Re: [OT] dry humor

2010-07-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:39:18 +0530 Mihira Fernando wrote: Hello Mihira, > Wow! there's a RFC for humour as well! :P Indeed. Humour, it seems, is not a laughing matter. (groan) -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent"

Re: [OT] dry humor

2010-07-07 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 07/07/2010 12:18 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: ,[ RFC 1855: http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html ] | Remember that the recipient is a human being whose culture, language, | and humor have different points of reference from your own. Remember | that date formats, measurements, and idioms may no

Re: [OT] dry humor

2010-07-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 06 iul 10, 15:23:22, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > This is why most people hate dry humor, and hate comics such as Steven Wright, > because they just can't "get it" without an external social queue telling them > it's funny (in this case an emoticon). This is why most/all sitcoms have > laugh t

Re: [OT] dry humor

2010-07-06 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Lisi put forth on 7/6/2010 4:47 PM: > The inference that anyone who uses Flash must want it to watch pornography > was > unpleasant and distasteful. I cannot be the only person who has never looked > at pornography, never will look at pornography and didn't know until now, > when you told us,

Re: [OT] dry humor

2010-07-06 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:47:11 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 06 July 2010 21:23:22 Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Youtube and pr0n are the stereotypical/archetypal Flash applications. >> If I'd included a winky or tongue-out emoticon, no one would have said >> a word about my post, just grinned slightl

Re: [OT] dry humor

2010-07-06 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 06 July 2010 21:23:22 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Ron Johnson put forth on 7/6/2010 1:33 PM: > > On 07/06/2010 01:40 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> Mark put forth on 7/5/2010 11:51 PM: > >>> I admire the OP's class in his response. Thought that comment about > >>> youtube > >>> and pr0n was c

Re: [OT] dry humor

2010-07-06 Thread Patrick Ouellette
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 03:23:22PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Obviously Mark isn't a Steven Wright fan. Apparently you aren't either. From > now on I'll be damn sure to stick emoticons all over my comments intended to > be humorous lest I cause another row with the dry humor. > Well, I AM

Re: [OT] dry humor

2010-07-06 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 7/6/2010 1:33 PM: > On 07/06/2010 01:40 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Mark put forth on 7/5/2010 11:51 PM: >> >>> I admire the OP's class in his response. Thought that comment about >>> youtube >>> and pr0n was completely unnecessary and unsolicited when I read it. >> >> Dry