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FIRST! HA
Yes! The first D-bag of the thread.
maybe the police didn’t recognize it but one of the detectives did… you guys fail for not thinking things through
still a communication fail because how was the reader supposed to know?… ya know?
First of the 61 underaged drinker to be arrested?
Not a thing to be proud of, imho
I went to Bloomsburg University and partied at that frat many times… Bunch of dickheads.
second
Eh, a typo constitutes as a fail now?`And the other part is similar to “disclose the the identity of the suspect”…
Were you dropped on your head as a child?
*snork*
Feeling any better, Loz?
Yes thanks, I even managed to sit through 2 hours of climatology
Still sniffly though. How are you this fine day?
I’ll let you know after the coffee kicks in.
Mmm, that reminds me…
*brews up some tea*
avatar win!
Yours? I spy an iron cross!
longs for a triple mocha latte …
I have a pot of green tea
I prefer chai tea. Chai tee latte with pumpkin spice…mmmm…
Chai is nice but I’m rarely in the right mood for it.
There’s always room for green tea! Or a hot chocolate, mmm.
*barfs*
Sorry. I hate tea. Nasty, boiled weeds…blech. I much prefer strained bean juice, theng-kew.
eh… :s … *pushes cup with barf in it to one side*
Eek! So much barfing here lately.
*barfs in solidarity*
Anyway, I’m loving me some green tea right now, but peppermint is nice, too! And soon I’ll have to start drinking raspberry leaf for the baby.
Unless of course, dragon vomit is a valuable and treasured thing…
Ooh raspberry is nice. I have Twinings strawberry and mango tea, it’s an orgasm for the tastebuds!
Better than ambergris!
Or verdigris, for that matter.
Dragon vomit? That’s like honey, right?
Ummmm…noooooooooo.
My honey is something completely different. Just ask the Admiral.
*bottles dragon’s honey*
*sells on the black market*
*drinks it*
*gets pregnant*
How did that happen?
I think you got a little too frisky on the penis slide.
Look, I’m a GIRL DRAGON!! You must have drunk some other dragon’s honey!
I’m happy to be a cyber-auntie to the wee bunbun, but I don’t think he’ll need two moms.
It was morning and the ladies were all feeling nauseous. Hmm. This looks ominous.
^ sexual identification fail
JAVAJAVAJAVAJAVAJAVAJAVAJAVA
Are you new to commenting? A typo is always enough to constitute a fail.
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Failiure to Flame – Fail.
Damn straight! Typos are the worst kind of fail, except penis slides. That was much worse.
I’m sorry, but identifying the fraternity, then stating that it wasn’t known = FAIL.
That house gets raided about once a month. It’s no secret to anyone.
Um, I guess I’m required to flame Beren now –
since “i” doesn’t want to be part of a failiure a second time.
I does, I missed it.
Go Away! Or I will taunt you a second time!
- No Idea why that quote just sprang to mind.
Thank you, Mr First and Mr Second, for letting us know that you had nothing of substance to say.
I’m sure all of us were waiting with baited breath for that news.
It’s spelt as bated, not baited.
Can I breathe now? Have the douchebags identified their lack of creative substance yet?
Ewwwwww…! Your breath smells like worms!
Of all the things bad breath can smell like, why did you chose worms? Could you have not chosen something a little more odorific?
Like worm poop!
which, frankly, does smell quite bad!
Because she was referring to “baited breath” statement that began this nest of comments.
understanding humor, fail.
Yeah… busted… I read it but didn’t get it.
Humility WIN!
HAH! Thanks, guys, for clearing that up. I WAS just going to leave him dangling on the line, but that’s not reel-ly nice.
Cast it aside, Dragon. He’s just being crappie.
Ok. I was floundering there for a second about the way the breath smelt, but thank cod you’ve made me feel better.
*goes to the museum to look at a Jackson Pollock painting*
Damn, I just posted that for the halibut… I didn’t mean for you all to get so caught up on this thread!
*returns to eating fried worms*
Well, you caught me hook, line, and sinker!
