short right arm

too many blue comments, 1'd

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too many blue comments? what the hell?

Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical novelist who captured the absurdity of war and questioned the advances of science in darkly humorous works such as "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle," died Wednesday. He was 84. Vonnegut, who often marveled that he had lived so long despite his lifelong smoking habit, had suffered brain injuries after a fall at his Manhattan home weeks ago, said his wife, photographer Jill Krementz.

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Your gonna make me cry.

His son works at my school as an English teacher, hes sort of weird, looks at the ceiling as he talks.

The author of at least 19 novels, many of them best-sellers, as well as dozens of short stories, essays and plays, Vonnegut relished the role of a social critic. He lectured regularly, exhorting audiences to think for themselves and delighting in barbed commentary against the institutions he felt were dehumanizing people.

so it goes.

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"I will say anything to be funny, often in the most horrible situations," Vonnegut, whose watery, heavy-lidded eyes and unruly hair made him seem to be in existential pain, once told a gathering of psychiatrists.

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A self-described religious skeptic and freethinking humanist, Vonnegut used protagonists such as Billy Pilgrim and Eliot Rosewater as transparent vehicles for his points of view. He also filled his novels with satirical commentary and even drawings that were only loosely connected to the plot. In "Slaughterhouse-Five," he drew a headstone with the epitaph: "Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt."

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rip

But much in his life was traumatic, and left him in pain. Despite his commercial success, Vonnegut battled depression throughout his life, and in 1984, he attempted suicide with pills and alcohol, joking later about how he botched the job.

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His mother had succeeded in killing herself just before he left for Germany during World War II, where he was quickly taken prisoner during the Battle of the Bulge. He was being held in Dresden when Allied bombs created a firestorm that killed an estimated 135,000 people in the city. "The firebombing of Dresden explains absolutely nothing about why I write what I write and am what I am," Vonnegut wrote in "Fates Worse Than Death," his 1991 autobiography of sorts.

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But he spent 23 years struggling to write about the ordeal, which he survived by huddling with other POW's inside an underground meat locker labeled slaughterhouse-five. The novel, in which Pvt. Pilgrim is transported from Dresden by time-traveling aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, was published at the height of the Vietnam War, and solidified his reputation as an iconoclast.

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wow who f*cking cares?

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People. People care. Clearly you're not one.

Also, people who have ever picked up a book. See above.

"He was sort of like nobody else," said Gore Vidal, who noted that he, Vonnegut and Norman Mailer were among the last writers around who served in World War II. "He was imaginative; our generation of writers didn't go in for imagination very much. Literary realism was the general style. Those of us who came out of the war in the 1940s made sort of the official American prose, and it was often a bit on the dull side. Kurt was never dull."

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I hate memorial ytmnds. I have no soul.

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Vonnegut was born on Nov. 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, a "fourth-generation German-American religious skeptic Freethinker," and studied chemistry at Cornell University before joining the Army. When he returned, he reported for Chicago's City News Bureau, then did public relations for General Electric, a job he loathed. He wrote his first novel, "Player Piano," in 1951, followed by "The Sirens of Titan," "Canary in a Cat House" and "Mother Night," making ends meet by selling Saabs on Cape Cod.

Yeah right, dude, im not gonna fall for this. Its a trap!

I am, incidentally, Honorary President of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the late, great science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that totally functionless capacity. We had a memorial service for Isaac a few years back, and I spoke and said at one point, "Isaac is up in heaven now." It was the funniest thing I could have said to an audience of humanists. I rolled them in the aisles. It was several minutes before order could be restored. And if I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, "Kurt is up in heaven now." That's my favorite joke.

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That passage was from his last book, "Man Without A Country" ---- appropriate, I would say...

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holy crap, an actual real RIP site.

Critics ignored him at first, then denigrated his deliberately bizarre stories and disjointed plots as haphazardly written science fiction. But his novels became cult classics, especially "Cat's Cradle" in 1963, in which scientists create "ice-nine," a crystal that turns water solid and destroys the earth.

Many of his novels were best-sellers. Some also were banned and burned for suspected obscenity. Vonnegut took on censorship as an active member of the PEN writers' aid group and the American Civil Liberties Union. The American Humanist Association, which promotes individual freedom, rational thought and scientific skepticism, made him its honorary president.

Poo-tee-weet?

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Sometimes it amazes me how stupid YTMND users aren't.

His characters tended to be miserable anti-heroes with little control over their fate. Pilgrim was an ungainly, lonely goof. The hero of "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" was a sniveling, obese volunteer fireman. Vonnegut said the villains in his books were never individuals, but culture, society and history, which he said were making a mess of the planet.

