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Agreed. That was my immediate thought too. The Challenger reference was off base and in poor taste.

Oh get over yourselves.

Joel the joke was fine. There are people out there making computer games about Tschernobyl and there died more people because of that than because of the Challenger. There's been another shuttle incident since then, and the "teacher in space" program has been completed this year.

You should focus on the positive aspects of space travel and not over-mystify the incident.

Focus on the Iraq war. That's a national tragedy with deaths a thousandfold higher. And people joke about that one left and right.

Well, I'm shocked that you didn't throw in a third website plug in that comment.

I get the irony AND I get the funny. I just take exception to the Challenger jab. I would take similar exception had Mr. Keller used Chernobyl, 9/11, wars, plane crashes, AIDS, famine, or tsunamis, etc., in his post. I don't see humor in these things.

From a purely linquistic perspective, the juxtoposition of the "surprise" examples is odd - Berlin Wall fall = revolutionary, liberating event; Challenger explosion = tragic, haunting disaster. I don't think either one qualifies as a "surprise" - especially in the comedic sense that Mr. Keller intends them.

I'm with Dorv - Mr. Keller is a talented enough writer to have come up with a better example - he had numerous fields to mine for pure comic gold rather than drilling into a tragic nerve. p.s. - I won't hold it against you Mr. Keller.

Yeah and what did Britney do NOW!

Again, you don't get the funny. You take a point in taking offense. So do us all a favor, get annoyed but leave us alone with you being annoyed because you are a rather insignificant minority who's unable to laugh for relief.

I don't get that Challenger is still tragic for you.

I guess next time Rich should rather take another nifty explosion that comes to mind. Maybe the Hiroshima bomb.

Seriously. Seven people died that day. That's the amount of people who get shot in the DC/Baltimore area every day and nobody pisses themselves because of that or that the ban of firearms has been lifted. That's everyday business but when the nation watches a teacher explode in a fiery ball of flames it leaves a scar so deep you can't joke about it twenty years later.

Maybe I should go over to all those Late Show hosts websites and piss all over them for making fun of the Nazis.

I guess all those "Jews running Hollywood" have a better sense of humor than some of the readers here.

Now THOSE two posts ARE funny

A pig with lipstick and glasses has more experience to be VP than either woman.

Oreo, so Guiliani then?