Originally Posted by Trollheart

It does amuse me how some people here seem to believe the death of certain celebrities a cause for mirth, while others are totally off-limits. I'm not a huge Petty fan, but I'll be sorry if he passes, as I would with any musician or star. However I guarantee if I had tried to make a joke about say Ornette Coleman or one of those guys from Can, people here would come down hard on me - most likely those who are cracking jokes they consider funny now. There are sacred cows and god help you if you cross that line, but everyone else it seems is fair game. At least nobody was crass enough to even consider making a joke about Bowie's passing: I guess there are some standards here after all. But the double standard can be at times really annoying.

tealdear: don't mock the dead. You're a ****ing douche if you do.