Perhaps we can also rate a humorous posting on a scale of 1-10 before
sending it to the list, so that those individuals with a poorly developed
sense of humour will be able to properly judge what is funny and what is
not.

That was a joke (3 on a scale of 1-10, where 1 is english and 10 is funny).


Jim

>On March 22, 1996 David Haberstich wrote:
>
> Humor is a subjective thing, but I believe Scott Williams was right
>about not having a free-for-all humor contest on this list. The anecdote
>about not knowing the difference between Tokyo and Japan is a good
>example of the risks: not a single person in my office thinks that's
>funny or even mildly amusing. Sorry if we're a bunch of sourpusses...
>David Haberstich
>
>
>I enjoy Museum-L for it's informality and great variety of expression.  I
>belong to several heavily moderated lists which tend to be highly technical
>and fairly boring.
>
>I think that Anita's suggestion has a legitimate place here in the Big Tent
>of Museum-L and that we can all exercise our preferences  by pressing the
>delete key if the subject is not one of interest.
>
>In this same spirit I think that it would be only fair to ask those who want
>to express their displeasure at the current thread, "A lighter note" to mark
>their subject header: "Sourpuss".
>
>This way, those of us who enjoy annecdotal and humorous communcation can
>intelligently exercise our own delete keys.
>
>Cheers,
>Dave
>
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