http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54629 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:19:11 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54629#post-157869 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:59:11 +0000 stalinetta 157869@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>what's the best way to 'advertise' a rewrite? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54629#post-157774 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:14:28 +0000 stalinetta 157774@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>it was too long - here a much tightened up version</p> <p><strong>White House replies to 'Let's build a Death Star' petition<br /> </strong></p> <p><em>Over 30,000 ironically minded Americans, assumed to be readers of The Onion, have signed a petition to build a 'Death Star'</em>. </p> <p>The petition states investment in the Death Star project would create employment and extend the skills base of the population from semi-literate shelf-stacker at Walmart to highly qualified space-welder and give the stagnating economy a much needed impetus.</p> <p>Replies posted on the White House FB page and Twitter feed read:</p> <p>'Your MUM'<br /> 'No, emperor, no, please ... Argghhh...'<br /> 'We have started building it you idiots! Where do you think the quadrillions in bank bailouts really went? '</p> <p>The official White House reply was:</p> <p>'We are rejecting the petition to build a Death Star as this administration does not support blowing up planets. We prefer targeting oil rich regions or really poor and remote places here on earth'. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54629#post-157760 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 21:43:12 +0000 Titus 157760@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I like it, but would it perhaps sound better to say "3000 American lovers of irony ..." </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54629#post-157744 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:49:54 +0000 Squudge 157744@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ouch! The head of Science &amp; Space budgets at the Whitehouse is funnier than we are. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54629#post-157742 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:19:36 +0000 stalinetta 157742@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Bum, the original Guardian Article might have been funnier. Off to slash my wrists now. Out-funnied by the Guardian argghhh....</p> <p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/12/white-house-death-star-petition" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/12/white-house-death-star-petition</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54629#post-157711 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:47:22 +0000 stalinetta 157711@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Over 30000 ironically minded Americans, assumed to be readers of The Onion, have signed a petition to build a 'Death Star'. </p> <p>The petition states that the Death Star project would create employment and extend the skills base of the population from semi-literate shelf-stacker at Walmart to highly qualified Space-Welder and give the stagnating economy a much-needed impetus.</p> <p>Any petition with over 25000 signatories automatically triggers a response by the White House, and staffers wanting to show off their own comedy credentials have been falling over themselves to draft a suitably funny answer. </p> <p>Replies suggested on the official White House FB page read:<br /> 'Get out more!'</p> <p>'No, you are NOT a Jedi, get a life!'</p> <p>'Your MUM'</p> <p>'No, emperor, no, please ... Argghhh...'</p> <p>'We have started building it you idiots! Where do you think the trillions in bank bailouts really went? '</p> <p>Pentagon insiders confirm that the last statement was too close to the actual truth and removed by NASA and the CIA in the 'Interests of National Security', but it can still be viewed at Web Archiving Sites, where the page was cached.</p> <p>The official White House reply was:<br /> 'We are rejecting the petition to build a Death Star as the administration does not support blowing up planets. We prefer targeting oil rich regions or really poor and remote places here on earth'. </p>