Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/

["tengu typed, not" <tengu AT unc.edu>]

So much of comedy is in inflection, tone and timing.  UNICODE is a
difficult humor medium.
tengu, skiing topless
---
Oh, ho, ho, irony! Oh, no, no, we don't get that here. See, uh, people ski 
topless here while smoking dope, so irony's not really a, a high priority. We 
haven't had any irony here since about, uh, '83, when I was the only 
practitioner of it. And I stopped because I was getting tired of being stared 
at.
-Steve Martin, _Roxanne_

On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Steven Champeon wrote:
Wow - proof that we're truly living in the post-ironic age. 
on Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 09:52:54AM -0700, saundrakaerubel.com wrote:
> you missed the smiley face as my message was only intended to be
> funny.  Obviousely, my intention did not quite come across, and next
> time I will be much more specific and carry a disclaimer.
>
> Diclaimer: the message below is intended to be conveyed with humor
> and any other meaning is not to be construed from the sender's PoV.
> 
> At 12:43 PM 10/11/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> >On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, saundrakaerubel.com typed:
> >Are your (sic) discriminating against cybersquatters?  Does
> >InternetWorkers have a NO CYBERSQUATTERS policy?
> >
> >< There is no such policy.  From my understanding of Tom's line:
> >>        We need to get him out to InterNetWorkers for damn sure!
> >< he is intimating that $human should be included in InterNetWorkers.  If
> >anything, he is discriminating in favor of cybersquatters.  "Out to" not
> >"out of" INW: it is a subtle distinction.