None.

Of course, this article from the Onion is even funnier now that Jackson’s actually dead.

Who is laughing. These jokes are sick, cruel , and un becoming of a Latter-day Saint. You are really showing your perverse nature of Mormon mentality. You all need a better hobby.

RE: 5

I, for one, found the first joke pretty funny. #2 was okay, but the first one is still tops in my book. I look forward to additional jokes at the expense of a child molester. Don’t worry, only about 362 days until you can do his temple work for him.

Personally, I’d let more time pass before telling these sick jokes. The man isn’t even buried yet.

Re: I look forward to additional jokes at the expense of a child molester

Presumptuous to say this. Jackson had his day in court and his accusers couldn’t even get their stories right. Everything points to people accusing MJ just for the money. Plus given Mormons own history with blacks, well, some people just shouldn’t throw stones…

Regardless. These bad jokes are not becoming of a Christian and spreading them on this thread only cast an evil not compassion. Tell me what pleasure does one receive making jokes of a person who has a sickness.

jjohnsen, I like that one! You get bonus points for the oblique reference to outdated Mormon folk beliefs about blacks.

I dare everyone to post these jokes on their Facebook pages, wait 24 hours, and then see how many people un-friend them. Seriously, I’m curious what the answer would be. Alas, I won’t try this myself, as my self-esteem is tied pretty closely to how many friends I have, but those more secure in their identities should try this out.

AB

I was genuinely sad when Warren Zevon died.

Zevon rocks, and my Facebook friends are used to my humor.

How is Michael Jackson like J.C. Penny’s?

Boys pants half off.

FWIW, our stake had youth conference this weekend and the “12 year old nuts” joke was the one I heard most often from the youth and other leaders I was around. Took me a moment to get it the first time I heard it. YC started Thursday night and by Friday morning the Michael Jackson jokes were flying around. (Cell phones and Ipods were verboten, but some kids disobeyed or had some other lifeline to the outside world, or at least Mormon Mentality.)

I think Mr. Jackson may have the last laugh, at least for the suckers who loaned him 400 million dollars?!?! Must have been the AIG geniuses who thought it was prudent to extend that much credit to MJ.

B Tippetts,

I have to say I with YOU on this on. Regardless of Michael Jackson’s past, we must look at it like the Amish did when those children were gunned down. They forgave that man and embraced the gunman’s family in sympathetic grief. It is our lot to forgive, not disrespect the recently deceased.

DKL,
Humor, maybe. Cruelty, no. Some people just don’t like your perverse and cruel “humor”. I’d guess your intellectual energy would be better spent learning how to deal with criticism.

Rick M: I’d guess your intellectual energy would be better spent learning how to deal with criticism.

Touché!

#26. Oh, that gives me perspective. Tell the truth I’m getting sick of hearing about Michael Jackson. It’s like Jackie Kennedy died.

The press is bored. Drudge Report is still reporting news. Like what has North Korea have planned for the 4th of July.

Peter, how do you know what his lawn looks like? You stalking?

#32 Hey nothing is off limits with some who have posted comments . Even Jesus is up for criticism who may have moral fallacies.

#31 annegb,

I was thinking the same thing about Peter’s front lawn comment- I also thought it might be a very clever Micheal Jackson joke.

Tippetts,

I think you should get off the high horse now.

Tippetts — So was OJ.

Frankly, I am quite appalled that members of the Church have reduced themselves to telling such hateful and disrespectful ‘jokes’. It is not important on whom the jokes are based, but the fact that people who profess to be Christian could be so spiteful. These ‘jokes’, and others of their ilk, have nothing to do with humour, and as members of the Church we should know that there is no such thing as ‘the court of public opinion’, only rumour and conjecture, both of which we are warned against in the scriptures. I think that you should be ashamed of yourselves and take a long, serious look at your lives.
Some of the justifications for these posts are quite bizare and pathetic. Look at some of them seriously and they make no sense, particularly from an LDS perspective. I apologise to any non-LDS who may have left posts, but I (and the world) really do expect more from followers of Christ.

I was a missionary in Argentina when the Challenger was destroyed during launch. A few weeks later, another missionary shared a letter from his younger brother full of sick jokes like “NASA: Need Another Seven Astronauts.” I felt just a little strirring of pride that my nation is robust enough to have room for twisted jokes as part of its response to tragedy.

Critiquing the Michael Jackson jokes above, I would say that they are generally too generic, not having much more to do with Mr. Jackson than the accusations of pedophilia. Some include references to his cosmetic alterations, which is good, but it seems like a really good joke would be one that mines the particular details of his life in a way that it could refer to no other person. I think the one comparing Michael Jackson to Richard Pryor is good that way. There is only one person that “burned by Pepsi” could apply to. The one that uses the specific fact that Michael Jackson died soon after Farrah Fawcett is good that way too.

nasomomdele: Okay, you cracked me up.

Derek, please come follow me around and apologize for me at will. It will save me time.

Peter: yeah, right, you’re skulking around his bushes, trying to get a glimpse of your hero. We’re on to you.

“Frankly, I am quite appalled that members of the Church have reduced themselves to telling such hateful and disrespectful ‘jokes’.”

Despite all this bantering back and forth, you have to admit that the Michael Jackson story is amazing: Only in America could someone begin life as charming, good looking but poor black boy and end life as an infamous, hideous looking Asian woman with micro facial pubes.

“Humor, maybe. Cruelty, no. Some people just don’t like your perverse and cruel ‘humor’.”

Holy carnival capers, Batman: Michael “The Joker” Jackson is dead and will be unable to take any offense at this time. Sorry for the inconvenience.

This isn’t a joke, but it just occurred to me that the Gosselins are probably thanking God that Michael Jackson & Farrah Fawcett died.

Rep. Peter King (NY)’s comments about Jackson are probably ill-timed, but does anyone really disagree with them in substance?

I just heard a pretty good one: the fact that Michael Jackson became white and delightsome is proof that he was not just a member, but a spiritual giant. I thought this was funny because it reminded me of the “Reverse the Curse” bumper stickers I used to see in Boston when the Red Sox beat the Yankees and went on to win the World Series.