I know you did it on porpoise. Next time, don’t be so shellfish.
Then’s fightin’ words! Put up your flukes!
Guess someone crossed the line. Doesn’t look like they’re biting.
I just caught Dragon in a spelling error. The scales of justice balance.
Guilty as charged…
*droops*
*lower lip trembles just a little*
There’s something fishy about your comment… it lacks fish puns!
They’re, their. *pat’s sholder*
Don’t carp about puns.
Sally, having swallowed cheese,
Directs down holes the scented breeze,
Enticing thus with baited breath
Nice mice to an untimely death.
— Geoffrey Taylor
I really wish they would tell us what fraternity this was.
It says it was Delta Phi. I wish I knew that, then I could tell you…
Fraternities/sororities are the most bizarre things. I just don’t see the point.
I was about to compare their level of bizarreness to Freemasonry, and then I looked them up on wikipedia and saw that they largely derive from Freemasonry.
*cowers in the corner*
Yeah. It’s pretty freaky.
I once caught two frat boys in my class plagiarizing their papers…turns out the fraternity had a large file of papers that their members could simply copy and turn in for a bunch of different classes. There was an investigation, and the campus police discovered that most of the Greek houses had a similar cache.
Worst is Gamma Gamma Ray. You don’t want to get them angry. You won’t like them when they’re angry.
Creepy AND dishonest! That’s not a place I want to be.
Well, the upside was…I made two frat boys cry! Then they got kicked out of school.
They were probably welcomed into their local freemason society with open arms, though.
Someone bailed them out, they always do.
Then they go on to work in either finance or government.
It’s not about what you know, but who your parents are. (See: Bush dynasty)
Haha yep, and become heads of state eventually.
They should end up heads-on-a-stake, instead.
I was going to say, actually, they’re the weirdest, wrongest thing to get involved in anyway… I mean, teenage cults? No thank you :s
Police said EARLY 61 people were arrested. Better early than never I suppose.
61? I bet they had their own language.
There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
Yay, I love that joke
And how can you have NEARLY 61 people, anyways? Did they only catch half of somebody? “Quick! If we cut ourselves in half, we can get away faster!” Fraternity logic never fails
*waits for the grammar Nazis to make their appearance*
That first highlighted sentence is a fail.
It’s OK, we’re here!
Grammer nazis, not plain nazis.
Personally, I prefer my nazis well done with a side of kosher beef sausage, but I can understand why you might prefer them plain…
Godwin’s Law WIN…
Invocation of Godwin’s Law FAIL.
You know who was big on invocations?
Hitler. You Nazi.
*sings*
Springtime for Macavity…
Invocation of “Magic Missle” fail! (sorry, it’s the only D&D spell I’m familiar with.)
Did you spell “grammar” like that as bait? I’ll bite.
My breathe is baited.
Ewwwwww…! Your breath smells like worms!
(steals Dragon’s line in a blatant attempt at plagiarism)
I do believe you have succeeded! Plagiarism WIN.
Plagiarism is never a WIN. It is always a FAIL.
*expels EricB from the blog*
*cries*
ROFL…. Help! I’ve fallen, and I can’t get up!
I meant it as bait after I’d clicked “add comment” and seen it, you guillible thing.
*gazes at the new worm* mmm, nibble nibble.
Did someone mention an earworm?
Tag Team, back again
Check it to wreck it, let’s begin
Party on, party people, let me hear some noise
DC’s in the house, jump, jump, rejoice
Says there’s a party over here, a party over there
Wave your hands in the air, shake your derierre
These three words mean you’re gettin’ busy:
Whoomp, there it is! Hit me!
I still prefer ceti eels to earworms.
My hovercraft is full of eels…
PoB why doesn’t your blue bolt show up in the Recent Comments box anymore?
???
It’s showing up for me when I post a comment.
On the comments section it does. It’s in the Recent Comments box under the Pictures by month box that your bolt is invisible. Your name is there, just the bolt is missing. Perhaps there are occult reasons.
