[net.misc] tipping vs dunking: retraction

mcq@druxt.UUCP (McQueer) (12/22/83)

This reminds me that I am often completely amazed at the inability
of a large segment of the public to detect satire, parody, irony or
other forms of "just kidding" in written language.  In this case, I just
wonder, but sometimes when a satirical writer is using the device on a
"serious" subject, say in the daily newspaper, the resulting cries of outrage
from people who took that writer at face value sadden me.  I don't know what
should be done about it except maybe to prescribe large doses of
Jonathon Swift as therapy.

Shaking my head over the neccesity of using :-),

				Bob McQueer,
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paulsc@tekecs.UUCP (Paul Scherf) (12/26/83)

In my previous article about tipping vs dunking, I was just kidding. I might
not have it all together sometimes, but I am not that out of it. I realize
that the sign meant that I wasn't supposed to give the waitress any money
(beyond the amount on the check). Please don't send me any more explanations
about what the sign meant. I assumed that my previous article was so
outrageous that no one would believe I was serious. I will have to go back and
study the face dictionary from the net a while back and punctuate my joke
articles accordingly.

Paul Scherf, Tektronix, Wilsonville, Oregon, USA
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