[3278] in Humor
Re: Joke for YOU!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Bennett)
Tue Aug 8 18:27:40 2000
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 18:21:39 -0700
From: Andrew Bennett <abennett@MIT.EDU>
CC: humor@mit.edu
I am the founder (1988) and former moderator of humor@mit.edu. Sadly, when I left
the 'tute in '97, I also surrendered moderator duties. Perhaps we need another one?
-Drew
Susan wrote:
> 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
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