On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:06:25 +0100, James D. Forrester james@jdforrester.org wrote:
I, too, agree with Mav. "April Fools" is not particularly funny anyway and is exactly the problem that we're trying to fight.
This seems precisely at issue... in a community discussion touching on levity and humor, when some of the conversants don't appreciate or get the humor in question, how should we reach consensus? A number of people in this conversation seem to imply that anyone without a sense of humor has a moral upper hand over others, because anything which is not completely expected by some readers (which encompasses a great deal of humor) is a Bad Thing.
Should people who find April Fools in general a terrible tradition, be able to naysay anything that happens to commemorate that day? I feel pretty certain that a supermajority of our audience enjoys April Fools and appreciates a good joke.
SJ