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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    01/06/09

    In reply to The Sick Internet Joke About 9/11: ✈ ▌▌
    Wait, what?
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    01/06/09

    In reply to The Sick Internet Joke About 9/11: ✈ ▌▌
    Hotness: Catatonic
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    Image of ObtuseIntolerant ObtuseIntolerant
    01/06/09

    In reply to The Sick Internet Joke About 9/11: ✈ ▌▌
    Hm. While I would love to have my pageview back, I will settle for the lesson I have belatedly learned - check bylines before clicking!
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    Image of Voyou_Charmant Voyou_Charmant
    01/06/09

    In reply to The Sick Internet Joke About 9/11: ✈ ▌▌
    lulz
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    Image of kmg387 kmg387
    01/06/09

    In reply to The Sick Internet Joke About 9/11: ✈ ▌▌
    Oh! I get it. Someone moved beyond 6th grade computer class and discovered the subtle and fascinating nuances of Microsoft Word. Creating pictures with Wingdings characters sure is trendy!
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    Image of unclevanya unclevanya
    01/06/09

    @kmg387: Not to mention the fact that this "trend" began about a month after 9/11, which is when I first started seeing it. How did any of this suddenly become drama now?
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    Image of th1nwhiteduke th1nwhiteduke
    01/06/09

    In reply to The Sick Internet Joke About 9/11: ✈ ▌▌
    Knock knock

    "who's there?"

    9/11

    "9/11 who?"

    I thought you said you'd never forget?


    zing.

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    Image of mommy_dearest mommy_dearest
    01/06/09

    @th1nwhiteduke: I can't believe I just laughed at that.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    01/06/09

    In reply to The Sick Internet Joke About 9/11: ✈ ▌▌
    Well, I admit that all my complaining about Gawker's insufficient coverage of internet search algorithms has now been stymied.
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    Image of RheaCorvinus RheaCorvinus
    01/06/09

    In reply to The Sick Internet Joke About 9/11: ✈ ▌▌
    In one of the wingdings fonts (created before 9/11), the number 9 brings up an airplane and the number 1 brings up a building. So when you type 911, those icons appear.
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    Image of BaconCat BaconCat
    01/07/09

    @RheaCorvinus: With a name like 'wingdings' you'd thing the keys for 911 would show the US gov't masterminding the whole thing or some other nutjobbery.
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    Image of eatsshootsleaves eatsshootsleaves
    01/06/09

    In reply to The Sick Internet Joke About 9/11: ✈ ▌▌
    I could start a campaign like eBaum's World around a smiley face, or a harmless word like "Gawker," and I bet Google wouldn't censor that. So why should Google police this? I've seen more tasteless things on Gawker, for God's sake. It IS tasteless, but that's the internet. Let the damn thing be a "trend." Since people (well, cretins) ARE legitimately searching for this, that's exactly what it is.
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    Image of Senor_Wences Senor_Wences
    01/06/09

    In reply to The Sick Internet Joke About 9/11: ✈ ▌▌
    And the problem is what? You're saying Google should delete this from its engine? You're saying its an abomination, or something?


    Oh, yes, my, my, tut tut! I think, while we're at it, we should delete any reference to Abu Ghraib. Oh, and how we handled Katrina. Um, let's see, that shoe guy, let's get him offa there. We need to clean this shit up. Let's put the future behind us.


    Dude, once you start deleting things, it don't never end, and some of the best discussions are profane discussions.


    And, yah, I'm a fucking card carrying member of the ACLU.


    Or, wait, is "fuck" not allowed anymore?

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    Image of Senor_Wences Senor_Wences
    01/06/09

    @Senor_Wences: Because, seriously, unless I've missed the fucking point, this is really getting under my skin, this shit right here.


    I've largely (unless maybe occasionally drunkenly) stayed out of the whole "Gawker sucks now" business, though I notice I've inadvertently stumbled into this sister site I've always been indifferent towards, and now I see why I've ignored it, but, seriously, what the fuck?


    Lighten up, Frances. Deal with it, work it out somehow.

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    Image of Pinekatz Pinekatz
    01/06/09

    @Senor_Wences: Agreed. Tasteless? Absolutely. But why are we talking about this as if it should be policed? The whole topic is lame.
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    Image of Senor_Wences Senor_Wences
    01/06/09

    @Pinekatz: I know, right?


    And guess where I came across the best 9/11 joke ever?


    [gawker.com]


    I will remember it till my dying day.


    And, yes, I live in New York, and yes bla bla bla, I've got my stories and wounds. But for crying out loud!


