12/16/2023 0 Comments Fergus falls daily journal alan linda![]() Just another reason why I thank God every day that Barstool exists. And humor writing dies a horrible death before our eyes. You might want to ease up on the fatties, they’re a sensitive bunch.” Heads just automatically roll. Linda, who moved to Huntsville in 1978, was well known for her passion for community, volunteering, and advocacy. No one tells them “Lighten up, Francis.” No one pulls the writer aside and says “We got some complaints about your last article. David was born on Decemto Daniel and Linda (Hamann. 5, 2010, at Merit Care Fargo, N.D., surrounded by his family. A few people who still read local papers get offended by a stupid humor column, someone loses their job of 30 years. David Warren Erickson, 34, of Moorhead formerly of Fergus Falls, died Sunday, Octoat his parent’s home in his sleep. Alan Bullis, Sr., 58, of Tintah, died Sunday, Sept. I hardly doubt I’d be scarred for life if I got anonymously referred to by the author of Prairie Spy. It’s probably part of what got me into the comedy world in my 20s.Īnd that’s when I was taking other people’s crap to my face. I took the abuse, gave it back better than I got it and lived to tell the tale. Most of it from the kids who grew up to be my best friends. Plus I went through a fat phase, from grades 3 through 8. Fergus Falls Daily Journal, Fergus Falls, Minnesota. And I got called “four-eyes.” I’m also – and this might shock you so feel free to get back to me and tell me how wrong I am about this – not the most attractive man on the planet. And making fun of it isn’t a “generational thing,” it’s facing reality. It’s part of the human condition in 2017. There’s not a man, woman or child among us who hasn’t at one time lost the fight for arm rest space with someone’s Bingo flaps or had to brush up against some guy’s sweaty back fat on a hot night at a ballgame. But ranting about getting stuck next to a fat guy isn’t a hate crime. And airplane gripes is hardly the most original idea for a column. Writing humor columns for the Fergus Falls Daily Journal for 30 years would sort of suggest he’s not exactly PJ O’Rourke. Obviously I don’t know this Alan Linda from Linda Cardellini. Common sense was already on life support but had a DNR in place, so we can’t take heroic measures. ‘Now people are, “No bullying, no body-shaming”.Īlright, I’m calling it. I think at one point you could talk about someone wearing glasses as a “four-eye”, or make fun of a person’s weight or the color of their hair. Tim Engstrom, the Daily Journal’s editor and publisher, said … “Personally, I think it’s a generational thing. Fergus Falls, MN 56537 Phone: 21 Email: newsroom. The controversial piece, titled ‘Taking notice of the size of people in today’s world’, was removed from the Fergus Falls Daily Journal’s website. Alan Linda: The Prairie Spy Censorship is an attempt by some person or persons to control what some other person or persons sees. ‘Hard to sell popcorn dripping with butter to people who already can’t squeeze their big, fat – ummmmm – self into the seat’ wrote Linda. But last week the newspaper’s editorial board fired Linda for ridiculing a person he called ‘fat’ in his column. ![]()
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