Talk:Gallows humor

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message: With his head on the block, the version I have read was not "Strike, man, strike!", but the slightly more awful "Chop, man, chop!"  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.163.107.53 (talk) 18:41, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sir Walter Raleigh 

message: There's a story that a British Navy crew, waiting for rescue as their torpedoed ship slowly sank, sang "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life".  Be nice if that could be verified. —Tamfang (talk) 16:36, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Falklands incident 

message: The following might be sick humour, but they're not gallows humour. I've removed them.
Immediately after the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence, but before the wars that secured independence, Benjamin Franklin is known to have said the following in danger of being accused of high treason to his fellow, often fractious delegates:
:(See also Syllepsis)
After her career had declined and she had started aging, actress Tallulah Bankhead would answer the question "Are you Tallulah Bankhead?" with 
Nearing the Australian election in 2007, with a widely predicted demise for John Howard, he was approached by the political satire group The Chaser who made disparaging remark about his future in politics. To which, Howard replied:
During the  2008 Listeriosis Outbreak in Canada, Conservative, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, caused a small controversyhttp://www2.canada.com/topics/news/features/decisioncanada/story.html?id=431a548a-13ff-4609-8f38-17011e9979bd for remarking, after being informed of more fatalities: 
Fences and windows (talk) 23:06, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: A more suitable example (from the same Gerry Ritz outburst) would be describing listeria deaths from tainted meat products as "death by a thousand cold cuts". --66.102.80.212 (talk) 00:12, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Franklin's witticism seems to me (and some RSes) to be a very clear example of gallows humor, in two different ways, and really does belong back in the article.John Z (talk) 01:30, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
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