August 24, 2004

The worst thing

A brief survey of the worst thing that has ever happened ever as listed by random people I asked, in no particular order except the first:
The Holocaust (duh)
Slavery (no one even mentioned it until I asked a black dude)
The Khmer Rouge coup
September 11
The Rwanda Genocide
Assassinations of JFK, RFK, Tupac Shakur, Biggie Smalls, the Israeli Olympic Team 1972
Bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki
The Rape of Nangking
Columbine
The Gulags/The Stalin regime
The Vietnam War
The Inquisition 13th and 15th Centuries CE
The Rule of the Khans
The Trail of Tears/The Native American Genocide
The Bubonic Plague
The Alabama Four
Lynchings
WWI and WWII
Oklahoma City Bombing
The Palestinian/Israeli Conflict
Exxon Valdez disaster
The Titanic
The Edmond Fitzgerald
The Decimation of the Rainforest
The Catholic Scandal
The Middle Passage
The Ethiopian Drought
Bosnia
The Aztec Nahuatl Massacres
The Branch Dividian Massacre
Little Big Horn/Wounded Knee
The Reagan Era
The Cultural Revolution
Your Last Relationship
Last Friday

It hasn't happened yet. The thing. The one big thing. It hasn't happened yet.

Put that in yer pipe and smoke it.

Posted by jlp716 at August 24, 2004 01:35 AM
Comments

Okay, you know what? Fuck you. I was born in 1972.

Posted by: Joshua at August 25, 2004 12:52 PM

What? Are you upset that your nativity didn't make the list? I was born in 1973. Lucky lucky us.

Posted by: JtothP at August 26, 2004 10:59 AM