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Re: April Fools posts
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Thu, 5 Apr 2001 16:42:14 GMT
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> > But to me, April 1st
> > without the pranks is
> > like Thanksgiving without the football. :-)
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> The trouble for me is that the pranks aren't limited to
> the 1st. Ben's
> prank last year wasn't a one day deal. The result for me,
> is as Scott
> said, for some period of time near the 1st (personally
> for me, I'm
> beginning to feel like I should be skeptical all of
> March), I'm
> unwilling to put much stock in anything. Note even that
> my post about
> the Creator sets was questioned (and rightfully so).
> Should I have even
> bothered posting it. How many people aren't responding to
> it because
> they are in skeptic mode right now?
Indeed. I think they are harmful to everyone, especially the
"jokes" that seem to be coming earlier and earlier, just for
the shock value, or how many people can they fool. It is
upsetting. We don't even ave people admitting the jokes
anymore, and we sit here and wonder.
> When I was a kid, April Fools was something which
> happened April 1, and
> a few minutes after my dad or whoever pulled on over on
> us, someone
> would realize what was wrong and crack up, or the person
> pulling the
> prank would lose their composure, and we would all have a
> laugh and life
> would move on.
Yes, or at work, when the project was due in June, and the
boss came and said it was due at the end of the day or week.
That's funny, when he admitted it was a joke.
> I don't think I heard anyone laughing at
> Ben's prank (and
> even less so at Mark's prank this year). Is a joke funny
> if no one
> laughs? Is a joke funny if a few people laugh and a bunch
> more people
> get pissed?
Not really, IMO.
> I'm all for humor, but I have to say very few of the
> pranks have I
> laughed at. I did laugh a little at Todd's, but honestly,
> even that
> mostly fell flat on me. Perhaps my sense of humor is just
> really
> impaired by the rest of my life (and this week especially
> there is some
> seriously bad dope going down which I can't talk about
> here, and which I
> desperately wish was an April fools joke, but I'm 99.99%
> certain it
> isn't), I don't know. All I can say is that this year I
> am far less
> enthused about Lugnet than I was last year. As a
> community, we will
> decide what Lugnet is. If people like me are a minority,
> or at least
> don't have the loudest voice, the community may lose some
> of us. It will
> be up to the community as a whole to decide what the
> atmosphere is here,
> and it is up to each individual to decide if that
> atmosphere is what
> they want.
Well, Frank, I hope whatever it is, it goes well. I am on
the other end, I might be in a position I have wanted for
the last 4 years, one job, and time to build again. But I
think this joke issue is one that needs some looking at,
especially after this session.
Scott S.
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