At 04:15 PM 7/20/2000 +0100, Roger Scully (in response to a humourous posting
re: roll your own "honour system" virus) wrote:
>THIS IS NOT FUNNY. GIVERSON (WHATEVER OR WHOMEVER HE OR IT IS) NEEDS A GOOD
>DOSE OF GROWING UP (ASSUMING HE IS OVER FIVE YEARS OLD PHYSICALLY. MENTALLY,
>HE IS NOT AND SHOULD BE REQUESTED TO LEAVE THE COMPANY OF CIVILIZED LIST
>MEMBERS).
Etc., etc., etc. ...
To which Paul Reynolds commented:
>Aren't we in danger of losing (or have we already lost) our sense of humour
>here?
The answer to that is a definite "Yes, at least one of us appears to have 'lost
it'" (in more ways than one).
To paraphrase Roger Scully, anyone with a mental age of at least five years
would have recognized that the post was meant to be humourous and harmless, not
to mention mildly clever. I forwarded the post to several colleagues (all of
us are practising professionals in the IT community), and to a person they
found it amusing (some even suggested "extensions" to the joke).
Chill out, Roger. You'll live longer. Oh, and do "The List" a favour, willya?
-- turn off the frickin' CAPS LOCK key when you next post a message; it looks
like you're shouting (definitely not "civilized," eh wot?).
Garth
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