Another "blame it on D&D" story

[Quantum]

MY wife will probably murder me today. I downloaded the Transformer's Animated movie soundtrack from the 80's, with songs like "the Touch."

I am playing it while she's cooking dinner now. I am getting looks. And she has knives.

INSTRUMENTS OF DESTRUCTION!

Just wait until she shouts LEROY JENKINS and starts pillaging you.

 

[Demmero]

There may be hope for us!
Ms. Sweet is now linking the crazy lady to author John Irving: Slay suspect’s mom a cousin to John Irving - BostonHerald.com

Yeah...let's blame this all on the Irving DNA!

 

[Aeolius]

I am playing it while she's cooking dinner now. I am getting looks. And she has knives...

No worries. When "The Death of Optimus Prime" plays and you begin to cry, she'll see how sensitive you are.

 

[Cyronax]

No worries. When "The Death of Optimus Prime" plays and you begin to cry, she'll see how sensitive you are.

Optimus Prime wasn't dead. Just waiting for a second act:

The Rude Awakening of Optimus Prime (youtube - includes swear words)

C.I.D.

 

[jaerdaph]

Let's be clear about this. It's not just Dungeons and Dragons that caused this murder, but the FOURTH edition in particular. This never would have happened if WotC had just kept updating 3.5. At least we have Pathfinder now, which personally saved my cat from a burning building. You know who set the fire? A copy of the 4e boxed set. Those things are evil.

I blame all the gangsta rap music about 4e. Do you know they want to play 4e in prisons now too? For the first time in 30 years, I'm writing my congressman about this wicked game!

Pathfinder, on the other hand, has ended world hunger and brought about world peace.

 

[jaerdaph]

Which is kind of like someone asking me if I knew all of the other black people at the last Dallas Stars game.

This is a trick question because you were the only black person at the last Dallas Stars game, right?

 

[catsclaw227]

"Careful with that axe, Eugene..."]

NINJA'D --- (dammit).

A day late and a dollar short.


On topic, I wonder if Laurel J. Sweet will be writing a retraction or something similar. The comments (up to 135) at this writing are about 95% slamming her.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

This is a trick question because you were the only black person at the last Dallas Stars game, right?

Not quite...though I did overcount at one point when I mistook an empty seat for another one of us.

Side note- due to February being Black History Month in the USA, the NHL had a commercial/PSA out that just shows a brief (and incomplete) history of black players in the NHL, dating back to Willie O'Ree who became hockey's version of Jackie Robinson on Jan. 18, 1958.

NHL and Black History Month - NHLmaniac - Videos - US Daily Sports

BTW...the search for a link to that commercial resulted in a hit on stormfront.org. Apparently, the White Supremacists out there are miffed that black people are starting to play hockey in visible numbers.

 

[Paradox]

Actually, to call the Herald a "tabloid" is being a bit generous.

Say a politician says something stupid. They'll run a front page story, with the person's image wearing a dunce cap. And we're not talking quality photoshop job. It looks like someone cut out a photo of a dunce cap and put it there.

Back in 2004 when the Red Sox won the World Series, a woman was killed by a police's non-lethal weapon. Hit her in the eye and killed her. The Herald put the photo of her body laying in the street right on the front page. Real classy.

It should be noted that no other Boston area station (or national news organization) that I'm aware of ran any sort of similar story.

Indeed, one Boston station pointed out the Herald's lack of good judgement on printing such a non-story. (It was suggested that maybe the killer read the Herald. Draw your own conclusions.)