Friday Night Open Thread

Surprisingly, Uslan actually turned down the opportunity to make a Batman film prior to Burton’s 1989 film. “We had a company tell us that they would do us a favor and make our movie, but it had to be in the ’60s Batman redux with the POW and the WHAMS. I said, ‘No way!'”

At one particular meeting, Uslan recalls feeling particularly dejected and being asked, “Are you sure you don’t just want to do it that way? Isn’t getting a movie done better than having no movie done?'”

Uslan replied with, “Yeah I’m sure, I am not going to let it happen that way. We’re just not going to do it.”

After that heart-breaker, Uslan sat down with partner Melniker and bemoaned their situation.

“It’s just sad that everyone has been saying no,” Uslan recalls saying. The older and wiser Melniker responded with, “It’s pretty ironic that the last person to say ‘no’ was you. Do you know what you are?”

Uslan recalls responding with, “Yeah, an idiot.” Melniker shook his head and replied, “No, you’re Batman’s Batman. You are defending him, you are protecting him.”

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Trump Truths: Old

Posted by Harvey on 12 July 2019, 4:00 pm

President Trump helped an old lady across the street. The media then spent two weeks brutally investigating whether she had any Russian ties or ancestry. They later apologized to Mrs. Pelosi.

Think It Through

Posted by Harvey on 12 July 2019, 2:00 pm

[High Praise! to Freedom Is Just Another Word]

You ARE Sending These to Snopes, Right?

Posted by Harvey on 12 July 2019, 1:40 pm

“What’s a fella gotta do to get fact-checked around here?” is my plaintive cry.

The answer is, “get a little help”.

Copy the text of an IMAO Newsish Fakery post, claim that this was forwarded to you by a friend and you wanted to find out if it was real, then send it to Snopes using their contact form.

The more time they spend fact-checking satire, the less resources they have to spend rating mainstream media Trump-bashing junk news as “true”.

[UPDATE 7-12-19 3:18PM]

By all means, also feel free to send Newsish Fakery to any other fact-checking organization on the internet, as well.

Student Expelled for Wearing “Gun Free Zone” T-shirt Because It Had a Picture of a Gun on It

Posted by Harvey on 12 July 2019, 1:00 pm

Like body armor, except unable to stop bullets.

SEATTLE (AP) – Chip Douglas, a freshman at Eugene V. Debs High School in Seattle, WA, was given a 3-day suspension and escorted out of the building by police after he was found to be in violation of the school’s “zero tolerance” policy on weapons. Douglas had been wearing a t-shirt that had a picture of a gun inside a red circle with a diagonal line through it and the words “gun free zone”.

Fred Engels, the school’s principal, defended his decision to mete out what some consider “excessive” punishment.

“We got some complaints about it,” said Engels, “but the district has a very strict ‘zero tolerance’ policy when it comes to any form of weapon. You can say ‘oh, it’s just a picture, you can’t hurt anybody with a picture,’ but it’s not the picture that’s the problem. The problem is that someone could see the picture and it will start a chain reaction in their brain, and the next thing you know, someone don’t like Mondays.”

“You have to be harsh about it to some degree,” Engels added. “It’s not just about punishing the one student, it’s about deterring copycats who think that guns are cute or funny or save lives in the hands of good guys. We have to get the message through to everyone. Guns are bad. Always. Everywhere. And anything that looks like a gun is bad. Always. Everywhere. If you don’t stop guns on t-shirts, next you’ll have people nibbling pop-tarts into revolvers and pointing their fingers while saying ‘BANG!’ This is about bringing order to the chaos and anarchy of these youth. They have to be taught to obey every command if they’re going to be model citizens for the people who’ll be ruling this nation after Trump loses next year. I hate Trump!”

“Where was I? Oh, yeah… it’s for the children.”

Douglas, whose parents are suing the school to have his suspension overturned and the incident stricken from his school records, seemed surprised that his choice of outerwear could be the source of such contention.

“It’s weird,” said Douglas, “because my T-shirt is pretty much an exact copy of the gun-free zone signs at every entrance to the school. I just thought that, since they work so well there, the t-shirt would protect me in case a shooter accidentally didn’t see one of the signs.”

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