Hello! I'm new... be nice.

[Phil Thayer]

I don't get it.  What joke are you talking about here?


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	From: kclug-bounces at kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces at kclug.org]
On Behalf Of Monty J. Harder
	Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 9:32 PM
	To: Mark Gardner
	Cc: kclug at kclug.org
	Subject: Re: Hello! I'm new... be nice.
	
	
	On 10/21/07, Mark Gardner <markgard at gmail.com> wrote: 
	

		On 10/21/07, Jason D. Clinton <me at jasonclinton.com>
wrote:
		> I think that was Billy's keen sense of humor.
		>
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.kclug.org
		
		Good, sarcasm is not easy to convey in email. I was
going to be sorely
		disapointed.


	Not only that, but neither is irony. 
	
	
	Hi, I'm a Language Nazi.  Some people think it's an obsession
with irrelevance, and some go so far as to say it's rude, but we all
know how important it is to use the right language when communicating
with a computer.  I think it's also important we do so when
communicating with one another, and when "communicating" with ourselves,
a/k/a "thinking".  
	

	Humor has to have some element of truth/reality to be really
funny.  Think of the GEICO commercial with the caveman and his
therapist: "So simple even a therapist could do it.", and the therapist
starting to explain why it wouldn't be funny, before the caveman
interrupts to show how insulting that is.  This meta-joke, however, IS
funny, because Political Correctness is obviously very real. 
	
	I can't find a way to make this alleged "joke" meta-funny, much
less funny in its own right.  Especially when it wasn't funny the last
time.
	

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