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December 11, 2004

Instant Messaging « Humor »

Ever have someone randomly message you on one of those instant messaging systems?

Chris did.

The results are quite amusing. Laugh-out-loud funny, at least to me.

Posted by Nathan at 09:04 PM | Comments (2)
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Why doesn't this seem funny to me?

Perhaps it's because warmhandsovenman appeared to be genuinely interested in making a new acquaintance and having a friendly, casual-but-not-quite-trivial conversation, while Chris persisted in making it impossible, in an irritating and supercilious fashion, but without ever coming out and saying, "look, I'm really not interested, please go away."

Chris's behavior here isn't an explicit violation of Netiquette, but it gets no points from me, clever or not.

Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at December 12, 2004 03:35 AM

Humor, like love, strikes whom it will.

One thing that doesn't come across in this link that perhaps harms the effect was that he's had at least one more conversation with warmhandsovenman, so he apparently didn't take it too hard.

Posted by: Nathan at December 12, 2004 06:34 AM
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