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 > >David Harvey >Conservator of Metals & Arms >Colonial Williamsburg Foundation >P.O. Box 1776 >Williamsburg, VA 23187-1776 USA >voice: 804-220-7039 >e-mail: [log in to unmask] Jim Angus Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 900 Exposition Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90007 (213) 744-3317 [log in to unmask] http://www.usc.edu/lacmnh