JOke.

[Matt Horsey]

There are two men, an Englishmen and an Australian, wearing their
respective cricket uniforms, in the men's room. After finishing up, the
English man walks to the sink to wash up. The Aussie man goes directly
to the door.

The English man speaks up, "In England, we wash our hands after urinating."

The Aussie man calls back before exiting, "In Australia we don't piss on
our hands."

[Neal]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 01:28:11 GMT, Matt Horsey <ho****@primus.com.au> wrote:

There are two men, an Englishmen and an Australian, wearing their
respective cricket uniforms, in the men's room. After finishing up, the
English man walks to the sink to wash up. The Aussie man goes directly
to the door.

The English man speaks up, "In England, we wash our hands after
urinating."

The Aussie man calls back before exiting, "In Australia we don't piss on
our hands."

Yes, it's a good joke. All the rage at ciwah.

My friends would refer to you, affectionately, as a "repeating bastard".
Then we'd vamp on the same basic joke for about four hours and still find
it funny.

My friends are weird.

[brucie]

In comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html Matt Horsey said:

The English man speaks up, "In England, we wash our hands after urinating."
The Aussie man calls back before exiting, "In Australia we don't piss on
our hands."

very old joke. navy/army is very common. (with obviously the navy pusses
pissing on their hands) not that my army service in any way makes me
biased.
--
v o i c e s

[Jukka K. Korpela]

brucie <sh**@usenetshit.info> wrote:

In comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html Matt Horsey said:

The English man speaks up, "In England, we wash our hands after
urinating." The Aussie man calls back before exiting, "In Australia
we don't piss on our hands."

very old joke. navy/army is very common.

Sounds like a rather portable joke, and a symmetric joke (you can swap
England and Australia, English and Australian, without changing anything
except also swapping the people who will hit you on the nose and the
people who will laugh at your joke next Sunday [when they understand it,
while almost falling asleep in church]).

So, in the HTML context, should we discuss whether the implicitly
proposed <joke> element should have portable="portable" attribute, or
maybe - if we realize that "Boolean attributes" were a poor joke that
wasn't taken as a joke - a portability="..." attribute with some keywords
like "none", "partial" and "complete" as values? Could this really be
useful without indicating what the modifiable parameters are and how they
are interrelated (e.g., if you replace "English" by something else, you
also need to replace "England")? Rendering portable jokes in a manner
that adapts to each user's cultural background would be a great idea, but
maybe a little too complicated at the present state of the art. Minimally
we would need suitable data (like <goodguy>English</goodguy>,
<badguy>Australian</badguy>) added into the Common Locale Data Repository
that is being built, and have some implementation experiences.

Maybe it would be best to start from simple <joke>...</joke> markup. This
would be useful in many ways, including simple user style sheets like
joke { display: none; }
and aural style sheets that create a laughing sound before and after
(or in the background, at least for the en-US locale) Or a user could
simply click on the text to get information about is jocularity status,
if he suspects that some text isn't really meant to be taken seriously.

--
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Pages about Web authoring: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www.html

[Neal]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 03:59:09 +0000 (UTC), Jukka K. Korpela
<jk******@cs.tut.fi> wrote:

Maybe it would be best to start from simple <joke>...</joke> markup. This
would be useful in many ways, including simple user style sheets like
joke { display: none; }
and aural style sheets that create a laughing sound before and after
(or in the background, at least for the en-US locale)

How about <crappy old-skool presentational deezign>...</crappy old-skool
presentational deezign> markup too? That'd be handy.