Normally I dislike these types of ytmnds, but god damn I love that man, and it's well-made.

"We probably could have saved ourselves, but we were too damned lazy to try very hard ... and too damn cheap," he once suggested carving into a wall on the Grand Canyon, as a message for flying-saucer creatures. He retired from novel writing in his later years, but continued to publish short articles. He had a best-seller in 2005 with "A Man Without a Country," a collection of his nonfiction, including jabs at the Bush administration ("upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography") and the uncer

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tain future of the planet. He called the book's success "a nice glass of champagne at the end of a life." Vonnegut, who had homes in Manhattan and the Hamptons in New York, adopted his sister's three young children after she died. He also had three children of his own with his first wife, Ann Cox, and later adopted a daughter, Lily, with his second wife, the noted photographer Jill Krementz.

thanks Dave

Vonnegut once said that of all the ways to die, he'd prefer to go out in an airplane crash on the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro. He often joked about the difficulties of old age. "When Hemingway killed himself he put a period at the end of his life; old age is more like a semicolon," Vonnegut told The Associated Press in 2005. "My father, like Hemingway, was a gun nut and was very unhappy late in life. But he was proud of not committing suicide. And I'll do the same, so as not to set a bad example for my chil

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dren."

So it goes.

wow overlooked... well-played, slaughter-house five was a good book.

Don't forget he had a cameo in "Back to School"

Live by the foma that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy

Never heard of him.

Your loss.

One of the most famous (and influental) science fiction writers of all time. Most famous for Slaughterhouse five but also wrote tons of short stories such as Harrison Bergeron.

Slapstick was also very good.

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/Salute

Lifelong smoking habits ftw

He died from a head injury.

YEAH BECAUSE SMOKING IS GOOD FOR YOU

If you do anything too much, you'll get cancer.

silenoz...i didn't know you were a Vonnegut fan. though i am a little disappointed that C*ckrum is in your keywords, that guy created nightcreature or something right?

what young liberal atheist freak isn't a fan of vonnegut?

dave c*ckrum had a short right arm

fckin hate his books.

woo slaughter house 5 FTW

It's Kurt you dumbass.

it's a subdomain joke you dumbass.

sigh

rip

That bitch still owed me twenty bucks.

I second Bub

woops replied to the wrong comment...

The music is pretty f*cking gay for such an awesome guy. So it goes.

I actually don't even know what the music is, I just stole it from the dave c*ckrum site

Oh man.

Vonnegut owned, and I'm sure he continues to do so somewhere out there.

I always wanted to make A Kurt Vonnegut site from his cameo from Mother Night. He's passing by on the sidewalk and looks really really sad....

Slaughterhouse-Five FTW! Rest in Peace.

I remember reading many of his books years ago. it's very sad to see he's passed :(

WOW CONGRATULATIONS ON BEING THE FIRST TO REPORT THE DEATH OF A PSEUDO-CELEBRITY (+1)

Sorry, I wasn't aware one of the greatest scifi novelists of all time was a pseudo-celebrity

Well if your plan was to hijack this wretched site once it hits top viewed, I support you, but when 99.9% of people wouldn't recognize you on the street, you are a pseudo-celebrity.

It doesn't bother me when people care more about movie actors than screenwriters, novelists, etc.. I mean, that's your choice (although it's rather idiotic imo) but there's no reason to keep talking trash on a tribute site. Just downvote and move along.

4 until you add Enya.

'"This ain't nothin, I been through much worse than this." On the 8th day, the hobo said to Billy, "This ain't bad. I can be comfortable anywhere." "You can?" asked Billy. On the 9th day, the hobo died."'

KIRK Vonnegut?

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Very nice text, a fitting way to announce his passing.

and here i tried to make a serious site :(

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Pretty sad that the fake death of Brad Pitt is more popular than the actual death of someone who actually matters.

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WTF SHATNER!?

sound fits PERFECTLY

RIP

Needs better sound

I actually didn't like most of his stuff tbh. It was the ideas and plots behind his stories that I favored more than the writing style itself. I'm not going to get into it, but you might enjoy the writing if you like satire, early sci-fi, surreal or magic realism. Out of a dozen of his works, here's the 3 or 4 I would recommend reading: 'Jailbird', 'God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater', 'Cat's Cradle', 'Slaughterhouse-Five'.

ok don't do that. change it back

no... this is what you get for voting 5 on a site with no joke

ITSATRAP!

voting five for the joke.

thank you for the change

who would be so stupid?

Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. - Kurt Vonnegut

Hi, I'm Kurt Vonnegut. I'm an author. An author is a person who writes books. A book is a bound collection of pieces of paper with words written on them. But people didn't read books anymore in the 21st century, because with the invention of the cyberactive holoterminal, they no longer needed to.

? are you gonna change it back?

once it's off top viewed

???

Amazing man.

indeed.

To whom it may concern; It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

vonnegut.ytmnd.com btw i don't like this for it hurts my ears besides that he will be missed. "so it goes"

Thanks Dave.

I don't know who this guy or can think of one reason why I should care...

Awesome, I was hoping this would happen.

Not that I don't love Vonnegut; this is just hilarious.

Well, what the f*ck. Is this one true...?

Kurt is up in heaven now.

I hope you f*cking die, silenoz

Everything was beautiful, Nothing hurt

be original

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Mmmmm Birdseed

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Great switch dude.

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WHERE'D YOU PUT IT

1 star'd for f*ggotry

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zomg he fool'd us!!1 1337!111

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THE SIRENS OF TITAN

The protagonist is Malachi Constant, originally of Hollywood, California, and the richest man in 22nd-century America. He possesses extraordinary luck, which he has used to build upon his father's fortune, but he has done nothing else significant with his life. He becomes the centerpoint of a journey that takes him from Earth to Mars in preparation for an interplanetary war, to Mercury with another Martian survivor of that war, back to Earth to be pilloried as a sign of God's displeasure, and finally to Sat

urn's moon 'Titan' to meet the man responsible for his respective good fortunes (or lack thereof), Winston Niles Rumfoor

all sites downvoted for eternity

Thanks for ear rape

I'd for trying to make some kind of statement on ytmnd. This just isn't the place.

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lol cool runnings

F*ck off retard.

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vonnegut bobsled team

OMG HAHAHAHAHAHLOLEOLOLEOLEOLOLEOLOLOLOLE

If it had a better sound, this would've rocked

LOLOLOLOLOL

like a "trap" website, but for my c*ck!

oh f*cking AWESOME

also read Welcome to the Monkey House. Vonnegut short stories FTW.

also listen to Welcome to the Monkey House, Dandy Warhols albums FTR

not loud enough.

this went from 5 to 1 to 5. i love you

lol

yeahehhaa

i do not approve of this message

changed vote to 1.

haha win!

Vonnegut was awesome. Why does that make people who like toplessness "queers?" You're stupid and your site is idiotic.

sounds like hes saying "give me your apple sauce"

YUO SIR WIN THE INTEREAKSLJDKAJSDLJALKJDSLKASJDLKAJSDLJASDLJASDLJASLJASKJDA WAWESD

ear rape?!1231

i hate you

THIS SITE KEEPS GETTING BETTER AND BETTER

I still think it would be better if there were a very fat man with no shirt riding a horse.

I had it 2ed, but now its awesome.

TEH AER RAEP!

funny how the views jump when you start combining fads with promises of sex

keepin the satire of vonnegut alive. way to go.

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Those who write on Heaven's walls Should mold their sh*t in little balls. And those who read these lines of wit Should eat these little balls of sh*t.

XD

Over 7,000 satisfied customers.

SOOOOOOO good

Well that wasn't ungodly annoying...

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

What kind of man would turn his daughter into an outboard motor ?

Happy meat, happy mud ! Deng you foh de honoah !

Action ! Reaction ! Give ! Take ! Challenge ! Response ! (Suddenly seizes the axe, splits the table)

With respect, Mr. President: why don't you take a flying f*ck at a rolling donut... why don't you take a flying f*ck at the mooooooooooooon ?

KEEPS ON GOING

Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.

poo tee weet?

The comment section makes it all worth it.

When I changed the title to include "Asian Girls" all commenting ceased and the views jump ahead of 4 other sites.

Keep the title the same now, it seems to be pulling in lots of views all of the sudden.

stop.

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your views, votes, and comments empower me.

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F*CKIN' EAR RAPE!

woot

This was not nice to do to me at 2:30 AM...5'd. Also Asians.

why spam sh*t on ytmnd? why? Like poop. Poop mouth. I hate you silenoz, I hate you. :'(

1 for hurting my ears.

MY MACHINES!

They're MY MACHINES!

wtf?

Lame

Whose machines?

wut...da...fug.

I agree but this ytmnd sucks

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Love the new update

silenoz please find some way to put this in: http://popefromthere.ytmnsfw.com/

its not the version you think...

this is pure sh*t

Not as great as your *recent* other one..but this will do.

LOL!

MAI MASHEENZ IS THE REAL TEST