Re: [CH] Chile-Heads Digest V6 #81
Charles Demas (demas@sunspot.tiac.net)
Sun, 17 Oct 1999 16:43:41 -0400 (EDT)
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Richard Levy wrote:
> Now, at this point in this kind of joke, it is possible to believe that the
> second party KNEW it was a joke, predtended not to, and let the first party
> look like an idiot trying to explain the joke. In real-time, if you act
> credulous enough, you can make the first guy go nuts trying to explain "No,
> it's a joke, see?"
Well, I'm not wired that way, at least not on a mailing list where a
lot of other people would be driven crazy too.
I have played "Jimmy the Dunce" in RL when a good friend makes a really
"clever" pun and wants that cleverness acknowledged; but what Doug did
was essentially trying to play a practical joke on a whole mailing list,
most of whom he doesn't know. Not the best way to make friends, and a
waste of lots of people's time.
FWIW, I agree with Gary's assessment of Doug.
Chuck Demas
Needham, Mass.
>
> >Doug Goldenberg" <dgoldenberg@sprintmail.com>
> >
> >That's the joke, silly. You say, seriously, "Hey, you know, gullible is
> not
> >in the dictionary." Their eyes widen with astonishment, as they say
> >"Really?!!." Then they run over to the dictionary, and sure enough,
> >gullible IS in the dictionary. At which point, they look at you puzzled,
> >you smile smugly, and they hit you over the head with the dictionary.
> Works
> >every time.
> >>
> >> Now, I'm not the best speller, but I know how to use an online
> dictionary,
> >> and here's what I found from there:
> >> |
> >> | Main Entry: gull·ible
> >> | : easily duped or cheated
> >>
>
>
>
Eat Healthy | _ _ | Nothing would be done at all,
Stay Fit | @ @ | If a man waited to do it so well,
Die Anyway | v | That no one could find fault with it.
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