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mik3cap ([personal profile] mik3cap) wrote2007-02-01 10:12 am
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Here's the Onion article I would be writing

'You Old People Better Get Down With It, Or We're Going To Soylent Green Your Asses,' Writes Blogger

In a bold move at 10:12a.m. today, notable Generation X blogger Hammy McSmythe posted an entry in his Blogspot electronic diary indicating that people over the age of 50 need to "ingest a clue" or "face the consequences." This of course in response to the shutdown of the city of New Haven and the mobilization of National Guard forces in response to the discovery of a rubber ducky in the shape of Mr. T left on the curb of Wooster Street.

"We're sick and tired of these whiny Baby Boomer bitches jumping any time they see something 'suspicious'. Every time a new episode of 24 airs on FOX, it feeds their need to be scared. ZOMGWTF!! What's wrong with these paranoid pussies?"

U.S. Representative Dick Hunt (D-MA) was quoted earlier this morning at a press conference: "The person or persons responsible for this heinous terrorist hoax will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I will also be pursuing new legislation that will impose a mandatory 11 year jail sentence for anyone responsible for making me dirty my underwear."

Mary Wootenstein of West Haven was scared shitless. "WHAT THE HELL?? Who wouldn't be afraid of a thing like that? I mean, just look at it, it's obviously some kind of bomb!" A nearby man who overheard Mary's comment shouted: "BOMB?? OH MY GOD WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!"


This photo of the suspicious object was taken yesterday afternoon

McSmythe posted the very same photo in his own journal two weeks ago, when he first discovered the rubber duck and remarked days later that nobody had touched the thing, and found the whole situation humorous. His amusement quickly turned to revulsion when he discovered that the six hours he had spent in traffic evacuating the city were due to hysteria caused by the object.

McSmythe continued: "I swear, I cannot wait for these Baby Boomers to start dying off. How can they not understand the cultural zeitgeist that has produced the Mr. T Rubber Ducky? Are they really that insular and out of touch? Well, my Social Security taxes are paying for their sorry elderly asses! When they're all infirm and bedridden in the next 20 years, they're going to be looking for me to nurse them into their graves - well, they can forget it!!"

[identity profile] vlvtjones.livejournal.com 2007-02-01 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Snark all you want, but I was still waiting for my pager to go off.

Sorry to be a humorless individual, but yesterday kind of clouded my hipster punk'd attitude, y'know?

[identity profile] mikecap.livejournal.com 2007-02-01 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't be eee-scared! The Mooninites only wish peace for you.

It's okay... I know that the constant attacks on U.S. soil that we've had in the six years since 9/11 make everyone's petrifying fear perfectly justifiable. Especially since they've all been happening in Boston.

[identity profile] vlvtjones.livejournal.com 2007-02-01 04:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe I'm a little sensitive, because I do get alerted when something is suspicious, and yes, it's happened in the time I've been on the HAZMAT team. I believe our police officers did what they had to do. I also believe that this could all have been avoided by the ad agency getting some permits for what now is their global free advertising campaign. I am very disheartened to know that the artist who was hired by the ad agency will probably get hard jail time while the ATHF movie will make tons of money for Turner Inc. I think that our local media outlets are the ones who blew this way out of proportion, and that our mayor and governor's press conference was overdoing it.

ATHF is a small cartoon watched by a very small part of the population, most of whom would just as soon flip the bird at a police officer rather than help them out, if they could (or, only when they get enough sack after a few PBRs).

On a personal level: I'm asking you to be a little sensitive too, for me, please.

[identity profile] mikecap.livejournal.com 2007-02-01 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I would like to be sensitive to you, but honestly, the issue at hand is larger than you and me. Unjustified fear that is being fomented by evil politicians, that is costing lives and billions of dollars, must be ended. More lives will be lost all over this world due to climate change than anything terrorists could possibly do, but you don't see people cowering in fear when the sky grows dark.