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- From: rjones@dsd.es.com (Ray Jones - Perp)
- Subject: Re: Update: Shenanigans on alt.shenanigan
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.170644.2785@dsd.es.com>
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- References: <1992Nov18.053736.8016@cheshire.oxy.edu> <1992Nov18.232753.10368@reed.edu> <HERMIT.92Nov20021827@am.ucsc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 17:06:44 GMT
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- In article <HERMIT.92Nov20021827@am.ucsc.edu>, hermit@cats.UCSC.EDU (William R. Ward) writes:
- >In article <Bxxt79.6DL@rice.edu>, paulus@owlnet.rice.edu (Paul Nathan Crocker) writes:
- >) In article <1992Nov18.232753.10368@reed.edu> kanderso@reed.edu (Karl Anderson) writes:
- >)>Now, these fine shenaniganers deserve recognition, but I do believe
- >)>that ANDY, CORNFIELD COWBOY should be listed as a member of thier
- >)>ranks.
- >)>
- >)>Why, by pressing a single key on his keyboard, he has touched off a
- >)>veritable tsunami of opprobrium!
- >)
- >) I would tend to disagree. There is a difference between playing
- >) annoying someone and leaving them asking "why would anyone do that"
- >) that I think eveyone here is well aware of.
- >
- >WHAT MAKES YOU SAY THAT? THERE IS NO HARM IN USING ALL-CAPS FOR
- >POSTING. IT IS A SHENANIGAN, IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD. THERE'S NO
- >HARM DONE, AND IT IS DONE FOR THE PURPOSE OF MAKING PEOPLE WONDER "WHY
- >WOULD ANYONE DO THAT?"
-
- Look. I was there when shenanigan was defined. It has to be funny,
- It has to make people say, "Why would anyone go to the trouble?" And
- it has to be clever, like a good practical joke. Writing in all CAPS
- is about as far from a shenanigan as you can get.
-
- Some people dismiss ANDY's posts without thinking about them. "An all
- CAPS post. Yipee. Is next." I took the time to think about it.
- "It's on alt.shenanigans, it's probably trying to be funny." But
- that's the problem. It's not funny. It's painfully hard to read,
- yes. But funny? No.
-
- "Okay. Maybe it's trying to make people say 'Why?'" But no one says
- that. Because it's so easy to write in all caps. Hit CAPS-LOCK, and
- go on.
-
- And it's certainly not very clever. It's an old joke, if it can even
- be called that. BIFF got to it first, ANDY. Get a new gimmick.
-
- Now, the post that was rot-13 *every other word*. Now that was a good
- shenanigan. Weird, Without reason, and reasonably interesting. I
- went through and read it, even though I really didn't care what it
- said. It made me say, "Why?" Perfect.
-
- I don't care if ANDY writes in all caps or not. I, like most people,
- have trouble or just dislike reading in all caps, so I get through the
- first line, then hit 'n'. I suggest everyone else do likewise. But
- on no account should his posts be added to the list of shenanigans
- perpetrated on this group.
-
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