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From: brianc@tekla.UUCP (Brian Conley)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: Improving net.jokes
Message-ID: <303@tekla.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 11:07:11 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 12 11:07:11 1985
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> The following posting from Scott Turner was decoded from net.flame:
> > Ok, that's it.  Let's get rid of net.jokes right now.  I've had it up
> > to my eyeballs with vacuum-packed, papal-sucking net.weenies posting and
> > reposting and reposting and reposting the bell-ringer joke, the Zen light
> > bulb joke, the patio furniture joke, four thousand variations of the
> > Ethiopian joke, jokes from Reader's Digest, jokes stolen from movies, jokes
> > stolen from books, but most of all, unfunny, moronic non-jokes.  Ensign
> > Benson's pathetic horoscopes were bad enough, but I *CANNOT* believe that
> > anyone wants to wade through four hundred messages filled with priceless
> > gems like ANIM8, LV2SKI, CAR4ME and on and on ad naseum.
> > 
> > I cannot believe someone out there thinks this is actually FUNNY!  Haven't
> > you people ever heard a stand-up comedian, gone to Second City, seen a
> > Marx Bros movie?  This isn't humor, this is *reverse evolution in action*.
> > 
> 
> I feel that net.jokes is an entertainment medium and should be viewed as a
> transcript of a stand-up comedy act.  A constant stream of only the funniest
> material will do.  Net.jokes has gotten cluttered lately with a lot of stuff
> that would not make it though one minute of a stand-up act.  Take Scott's
> advice here and think of yourself as being "on-stage" when you post your joke.
> -- 
>                   Al Schwartz
>                   Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA 

Why don't you two go pound sand.  Why do you think the people who dreamed
this net.system up put SUBJECT on these postings?  They ALSO gave you the 
"n" option for "no i don't want to read it."  

Just because BOTH of YOU have SEEN ALL THE PERSONALIZED LICENSE PLATES
that ever have or ever will exist does not mean that all of us out in 
net.land are that fortunate.  In the future kindly confine your tirades
to your own minds.