Earthquake!

[Jaguar]

@Walkie - To whom was that addressed?

[i am gay and i like cats]

who do you think

i'll give you a hint

[wml7]

 

[xneverwherex]

hahahah. too bad i think you got us confused. I am *definitely* not in any of those videos.

felt it in nyc. everyone has been freaking out on the 26th floor. unfortunately for me, i was in the elevator - but i honestly figured someone was huge in the elevator for it to shake this much. it sometimes shakes a bit, but this was pretty bad. thankfully it didnt get stuck.

other than that - got an extra hour out of lunch since everyone was freaking out. figured might as well stay outside for a bit more.

you need to stop shaking that mighty ass of yours so much to big freedia.

[Frank Gallagher]

i live in mineral.  the epicenter was ~4 miles from here.
i've heard people comparing it to a train.   i live about .5 miles from train tracks and i knew someone that lived a few yards away from a different set.  there is not a comparison.  trains don't knock shit off of things that weigh 100+ pounds.  the whole house was shaking violently for a good 20+ seconds.   that 4.2 aftershock felt like nothing compared to the original.  my house is one of the least damaged on the street.  almost everyone else had their chimneys collapse.. ours (three) just got damaged.  not really sure of the total extent of the damage to the house.  thankfully not a lot was broken in the house.  main things we lost were a TV and one of the kitchen cabinets.

i'm not personally finding the jokes all that funny.  maybe it wasn't much where those people are, but it sure sucked pretty hard here.  people are terrible at being clever.

Wait just a second there, pal.  I want to clear something up....you have three chimney's?!

He does now!!!

[Frank Gallagher]

I thought that this one was pretty witty:

"Evidently the quake occurred on a little known fault line outside of DC called "Bush's Fault"."

POTY

[distance]

That's exactly what I was thinking but distance's post really made me look at my life and question the true human value of making jokes in these trying times of books falling from shelves and 30 seconds of rumbling noises.

making fun of people overreacting to things is one thing (i was surprised by how much coverage it was getting for nyc ??), but it did have a pretty big impact here.  not even being personal, most of those tweets weren't even close to funny either.

[sweetcell]

National Zoo Animals React to the Earthquake
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/SCBI/AnimalCare/News/earthquake.cfm

best quote:

According to keepers, the giant pandas did not appear to respond to the earthquake.

they don't respond to frikken PANDA PORN - did they really think a little earthquake was going to get them riled up?

not even being personal, most of those tweets weren't even close to funny either.

but for you it IS personal.  based on your accounts, the earthquake was somewhere between really fuckin scary and life-threatening.  there is no way you can step back and objectively evaluate the humor.  your ability to judge what is and isn't funny for the 99.99% of the population which wasn't traumatized by the quake is nil.

and then there is the lil' fact that humor is very subjective, even when direct personal experience with the subject matter isn't a factor...

[vansmack]

best quote:

According to keepers, the giant pandas did not appear to respond to the earthquake.

they don't respond to frikken PANDA PORN - did they really think a little earthquake was going to get them riled up?

Aren't Panda's a bunch of c^nts!

[sweetcell]

first kangaroos, now pandas... jim would be proud of your ability to shoe-horn him in to so many different conversations.  well done!

[xneverwherex]

Im not sure which comedian wrote this, but it cracked me up:
Apparently now that Nick Ashford is dead, the earth is no longer solid as a rock.

[sweetcell]

i wrote all of that just waiting for your response . . . and you let me down.  you of all people, know how to tell people off properly.  you call that a tell off?

i believe this was directed as me... and no, it wasn't a proper tell-off because i didn't want it to be one.  i was being relatively serious and trying to be somewhat respectful (i was inspired by distance).  take out the "half-wit" quip, which i should have, and nary a trace of snark be there to be found.

[i am gay and i like cats]

you're too sexy . . . for snark.

[wml7]

Pretty strong aftershock around 1am this morning anyone else feel it?, or was everyone too passed out 

[i am gay and i like cats]

i knew i had felt it!  my partner didn't belive me.  he was zonked out at the time.  the house shook for about 2-3 seconds.  i freaked . . . but then it stopped.