You can use the ignore feature to remove those who post the jokes you seem to hate. You do realize though that soon, the only posts you would see will be your own.
I myself love the witty drive bys.
YMMV of course.
By and large, the people here are nice. Tony the Tiger would have 'em for breakfast. As FairyChatMom said, many of us hold every day conversations that are riddled with one liners, few of which cause a derailment of thought. If witty and amusing remarks in a conversaion bother you, then I’m sorry for you and those who must interact with you.
No, really. You’d have to be a stupifyingly dull person to object to the occasional bon mot, particularly in forums which allow them.
Well said, Fenris, and I’d like to offer appletreat a side dish of “or hit the road, kiddo”.
jarbabyj wrote (with just a touch of humor):
Miller came back speedily with:
DAMN SISSIES!!! Back in my day we had to scroll down with a big rusty metal crank on the side of the moniter. You kids today got it easy.
::mutter, mutter - stalks off in disgust::
Thats’s not funny. Is that supposed to be some kind of sexual harrassment or something? You people are just sick.
:rolleyes:
You had monitors? With picture tubes and all? We woulda *killed for monitors, even the crappy orange-and-black monochrome ones. All we had were styluses that etched characters in sand, like an etch-a-sketch.
AND we had to make our own sand by banging rocks together!
Ya spoiled wimp.
Fenris
Appletreats, most of the new people to the SDMB (including me) try to meld in and participate in the boards. The side comments, drive bys and humorous asides make the SDMB what it is, entertaining. If you want a popcorn fart dry message board you should try and find a Sgt. Joe Friday message board if one exists.
:wally
Can I just throw in the other standard point usually made when (on cue about once a month or so) some whinging newbie wanker brings this topic up?
These boards were inspired by Cecil Adams. You may have noticed that it could be argued that just possibly one could string together a hint of a suggestion that his style of answering questions is not striaghtforward, strictly-on-topic, humourless and dull.
Indeed, when someone suggested that Cece had toned down his columns, his response was:
Who are you exactly to suggest that imitiations (however pale) of the Perfect Master’s style are inappropriate?
I’ve been pitted. Sort of. I guess a response is in order. Here I go:
My comment was not supposed to be funny. ItShut up.
But I bet you saw that one coming.
Bah.
ItShut up all you wiseasses 
You got access to the internet then, have you eh? Smug bastard.
I have to deduce what threads will have been started, figure out from first principles what replies will have been posted and by whom and when, and then shout in the responses. And I’m in Australia.
Hoarse? You wouldn’t believe…
You had rocks? I would have died had I been handed such a luxury! We had to painstakingly contract scurvy and then clench our jaws until our teeth crumbled into dust! We’d write in that, but that was only if we had a stick handy, and even then we had to use Linear A!
You had teef???
Ya know, when more than a 1/3 of a poster’s posts are complaining about a place, it kinda makes you wonder why they stay.
Run along now dear.
…I think wring won.
Seriously, Fenris! I mean, she doesn’t even have backslashes! Now that’s hard-up! 
:smack:
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pftbtbtbtbtbttb.
You’re right. OK, I’m going.
So is “ItShut up” the new OG SMASH! or Fucko off! yet?
Well it was, ElwoodCuse. But only someone totally unhip would make that joke now. It’s soooo 30 seconds ago.