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class=763445913-23102007>I don't get it. What joke are you talking about
here?</SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> kclug-bounces@kclug.org
[mailto:kclug-bounces@kclug.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Monty J.
Harder<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, October 21, 2007 9:32 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Mark
Gardner<BR><B>Cc:</B> kclug@kclug.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Hello! I'm new...
be nice.<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>On 10/21/07, <B class=gmail_sendername>Mark Gardner</B> <<A
href="mailto:markgard@gmail.com">markgard@gmail.com</A>> wrote:
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">On
10/21/07, Jason D. Clinton <<A
href="mailto:me@jasonclinton.com">me@jasonclinton.com</A>> wrote:<BR>>
I think that was Billy's keen sense of humor.<BR>> <A
href="http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.kclug.org">http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.kclug.org</A><BR><BR>Good,
sarcasm is not easy to convey in email. I was going to be
sorely<BR>disapointed.</BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><BR></DIV></DIV>Not only that, but neither is irony. <BR><BR>
<DIV style="MARGIN-LEFT: 40px">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". <BR></DIV><BR>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. <BR><BR>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
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