That’s what I meant. When I post a comment, it shows up by my screen name on the Recent Comments list.
Yup – Works for me too…
Perhaps my screen has something against you. Who knows. I have given up trying to understand the vagaries of these machines.
Well, since you’re only working with six pixels, it can be hard to make out those tricky details, you know. :p
My tobaccanist is full of eels…
Um, I guess I’m required to flame JJ now –
since “i” doesn’t want to be part of a guillible thing a third time.
Delta phi fraternity, I thought physics students were well-behaved?
Maybe it was a experiment: “can projectile vomit be used as an SOS signal”. That’s the excuse I’d give.
Moles and trolls, moles and trolls, work, work, work, work, work. We never see the light of day. We plan this thing for weeks and all they want to do is study. I’m disgusted. I’m sorry but it’s not like me, I’m depressed. There was what, no one at the mutant hamster races, we only had one entry into the Madame Curie look-alike contest and he was disqualified later. Why do I bother?
*goes back to ice skating*
^^ keepin’ it real
^reelin’ it in
Yer a genius.
What kind of a name is PHI??? It must be some sort of a decoy. I don’t believe that students ran out of cool names for their organisations.
Education fail.
*psi*
Education FAIL yourself.
Phi is the 21st letter in the Greek alphabet. Psi is the 23rd, and Pi is the 16th.
no, just a humor fail.
*psi* was to supposed to be a pun on *sigh*.
Oh, then Getting the Joke FAIL for me then. Your joke is chuckleworthy.
That’s okay. I’ll take “clarity FAIL” for 500.
I’ll take The Penis Mightier for 1000.
Can I have The Rapist for $800?
Trebeck, you bastard!
say Who?
i thought it was the rapists for 20
*corpses*
Isn’t it entirely possible that the police refused to disclose the fraternity where the arrest was made, but the information about which fraternity it was came from another source?
Journalism fail, maybe.
Except for the part (in the first highlighted section) where it clearly states, “Police said……..”.
I liked that part too!
Sgt. Jason Sadline strikes again!
Is he friends with Chuck Storm?
(I was making a callback to Anonymity Fail.)
(I know, I was just referring to a different fail with a guy of similarly funny name.)
Can you guys get on the same page?
Police may have confirmed the number of individuals arrested but not the location.
Read it again. It was at THE FRAT HOUSE!!!
That would be the location.
And again the first line highlighted confirms it.
There, there…it’s okay. Have a nice cup of disgusting boiled weeds and relax.
Or break out the wine…that’s an even better idea.
Wine. Wine is good. Tea is disgusting boiled weeds.
*relaxes*
*with the offered wine*
Thank you! I needed that.
*pours wine*
*sip*
*sipsipsipsip…*
…..*CHUG!!!*
Ahhhhhh! I needed that too.
Yes. I understand the arrest was made at a fraternity house. However, I suspect it likely that the police could confirm the number of individuals they took into custody but couldn’t reveal any information about organizations or individuals involved, specifically the name of the fraternal organization, for legal reasons.
As you can see, there’s already a contradiction in the piece. Police say they arrested a number of individuals at a specific fraternity, then the writer turns around and says that the police didn’t say which fraternity it was. Unfortunately, the journalistic style of writing doesn’t lend itself to verbose explanations of who said what and under what circumstances and the rest of the article shows this was a rather poor writer.
That’s why it’s on FailBlog.
Duh.. Vernie’s point is that it may not belong here.
The fact that it is an unclear article can mean that the police never disclosed the name, but the writer did anyway.
It would then constitue a fail only in clearity.
Woot! Once again my alma mater makes the news for drunk and disorderly conduct!
Well, at least this time they didn’t get busted for doing YOU.
I agree…. waking up to see your University in FailBlog is just funny. Delta Pi was the first frat party I went to… and it was busted! Luckily, it was never on the internet… it was before the internet got to Bloomsburg!
And I FAIL for not reading the name of the frat correctly! Delta PI is not Delta PHI /sigh
LOL
Ha Ha!!!! That’s my hometown!!!
