Earthquake!

Jaguar wrote:
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

Relaxer wrote:
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.

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?

distance wrote:
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…

sweetcell wrote:
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!

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

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. :)

walkonby wrote:
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.

you're too sexy . . . for snark.

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

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.

It woke me up and i couldn't sleep for the next 30 minutes. Scarier than the first one because i was sleeping.

I bet the west coast folk are pissing themselves at you east coast pussies freaking over a slight vibration equal to having the base of your Onkyo turned up to 11!!!

i bet the east coast people look at california (budget issues, immigration issues, barbara boxer, gay marriage, arnold, power issues, drought issues, water shortage issues, mudslides, everyone suddendly can't drive when it rains, a fake world of self appointed importance) and say "since when does california matter?"

walkonby wrote:
i bet the east coast people look at california (budget issues, immigration issues, barbara boxer, gay marriage, arnold, power issues, drought issues, water shortage issues, mudslides, everyone suddendly can't drive when it rains a fake world of self appointed importance and say "since when does california matter?"

I think CA/DC is on a par on these two…DC probably wins by a nose in the self appointed importance category though

funny . . . i was thinking the same thing as i typed.

Everyone in DC is now jumping at the chance to tell their earthquake story and not a single one of them is any good

James wrote:
It woke me up and i couldn't sleep for the next 30 minutes.

This.  It wasn't scary as much as it was just a little unnerving.  By the time I woke up enough to realize what happened, it was done.

Whenever any smartacre from California gives me lip about being all surprised about an earthquake I always say "Oh yeah, well you guys would be all weirded out if you saw a 30-car presidential motorcade flying down the road with secret service dudes pointing mounted machine guns at you" and then they say "WOAH, does that really happen?!?" and then I quietly say "no" and run upstairs in shame and tears.

Frank wrote:
I bet the west coast folk are pissing themselves at you east coast pussies freaking over a slight vibration equal to having the base of your Onkyo turned up to 11!!!

I am most definitely not an alarmist about these sorts of things.  BUT, to be fair…

My fiance lived on the west coast (Bay Area to Palm Springs and all over in between) for the past 15 years and went through many many earthquakes.  She was at work in DC when this happened and says she never felt the ground shake like that.

Something about the epicenter not being very deep and the fact that the earth here is "harder" makes a lower magnitude quake more noticable.

So it's easy to see why this sort of thing is alarming to folks around here.

Actually that has happened to me twice. On 267 shortly after 9/11. They weren't really pointing their machine guns AT me. But the back windows of the black suburbans were open and the seats were occupied by dudes with machine guns.

As for California, I had the misfortune of being in LA recently. The traffic there really is unbearable. But I do love SF, even with the huge population of aggressive homeless. In fact, I love most of northern CA.