On 3/23/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:14:40 -0800, "Silas Snider" swsnider@gmail.com wrote:
It promotes the idea that we celebrate childish vandalism. What is good about that, exactly?
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Actually, it promotes the idea that we are willing to recognize humor where it lies -- note that your definition of most of it as childish is inherently subjective -- I often find the humor of the people around me 'childish'. Since they are more mature than I, I must assume that it is a problem with me rather than them.
Remember that one oft cited complaint about bureaucracy is that it is humorless.
No, I have no problem at all with humour. Or humor. As long as it is actually funny - but 99% of what's on the BJAODN pages is not. Not even remotely so.
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This was the other point of my email: Who are you (and I mean this without acrimony) to decide what is and what is not funny? What are your credentials in this area? Sure, I find some of BJAODN to be humorless, gross or juvenile, but I don't think that this allows me to tell other people that that thing they are laughing at is not funny. If you don't like the humor contained in BJAODN, just stay away from that page, or create your own 'humorful' version in your userspace.
Sincerely, Silas Snider