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Heres some internet history for the 25th anniversary of 9/11. One of the earliest memes posted online about the attack. Often called “9/11 what if they’d missed” or “9/11 the happy ending.”
There’s were other versions of it I remember that had the towers bending in multiple directions as other planes attempt to fly into them but they seem to be lost media, aka the Matrix bullet dodging trope.
It was a bit harder to find than I’d assume it’d be. Someone had saved it on youtube and I’ve converted it to gif for posterities sake. The original was probably in Flash which is why it’s so difficult to find these days.
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Fun fact, this was the Garfield comic on 9/10.
Sir, a second Garfield has hit the Tower
Garfield orchestrated the worst terrorist attack in history
So they knew about it the day before and it still happened? Incompetence!
Worst? Seems like it worked pretty fucking well.
Also Kermit was involved
Happy 9 November to all those celebrating
That would be Kristallnacht, the original 9/11
looking at Germany rn there might be some people there actually celebrating Kristallnacht …
jesus christ it all makes sense now
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I’ve probably had this .gif for 20 years, and I finally have a reason to share it!
I remember this edited photo of a tourist on top of the towers that went viral. My favorite edit of it was the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
Yup this is an oldie. Of course no one was on the observation deck that morning since it hadn’t opened yet. I do believe some of the staff of the businesses on the observation floor were already there and died. I seem to recall hearing a Sabaro’s employee died (there were a few NYC style eateries on the observation floor.)
Yeah, this picture was taken in 1997 and the guy in it did the editing. He just did it as a joke for his friends and didn’t expect it to go viral.
Well, well, well…
–Tim Kreider, The Pain Comics
I have it on good authority that after the towers collapsed Trump tower became the tallest building in NYC. In fact, Trump called into a news broadcast to proclaim that hours after they’d fallen.
According to this Wikipedia list, if we exclude everything built after 2001, the Trump World Tower would be #6 just in NYC (after the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, 70 Pine St, 40 Wall St, and Citigroup Center). But it does note that the Trump Tower was the tallest residential building in the world from 2000-2003, a ranking that would not have been affected by the fall of the WTC.
For guidance on 9/11 jokes, I refer to Gilbert Gottfried, Jimmy Carr, Pete Davidson, and Seth MacFarlane.
This comment section is pure comedy gold.
As someone chronically online, it’s surprising (and not) how many of these I’ve seen for the first time.
Oh man the cringe pathetic pompous stuff I’ve seen today.
Can they get over it now?During the summer of 2007 I was volunteering at a children’s daycare at my church. There was this one kid, probably about 8 and kind of a rascal. Me and my assistant watch him grab these cardboard building blocks and stack them up into two parallel towers. He then grabs a toy airplane and yells to the other kids “hey, let’s play 9/11!” We immediately put a stop to this, but then me and my assistant have to take turns going around a corner to laugh our asses off.
My favorite, The Onion classic.
It’s funny in two ways because, like Subway, it’s tasteless!
Man I miss when Subway used to be affordable.
$5 foot longs are now $10 and have never been a foot long.
If you remember those times you’re probably thinking of a version of subway that was at least partially edible.
I’m pretty sure I remember their sandwiches tasted like they were made of food at one point.
