Comments on: Because Steve would have wanted to hear it.

Question: Because Steve would have wanted to hear it.

quadog — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:45:47 -0800

Has anyone heard any Steve Irwin jokes?

Death is not funny. But I'm struck by the fact that I haven't heard a single joke since he died. I mean, two days after the Challenger explosion there were jokes and now here it is weeks later and I haven't heard a single thing about Steve Irwin. Consider this an anthropological question. If you answer is "yes" then I'd like to hear the joke.

By: rob511

rob511 — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:55:28 -0800

Uh, yup (from Down Under, yet):

Q: Who sang at Steve Irwin's funeral?
A: Gordon Sumner

By: TheOnlyCoolTim

TheOnlyCoolTim — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:57:29 -0800

The day after (or the day of, I don't know the exact time and zones) his death, I saw a very long performance of The Aristocrats which included creative use of the stingray-hole.

By: martinrebas

martinrebas — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:58:39 -0800

Ten seconds before reading your question, I read this on bash.org: "I suppose Steve Irwin should have worn sunblock to protect from harmful rays".

Do bad puns count as jokes?

By: Espy Gillespie

Espy Gillespie — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:59:03 -0800

Norm MacDonald on the Daily Show. This was on fairly soon after it happened, though I'm not sure of the exact date.

By: wilky

wilky — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:00:11 -0800

I don't know if this counts as a joke, but at a party last weekend we were playing this variation of charades where one team comes up with an action/event and the other team comes up with an adverb. The team that came up with an action must guess the adverb based on the other team's enactment of the action. Drinking makes this game much more fun.

As you can guess, the action was "Steve Irwin's Death by a Sting Ray," prefaced with "I know this is wrong but..." This was followed by a chorus of "OMG!" and "so bad!" The team then proceeded to enact the event "robotically."

Yeah. College kids have no souls.

By: solid-one-love

solid-one-love — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:05:58 -0800

I heard that his tombstone reads Ray Sting Peace.

By: quadog

quadog — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:11:26 -0800

These are great. But they aren't not funny enough. I need more!

By: vacapinta

vacapinta — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:13:35 -0800

Here's some more.

By: TheOtherGuy

TheOtherGuy — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:25:56 -0800

There is one that will make more sense to Australians than to the rest of the world

Q) What do Steve Irwin and Peter Brock have in common?

A) They both hate fish-tails

By: Jimbob

Jimbob — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:27:15 -0800

Well, he should have been wearing suntan lotion. You know? To protect from harmful rays.

By: aye

aye — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:36:36 -0800

<Inkyghost> Steve Irwin died the way he lived.
<Inkyghost> With animals in his heart.

By: aye

aye — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:37:15 -0800

Oops, I duped vacapinta's post.

By: PercussivePaul

PercussivePaul — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:38:30 -0800

From vacapinta's link:

How many respected biologists have been killed by stingrays?
None.

Hoo-ah!

By: divabat

divabat — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:42:17 -0800

there's plenty floating around on LiveJournal if you wanna have a looksee - check out the MetaQuotes community around the time he died.

(though I'm with sophist here)

By: pompomtom

pompomtom — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:46:49 -0800

Haven't you people had enough yet?!?

No.

Every pore of the Internet has been oozing Steve Irwin jokes since his death

I, too, have missed them. Got this one in-office:

Steve Irwin arrives in heaven.
God says "Steve you've been a decent bloke, did nice things and made everybody feel welcome, you can have something in heaven that you treasure from Earth. Whatever it is I'll get it up for you".

Steve leans over and whispers in Gods ear.......

Next day it arrives in heaven.
Steve's jaw drops.
He looks at God and says:
"God, I said CROCK not BROCK."

By: robcorr

robcorr — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:09:33 -0800

(For non-Australian readers, pompomtom's joke makes more sense when you realise that Aussie motorsport legend Peter Brock died a couple of days after Steve Irwin.)

By: harmless

harmless — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:09:09 -0800

Crikey! ran a round up of Steve Irwin jokes.

By: Effigy2000

Effigy2000 — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:27:09 -0800

Sadly, scrolling through the Metafilter thread announcing his death reveals quite a few jokes made by some of our fellow Mefites in the hours after his death.

By: leapfrog

leapfrog — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 04:51:31 -0800

I'm sure there have been dozens of variants on this theme:
Steve Irwin died as he lived-- Tormenting dangerous animals.
I'm not sure if that is a joke or just an honest epigram.

By: imbecile

imbecile — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 05:16:03 -0800

Steve Irwin meets Peter Brock in heaven. Steve says "Crikey mate! Why have you got a halo and I haven't?"

Brock replies "You stupid bastard! That's not a halo, it's a steering wheel!"

Irwin has really only been on the radar here in .au since about '02 when he was introduced to us from the U.S. Brock, having been on the scene for more than 30 years, has a great deal more local cultural relevance; hence the jokes only really started when Brocky died a few days after the "Croc Hunter"

By: The Confessor

The Confessor — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 05:29:07 -0800

One of the more common responses on web forums to the news of Irwin's death was, simply, "crikey!"

I'd consider that a bit of a joke, myself.

By: riotgrrl69

riotgrrl69 — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 05:44:49 -0800

They asked Steve Irwin what his favourite TV show was as a child, and he said that while he was a massive fan of Thunderbirds, there would always be a place in his heart for Stingray.

By: Greg Nog

Greg Nog — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:56:09 -0800

By: shivohum

shivohum — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:59:48 -0800

I just saw a magazine cover where one of the headlines was: "The tears of Steven Irwin's widow"...

By: JamesMessick

JamesMessick — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:28:12 -0800

After his death I watched the Steve Irwin movie, Collision Course. One of his first lines was "What a stinger!" I figure those must've been his last, as well.