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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAm I allowed to like this Onion blurb?
I know I shouldn't, but I do:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/some-fucking-guy-at-warner-bros-wondering-what-sho,28859
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Am I allowed to like this Onion blurb? (Original Post)
2ndAmForComputers
Jul 2012
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Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)1. no worse that the ghouls on wall street speculating
over movie and theater stocks.
rocktivity
(44,583 posts)2. This one works, too (unfortunately)
Americans across the nation confirmed today that, unfortunately, due to their extreme familiarity with the type of tragedy that occurred in a Colorado movie theater last night, they sadly know exactly how the events following the horrific shooting of 12 people will unfold.
"...(W)e as Americans are basically experts at this kind of thing by now, said 45-year-old market analyst Jared Gerson, adding that the number of media images of Aurora, CO citizens crying and looking shocked is pretty much right in line with where it usually is at this point. The calls not to politicize the tragedy should be starting in an hour, but by 1:30 p.m. tomorrow the issue will have been politicized. Also, I wouldnt be surprised if the shooters high school classmate is interviewed within 45 minutes."
"...President Obama will visit Colorado, when he will meet with the families of those who lost loved ones, and when he will give his big speech that people will call 'unifying' and 'very presidential,'" Jacksonville resident Amy Brennen, 32, said..."In exactly two weeks this will all be over and it will be like it never happened."
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rocktivity
ProdigalJunkMail
(12,017 posts)3. Onion or not...
I would say that several execs over there thought that verbiage almost exactly...
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