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