Back by popular demand: more THG readers sound off
December 1, 2004
Our “THG Readers Sound Off” column has become one of our most popular features.
Due to numerous requests for posting more feedback we receive, the powers that
be at HoosierGazette.com have decided to post some recent comments sent in to us
in this mid-week edition. As always, we left in all spelling, grammar, and
punctuation errors to preserve authenticity. These are actual comments, not
works of fiction like most of our material.
From New Jersey: I was just reading through your website and found some articles that I swear
I've heard on Right-wing talk shows and nighttime news shows. This is too funny.
I love your site and am happy to see that some people still have a sense of
humor out there! As for the readers who get mad at the stories ... please post
more ... it is just too comical! I love reading those. Thanks for the laughs.
From Cincinnati, OH: I enjoyed reading your site. I thought the stories were funny, until I read
your reader feedback, and then had to go to the hospital from laughing so hard.
Just when you think you understand how stupid people can be, some idiot is
allowed to access the internet. The depths of stupidity never cease to amaze me.
Awesome site, please keep up the great work!
From Plano, TX: A friend of mine sent me by E-mail the article about the fight in the NBA
asketball game.
I think the fan got what he deserved, but if everybody decided to go after
anyone who commits an injustice against a him, we might as well not have laws.
We don't need to have Vigilante Justice.
Please forward this to Howie Baker, THG Sports.
From Los Angeles (written Thanksgiving Day): Congrats on the I-69 coverage. As a former Hoosier, it does my heart good to
see that there is still some creativity left. You will be pleased to know that
Bill Handel, a bigtime lawyer type on AM 640 KFI, and the morning guy on what is
possibly the biggest AM in the country, was STILL reporting this as true a
couple days ago.
From Bluffton, IN: It's interesting that people think HoosierGazette.com makes our state look
bad. I think that any state that has as much material as Indiana has to make fun
of only looks better when someone actually living in the state can create such a
funny and intelligent site commenting on it all. Perhaps, eventually, we'll be
as cool as New Jersey. And re: the guy from Michigan's comments about Indiana
and it's industrial-wasteland lakeshore: This coming from the state that gave us
Detroit and Flint?
From Evansville: You shouldn't make fun of Cannelton like that. Look at one of your editors!
His hobbies and interests include making beer and wine, and having sex with his
wife. That's sad. I don't care if it said the point of your newspaper is to
include fictional and real stories, that was bad. You should at least say
whether the stories you write are true or fake before people read them. You
people are stupid, sex and drug addicted losers.
From Cannelton: The stories you write on this stupid website should be REAL. The story you
wrote on Cannelton is very untrue. Sure, people smoke and drink, but you have
that in every town. The only reason it's different is because Cannelton is
smaller and there’s aren’t as many people. And we have no foreign exchange
student here at the time. Sure, our town ahs it’s problems, what town doesn’t?
Tell City has an enormous debt to pay off, when are you writing your made-up
story making fun of them? It’s no fair to anyone around here to write such
comments. “Armpit of a town”? Not quite. Just because we’re small doesn’t mean
we’re trashy. My aunt had a foreign-exchange student from Denmark, and he did
just fine, his grade average here was a B. And I am a straight- A student here
at Cannelton, am completely drug-free, and I don’t sleep around. Is this the
best story you can come up with?? Is your newspaper so lame that you have to
focus on the smallest town in Indiana and make up a st!ory?? You guys are
definitely an armpit of a newspaper.
From Chicago: After reading this article about Congressmen Hostettler changing the name of
Interstate 69 in Indiana, it leads me to a very disturbing place. Why would some
politician waste so much of the people’s time and MONEY on such a silly
endeavor? Does he have moral issues of his own? Does he have an intolerance of
things different? Does he have a need for structure, need for closure, low
self-esteem? Does he have a dirty mind? Or does he have this Biblical notion
that the number 69 has an evil sexual connotation? Should we eliminate it from
the mathematical world? Like the number 13, so evil, so bad. Come on folks, we
have an education system where kids cannot even count to 69, and this John
Hostettler is wasting money on a highway name. I would be embarrassed for
electing such a prude. Yeah, let’s all go back to an ancient priggish ideology
of life should not be enjoyed on a daily basis with your lover, your wife, your
family. A note for your “moral” readers; your spou!se should also be your lover.
By the way, if your state does decide to replace all those signs, here is a
person who would like purchase one of the old I-69 signs. Maybe by that, you
will be able to pay for all the waste involved in this little enterprise.
From Evansville: I was checking out Snopes.com and came across a familiar "Urban Legend".
http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/i69.asp Again, I would like to
congratulate you guys on a job well done! There are WAY too many morons in this
world, and with some little help (like THG) we can all see them in action.
Congrats to The Hoosier Gazette in its new found role of "Urban Legend" starter!
Side note, I noticed that you have several links to "Invitation to Valhalla" by
a Mr. Mike Whicker on THG, any relation? If he is your father, congratulate him
on him receiving the Key to the City of Evansville on Veterans Day at the
Victory Theater.
