Subj : Rules & Guidelines (still To : Daryl Stout From : George Pope Date : Thu Jun 02 2022 16:26:10 >> Rules, Regulations, & Guidelines for Fidonet's FUNNY Jokes and Stories >> echo > I knew there was a catch to it...but now, you've got us hook, line, and > sinker, fishing for content. How so? >> Note all are labeled #1 as they're all important -- > Better than classed as #2. :P Not sure, at least #2 will help the corn grow! (like begets like?) >> #1: don't be a jackass; you're a guest in other people's home. > Oh, Pooh, Eeyore are so stubborn. Maybe Christopher has been Robin the > content in Sherwood Forest. Don't even talk to me about Christopher & his fellow drug addicts in the Hundred Acre Wood. >> #1: grammar & punctuation is probably important -- mis-use opens >> yourself up to funny or punny ridicule. > PMS jokes aren't funny...period. Of course they are-- but only if there's a harshly PMSing female in reading distance!& only to usm, bot to her, I'm sure. . . >> #1: This echo is rated PG-16; i.e. content should not be overly >> shocking to the average 16 year old (boy or girl); no porn -- that's >> elsewhere in cyberspace > They're hearing the stuff all the way down into kindergarten. And, as > we talked in another post awhile back, even the toddlers are getting > overly nasty to their parents (one said "[screw] you, Mommy"). If I had > talked like that to my parents, I wouldn't be here. True enough, but I had to draw the line somewhere &this was fair, I thought -- not infringing on too much creativity & variance in type of humour preferred. .. >> #1: NO auto-posting (bots); this echo is for humans; if you can fully >> understand these rules, you are likely human. > But, what if you're human and don't understand them?? It's as bad as > the warning on a coffee cup noting "Contents Are Hot". Up here the cups say, "You're in Canada now;we know that coffee is hot, so we don't need any warning." >> #1: the mods are not responsible for any damage to your connection >> devices (including modems & computer & monitor) perpetrated by a >> moderator's use of the Freister Device (detects your personal(not BBS, >> not your fido upline) source system & sends proprietary signals to >> cause your disks, CPU, mainboard, & modem to die ("fry" from Freister, >> the inventor, & my friend) > Is it patented?? Of course not-- patenting requires one to submit the specs & a prototype, which anyone can then look up & copy or analyze to find a way to block its effects -- this is not the plan. >> #1 Swearing should be kept to a minimum -- & only as befits the >> joke/thread -- we're adults here & should act & talk like it. If >> you're mixing them in randomly like salt & pepper, you're too young to >> be in here. > I'm sure the kids are hearing the stuff in elementary school and earlier... > never mind "playing doctor", doing their own "exploratory surgery"...and > that's the naked truth. Yup, I don't have any say on what they say or do elsewhere, but in here, I expect people to act semi-maturely, so as to not detract from any actual funny content going in. . . >> #1: We only roast the ones we love > Some of those celebrity roasts from years ago (you can find them on > YouTube) were a scream. But, if you are what you eat, what if your > favorite food is rump roast?? I have the full set of Comedy Central Roasts, I think. . . funny stuff! I miss Greg Giraldo on those -- he was good! Can't put those in here - they're pretty brutal at times, in their cruel assaults on celebrities (even Trump took the Hot Seat for one!) My fave, I think, was for Pamela Anderson (not Palmela Handerson, whom most teen boys are acquainted with) >> #1: The End (or is it?) > The bottom line is the vertical crack in your butt. Who told you about my butt? Mine is output only, a No Nose Zone,. if you will. . . --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-6 * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757) .