Comments on: Life Imitates Napolean Dynamite

By: whatmeworry?

whatmeworry? — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 04:48:06 +0000

You mean, if your little brother was about to get run over by a truck over here, and over there at the bus stop was a woman about to smash a spider with her foot, you’d have to >think

By: lake effect

lake effect — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:49:30 +0000

Pinata aside, what I r e a l l y don’t understand is the infantile mind that somehow, in some bizarre twisted way, can equate human lives with that of a butterfly or an imaginary(!) cartoon character. I can’t even imagine the mind-numbing knuckle-dragger who wouldn’t smack a mosquito because it’s equal to a parent, or wouldn’t kill a spider or tick in the baby’s blanket because it’s life is quite as important to the planet as is the infant. (Did this poor unibrow hill-dweller ever pick a rose? Cut the lawn? Get a bug spattered on the windshield? Eat food? Spray Raid? Burn firewood? Buy a Christmas tree?) What a mindless waste of oxygen this pathetic excuse for a human being is. I’d love to watch what would happen if attacked by mosquitoes some warm evening…what to do? Negotiate? Invite them into the house? Adopt them? Undress so they can find more nourishment? What a nut ball. You’re embarrassing yourself and screwing up the gene pool, you poor malformed cretin. Get off my planet.

By: Soup

Soup — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 00:29:40 +0000

I keep wondering what makes the soldiers in this pinata American. I mean, shocking though it may be, other countries DO have soldiers and those soldiers do wear, you know, helmets which is about the only identifying feature I can see in the image provided. I can’t help but wonder why anyone (much less the original poster, “Xeni”) automatically assumed the pinata was in any way associated with the USA.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 20:25:26 +0000

I cannot believe people are mad about this. When something is made into a pinata, it is something reveered. The fact that you hit it with a stick to get candy out is secondary. Hell I have seen a Cross pinata for a holy communion. Peopel need to get their panites out of their @sses.

By: chili dog blog » Blog Archive » HumVee Pinata Update

chili dog blog » Blog Archive » HumVee Pinata Update — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:13:52 +0000

[...] From blogger bbum who thinks we should be upset at children bashing pinata donkeys and butterflies as well. [...]

By: bbum

bbum — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:56:11 +0000

Amy has an active imagination to go from “Cardboard box covered in brown confetti paper with images of generic soldierly types” to “humvee full o’ american soldiers out to kick them up some insurgent ass”.

Personally, I think all pinatas should be in the shape Summer Wheatly’s head. Mandate it by law. Any other shape is synonymous with supporting terrorism (and the boogey man, too).

By: Graycalx

Graycalx — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:23:42 +0000

Amy is dead on. First off the pinata doesn’t bother me. Its not like they’re burning it in effige, so who cares. But comparing that to a reindeer? You my friend are crazy.

No more round pinata’s! Won’t someone think of all the spheres in the world without a voice to protest! You don’t want your child hitting a ball… do you?

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:53:09 +0000

Yeah right, the butterfly and donkey represent something as important as our soldiers. I don’t think so.

By: John

John — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:11:28 +0000

I would like to see a pinata shaped like the head of that goofball, Vicente Fox, who calls all these illegal immigrants in the U.S., “undocumented workers”.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:10:40 +0000

I think some folks are missing the point of the piñata.

It’s not something you hit with a stick because you don’t like it. It’s not an effigy.

It’s like having a Humvee on your birthday cake. You cut through the cake in order to serve it, and that doesn’t represent any negativity towards the design on the cake at all. Quite the contrary — you put a design on the cake that the person likes.

In fact, the most popular and traditional shape is that of the Star of Bethlehem. (There’s a religious history to the piñata as well.) Does that mean that those who break such a piñata are being anti-Christian? Hardly.

Anyone who is outraged, or even perturbed, is a moron.

-W-