Which is the most popular, and funny, terrorist organization?

You mean popular, in the high-school cheerleader sense? Definitely Al Qaida. Funny, not so much.

The Peoples’ Front of Judea. Or The Judean Peoples’ Front. Or The Judean Popular People’s Front, they’re hilarious wankers, them.

To be honest, I can’t name more than those two terrorist organizations off the top of my head.

So I offer the follow-up question, who can name the most terrorist organizations?

Duh!
I finally get it- just call me Rosanne Rosanna Danna

@aprilsimnel The Red Sea Pedestrians?

@upholstry What does the person who names the most, win?

@FGS Loved it 4rl!

@Zen I’ll mark all their comments as ‘great’ for the rest of my life.

And I’ll let them work as my butler.

Hezbollah, Palestinian Liberation Front, PETA, Earth First, Earth Liberation Front, Animal Liberation Front, Hamas…

@ru2bz46 LOL4RL at PETA

As for “funny”, I always got a snicker out of the Irish Republican Army because their initials, IRA, make me want to stash my cash before tax time.

Informal Anarchist Federation – Leave it to the anarchists to be informal about the whole thing…

The crack suicide squad from Life Of Brian?

I second the crack suicide squad.

@filmfann Lurve! Welcome home, to fluther, dude. You rock.

Well I still assume that here at fluther we are trying to move towards wisdom (not to be confused with wis.dm) and away from ignorance. So with that said,
if you want a fair and balanced reply, consider one of the most lethal terrorist attacks of the 20th century. Irgun was a real barrel of monkeys.
These groups are all indistinguishable from each other and they all have the same aim: Racial or religious superiority of one group over another and their right to subjugate them. Race needs to be done away with and while we’re at it countries, religions and class divisions.
Just don’t call me an Anti Semite. If you want to say I’m not nice, I’m fine with that.
Nice doesn’t get anything accomplished. Especially in getting to the root of real nasty problems. :)

I gave you a ‘great answer.’ Why would I call you an Anti-Semite? You must have me confused with someone else. Show me where I have been like that to you, or anyone else. Irgun, in my opinion, and everyone else’, was a terrorist organization (long ago, before Israel was a nation). So was Nelson Mandela, and he did the time. Then he was President. As were leaders of Irgun, Prime Ministers. So? Look at the IRA.

Look at Arafat, who then became the leader of Fatah, which was a terrorist organization, and now is the main faction in the (democratically elected) Palistinian Gov’t. So?

I don’t understand your tone.

By the way, as a Canadian and a Human, I take offense at the notion that I represent anything but, er, me.

As a citizen of three countries (legally), and as, again, a Human Being, I am entitled to my humble opinion, and you, yours. Nuf said for a Friday night (there) or Saturday morning (here).

Ciao.

Um, @Zen, I don’t think @SeventhSense‘s comment was directed at you, but at anyone who might disagree and oppose him by calling him an anti-Semite. He just happened to post after you did, unless you are referring to another topic…

The 700 Club

@YARNLADY TFF.

lol tags.

@Zen
I don’t understand your tone?
I would say rather, you question my intent.
If you were Palestinian I would probably mention Hamas. Just assume there is no camp I belong to. That’s just the way I roll. Lurve me or not.

@SeventhSense I chose already. I Lurve you.

@Zen
:)

@SeventhSense Tons. You one smart, funny fluther-dude.

@Zen
Mrs Robinson, I do believe you’re trying to seduce me. :)

@Zen BTW, loved the FBI mention in the Topics…

@filmfann Thanks.

Isn’t this question an oxymoron?

@manoffaith3112 Yes. It is. Quite right. Happens sometimes, occasionally.

How can terrorist organizations be funny? The only mildly funny thing about them is that some of the suicide bomber actually believe there are dozens of virgins waiting for them in paradise. I don’t know any woman who would want to sleep with a mass murderer. Paradise or not.

The Red Brigade, The Badher-Meinhoff Gang, Emma Goldman’s Anarchists, that group that begins with an L from Pakistan…still thinking but got to go….

The Garden Gnome Liberation Front, a french terrorist organization.

From wikipedia :

Over the course of a year, the Front stole over 150 garden gnomes, contending that garden gnomes deserved the same freedoms they were blessed with. The leader of that group was charged in absentia with stealing over 150 garden gnomes over a period of several years.[13][14] The Front’s leader was given a suspended prison sentence and fined for the 150 stolen gnomes.[13]

In 1998 there was another strike that has been attributed to the Garden Gnome Liberation Front. This strike was known as the “mass suicide.” In Briey, a small city in eastern France, citizens woke up to find 11 garden gnomes hanging from a bridge with nooses around their necks. A nearby note stated: “When you read these few words we will no longer be part of your selfish world, where we serve merely as pretty decorations.”[13]

For two years following the “mass suicide,” the Garden Gnome Liberation Front was relatively silent. No major noteworthy acts were recorded until 2000 when a garden show in Paris displayed 2,000 garden gnomes. In a nighttime raid, the Front “liberated” 20 gnomes from the garden show. The Garden Gnome Liberation Front claimed responsibility, demanding that the Garden Gnomes be released into their natural habitat, and not be ridiculed as cheap garden decorations.[13]

R U serioius?

These are people who with waaaay too much time on their hands.

<——status quo terrorist

My dad gave me terror growing up. Really he was loving, but at times a little grouchy, and a little angry.

One time my mother had bought apple cider and apple vinegar that came in almost the same kind of container.

Any way my dad came home, and my mother was gone. He was at that angry grouchy time apparantly because he asked me where she was. When I told him I didn’t know he said something like shes not around when she’s needed.

Another thing about this story is the juice brought into the home was generally considered my mother’s, and no one was supposed to drink it.

Any way to prove a point my dad grabbed one of the containers, and I urgently told him Don’t. Well, he wanted to show me he could do what he liked and could drink her juice if he wanted to.

Then in the next few seconds it was apparant he grabbed the apple vinegar and had chug-a-lugged it to show me what for. Then all of a sudden it seemed like he couldn’t breathe. As he was trying to suck air in for all he was worth. The humor of the situation hit me like two trains going opposite ways and hitting each other. Of course it was pretty funny, and I took the chance of facing the wrath of dad. I laughed rather loudly, and there you have it. My story of terror.

I think the Garden Gnome Liberation Front wins hands down as the funniest (if not the only funny) terrorist group mentioned here.

The American government.

@janbb Yes, plus PETA is funny (that it is mentioned).

For more on the Garden Gnome Liberation Front, check out the movie Amalie with the incomparable Audrey Tatou. A very cute and quirky French movie with a super cute heroine. I imagine that’s where the folks at Expedia got (or stole) the idea for their Travelling Gnome commercial campaign.

@SeventhSense Want to see that. Time calls it one of the best films of all time. :-)

@Zen
I would agree, but it’s not heavy. It’s as pleasant as an outdoor Paris bistro in the Spring. It’s a movie only the French could make.

@SeventhSense (Off topic, we might get modded): That’s why Time liked it, methinks. Time isn’t so stuffy anymore, they like movies that aren’t “heavy”, too.

Does Fox News fall into this catagory???

Yes, I echo Fox News. They are a throwback to the sensationalist journalism of the 19th century. Facts are irrelevant when you’ve got a Glen Beck. That guy could give Jim Carey a run for his money.