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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Monty J. Harder
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 9:32 PM
To: Mark Gardner
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Hello! I'm new... be nice.

On 10/21/07, Mark Gardner <[email protected]> wrote:

On 10/21/07, Jason D. Clinton <[email protected]> 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.