Australia’s Herald-Sun is apparently trying to muscle in on the New York Post’s “Headless Body in Topless Bar” territory. In any case, the combination of (1) famous person (1), death, (2) an unusual locale and both the words ‘Badger’ and ‘Dwarf’ in the headline make for black comedy gold:
A DWARF porn star who was Gordon Ramsay’s double has been found dead in the most bizarre of circumstances, according to UK tabloid The Sunday Sport.
Percy Foster’s 107 centimetre (3’6″) body was discovered in a badger’s den in Wales.
The report says the 35-year-old was found, “deep in an underground chamber by Ministry of Agriculture experts ahead of a planned badger-gassing program.”
Investigators have not ruled out the possibility of suicide, according to the report.
Don’t crush that dwarf, hand me the badger, to paraphrase the Firesign Theater.
(Via blogger Moe Lane, who writes, “It’s not that I can’t beat the title — it’s that I can’t even beat the URL text: gordon-ramsays-dwarf-porn-double-percy-foster-dies-in-badger-den/ )
I’ve always loved Gordon Ramsay. Now that I know he has a dwarf porn double, I think I love him even more.
And now he really is unique!
Your approach to this story is more appropriate for Gawker or any site overseen by that miscreant Ken Layne. That you can find such knee-slapping delight in this ugly and horrible story reflects poorly on you, and pajamas media.
HuffPo is saying this is a hoax. They supposedly called the Welsh town where the body was found and asked, and no one in the police department there had heard of a dwarf being found dead in town (and you’d think they’d know; it’s apparently a small town or at least city). And believe it or not, they talked to an “expert” in porn, and supposedly the guy had never heard of this Percy Foster. Yeah, I know, what’s an expert in porn? I’m not sure either, but it doesn’t surprise me HuffPo can find him, knows his phone number.
I think it is a hoax. So it’s a repulsive story, with no fact checking. Like I said, reflects poorly on you and your web site.
True or not, If this story were about anyone other than a midget — a black person, or handicapped person for example — it would never be published here. To mock people and laugh at their deaths because they were born “weird” is what Palin haters did to Trig.
“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall in an open sewer and die.” – Mel Brooks
Exactly.
My dear Mr. Barnes, the “story” is unimportant, and probably a hoax, anyway. How the heck did the dwarf get down the badger’s den, especially if it really was a suicide, and, even if they could, why would they enter an occupied den before gassing it, anyway? Dotey Welshmen they may be, but not idiots. It would also have to be a pretty huge badger or a pretty tiny Welshman, such as another dwarf.
Please, sir, get a grip. If you can’t handle this, I think you need to take some knd of tranquilizer, and forego any activity at least until January 2013. I understand things might get a bit dicy until then, at least. If you get too worked up over this, how are you going to handle it when Obama nukes Cleveland, so the Iranians won’t have to?
Perhaps you might wish to visit a secluded place, like, say, a badger’s den in Wales. Just keep in mind that the Welsh treat sexual badgering very strictly, indeed. Remember, “Cheer up! It could be worse”. So I did. And it was.
Nil Desparandum
It’s the lefty sites that constantly mock other people for their physical attributes — fat, pasty white, wrinkled, old, are favorite derogatory descriptions of middle Americans.
I have some hilarious jokes about down’s syndrome child Trig Palin I read on dailykos.com. They’re not true, so no reasonable person could be offended, right? Want to hear them? If you love midget jokes, you GOTTA love retard jokes, right?
I’ll tell you what: I’ll take a tranquilizer, if you take a course in critical thinking. Deal?
Tragedy is when someone dies outside and gets eaten by wildlife. Comedy is when that someone is a midget. I mean let’s face it, the Casey Anthony story would have been much funnier if she had been born deformed, right?
(Sarcasm, as are many of my comments here — for those who need the obvious to be pointed out.)
Correction: Kaylee.
Charles,
I understand your concerns, but be assured that we weren’t making fun of dwarfs, we were goofing on an awesome headline. Let’s not let political correctness seep so far into the site that we lose our sense of humor.
Ed
Sorry, I am far from politically correct. I just like to try to stay intellectually and ethically consistent. (Not that I always or even usually succeed, but I like to try.)
Laughing at the misfortune of a midget is no different than laughing at the misfortune of a baby born with cleft palate. Oh my God, doesn’t he look funny!
Once you do the former, you lose the moral right to, for example, criticize anyone who mocks S. Palin’s Down Syndrome child. Would you call the people who rightly criticized the repellant jokes at Trig’s expense “politically correct?” No. Not even if the jokes were published under an “awesome headline.”
But thanks for your thoughts.
The picture of Gordon Ramsey and his dwarf doppelganger had me rolling on the floor. Too funny. Maybe the dwarf thought the was going to Ramsey’s latest restaurant “The Badger’s Den” to audition for Hells Kitchen.
… hand me the pliers.
It does my heart good to know that somebody else has heard that album.
Sneeze-proof wind vents and a trip to Ralph Spoilsport Motors FOR ALL!
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