Yeah, mine, too! Weird, but not surprising.
I find it quite surprising that it is your home town as well as Michaels.
I heard John Early was found in the basement passed out and naked.
Well it was his 61st birthday party.
You know John Earley?? Are you in Alpha Gey?
No, I belonged to Phi Zappa Crappa.
That’s a typical day in Bloomsburg. I have some friends that have gone to the University there. Lovely town (very clean looking) but everyone’s apparently an alcoholic! Haha
Is’nt that lovely
hahaha bloomsburg university is my alma matter … i graduated last year.
it doesnt surprise me that this is associated with BU lol
To be fair, it’s not really contradictory if you think about it
Just because the police didn’t identify it, doesn’t mean the news people didn’t figure it out on their own.
But the first highlighted line says that the poice said it!!!
Not that journalists never lie.
Ye gods, people are just missing this one all over the place, aren’t they.
More wine?
*pours*
Please!!
*chugs*
It wouldn’t bother me so much if it weren’t right there in print. And the entire point of the freaking fail.
*drinking heavily due to debate*
It’s driving me bonkers, however, McCain did pronounce “nuclear” correctly at least once. I was surprised. I didn’t think he was allowed to be.
It’s JOURNALIST writing. It could be:
Police could have said “We arrested 61 people at the Delta Phi house”, or they could have also answered “we arrested 61 people during that incident” when asked how many arrests were made by the reporter. There’s no way to tell which it is, so the error is on the part of the journalist for poor clarity.
Again, this is why it is on FailBlog.
Have a look at the original: http://www.wnep.com/Global/story.asp?s=9025778
Notice the caption under the picture and the number cited in the story proper?
That’s fine fact checking and editing there.
nothing wrong with that: “police said early 61 people were arrested” so in the beginning, at the time vaguely designated as ‘early’, 61 people were arrested. by another point in the evening (perhaps at a time called ‘later’), police had arrested 14 more people, bringing the total to 75.
god i hope that’s not what they meant. no paper could be that illogical.
As a graduate of Bloomsburg University…I would like to say that you could create a whole new failblog using nothing but the greek life at bloom & the media from the town and university. The Bloom paper was notorious for typos, and I do recall one day our webpage claimed it was highs of 415 degrees outside. Bloomsburg is just fail.
Are you sure it wasn’t a Ray Bradbury reference?
I go to Bloom. It’s actually Delta Pi, and Andi, that’s the first party I went to up here too!
61 underages and 1 public drunkenness, that’s what you get, I suppose.
Ooo, so they did identify the fraternity… Reading comprehension fail…
LOL< someone from Fox News surely wrote that, has their style all over it! LMAO
http://www.privacy.de.tc
this is hardly a fail…the first part is just a typo (not even a coincidentally funny one) and the second, well, the second isn’t funny at all. in fact, its correct. i guess it could be a little more specific, but it works.
weird… i used to live a mile from that
I don’t understand why the cops have to go busting up parties when there are more serious crimes being committed all the time. I mean, 60+ is a lot of damn people, but still, everyone likes to party. On the other hand, I have been to some parties where there were some incredibly stupid and reckless people, so I do understand how things can sometimes get out of hand.
THANK YOU!!!! YES, FRATERNITY PARTIES CAN GET A LITTLE WHACK, THAT’S COMMON KNOWLEDGE, BUT THERE ARE MURDERERS AND RAPISTS AND ROBBERS OUT THERE!!! GAH! *frustrated* Teens party, fact of life. (not justifying crime)
im going to kill u
poooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Best part, it’s Delta PI not Delta Phi! FAIL squared.
I live in that area and remember when that happened. The next night all the kids that got busted went out and did it again at another frat house. Fun times I suppose. Getting shit faced when your underage and diminishing your chances of finding a good job after you get your degree.
Always remember background checks kids!
HA! My town made FailBlog. And yeah. That “frat” is a piece of shit. They weren’t even chartered anymore at the time of this bust.
I would say “News FAIL”.