    What the fuck is this shit? Jesus Christ. Do you know how many museums want to be part of the Freedom Tower or whatever the fuck we're calling that hole in the ground these days? Zero. Zero museums want to be part of it. Because they have to promise not to do anything "controversial", as in attempt to educate or clarify or enlighten.


    Just throw a fricking Bible and a flag into the ditch and we'll all genuflect in that direction every morning. How's that? Sound good?


    Goddamn, I'm grumpy.

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    Image of Pinekatz Pinekatz
    01/07/09

    @Senor_Wences: Yea, but its okay. If no museums want to be a part of this, then why don't we just all forget about it entirely. I saw the fuselage of the Enola Gay in the Air and Space Museum in the 1980s. Did museums have more spine then or did Americans?
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    Image of rollergirl76 rollergirl76
    01/06/09

    In reply to The Sick Internet Joke About 9/11: ✈ ▌▌
    I feel as if I'm not internet dorky enough to get this.
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    Image of Mymoustache Mymoustache
    01/06/09

    In reply to The Sick Internet Joke About 9/11: ✈ ▌▌
    Can you start over? What happened? No, I mean on 9/11...
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    Image of BlowJoy BlowJoy
    01/06/09

    @Mymoustache: Once upon the time, the white people decided to come to the US and kill all the Native Americans. Then the white people got mad at the OTHER white people and threw all their tea into the ocean. Then they were independent! Then they gave arms to the Afghanis to fight the stupid evil Russian Communists. Then Muslim extremists got mad and blew up NYC. Then the US brought hellfire to Iraq and killed Saddam and everyone in the world hated the US. Then Obama got elected and now everyone in the world loves the US. Then someone googled boxes and a plane and they remembered NYC and people cried.


    Got it?

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    Image of contradicto contradicto
    01/06/09

    @BlowJoy: Now can you explain the Israeli/Palestinian conflict?
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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    01/06/09

    @contradicto: A never ending LAN party of Counterstrike without computers?
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    Image of lucystrawberry: Tier 2 is the new black lucystrawberry: Tier 2 is the new black
    01/06/09

    @Skunky: marry me?
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    Image of BlowJoy BlowJoy
    01/06/09

    @contradicto: Yeah that one's even easier. Once upon a time God came down and said Hey Palestinians, this is YOUR land! And then the US and God came down and said Hey Jews, this is YOUR land! And then they fought. Forever. The end.
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    Image of mommy_dearest mommy_dearest
    01/06/09

    In reply to The Sick Internet Joke About 9/11: ✈ ▌▌
    So I'm confused. Has everyone decided that Owen is the new villain at Gawker? It used to be Moe, then, well, you know what happened to her. I know people didn't like the Travolta posts, but this is really not that big a deal. It is the kind of stuff we see around here.


    I like Owen. So there.

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    Image of cereal_girlfriend cereal_girlfriend
    01/06/09

    @mommy_dearest:
    i'm not trying to hate on owen, who appears to be just a drawing and not a real human, i just don't think his posts fit into gawker. too much geek without the appropriate amount of snark. and this is from a fellow left-coaster, so i know we can get soft out here. i miss sheila.
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    Image of ChickyOnly ChickyOnly
    01/06/09

    @cereal_girlfriend: Last night I discovered that he is not simply a drawing when he appeared on my local ABC7 news talking about Macworld and Steve Jobs (surprise!). The drawing *does* get the facial hair right.
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    Image of cereal_girlfriend cereal_girlfriend
    01/06/09

    @ZookeeperCarly:
    was he on KGO here in SF? i am sad i missed it. but like santa, until i see him, i imagine he is not real.
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    Image of ChickyOnly ChickyOnly
    01/06/09

    @cereal_girlfriend: I too would prefer to have continued imagining a non-threatening colorful little avatar, but there he was in the flesh on TV! And yes, it was KGO. Guess you should've been watching "Your Best Life" Week on Oprah, and you probably would have caught it right after the show.
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    01/06/09

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    Actually, it’s a pause button for airplanes. You know, in case the pilot has to take a nap.


    Q. What do you call a black man who flies a plane?

    A. A pilot, you fucking racist.

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    Image of cereal_girlfriend cereal_girlfriend
    01/06/09

    In reply to The Sick Internet Joke About 9/11: ✈ ▌▌
    totally perplexed about the relevance, meaning, or potential interest of this.
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    Image of contradicto contradicto
    01/06/09

    @cereal_girlfriend: Never forget. Duh!
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    Image of BlowJoy BlowJoy
    01/06/09

    @cereal_girlfriend: If this stuff doesn't get reported on and stopped, THE TERRORISTS WIN.
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