Why was he leasing matlock in the first place?

Why would he do that? Doesn't it come with a rent-controled 3 bedroom condo with a view?

impaler: I've always wondered how the right would perform an character assassination on someone like Andy Griffith.

Now I'll know.

If you had been paying attention, you would have seen the commercial during the election where Andy and Ron Howard promoted Obama.

So, if they were going to suddenly decide to attack him, they're WAAAAY late.

I didn't know there was a lease.

What's the problem with Death Panels anyway? Let's focus on quality of life instead of quantity of life.

swee2th: What's the point of making statements...

/then amending them with this stupid slash? Get out your copy of Elements of Style and learn to write like a human being.

Nothing personal, AlwaysRightBoy, I'm just so sick of seeing this pointless Internet fad.



Slashies are a time honored tradition. People were using slashies long before I got here.

The president would like me to inform you that we no longer deem your life cost effective please die quickly and have a nice day.

Psh, figures Obama won't even pony up the cash to buy a Matlock. He'll just lease it for a few years, then when his brats and dog have all but ruined it, he'll turn around and lease a new Matlock. Elitist.

Jesus wept.

swee2th: What's the point of making statements...

/then amending them with this stupid slash? Get out your copy of Elements of Style and learn to write like a human being.

Nothing personal, AlwaysRightBoy, I'm just so sick of seeing this pointless Internet fad.

I think you misposted this here since there are no comments with slashes above you, but I just wanted to ask why anyone should give a fark what your sick of?

I see they've quietly done away with robot insurance.

lockers: swee2th: What's the point of making statements...

/then amending them with this stupid slash? Get out your copy of Elements of Style and learn to write like a human being.

Nothing personal, AlwaysRightBoy, I'm just so sick of seeing this pointless Internet fad.

I think you misposted this here since there are no comments with slashes above you, but I just wanted to ask why anyone should give a fark what your sick of?

There were, actually.

It would have been funnier if you saw a stage hook come across the screen and pull him off.

/or a zombie Charlton Heston appearing in the background

Paris1127: lockers: Why was he leasing matlock in the first place?

It's cheaper, you pay in installments, and then you get to return him when you're done.

Considering the age of the unit, I guess that makes a lot more sense over owning it.

swee2th: What's the point of making statements...

/then amending them with this stupid slash? Get out your copy of Elements of Style and learn to write like a human being.

Nothing personal, AlwaysRightBoy, I'm just so sick of seeing this pointless Internet fad.

You sound bitter and fat

The ad is slated to run on channels seniors watch, such as the Weather Channel, CNN, Hallmark and Lifetime, at an initial cost of $700,000.

Or you could run it on:

Fox News (teehee, during Glenn Beck would be awesome)
Golf Tournaments
Local college sports games
The nightly local news

Or perhaps non-cable TV for seniors who don't have cable?

redsquid: I didn't know there was a lease.

Death panels were a good idea. Spending 80 grand on drugs to give someone 2 more weeks of painful life is a horrible waste. That 80 grand could buy much greater life extension on people not so close to death. If people want their 80 grand drugs to live another two weeks, let them pay for it. The government isn't a charity. The government is there to keep you alive long to tax.

Treygreen13: There were, actually.

Mea Culpa. charade you are.

What's the point of making statements...

/then amending them with this stupid slash? Get out your copy of Elements of Style and learn to write like a human being.

Nothing personal, HawgWild, I'm just so sick of seeing this pointless Internet fad.

JavierLobo: Death panels were a good idea. Spending 80 grand on drugs to give someone 2 more weeks of painful life is a horrible waste. That 80 grand could buy much greater life extension on people not so close to death. If people want their 80 grand drugs to live another two weeks, let them pay for it. The government isn't a charity. The government is there to keep you alive long to tax.

They are also the absolute certain way to make sure that anything they are attached to is voted down and removed within 3 minutes of passing.

