[3277] in Humor
Re: Joke for YOU!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Susan)
Tue Aug 8 15:53:09 2000
To: humor@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 Aug 2000 15:14:00 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 15:52:34 -0400
From: Susan <seborn@MIT.EDU>
Tom Sobczynski says:
>OK, enough is enough.
I agree. And that's why there now exists the list, humor-flame@mit.edu.
Or at least there will as of the Wednesday morning moira update.
Because humor is for jokes. Amusing things. Even things that aren't quite
jokes, but are. (Seriously, I've heard enough of the things that go out
unadulterated over this list at least once before, if not three times, and nobody
would be complaining if Rhett had told "two tents" straight.)
I hesitate to set myself up as any kind of arbiter of comedy around here, but
I'm just not that amused by people complaining about other people's sense of
humor or lack thereof. I don't think people should send messages like this one,
for example, to humor. If you want to send mail like this in the future, send
it to humor-flame. If you want to read it, then type
blanche humor-flame -a <username>
at the athena prompt, where <username> is your username. If you're not on
Athena, I have no idea why you would want to be on the list either, but I'm
sure there's a way.
And you don't have to use this just for Rhett's jokes. Feel free to grouse
about Darwin awards you didn't think were particularly stupid, jokes that you
thought were much better in your version with the nun and the cockatiel rather
than the rabbi and the three-toed sloth, the Nth forwarding of cookie recipes,
whatever. Knock yourselves out.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled humor mail.
-Susan
