Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mcnc!unc!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.ai,net.cog-eng,net.philosophy Subject: Re: Computer Dialogue #1 Message-ID: <2781@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 19:35:30 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxd.2781 Posted: Fri Mar 21 19:35:30 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Mar-86 08:26:38 EST References: <676@hounx.UUCP> <386@unirot.UUCP> <90@gilbbs.UUCP> <12496@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: Whatever we're calling ourselves this week Lines: 31 Xref: linus net.ai:3112 net.cog-eng:687 net.philosophy:4309 >> Oh dear. I see that a terrible virus which has been infecting the net >>on other newsgroups has spread here. This is a pity. >> Mr. Charles Riordan (unirot!cjr) is a cynical, humourless individual >>who seemingly takes a perverse pleasure in ruining otherwise pleasant >>discussions and insulting calm, rational persons. >> For the sake of sanity on your newsgroup, ignore him...maybe he'll get >>tired and go away. Good luck. > CJ and his friend Pete are both incredibly funny. I hope they stay around. Who would have thought that Matt Wiener and I could agree so violently on something. > For your information, Mr. Keller, just because a posting does not have any > of those goddam smiley faces plastered over it, does not mean the posting > is on the up and up. > > I suppose you consider Jonathan Swift and Samuel Beckett cynical humourless > individuals who took perverse pleasures in ruining otherwise pleasant > discussions and insulting calm rational persons. After all, there are no > smiley faces in either of their works. > > The only perverse pleasure is watching all the humorless individuals who > swallow an obvious satire hook line and sinker. (Make that a triple chuckle.) I think "humorless" is best defined as "not thought of as funny by the user of the word even though everyone else is laughing". -- "If you see this boy", said the ballerina, "do not---I repeat, do not---attempt to reason with him." Rich Rosen pyuxd!rlr