Fish-inna-barrel wank of the day
The NY Times newsblog The Lede reports that Paris Hilton is out of jail and under house arrest. Predictably, the comments thread explodes. 690 comments and counting.

My favorite part about this is actually not the comments thread (which is full of all the self-righteous wankery you'd expect, on all sides). It's the Recent Posts sidebar and the comment counts therein:

I find it especially funny, and possibly even a touch ironic, in light of the sheer number of people in the Hilton comments thread ranting about how news is SERIOUS BUSINESS and complaining about the girl getting yet more airtime.

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	mmanurere 2007-06-07 09:33 pm UTC (link)
	"We'll up your allowance so you can buy them all back, of course. We're not that cruel." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	pastri_archy 2007-06-07 09:37 pm UTC (link)
	"But only after you prove how sorry you are! ...the 58th time the last charm!" (Reply to this)(Parent)

	itsirtou 2007-06-07 09:38 pm UTC (link)
	But it won't be a 2007 Jag! It'll be a 2006! Consider that your warning!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mmanurere 2007-06-07 09:48 pm UTC (link)
	If someone had gotten killed, it would have been a 2005! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	alya1989262 2007-06-07 09:52 pm UTC (link)
	Um, huh? doesn't get it (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	dragonfangirl 2007-06-07 10:29 pm UTC (link)
	She's being punished by being given a new car that's two years out of date! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	alya1989262 2007-06-07 10:34 pm UTC (link)
	headdesk And here I was, googling "Jag", because I thought it was an acronym or something. Hmpf. I'll go to bed. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	squib 2007-06-07 11:22 pm UTC (link)
	And it'll be one of those newfangled Jags that's nothing but a rebadged Ford! So there! mourns the loss of a once-beautiful car (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	frequentmouse 2007-06-07 11:36 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, GOD yes. Right before the ~~model change~~ blaspheming of a great car, my son and I had a long conversation about how one could tell S-type Jags dating back to their beginnings by certain consistent design features: all of those were stripped out by the last redesign. And what did who do the BMW, why? (Reply to this)(Parent)

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