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[marinamacarena]

I dunno if I'm just a bitch or what but it realy bothers me when people have "RIP so and so in their AIM profile" I saw a kid who had one for Ms. Carpenter and I think it's a nice gesture to show you want to remember her but I REALLY don't think it's good to "honor" someone at the same level as "put this in your profile if you think field hockey

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[seemedsobright]

If people we know are still using AIM when you die, and here's I'm going out on a limb and assuming that you're not going to die anytime soon and also that you're not going to work with kids when you get older, there will be more than one reason to smack them over the head.

Ford planned out his entire funeral, all the travelling, all the different places to hold memorials, etc., etc., so clearly he didn't mind the thought of his body being dragged all over the place. Personally, after reading Stiff, I'd really love to donate my body to science, even though I know they get up to all SORTS of weird things with donated bodies, but the final decision will be with my loved ones. If it squicks them out, then just burn me or bury me. So I think it all boils down to personal preference when it comes down to how one's remains are treated.

(Note to self: Cancel planned roadtrip with Marina's body.)

As for the kids putting things to Ms. Carpenter in their profiles, I wholeheartedly agree that it doth reek of fakeness. To me it doesn't say, I loved Ms. Carpenter and I really want to honor her and respect her after her passing. It says, OMG GUYS LOOK AT ME, I WAS LIKE TOTALLY CLOSE TO MS. CARPENTER AND I AM LIKE TOTALLY SAD THAT SHE DIED, SO BE SURE TO COMFORT ME AND PAY ATTENTION TO ME, OKAY?????

But then, I think it has been established that you and I are both pessimists/cynists, right?

The AIM profile is not the proper vehicle through which to express sorrow over someone's passing, unless, as you said, it's a permanent fixture.

And I feel the need to ask: If said 12 hour you-know-whatathon is "epic," would it not also be "legendary," and not just "damn near legendary," since the two words are rather similar in connotation if not denotation? For what is an epic if it is not legendary?

[marinamacarena]

yaaaay thank you for agreeing to smack people over the head for me. True, true. AIM will probably be gone by then. We'll all be on sophisticated head set communicator thingi mabobbers. I bet the written language of America will have disappeared by the time we are older.

Ooo he did? I feel rather silly now. Okay, in that case I'm perfectly fine. I didn't know he had wanted it. I thought his family and the government was dragging him all over the place. I'm going to donate my organs and all that other stuff that can be used for donors but I don't want to donate myself to science =( I'm scared my skeleton will end up hanging on a hook in a high school biology class where the teacher will occasionally spill me like mr. Colarusso did freshman year. =(

Yeah, it seems like another one of those things kids put in their profiles for attention. I don't see it as a wonderful tribute in any way. Wr are cynical pessmists. But I wouldn't have us any other way *squeezes you* AIM profiles are the breeding grounds of stupidity I have concluded.

Hmm I believe that an epid, if not legendary, is llama-rific. Yes, yes. I think that is the proper word to be used in this situation. But really, look at the typing on that thing. I bet the person who made it wasn't even sure what such five point words as "legendary" and "epic" meant. I bet the person was just sitting in his/her room rather stoned but had AMAZING luck and when he opened the dictionary that he had been ripping pages from to roll his joints with and randomly pointed at a word to use for his/her profile, they both worked. I have a vivid imagination. *imagines random stuffs*