George Michael
dead from auto-erotic asphyxiation gone wrong.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 10:41, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

gone right, you mean

( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 10:42, Reply)

I can't decide whether this is
I like auto-erotic asphyxiation or I don't like George Michael.
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 10:52, Reply)

Or from a terrible confectionary-related accident
after he was careless with the Wispas.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 10:43, Reply)

LEAVE THE INTERNET.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 10:45, Reply)

So you're telling him to go "Outside"

(PsychoChomp, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 10:48, Reply)

Well, I do need to go and cock my leg up by a tree, now you mention it...

(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 10:50, Reply)

Quite good
But hardly anyone will know that song

And given the subject matter, you're not doing yourself any favours by being one of the few
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 10:53, Reply)

is that the one he released shortly after getting busted in the public bogs?

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 11:00, Reply)

Points for Vipros
Not Man Points, it has to be said. Far from it.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 11:03, Reply)

what's white and slides down the door of a public toilet?
George Michael's latest release
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 11:05, Reply)

That wasn't funny ten years ago
Even when RICKY GERVAIS wrote it into the Office, it was intended as the sort of bad joke only David Brent would find funny

That's gotta hurt
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 11:07, Reply)

I hate Gervais so much

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 11:09, Reply)

I know
That's why I said all that up there^
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 11:24, Reply)

Dude
We all know you're capable of so much better
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 10:46, Reply)

We've all got FAITH in him.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 10:48, Reply)

That was lame
but unlike Crowsephine, not lowering the bar
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 10:52, Reply)

What's happened to you?
You used to be cool.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 10:53, Reply)

no he didn't

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 10:57, Reply)

It was a Simpsons quote
and it was as untrue in this context as it was when Bart said it
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 11:04, Reply)

I've been saying that since before the Simpsons were around
just because something is in the Simpsons doesn't mean it is a Simpsons quote.

particularly if Monty says it
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 11:08, Reply)

That's exactly what it means
I also bet you haven't been saying that since you were 6
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 11:14, Reply)

it's been on british terrestrial tv since about 98
I was definitely saying it before then
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 11:15, Reply)

Ah, but, for what reason, or under whose influence, did you start saying it?
Just because you hadn't seen it on the Simpsons in, for example, '91 doesn't mean that the friend you heard it from hadn't seen it on Sky

The episode I'm thinking of was broadcast in season 12, if I remember rightly, so this is a totally moot point
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 11:23, Reply)

pointless argument is pointless

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 11:29, Reply)

There is an underlying point about how The Simpsons has sublimated itself into the fabric of pop culture to such an extent that lines from it are used by people who claim not to watch it, or even to dislike it
but that's much better illustrated by watching an episode of Family Guy with someone who prefers the Griffins to the Simpsons, and pointing out the number of gags lifted wholesale - sometimes verbatim - from the latter
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 11:37, Reply)

I tend to avoid such analysis
because I don't care.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 11:38, Reply)

I don't watch either Family Guy
or the Simpsons. The few episodes I've seen seem to recycle very old jokes a lot
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 11:38, Reply)

In the case of the Simpsons
if you've seen episodes from the first few series, the jokes are old because the programme is old. In the later series I will admit the wheels came off and they started covering old ground, as far as I can tell their logic was "Family Guy can re-use our jokes so we might as well do so too"
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 11:44, Reply)

BobbyPires is capable of so much better...

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 10:48, Reply)

ha

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 10:49, Reply)

+rsh

(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 10:50, Reply)

...but fair.

( thealternativefact, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 10:52, Reply)

Yes.
*hangs head in shame*
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 10:53, Reply)

Fucks sake, he's giving it his all
Stop this harsh bullying
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 10:55, Reply)

Nahh
He'll be beaten to death with one of these
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 10:47, Reply)