Inspired by Mel’s (do we really need his surname? he’s a “familiar” already) rant about the Jews causing all the wars in the world, VH1’s Best Week Ever Blog posted their list of “Random Facts About Jews (According to Mel Gibson)“, including the extinction of the titular [hee] unicorns…”that’s why you don’t see them much around these days.”
More randomness includes: “Jews only accept MySpace Friend Requests from crappy bands,” “Jews created Arrested Development just so they could piss us off by cancelling it” and that “Jews are the ones who put the snakes on the plane.”
Of course, the snakes on the plane are easily explainable. When we put them on the plane, they weren’t snakes yet. See, we ran into a group of Egyptians, who gave us these sticks, or staffs, to take on the plane with us. But the joke was on us…someone threw these sticks to the floor, and they became snakes. Usually, one snake would have consumed all the others–crisis averted. But that snake was going swimming in a half hour, and his mother had warned him to wait an hour between eating and swimming, so he decided he shouldn’t eat first.
But as to one of the “facts” on the list, I have to admit that it’s true. “Jews have never had the Best Week Ever.” Even if we did have our own “Jewtastic” special.
Perhaps my offense taking mechanism has deadened with age (or having come of age during the original SNL), but I thought that BWE list was funny, barbed and ended on a note of poignancy, as Esther noted above. Usually you have to watch public TV to get all that on one screen.
I skimmed the comments which Penny & Idit found so upsetting and found no more that the usual sophomoric crapola one finds in most comment sections of the Internet. If you 2 ever have the need to induce vomiting, click on any Yahoo! News headline, and at the end of the article, click “discuss.” You will probably come out believing the Chinese have the right idea about censoring the Internet.
Yeah, the comment by Stav made my stomach churn.
I was disheartened to read comments that back up sooo many of the untrue stereotypes about us.
Did anyone look at the comments people were leaving on that page? They were starting to make me sick!