While i wish not to seem insensitive to the Americans on the boards , i would love to see some of the better WTC jokes that were put up and still exist
Let's call a spade a spade. WTC jokes aren't offensive to
all Americans. We've had a ton of jokes caused by such national tragedies as Challenger, plane crashes, serial killers, Reagan, etc.
But in this case, some 6000 people were killed, and countless others were injured or narrowly escaped ... and that amounts to a lot of people who
know someone who was directly affected. To my knowledge, my "Bacon Number" is 3 -- my wife works with someone whose (not-so-close) friend was on the plane that flew into the Pentagon. For a lot of people, this hits close to home. Too close, and it's nothing to do with nationality in particular.
That said, I am probably able to laugh at some pretty crude WTC stuff, but I hardly expect all of you to, and I've been treading pretty lightly in deference to others' possible sensitivities (some of my nasty ethnic jokes have wound up on the stripcreator cutting room floor for similar reasons -- I don't want to accidentally offend someone.)
Maybe I'll make some WTC comics one of these days. But the text might be ROT-13 :-)
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