Request for Missing Cat Poster Turns Into Hilarity

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Perhaps I am a kill joy, but I did not think this was funny the first time I saw it, and I don't think it's funny now.
 

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Well, I have to say, the young lady should not have kept pursuing it when it was clear the artist wasn't sympatico. However, my bet is that the whole thing is fake.

We have an expression in Texas, for guys like him (if he really exists).

"That's a pretty stupid way to behave in a state where you can hire a hit man for $100 in most any bar."

Which, I have to say, is probably as true as the actual e-mail exchange.
 

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Yes I am sure it is fake.

I just don't think missing cats, and what might happen to them while they are missing, and abusing cats (what he said he did to his friend's cat) are funny material.

There is enough animal cruelty in this world already, without adding jokes about it.
 

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Of course it was fake, that's why I got a chuckle out of it. If that really happened I wouldn't think it was funny, it was a good joke tho.
 

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Originally Posted by LaRussa

That was hysterical, I found myself laughing out loud.
Oh my God, that was so freaking funny, I was laughing out loud to the last word too - hilarious!
 

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I don't get it. How can you think stuff like this is funny? Perhaps you only read the "customer's" posts and skipped over the "comedian's" replies?

(taken from the link posted)

How are you holding up? I am surprised you managed to attend work at all what with thinking about Missy out there cold, frightened and alone... possibly lying on the side of the road, her back legs squashed by a vehicle, calling out "Shannon, where are you?"

. I am willing to overlook this faux pas due to you no doubt being preoccupied with thoughts of Missy attempting to make her way home across busy intersections or being trapped in a drain as it slowly fills with water.

I don't have a cat. I once agreed to look after a friend's cat for a week but after he dropped it off at my apartment and explained the concept of kitty litter, I kept the cat in a closed cardboard box in the shed and forgot about it. If I wanted to feed something and clean faeces, I wouldn't have put my mother in that home after her stroke. A week later, when my friend came to collect his cat, I pretended that I was not home and mailed the box to him. Apparently I failed to put enough stamps on the package and he had to collect it from the post office and pay eighteen dollars. He still goes on about that sometimes, people need to learn to let go.
I think it's sick. Lost suffering animals, and animal abuse are not funny. Isn't there already enough hate and cruelty directed at cats?
 

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Otto, did you read the whole thing? or did you stop there? It was funny to me, very funny!
Have you ever watched Tom & Jerry? How's that for cat cruelty?
This is a joke! Dark humor, but nonetheless a joke!
 

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Hi Carolina, yes I read the whole thing. More than once actually. And no, I hated Tom and Jerry. I didn't like The Road Runner either.
I don't like violence or "dark humor".

I understand that it is a "joke" and that people think this is funny, but I don't understand why people find this brand of "humor" entertaining.

Just the way I'm made I guess. <shrug>
 

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Originally Posted by SwampWitch

I appreciate the dark humor in it. I don't have to like something in order to find it funny, I just have to understand it.
Me too... Of course we wouldn't laugh if those things were actually happening to any cat - we are not insane...
Those posters in the end are hilarious - specially the "Lost" one and the "Reward $2,000" one... That exchange of posters was great.

The guy reminded me of what a designer version of Dr. House would be
 

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I thought it was funny, too.
But then I do like that sort of sarcastic humor - the ones regarding his kid and the school are hilarious.

There are lots of things I don't find even remotely amusing and that usually has people claiming I'm humorless. I went with my MIL and DH to see Toy Story 3 recently - it wasn't bad but I don't see how canned jokes are funny and never laughed once.
 

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How in the world could that be real??!! I don't think anyone here would keep asking that person if our loved one/s was lost.......I was insulted the first one, but then when I kept scrolling it got funnier and funnier!
 

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I'm with you Otto. I don't think it's funny at all. Sorry... and I think of myself as quite a silly person.
 

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It was funny, only because it isn't real. It just got better as it went on.

I also love Road Runner simply because wil e coyote is always getting hurt. So maybe I'm not one to talk.

I don't have to agree with it for it to be funny.

Taryn
 

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The posters were funny. I don't like the thought of abused or lost animals, but other then that, it was amusing.
 
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