Ta Ta Jesse Helms

[CoasterMatt]

Originally Posted by tracilicious

You need some Gravorade!

Gravy flavored Powerade?

[NirvanaMan]

Did someone say Crystal Gravy?

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/eced238d0f

[Alex]

I celebrated the day he left office. I could hardly care less that he has now died.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Grave Dancing? I think we should throw a fücking White Party on the dirt which will soon cover his bloated, maggot infected corpse! And every year after we should have an inter-racial homosexual orgy to commemorate the fact that this sub-human piece of shït is no longer drawing breath.

[Chernabog]

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac

Grave Dancing? I think we should throw a fücking White Party on the dirt which will soon cover his bloated, maggot infected corpse! And every year after we should have an inter-racial homosexual orgy to commemorate the fact that this sub-human piece of shït is no longer drawing breath.

Visible Szczerbiak Mojo. Sorry to those that think gravedancing is wrong (we had this same discussion when Jerry Falwell died), but horrible people who did horrible things in real life deserve to be remembered for those things. He died without ever seeing the error of his ways, or how hurtful and evil his actions/words were. So yes, I'm happy that a person like that is no longer spreading his vomit among the human race.

You think that when Obama catches Osama and executes him, we'll be talking about how bad it is to gravedance? Sorry, no.

[innerSpaceman]

What an irony, then, that the one person on the LoT who comes complete with interracial homosexual characteristics will not be invited to this particular annual orgy.

[Prudence]

I agree with Kevy and others, so I guess I'm in the minority here. I understand why most of you disagree, but this is how I was raised. I don't dispute that his political, social, and moral views were completely reprehensible. But, the way I convey that is to simply ignore his passing and refuse to give him any more airtime - as he certainly doesn't deserve it. I don't dance on his grave because he's not worth my notice, and to do so drops me to his level. So, other than contributing a bit of public support for Kevy's position (and a few others too - I didn't read carefully), this is the last bit of energy I shall waste on this particular (unworthy) subject.

[Chernabog]

Originally Posted by Prudence

But, the way I convey that is to simply ignore his passing and refuse to give him any more airtime - as he certainly doesn't deserve it.

Unfortunately he DOES deserve airtime -- as an example of reprehensible behaviour. A "what not to do". That's where we disagree. When a notable person who did bad things dies, he/she deserves to be re-vilified by history, if only to try and stop the "history repeats itself" problem.

[Morrigoon]

I can see the arguments on both sides.

Gravedancing feels wrong as it goes against so much of what we were taught is acceptable in this society.

On the other hand...

If we as a society never, ever danced on the grave of an evil person, what would we teach our children about WWII? So I do buy Cherny's argument about the utility of putting the societal smackdown on some people.

[Snowflake]

To paraphrase Aunt Pearl Burras (of Greater Tuna)

“I said I’d sing over your dead body, and Jesse, I feel a song coming on!”

To paraphrase MP, bye bye dum dum.

I'm sure he had his good points somewhere, I feel sad for his family since they were the one's who saw his humane side. I never did, I only saw the public figure.

As a public figure, he was reprehensible and had so many bad qualities and beliefs he was more than proud to display and venom to spew forth. I did not and do not miss him in the public forum, in fact, I had not given him a thought in years. I hope he can make his peace with the universe and next time he comes back for another round, he's learned something and will be better behaved next time.