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...and there goes the pedantry award of the day  
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I agree. 
For some reason that particular one is a pet peeve of mine. Sorry. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Well, I have an excuse, I translated it directly from french - "comprendre" = "understand" in first intention.
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Your jimmies seem rustled.
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...but 30 years later...?
I don't know. Hogan's Heroes was a sitcom set in a WWII POW camp "only" 20 years after it ended.
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Weren't they making fun of the Nazis/Germans, and not the prisoners so much. I could be wrong.
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I'd think it's the setting, rather than who the target of the jokes is, that would make it controversial. But then, I wasn't around when it aired.
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What does setting have to do with making fun of astronauts and how they died? Not much.
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That's kind of a hypocrite thing to say...
Germans died too, joking about them is as bad as joking about any other (even if YOU think they were the enemy).
With that logic we could joke about Russian astronauts (because in the space race they were the enemy).
That said, I don't have a problem joking about the dead. We do it to poor Leslie all the time.
Not that I'd crack a dead person joke to a friend or relative of the deceased, of course.
Although humor IS a (dangerous) way to relieve the tension.
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Sander Rossel wrote: even if YOU think
Uhm, you don't?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Yes I do, but I'm guessing a lot of Germans didn't think of themselves as the enemy.
I once had a philosophy teacher who was to teach us that there is no absolute truth.
Everything is basically just a figment of our imagination, shaped by the lens through which we see the world, and no lens is the same.
And then he continued (in all seriousness). Everything is just a personal opinion except Hitler, because he was evil and everyone everywhere agrees.
That last part made him lose all credibility 
So anyway, even Hitler should not be made fun of.
He is dead and lots of people mourned for him (and who knows they still do).
And that's not my view, because if you kill millions and have a mustache like that you deserve to be ridiculed, but by Slacker007's views I'm guessing that's not done.
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Kinda interesting that you don't, by your own admission, have any problem with mercilessly making fun of anybody when they're alive and actually able to care! I sincerely hope that I will live long enough in the memory of someone to still be being joked about on the 30th anniversary of my crossing the Styx!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Here[^]
Where were you on January 28th, 1986, 30 years ago today? Do you remember?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I was 12 at the time and remember a few of the bad taste jokes that circulated after
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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I remember them as well: the "blue eyes" one sticks in the mind...
I suspect that jokes - no matter how much bad taste they are in - is one way of coping with a tragedy.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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"blue eyes" ?
The misogynistic one I remember : What were the last words heard from the crew on Challenger ? "No, you bitch, do not pull that lev..." 
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"How can you tell that Christa McAuliffe had blue eyes?"
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I was in North Bay, Ontario, working on an accounting system on an Amiga 1000 in C.
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Awesome 
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I was at school, and learned the news while walking down the corridor listening to my Walkman.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Here[^]
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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You were in the news?
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
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Huh?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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