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From: bcw@rti.UUCP (Bruce Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: RISC: What did they leave out besides the instructions?
Summary: Humor and lack of it
Message-ID: <3590@rti.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 90 17:45:26 GMT
References: <60@paradigm.com> <2010@sunquest.UUCP> <3583@rti.UUCP> <4260@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
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In article <4260@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>, ereiamjh@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Tom B. O'Toole) writes:
> In article <3583@rti.UUCP> bcw@rti.UUCP (Bruce Wright) writes:
> >In article <2010@sunquest.UUCP>, terry@sunquest.UUCP (Terry Friedrichsen) writes:
> >> Gawd, some folks have absolutely NO sense of humor whatsoever ...
> >It seems that there are, unfortunately, a fairly large number of people
> >on the network that can't seem to understand humor unless they are hit
> >over the head with a 2x4.
> Sheeh!  The guy "got the 'joke'", he just thought that it was a reeeeaal 
> longwinded way of getting a point across, and for all that, didn't think it 
> was especially funny.

Um, well, if the shoe fits, etc.  I wasn't accusing anyone _in particular_
of being obtuse, and in fact the poster of the article that Terry referred
to did appear to recognize the posting as a joke, but not everyone appeared
to do so.

Unfortunately there seems to be a certain class of people whose ability
to recognize humor is about as limited as that of their computer.  This
may not be a coincidence.  :-)

						Bruce C. Wright