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The weather’s not really conducive to playing outside, and I’m not feeling particularly creative, so I’ll be lazy and resort to posting this picture a friend sent me. It’s a little coincidental, since just yesterday I’d been talking to someone else about the recent lack of humor via email. A couple of years ago, networks were flooded with stuff like this as people forwarded jokes to everybody in their address book. Some of the material was really creative, and a lot of it was repeats of jokes that I heard on the playground 30-40 years ago. Recently, the flood diminished to a trickle, probably for several reasons. I think the novelty of emailing jokes wore off; people began to realize that a lot of the stuff wasn’t really very funny; mailboxes were getting so full of spam that people resisted adding to the clutter; employers started cracking down on stuff circulating through corporate networks; viruses made people leery of sending or opening attachments; etc. But this showed up in my mailbox this morning, and it’s obviously fairly recent considering the subject. Since starting this blog, I’ve become less likely to circulate stuff like this via email to people who may have gotten tired of inboxes full of corny humor; I’m more likely to post it here so people who want it can come see it. So here it is.<\/p>\n
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