Re: [OT] dry humor

2010-07-07 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 tracks.

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

Re: [OT] dry humor

2010-07-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:39:18 +0530 Mihira Fernando mihirathe...@gmail.com 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

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 humor doesn't

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 a

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 completely

Re: [OT] dry humor

2010-07-06 Thread CamaleĆ³n
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 slightly as

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,