Former Defense Secretary Bob Gates Slips, Falls On Knife 68 Times
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates is in critical-but-stable condition in Seattle-Tacoma General Hospital after a tragic accident in his home kitchen left him brutally stabbed multiple times, sources confirmed this morning.
Gates’ wife Becky found him lying on the floor of the family kitchen and called 911, according to a family spokesperson.
Investigators believe Gates, 70, slipped on an orange peel while preparing breakfast and fell onto a paring knife 68 times. Paramedics confirmed that while grabbing for a handhold to stabilize himself, he also accidentally discharged a 20-gauge shotgun into the back of his own head three times. At some point several minutes earlier, he also mistook arsenic for Equal, stirring the deadly poison into his morning tea.
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I will take your premise ("probably not anyone" other than me "thinks" the OP is funny) and defend the opposite of it ("someone besides me thinks it is funny"
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For the purpose of this discussion, "funny" is the generally accepted definition, as is "thinks". We might have also defined "anyone" as "anyone on DU", but since you chose not to do that... and since the generally accepted definition of "anyone" is anyone, that's the definition we'll be using.
At the OP there are 52 Facebook-linked comments, several of which meet the definition of thinking the joke is funny. (I stopped counting after a half-dozen.) We could quarrel about whether some people's approval can be translated as thinking the joke is funny, or split hairs in some other fashion, but the bottom line is that my premise has reached the threshold of adequate defense.
I could go on like this for some time longer, but honestly I get more amusement when I argue these sorts of things with Tea Partiers.
Can we stop now anyway?
