It's two very different issues to argue about a) whether "dirty word" DYKs drive off women (I'm on record on Jimbo's talk as thinking that's silly), and b) whether "dirty word" DYKs are puerile and not as good a type of joke as we should be doing, if we want to do jokes (which appears to be basically Jimbo's stance, and which I agree with). Yes, toilet and sex humor is juvenile, but I don't think it's a female-repelling type of juvenilia. And whether it is or not, we can probably do better when it comes to April Fool's, anyway.
-Fluff
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen466@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:06 AM, Carol Moore DC carolmooredc@verizon.netwrote:
"It took forever to get the actual article [[Circle jerk]] into
Wikipedia - a female did it.
Now, now, Carol. The record shows that *I* created the circle jerk article, and I am not a female.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Circle_jerk_(sexual_practice)&...
However, I will concede that I created the article entirely in response to your helpful suggestion. So in a way, the credit is indeed all yours. :)
Best, Andreas
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