Jokes and Their Defects
Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Thu, 16 Jul 1998 17:18:27 -0400
patrick flaherty wrote:
> My admission that I had had four beers in me while writing my post last
> night was only a way of asking forgiveness for any sloppiness in my writing.
> Indeed, I just reread it and still stand behind all that I said. Do you
> have any other reaction to the post itself? Or, did you just want to scold
> me from your ivory tower?
I intended no scolding. It is considered bad etiquette to criticize
misspellings and other sentence-level errors in electronic discussions.
Your slip-up was oddly felicitous and, I thought, a good occasion for a
joke.
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Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu