Top 10 Worst things to happen, ever!- Page 2

[Gothampc]

Posted: 11/20/07 at 4:57pm

1.) A Chorus Line: The Movie

2.) Mame: The Movie

3.) Changing the recipe of Coca-Cola

4.) Delta Burke getting kicked off Designing Women

5.) Jimmy Carter being elected POTUS

6.) Judi Dench losing the Oscar for "Mrs. Brown" and then being handed a consolation Oscar for 8 minutes (albeit brilliant) work in "Shakespeare in Love"

7.) The death of Joe Papp

8.) Kristin Chenoweth losing the Wicked Tony to Idina Menzel

9.) Patti LuPone not doing the American production of "Sunset Boulevard"

10.) Bette Midler turning down the lead in "Sister Act"

Updated On: 11/20/07 at 04:57 PM

[amasis]

Posted: 11/20/07 at 5:06pm

Joe - I'm surprised. You mean 'If it had been just two seconds earlier...' doesn't make it up there on the Top 10?

Updated On: 11/20/07 at 05:06 PM

[singtopher]

Posted: 11/20/07 at 5:10pm

How could I forget....

Joe- How did Rosie and Harvy in Fiddler do?

[Lavieboheme3090]

Posted: 11/20/07 at 5:10pm

Did anyone mention Hunter Foster not getting a nomination for Urinetown?

Posted: 11/20/07 at 5:20pm

Jason almost being killed by the deer, after great debate, was LEFT OFF the list. The judges refused to comment.

The election of Jimmy Carter DID Not make the list. His Book of Poetry came in at #993, however.

Rosie & Harvey in Fiddler DID not make this list. I hear it is going to feature prominently in the "Most embarrassing moments in Gay History" list, however.

I looked for Delta Burke and only saw #3547: "Delta Burke is thrown out of Sizzler on All-You-Can-Eat Shrimp Night."

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 11/20/07 at 5:21pm

Em, the strike is so large, so unimaginable a horror that it is broken into 437 separate entries, including # 1,284: Strike causes me to miss that Jersey Boys' guy's last performance" and #4,118 "Striking stagehand spills coffee on my favorite Gap Hoodie."

I know, it's so big that it's hard for you to talk about. I understand. It's okay.

Updated On: 11/20/07 at 05:21 PM

[jasonf]

Posted: 11/20/07 at 6:18pm

This thread is disgusting. Flame me all you want, but anyone who can even compare the Holocaust to ANY of these things, even in a joking manner, has no taste at all. I'm reading The Wave with my seventh and eighth graders now, and teaching them about what happened during that time. Even THEY know better than to joke about it. You should all TRULY be ashamed of yourselves. Absolutely disgusting.

[soapguy17]

Posted: 11/20/07 at 6:27pm

Okay, I've attempted to pretty much steer clear of this whole Deer fiasco, because while it was all it good fun. I didn't really feel right being a part of it. But honestly Jason, are you not understanding the point of this thread? It's poking fun of all the people who are obsessing/driving themselves insane over the strike or any other random undesirable Broadway event when there are obviously worse things that can happen. That was the only reason that the holocaust or anything of that nature was brought into the equation. People are over reacting, and Joe ever so pointed that out. You need to read into context before you start judging people.

Updated On: 11/20/07 at 06:27 PM

[iHeartMyGeek]

Posted: 11/20/07 at 6:33pm

Well, joking or not, at least the Holocaust is still put in under number one.

Posted: 11/20/07 at 6:53pm

Thank you Geek! I'd just like to add that I started with a list of several hundred "worst things" I found online- They listed the top 100 "worst" events in Human History. The Holocaust didn't make it. I added it myself.

[Ida Noodleman]

Posted: 11/20/07 at 7:16pm

The introduction of the mullett.

The invention of Uggs.

The idea of letting just anybody become a voting member of the Drama Desk Awards

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 11/20/07 at 8:46pm

Best thread of the day!!!

Post that has me hysterical:

re: Top 10 Worst things to happen, ever!
Posted On: 11/20/07 at 05:20 PM


Jason almost being killed by the deer, after great debate, was LEFT OFF the list. The judges refused to comment.

The election of Jimmy Carter DID Not make the list. His Book of Poetry came in at #993, however.

Rosie & Harvey in Fiddler DID not make this list. I hear it is going to feature prominently in the "Most embarrassing moments in Gay History" list, however.

I looked for Delta Burke and only saw #3547: "Delta Burke is thrown out of Sizzler on All-You-Can-Eat Shrimp Night."

[jasonf]

Posted: 11/20/07 at 9:57pm

I understood what it was - but there's STILL something that doesn't feel right about making jokes in ANY context with regard to the Holocaust. Maybe I'm over-sensitive about it now because I'm spending all day talking about it with my kids, but the idea of it being made light of just sickens me.

Joe - do you have a link to that list?

Posted: 11/21/07 at 1:59am

Jason why is it OK to joke about the Influenza epidemic but NOT the Holocaust? Besides which, I WASN'T joking about the holocaust! I WAS JOKING ABOUT PEOPLE BEING SO GOD DAMM OBESSED WITH THIS STUPID STRIKE.

There also was a large portion of humor directed at the various lists that causes people to endlessly debate if "Rosebud" is really the 17th greatest movie line of all time.

But I guess it all comes back to IF YOU HAVE TO EXPLAIN WHY IT'S FUNNY THAT THE MONKEY HAS A CHAINSAW, then THERE REALLY ISN'T ANY POINT TO GIVING THE MONKEY THAT CHAINSAW.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 11/21/07 at 2:08am

There goes Jason again, totally missing the point. Nobody is COMPARING these things in a joking manner -- this thread is a joke satirizing the people who act like strikes and Tonys are the end of the world.

[Roninjoey]

Posted: 11/21/07 at 4:08am

What do monkeys have to do with any of this?

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 11/21/07 at 6:34am

#2 - me missing the f*cking deer thing.

and joe, don't bother, jason the gift to students and to the world as a whole's righteous indignation knows no bounds just as his reading comprehension skills can only be equaled by a lobotomized mongoloid pygmy in a vegetative state. you might as well go fling poo back at the monkeys on monkey island.

[tazber]

Posted: 11/21/07 at 6:44am

#22 missing all of the comments papa would have made had he been here for the d**r thread(s).

Posted: 11/21/07 at 9:45am

Papa I think I said (outloud in my office) "Oh, if only Papa were here!" a dozen times that day!
Updated On: 11/21/07 at 09:45 AM

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/21/07 at 9:49am

1. George W. Bush
2. Global warming
3. Cell phones
4. House flipping
5. ADD
6. The American health care system
7. Video games
8. The nightly news
9. The Age of Entitlement
10. Celebutantes

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 11/21/07 at 9:52am

Faye Dunaway doing MOMMIE DEAREST ought to make the list. Or is that the best thing to ever happen? Hmmm.

[tazber]

Posted: 11/21/07 at 9:59am

best think Borstal. C'mon!

[AngryDeer]

Posted: 11/21/07 at 11:47am

"You should all TRULY be ashamed of yourselves. Absolutely disgusting."


My wife is dead, Jason.

How's your girlfriend?

[mominator]

Posted: 11/21/07 at 3:03pm

"My wife is dead, Jason.

How's your girlfriend?"

Still ugly (on the inside where it counts!)

Updated On: 11/21/07 at 03:03 PM

[jasonf]

Posted: 11/21/07 at 3:10pm

Caitie's just fine. Mocking the loss of others is not. People HAVE lost loved ones due to the exact type of incident that I had (in fact, two separate people in school this past week told me stories of exactly that.) What kind of person decides it's ok to mock that? Apparently many on this board. Call me self-righteous or whatever you want - fact is, I'd rather be self-righteous, bombastic, or whatever else you want to call me, than derogatory and simply mean spirited.

Same thing still goes for the Holocaust. Whatever the intent was, the context the Holocaust was referenced in was CLEARLY light-hearted. It is NOT a light-hearted subject in ANY way, and to contextualize it as such is to rip away what happened there.

Who joked about the influenza epidemic? I don't think any of the real atrocities that have happened in this world (Darfur, AIDS, what have you) are joke-worthy at all. Certain things need to be handled with the gravity they are worth. I understand that the original post was meant to say people are taking the strike too seriously. I got that. The thread QUICKLY became a joke - which instantly put the Holocaust into a category with other supposed atrocities. Maybe those of you who made the jokes don't think these things should be taken seriously, but to compare ANYTHING to mass genocide IS disgusting.

"I'd just like to add that I started with a list of several hundred "worst things" I found online- They listed the top 100 "worst" events in Human History. The Holocaust didn't make it. I added it myself."

I still would like to see that link, Joe -- aside from a Neo-Nazi site, I can't imagine ANY serious list of the worst things to happen not including the Holocaust. Or did you make the list up?