From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!duke!unc!wm Newsgroups: net.jokes.d,net.jokes Title: flames in net.jokes Article-I.D.: unc.3534 Posted: Fri Jun 11 12:56:41 1982 Received: Sun Jun 13 01:37:33 1982 Well, unlike some hackers, I have a few friends that know nothing about computers. They have this annoying tendency of thinking (and of course of expressing their thoughts) that I am crazy to sit in front of a terminal and read netnews. Anyway, I finally trotted them down and sat them in front of a terminal and called up this month's net.jokes. The first joke was a flame. So was the second one. And the third, and fourth. The fifth one was an honest to goodness joke! It wasn't funny. At all. Several more flames followed, protesting the lone joke. Now they KNOW I am crazy. I wish we could start a new subgroup called net.jokes.d for discussion, but I know this would be unenforcable. Not that I would personally unsubscribe, but it just seems that net.jokes should contain jokes. Or am I just a sentimental old fuddy-duddy? unc!wm