Thanks for the help, Gfactor… it’s appreciated.
There is no dispute that you broke the rules. The issue is whether or not that violation deserved a warning. Twickster apparently changed her mind on that issue.
I’ll shoot you a quick P.M.
Right…
Hey, I have an idea, why don’t you go moderate your own board?
Hmmm…pretty convenient time to change it, then. Not to mention, it never seemed to have bothered you before.
As for making a PM public, gee, I dunno, last time I checked it was against the rules to tell a mod to “shove it”, in response to a warning. But what do I know – maybe they changed it? :dubious:
You’re a real class act, Dudley. :rolleyes:
Dudley, testing reveals that your email adress is now blocked (from posters, not from mods); PMs are not. If that’s what you wanted, you’re good to go.
I’ll leave it to you and those you PMed before the mixup to settle this before I post again in this thread.
It’s settled. I’m good.
Nice save Gfactor. I’m glad you caught that. I wasn’t meaning any harm by pointing that fact out.
Because your little temper tantrum amuses me.
Since having a sense of humour is apparently key to this controversy, I’ll read the 58-item list and apply my own standards to evaluate them. I trust my own sense of humour is not in doubt.
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not funny
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mildly amusing
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mildly amusing
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not funny
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mildly amusing
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not funny
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meh
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meh
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mildly amusing, though my equivalent was a Colecovision
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arguably true, since I’ve had problems such a suggestion might fix
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true, I guess, but not especially insightful
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sort-of true, in these sense that I’ve learned that watching a favourite movie or television program in the presence of someone who doesn’t like it ruins the experience. I’m sure my own palpable indifference or dislike of a presentation may have had this effect on others.
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I never had problems with it.
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it’s not the number that matters but the total weight, but I’ll admit that making extra trips is something I avoid.
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meh
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I don’t text while driving. It is a stupid thing to do. I have used pauses at red lights to glance at printed maps.
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Urban legend about an activity that hold no real appeal for me.
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Yes, it was.
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true enough, though not especially insightful.
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they’re related, I admit, but the observation isn’t funny.
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“absolutely petrifying” is so huge an overstatement that it ruins what might have been a decent witticism.
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true, sort-of, but not insightful.
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true, I guess, because I’ve been in numerous situations where just pretending to understand is just easier than trying to parse some fatuous remark. George Orwell’s Winston Smith had a similar experience in “1984”.
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I tend to fall back on military training in such situations.
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The first (minor) chuckle I’ve had so far.
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I never played the game, myself. meh.
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eyeroll.
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possibly true, if the death was unusual. Time Magazine’s Transitions page includes the cause of death if it wasn’t of plain old age.
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I’m not sure why the author finds this so unbelievable.
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neither true nor clever.
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so the author’s getting old? boo-hoo.
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true, but this is just a restatement of other expressions with the same sentiment but better phrasing.
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I’m not a Facebook user nor a stalker. In fact, the allusion to A Christmas Story simply offers an unflattering contrast - that movie was funny, this list so far… isn’t.
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meh. The author’s incorrect spelling of “Carmen Sandiego” further undercuts an already tepid observation.
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normal nervousness when meeting strangers. Hardly a major insight.
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I’ve experienced moments like this, but they’re not typically abrupt or unexpected. They typically come on days when I’m not feeling well or when my morning has been disrupted by various mishaps or hassles with coworkers.
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The Simpsons told the joke better, without the self-pity.
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meh.
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I’ve found these moments to be mildly concerning, but a double-check usually clears up any confusion.
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meh. I have some dry-clean items, though not many.
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meh.
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I’ve never experienced this.
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meh
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the second reference to internet stalking. Wasn’t funny the first time, either.
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meh
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rolleyes
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get over yourself, pal.
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I have minor moments like this, problems with short-term memory. Not a major insight.
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hur hur hur… rolleyes
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cellphone call screening? Gosh, maybe in 1996 this would seem groundbreaking.
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meh
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being a frequent user of the snooze button, I’m sure I’ve had moments of perfect accuracy, but also others of less accuracy and… what was the point, again?
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make up something funny and get a laugh out of it, stupid.
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well, read before you click, stupid.
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meh.
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well, you can go to the dollar store and get one that installs in less than a minute, if it bugs you that much.
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hur hur hur… rolleyes.
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get over it, pal.
So, I got one minor chuckle over twenty minutes. Still beats Mad TV.
- More cowbell!
Not if it’s cowardly and abusive.
112 posts over this bullshit. :dubious:
And you are in charge of the department of “cowardly and abusive” P.M’s?
You really are the twat I thought you were! And I got it up to 114, NEENER NEENER NEENER!
Some of them are pretty funny.
Funnier than the list, certainly.
I’ve got no particular dog in this fight, other than to say that I assume all jokes posted on the Internet are taken from somewhere else, and that it’s been going on for so long that proper attribution is, for the most part, impossible.
Sure, when someone does the “Seven words you can’t say on television” thing, we know it originated with the late George Carlin, and there are several other comedians with fairly “distinctive” brands of humour that are clearly identifiable as being “their” work (or re-imagining of earlier, un-attributable works), and yeah, trying to knowingly post those without attribution would, IMHO, be plagiarism.
But jokes in general- ranging from the “Why did the chicken cross the road?” variety through to the “apparently the genie thought I wanted a 12-inch pianist” or “A Kenyan, A Scotsman, and Benito Mussolini walk into a bar”- type jokes are, for want of a better term, “in the public domain” and have no moral rights associated with them anymore because they’ve been around for as long as there has been language and amusing situations.
Even if you take jokes about any unpopular modern-day head of state/political leader, you’d probably find that they’re just slightly different versions of jokes people were telling about Hitler and Tojo and Stalin back in the '40s and '50s, and they were just slightly different versions of jokes about The Kaiser and Dowager Empress Tz’u-Hsi and the Ottoman Sultan, which were themselves slightly different versions of jokes about Napoleon and King George III and King Louis XVI, and they were just versions of even earlier jokes about whichever notable personage that people wanted to make fun of. I’m sure there were even a few brave souls making jokes we’d recognise about Genghis Khan or Alexander The Great or Rameses II.
All of which is a really long and complicated way of saying “I personally don’t think that posting a list of jokes on a messageboard without attribution qualifies as plagiarism unless said jokes are identifiably known to have originated with a specific comedian/writer”.
Damn, Thank you Martini. Some folks can tell it like it is. Take my wife… PLEASE!