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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com (Mike Stanley) writes:
> You know, as much as I like you guys, and as much respect I have for
> the Great One, I really wish Todd would create
> lugnet.off-topic.very-painfully-bad.and.sometimes.just.bad.puns so I
> could go back to reading computer geek stuff in .fun.
Hmm, a group like that could certainly be a lot of pun. Actually, I think
people have secretly been lusting after this for months.
Would you call it
lugnet.off-topic.pun
or
lugnet.off-topic.puns
or
lugnet.off-topic.fun.pun
or
lugnet.off-topic.fun.puns
?
The first one has a nice punch to it. But the second one isn't newsgroupish
enough. The third one probably reeks too much of rhyme, and the fourth one
is pretty good, but sounds a bit like a general pun-list group, and the
purpose of this group wouldn't be for posting puns out of the blue but for
punning on various articles strewn about the system here (just like the way
alt.flame.spelling on Usenet works :). The fifth one went wee wee wee all
the way home.
If there *were* an .off-topic.pun group, then Laremy, Teremy, and Jeremy
could have (cross?)posted these:
http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.build:998
http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.cad:1318
http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.general:1290
And of course, both the third and fourth ones, being subcategories of .off-
topic.fun, suggest by their name that all puns are funny, which isn't true,
even for compulsive punsters. And we do wanna support the every-once-in-a-
while super-painful groaner, right? :)
----
In the same spirit of a new puns group and alt.flame.spelling, one other
thing I always thought would be fun here is a "quote of the day" group.
Somebody unsuspectingly says something really wry or funny or profound or
somewhere (somewhere here on this newsgroup system), and you post a follow-
up to lugnet.off-topic.qotd highlighting it.
At my last job, there was a giant whiteboard in the big room where the QOTD
went... Not every day was a QOTD day, but there were some real gut
splitters from time to time.
Some examples for here -- not perfect matches with the idea behind the
group, but close enough for government work:
last 2 paragraphs (Jeff's quote and Jeremy's followup) of:
http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.off-topic.fun:858
last 2 paragraphs (Steve's quote and Larry's reply) of:
http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.trains:144
last 2 paragraphs (Jesse's quote and Larry's reply) of:
http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.off-topic.debate:66
entire message of:
http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.market.auction:1406
The paragraph beginning "I think what..."
http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.starwars:1552
entire message of -- it's just funny:
http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.build:1322
entire message of:
http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.general:3795
entire message (Tim & Todd's quotes and Mike's reply) of:
http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.publish:434
entire message (taken wonderfully out of context) of:
http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.cad:1624
The best ones are the ones that are 50% inside-joke and 50% still good
out-of-context... :)
> Puns are not fun, they are evil.
Hey there pally.
You know: If a group does get created for this, you can bet your punless
acre that a couple of people here will gang up on you and post gratuitous
followups in the your honor for a whole week -- just to thwart you. :)
> Seek help, please.
May the <duck> thwarts be with you.
--Todd
{taking a breather tonight;
back to real work tomorrow}
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| (...) I like this name of the choices. Not everything that is in off-topic.fun is necessarily funny. It's the intent that matters, people posting there are TRYING to be funny. Some of us are just better at it than others. So puns belong with fun. If (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Well, lusting after it might be a stretch. Hoping and praying that I won't ever have to read another one again might be more accurate. :) (...) I like the first one. Please make it happen as quickly as possible. (...) I can put up with that if (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| I think sequestering the puns off into their own group where they can't torture anyone such as Mike is a mistake. Therein lies their beauty, interspersed between the normal day-to-day blather, like a ray of light, shimmering down on an otherwise (...) (25 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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