maniac, but I too thought that episode was funny.

... "Oh My God! They Killed Kenny! You Bastards!"

I wanted to answer this because I enjoy reading your posts on this group. I will dare to say lighten up. My father died of cancer last year at the age of 51. I had cancer when I was 23 and luckily survived. You know what? EVERYTHING is funny, cancer too. Because if you can't laugh at Life, the Universe, and Everything, you will surely die of a broken heart. Laugh or cry. I choose laugh.

My childhood friend had cancer, and anytime anyone mentioned anything about cancer, he would go ballistic. He grew up to be a whiny dick, with no sense of humour and no social skills.

Also, my young cousin died of head cancer last year. This show was funny as hell.

Scott Newman vancouver, BC Go Roughriders!

Hundreds of thousands of people die from obesity every year, so I guess we can't laugh at Cartman for being a big fat ass anymore.

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was going TOO far. I've had a very dear

even one of you dare say "lighten up" because

many people have lost loved ones to this disease,

you laugh if anyone YOU knew died from cancer?

I've had at least 3 people in my family die of cancer (all were heavy, heavy smokers, btw), and I thought that was one of the funniest bits! "I'm giving you cancer with my mind," indeed! Harkens back to Scorcese's "The King Of Comedy", when the sweet old woman comes up to Jerry Lewis on the street and asks for an autograph; he waves her off and walks away, she looks dejected, then screams at his back, "Cancer! You should get cancer and DIE!"

Hey my own grandfather AND aunt BOTH died from cancer... but if you can't laugh, you're gonna grow up to be a very very bitter anbd angryu person. South Park isn't picky, they insult everyone. If you can't take a joke, well then.....

you need to lay off the cough syrup, man, seriously, I'm worried about ya

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[email] (SnowCalico) wrote:

dude my father died from cancer but that joke was still funny. "death to Moby Dick!!" Patrick Stewart as Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab

On 3 Apr 1998 00:06:40 GMT, [email] (SnowCalico) wrote:

My father died from lung cancer and it was a horrible thing to live through and watch. But I was laughing at the joke. It was funny. Really funny. Actually, it was probably one of the funniest jokes all night.

What good is living in this occasional hell if you can't look around and poke fun and laugh at all the crap in it? Am I right?

-Jason

If replying via email, do us all a favor and remove the exclamation point from my address

Hey, I'm a cancer survivor too, and I admit that I was laughing at the jokes! I agree that in normal situations, joking about cancer is in bad taste. But there are a lot of things on that show that shouldn't be joked about. And trust me, I am one of the most "P.C., bleeding heart liberals" that you could ever meet - but I just have to take that hat off for 1/2 once a week and just laugh! And really, if people are sensitive about race issues (I'm a minority too), guns, poo, gas and really bad little kids, they shouldn't watch the show. One of my friends won't even watch The Simpsons because she thinks the kids are too bad mouthed. She one of those that demands respect out of her kids, so she is really no fun when it comes to issues like S.P. But that's her perogative so she JUST DOESN'T WATCH!

Chill, Robyn

RE: Cancer joke WAS NOT funny BY: [email] (SnowCalico)

s(> I'm sorry but that partcular joke was going TOO far. I've had a very s(> dear s(> friend die from cancer, and don't even one of you dare say "lighten s(> up" because s(> cancer is a serious topic. So many people have lost loved ones to this s(> disease, s(> how can you laugh? Would you laugh if anyone YOU knew died from s(> cancer?

Hey- MY grandpa was in the concentration camps, but I still think the hitler bits from the are godDAMN funny.

It's a *JOKE*. Ok? What *COULD* T&M could have out there? They're going to offend people no matter what.

Anyway- IT'S A FREE FUCKING COUNTRY! YOU DON'T HAVE TO WATCH! IF YOU THINK IT'S OFFENSIVE, TURN THE GODDAMN TV OFF!

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Hello,

I'm afraid to post, because i have several strikes against me, 1. I'm on AOL, Hey I don't like it, but its the only ISP in my little town, 2. I'm a new convert to South Park and according to the above post, that makes me a "cock-smoker" ( my wife will find that a bit of a shock). The biggest strike against me will be that I THOUGHT THE CANCER JOKE WAS PHUCKING FUNNY. My grandmother, who meant the world to me and I miss dearly on a daily basis died from CANCER. Her body was riddled with it. But, she never wanted people to feel differently about her because of her cancer. I thought the joke was funny as hell. My grandmother was on serious morphine and thought shows with "drug humor" were funny as hell too. Hey I don't see any Arabs bitching about the Saddem Hussein jokes or all the Arab henchman talking about killing American pigs! And thats a cliche that got the film TRUE LIE in trouble! Get a damn life. Bye , THE U-bOt!!

Trust me, sir. You are the exception to the AOL rule. I welcome you.

Would you have been laughing if you were Jewish and saw the way Kyle was ridiculed, or Cartman dressing up as Hitler? The only difference this time is that Trey and Matt have taken aim at a majority, rather than a minority, because almost everyone's life has been changed by cancer in some way. Personally, I'd like to say that I am 17, had cancer as a child, and still found the jokes to be rather funny.

Are you a mental person. Can't you take a joke and not have PC on your mind all the time. You are the type of person that is boring.................................Ha I speak my mind.

Topher

SnowCalico wrote:

My sympathies on your loss.

Well, Snow, since you asked ... I just lost my mother to breast cancer, which in the long run means I will probably get it too, because my grandmothers on either side of the family had some kind of cancer or another.

Personally, I thought the cancer reference was so tasteless and crude and stupid that it made me laugh!

I am NOT going to tell you to lighten up. But I am going to tell you that just because I thought the cancer reference was funny, I'm not a non-feeling cold hearted wanker.

If I weren't laughing I'd be crying. So kick me in the pants.

BMM