Re: Please Stay on Topic

Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Fri, 28 Aug 1998 16:21:47 -0400

On Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 03:18:25PM -0400, Matt Kozusko wrote:

> After recent events that have called into question my capacity for
> successful execution of jokes on this mailing list, I'd like to issue a
> blanket apology.  My impetuous and reckless posting habits have finally
> exceeded the boundaries of what is right and proper and begun not only
> to violate the sanctity of discussion in these hallowed circuits, but
> perhaps also to compromise the standards of integrity and seriousness
> upon which electronic discussion is founded.  I have turned in my irony
> license, and I'd like to ask Jim if he would mind scanning my posts
> before I send them and inserting winking smiley-faces at the appropriate
> places.

I don't know, old sport, but **I** laughed through the whole thing, from
opening to close of this thread!

--tim