Senseless Utterance == On the Doctrine of Angels ... (No Content)

[StellarWind]

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I love the 2+2 magazine, every article has been good except this one ...

Either I totally missed the joke or this article is a waste of bits.

Is it a joke article for people who enjoy pedantic blubbering?

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It's only fair play that I answer this.

I have a rather dry sense of humor as my long-suffering wife observes. Sometimes I provide the most outrageous "logical" explanations with a completely straight face. Occasionally the audience doesn't get it and that's when the long-suffering wife has to explain that I'm up to my nonsense once again and it's a joke.

Anyway, back to your answer. This article looks like something I might have written except that it's more elegant than I usually am. Plus I know that humor like this doesn't work on the internet.

No, I don't think he's serious. Nice of you to take the bait though.

[Piers]

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Plus I know that humor like this doesn't work on the internet.

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Depends whether you are referring to effect or appearance.

The problem with internet ‘jokes’ is that the typically only people who bite publicly are the ones who did not get it, or do not have a suitable sense of humour. This gives the appearance that such humour does not work.

However the people who appreciated the humour will typically just smile and more on. Since that is generally the main objective of humour I would say that irrespective or whether the humour works or not, it usually appears not to.