Whats so special about cokes formula?

[DaveC426913]

Bah. Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You might find out how it works, but the frog dies.

On June 9, 1981, during the making of the film Bustin' Loose, Pryor set himself on fire after freebasing cocaine while drinking 151-proof rum. He was taken to the hospital, where he was treated for burns covering more than half of his body.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pryor#The_freebasing_incident

On January 27, 1984, Michael and other members of the Jacksons filmed a Pepsi Cola commercial. In front of a full house of fans during a simulated concert, pyrotechnics accidentally set Jackson's hair on fire. He suffered second-degree burns to his scalp.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michae....22_and_business_career_.281984.E2.80.9385.29

 

[DaveC426913]

The question is how "close to home" can a joke about someone else's misfortune get before you take offense to it. If a family member was in the hospital due to heart problems and someone made a joke about that person never doing anything "whole-heartedly" anyway, would you take it as innocent humor? If they were long dead, would you?

If I were making a joke about his death, I'll grant it might* be in poor taste. But his death does not wipe out the previous 52 years of his life. The event to which I referred is 26 years past.

*Not, by any means, granted. As Carol Burnett said: "Comedy is tragedy plus time"

 

[brainstorm]

If I were making a joke about his death, I'll grant it might be in poor taste. But his death does not wipe out the previous 52 years of his life.

I was referring to Richard Pryor. Didn't he actually die in some kind of drug-related fire/explosion?

 

[HeLiXe]

I think he lived and even made a movie joking about it

 

[HeLiXe]

unless it was another drug related fire explosion thing

 

[DaveC426913]

I was referring to Richard Pryor. Didn't he actually die in some kind of drug-related fire/explosion?

Cremation, though fire-related doesn't really qualify as drug-related. He died of heart attack at the ripe age of 65.

 

[GeorginaS]

Bah. Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You might find out how it works, but the frog dies.

You dissect live frogs?!

 

[turbo]

You dissect live frogs?!

Ewwwww!

 

[DaveC426913]

You dissect live frogs?!

All the dead ones I come across are only 1/4" thick and covered in treadmarks.

 

[nismaratwork]

Michael Jackson got burned on Pepsi, Richard Pryor got burned on Coke.

Is that still funny?

Still funny to me, and it was never too soon. Pryor accepted and joked about his situation, and Michael Jackson was sleeping with Propofol and little boys, or at least, life-size dolls of them (http://yfrog.com/05life7rj). That joke would be funny at his funeral, and I think Pryor wouldn't have advocated self-censorship.

GeorginaS: Interesting... the frog dies before you dissect, otherwise it's vivisection. To dissect, you still have to kill the frog first. Your mind works in interesting ways. ;)

 

[brainstorm]

All the dead ones I come across are only 1/4" thick and covered in treadmarks.

Sounds like a job for scissors. . . and don't forget the spatula.

 

[GeorginaS]

GeorginaS: Interesting... the frog dies before you dissect, otherwise it's vivisection. To dissect, you still have to kill the frog first. Your mind works in interesting ways. ;)

[blink]

Wow, I'm going to have to bust out Dave's line about jokes and dissecting frogs.

 

[nismaratwork]

[blink]

Wow, I'm going to have to bust out Dave's line about jokes and dissecting frogs.

A joke GeroginaS, it was a joke. Hmmmm, maybe this thread is humor-cursed. That, or my jokes suck eggs.

 

[GeorginaS]

A joke GeroginaS, it was a joke. Hmmmm, maybe this thread is humor-cursed. That, or my jokes suck eggs.

Wow. We definitely need to start deploying more smilie faces around here, I'm thinking. I've only just got the hang of Dave's sense of humour sans winky faces. I'll keep your name in mind too, mismaratwork.

 

[DaveC426913]

Wow. We definitely need to start deploying more smilie faces around here, I'm thinking. I've only just got the hang of Dave's sense of humour sans winky faces. I'll keep your name in mind too, mismaratwork.

Hm. If humour is my default state, maybe what I need is an emoticon for when I'm being serious. :serious:
No wait. I'm not being serious, so
No. I don't need the smiley. Damn.

 

[GeorginaS]

Hm. If humour is my default state, maybe what I need is an emoticon for when I'm being serious. :serious:
No wait. I'm not being serious, so
No. I don't need the smiley. Damn.

See what you just did to mismaratwork?

 

[nismaratwork]

See what you just did to mismaratwork?

Apparently I opened the ark of the covenant and forget to close my eyes.

 

[kramer733]

What is wrong with you people?! COKE AND PEPSI TASTE THE SAME! It's probably made by the same company as well

 

[leroyjenkens]

What is wrong with you people?! COKE AND PEPSI TASTE THE SAME! It's probably made by the same company as well

They taste the same to me as well. People always try to explain the difference, yet their explanations are always different. Some explain it in a way that doesn't even make sense. I had someone tell me Pepsi tasted more gamy.
And I love it when people are utterly flabbergasted when they hear you think they taste the same. They go on to explain it's like night and day, only more opposite than even that.
I once said Spanish and Portuguese were similar languages and that made some people flip out. Apparently if you take the two most opposite things in the world, they're not even close to being near the oppositeness of Spanish and Portuguese. At least according to those people I was talking to.

 

[TubbaBlubba]

Pepsi is slightly sweeter than coke and that's about it.

 

[DaveC426913]

What is wrong with you people?! COKE AND PEPSI TASTE THE SAME! It's probably made by the same company as well

Not even close.

 

[Dembadon]

What is wrong with you people?! COKE AND PEPSI TASTE THE SAME! It's probably made by the same company as well

If they taste the same, surely there wouldn't be myriads of people religiously claiming that there's a difference! :!)