I understand the value of a "death panel" in the long term, but you've gotta realize that is a PR nightmare. There is no "spin" capable of covering that mess.

robmilmel: "Now I don't know spit about death panels, but back on the farm when a hoss had done broke his leg we would break out the .30-.30 and pump one into his brainpan...any of y'all have any broken limbs?"

I feel I must be missing something here. Presumably Obama isn't wanting to do away with private healthcare. So wouldn't you end up with what we've got in the UK, where you can use the NHS, but the private option is still open to you? My past few employers have offered private medical coverage and I've used it on one occasion for a hernia op. I saw the same specialist that I would have seen under the NHS, but because I was private (it wasn't MY money), I saw him sooner and got the op done sooner too.

So even if somebody is refused medical coverage for whatever reason, if they can afford to have it done privately, how are they any worse off than they are now? (And if they can't afford to have it done privately, how are they any worse off than they are now?)

/Not trolling - it's a genuine question

swee2th: What's the point of making statements...

/then amending them with this stupid slash? Get out your copy of Elements of Style and learn to write like a human being.

Nothing personal, AlwaysRightBoy, I'm just so sick of seeing this pointless Internet fad.


Farkers and Farkettes love slashies.

/the more slashies
//the better we love them
///feel the love

swee2th: What's the point of making statements...

/then amending them with this stupid slash? Get out your copy of Elements of Style and learn to write like a human being.

Nothing personal, AlwaysRightBoy, I'm just so sick of seeing this pointless Internet fad.

you sound old.

/and fat.

The whistling. THE GODDAMN WHISTLING.
Fark that theme song and fark you for reminding me of it.

swee2th: What's the point of making statements...

/then amending them with this stupid slash? Get out your copy of Elements of Style and learn to write like a human being.

Nothing personal, AlwaysRightBoy, I'm just so sick of seeing this pointless Internet fad.

There's only one thing that bugs me about slashies. It's not the fact that they exist, either.

//It's that there should always be two of them.

swee2th: What's the point of making statements...

/then amending them with this stupid slash? Get out your copy of Elements of Style and learn to write like a human being.

Nothing personal, AlwaysRightBoy, I'm just so sick of seeing this pointless Internet fad.



/there's a slashie in there somewhere

Hot


RELEASE THE KRAKEN

Will this be running alongside the commercials for Old Glory Robot Insurance?

I just realized that 60 years from now, Lindsay Lohan or Zac Efron will be explaining the forced-euthanization chambers to people my age, on old-people channels where they're showing re-runs of Jersey Shore.

"There's pretty music, and you go on to the next big, like adventure! Let'shiat the beach, you guys!"

And the President will be some young whippersnapper who wasn't even alive when 9/11 happened, and will laugh at how old-fashioned we are when we reminisce about iPhones, or Youtube, or Twitter...

This grim vision makes me long for a future of runaway global warming, where we all end up floating in raft cities on an un-ending ocean planet, fighting for control over that huge patch of floating plastic garbage in the Pacific Ocean ("America II".)

bubbaprog: Then you must be new, because in the timeline of Fark slashes are late to the game.

Should we get off your lawn? Is our loud playing interrupting your nap time before jeopardy?

Treygreen13:
They are also the absolute certain way to make sure that anything they are attached to is voted down and removed within 3 minutes of passing.

I understand the value of a "death panel" in the long term, but you've gotta realize that is a PR nightmare. There is no "spin" capable of covering that mess.

It gets into the age-old problem of how democracy deals with unpopular, but necessary measures.

The answer is, not well. It's one of the greatest weaknesses of the system, in fact.

bubbaprog: Treygreen13: lashies are a time honored tradition. People were using slashies long before I got here.

Then you must be new, because in the timeline of Fark slashes are late to the game.

They originated as pseudo HTML tag closes in this style:

Well, I definitely haven't been here as long as you have. You can look at my profile and see how long I've been here.

However, since I got here in 2007 this is the first time I've ever seen anybody complain about slashies. People do them all the time and nobody says anything about them.

Hence, my comment about slashies being a "fad". They're not. It's 3 years later and people do still use it and nobody ever says anything about it.