The scary thing is that cryonics and time travel may well be mastered at a similar time, enabling Simon Cowell to be sent back to us. 
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If they froze Cowell what makes him think they'd want to resussitate him?
Quote: Chappers @ June 27 2009, 11:17 PM BSTIf they froze Cowell what makes him think they'd want to resussitate him?
Yeah !
They could find him in a skip with a stick stuck up his arse like a lolly !
Someone has written a counter-article to the original Chortle article.
Quote: Ian Wolf @ June 28 2009, 8:42 AM BSTSomeone has written a counter-article to the original Chortle article.
I don't really buy that as as argument though, most people aren't doing Jacko jokes as some sort of release valve to somehow deal with his death, they're simply doing it because it's easy. There's nothing else going on and certainly nothing noble on the comics part. I'm not saying people shouldn't joke about someone who's just died, but let's not pretend it isn't anything more than it actually is.
Chortle = douche bags
Quote: Geoff Mutton @ June 27 2009, 10:04 PM BSTThe scary thing is that cryonics and time travel may well be mastered at a similar time, enabling Simon Cowell to be sent back to us.
So...what we could be watching on our screens, even now, is a Simon Cowell who has already died of making too much money, was frozen, then defrosted at room temperature for a number of hours, brought back to life and then put in a time machine to return to continue making his millions and destroying the lives of poor scottish women?
Seems resonable!
It seems the the media are trying to avoid anyone making MJ jokes at the moments. A joke about him in the new Bruno movie has been cut, which involved an interview with La Toya Jackson.
Also, Frankie Boyle, who writes a column for the Daily Record, has quite his job because the paper wouldn't publish his jokes about MJ. His jokes included: "An interesting attitude we have to paedophilia in this country: We don't want paedophiles round here! Unless they've really worked on their choreography..."
Now Chortle has published a third article concerning Michael Jackson jokes. This whole issue is attracting a lot of views.
http://www.chortle.co.uk/correspondents/2009/06/28/9181/the_last_word_on_michael_jackson_gags
Quote: Ian Wolf @ June 29 2009, 6:58 AM BSTNow Chortle has published a third article concerning Michael Jackson jokes. This whole issue is attracting a lot of views.
http://www.chortle.co.uk/correspondents/2009/06/28/9181/the_last_word_on_michael_jackson_gags
Again, can't say I really agree with this take, by all means make Jackson jokes, but don't pretend it's a 'thirst for satire', or any other such nonsense, it's because it's easy and because most people have a ghoulish streak.
What the Stott said. Why do people feel the need to defend it so vehemently?
Any public figure who kicks the bucket is going to become a victim of the comedic pun. Live with it I say
I'm hoping Newsjack will use this News Bullet:
Michael Jackson's undertaker denies necrophilia.
'That's not true!' he inists. 'I'm a professional, and I'm always in dead Ernest'
I like the way people keep saying it's like when Kennedy died and you'll always remember where you were when you heard. Jackson only died on Thursday and I've already forgotten what I was doing when I heard.