>I also find the cute jokes, poems, etc. to be unnecessary and inappropriate
>to a professional forum.  Send them to your friends, or join one of those
silly
>chat forums on Compuserve, etc.
 
Ooh, la de dah.  Lighten up, already.  I really enjoyed "The Naming of
Artists".  Jokes, poems, etc help us remember we're all real people, too.
 
IMHO, of course.  (Whoops, you probably don't like net acronyms, either.)