Unfortunately, the moderator neglected to include the poster's signature: his surname is "Jekyll." Makes the joke a bit difficult to get without that small piece of information.
> Unfortunately, the moderator neglected to include the poster's > signature: his surname is "Jekyll." Makes the joke a bit difficult to > get without that small piece of information.
His post was signed with the surname "Jekyll", that is.
-- Robert Hutchinson | The Twenty is just so evil. The very name gloats | over our suffering and powerlessness. It's a | boot stomping on a human face for twenty minutes. | -- Shaenon K. Garrity
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 00:49:07 +0000, Robert Hutchinson wrote: > Ian Davis says... >> Unfortunately, the moderator neglected to include the poster's >> signature: his surname is "Jekyll." Makes the joke a bit difficult to >> get without that small piece of information.
> His post was signed with the surname "Jekyll", that is.
Thanks for the clarification of my sloppy wording. It is the missing surname, not the omission of its mention, that makes the joke hard to get. Technically, though, the fact that the moderator neglected to include his signature ie "Jekyll" is also a reason to miss the joke!
on Mon, 13 Jun 2005 22:19:56 GMT, Ian Davis <n...@all.certain> sez: ` Unfortunately, the moderator neglected to include the poster's ` signature: his surname is "Jekyll." Makes the joke a bit difficult to ` get without that small piece of information.
` Ian.
Is it really, or is he just signing that way to underline what his real name might be, considering his account name is wthyde...
` On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:12:30 +0000, Ian
` Davis wrote:
` > Subject: Re: Ethshar: Eight is not enough ` > From: wth...@godzilla.acpub.duke.edu ` > Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written ` > ` > Lawrence Watt-Evans <l...@sff.net> writes: ` > ` >> On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 21:09:50 GMT, "Mike Schilling"
` >> ` >> >"Lawrence Watt-Evans" <l...@sff.net> wrote in message ` >> >news:ikhea1topnancqa9rpqige35199qqd3lgb@news.rcn.com... ` >> >> ` >> >> Watt IS my middle name. ` >> > ` >> >How the hell should I know? :-) ` >> ` >> Just so you know, I heard every possible variation on that joke by ` >> fifth grade. ` > ` > ` > Kids making fun of someone's name? Unheard of!
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> on Mon, 13 Jun 2005 22:19:56 GMT, Ian Davis <n...@all.certain> sez: > ` Unfortunately, the moderator neglected to include the poster's > ` signature: his surname is "Jekyll." Makes the joke a bit difficult to > ` get without that small piece of information.
> ` Ian.
> Is it really, or is he just signing that way to underline what his real > name might be, considering his account name is wthyde...
It helps if you've already become familiar with his name by reading hundreds of his posts, to be sure.
-- Robert Hutchinson | The Twenty is just so evil. The very name gloats | over our suffering and powerlessness. It's a | boot stomping on a human face for twenty minutes. | -- Shaenon K. Garrity
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 22:19:56 GMT, rumours say that Ian Davis <n...@all.certain> might have written:
>Unfortunately, the moderator neglected to include the poster's >signature: his surname is "Jekyll." Makes the joke a bit difficult to >get without that small piece of information.
I think that any joke à la "Hyde/Jekyll"-and-kids-making-jokes-on-name is not related to the basic joke in the post:
"Watt IS my middle name." "How the hell should I know? :-)" -- TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best. "Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving." (from RFC1958) I really should keep that in mind when talking with people, actually...
> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 22:19:56 GMT, rumours say that Ian Davis > <n...@all.certain> might have written:
> >Unfortunately, the moderator neglected to include the poster's > >signature: his surname is "Jekyll." Makes the joke a bit difficult to > >get without that small piece of information.
> I think that any joke à la "Hyde/Jekyll"-and-kids-making-jokes-on-name > is not related to the basic joke in the post:
> "Watt IS my middle name." > "How the hell should I know? :-)"
Um ... except for where the conversation went after that, I guess.
-- Robert Hutchinson | The Twenty is just so evil. The very name gloats | over our suffering and powerlessness. It's a | boot stomping on a human face for twenty minutes. | -- Shaenon K. Garrity
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:17:13 GMT, rumours say that Robert Hutchinson <serv...@hotmail.com> might have written:
>> "Watt IS my middle name." >> "How the hell should I know? :-)" >Um ... except for where the conversation went after that, I guess.
The conversation after that *in the same post* was:
>>> Just so you know, I heard every possible variation on that joke by >>> fifth grade.
>> Kids making fun of someone's name? Unheard of!
which still applies to the Watt-middle-name joke, AFAIU. I don't know if --in replies to that post-- the joke centered on the Hyde/Jekyll issue. -- TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best. "Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving." (from RFC1958) I really should keep that in mind when talking with people, actually...
> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:17:13 GMT, rumours say that Robert Hutchinson > <serv...@hotmail.com> might have written:
> >> "Watt IS my middle name." > >> "How the hell should I know? :-)"
> >Um ... except for where the conversation went after that, I guess.
> The conversation after that *in the same post* was:
> >>> Just so you know, I heard every possible variation on that joke by > >>> fifth grade.
> >> Kids making fun of someone's name? Unheard of!
> which still applies to the Watt-middle-name joke, AFAIU. I don't know > if --in replies to that post-- the joke centered on the Hyde/Jekyll > issue.
Okay. So the man's last name is Hyde, and he signs his post Jekyll after making the above comment, and that's not its own joke?
-- Robert Hutchinson | The Twenty is just so evil. The very name gloats | over our suffering and powerlessness. It's a | boot stomping on a human face for twenty minutes. | -- Shaenon K. Garrity
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:57:19 GMT, rumours say that Robert Hutchinson <serv...@hotmail.com> might have written:
>> which still applies to the Watt-middle-name joke, AFAIU. I don't know >> if --in replies to that post-- the joke centered on the Hyde/Jekyll >> issue.
>Okay. So the man's last name is Hyde, and he signs his post Jekyll after >making the above comment, and that's not its own joke?
It *is* a joke, and I believe I do grok what you mean (which is what I understand that Ian Davis also meant when he posted a comment on ahboud): the joke is double because wthyde (who signs as Jekyll) wrote "kids making fun..." commenting on "Watt IS my middle name"/"every possible variation on that joke", obviously having suffered same jokes from other kids.
So, we agree that the joke is complete when a reader takes into account both cases of joking on names; what *I* did wrong was to state:
>I think that any joke à la "Hyde/Jekyll"-and-kids-making-jokes-on-name >is not related to the basic joke in the post:
when I meant that the "Watt" joke stands on its own even if the Jekyll sig is not visible, and still didn't make clear that in my next post too. Mea culpa (or mee culpe?-)
Summary: I agree that the joke would be complete including the sig, I disagreed on Ian Davis' "Makes the joke a bit difficult to get without that small piece of information". That's all. -- TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best. "Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving." (from RFC1958) I really should keep that in mind when talking with people, actually...
> when I meant that the "Watt" joke stands on its own even if the Jekyll > sig is not visible, and still didn't make clear that in my next post > too. Mea culpa (or mee culpe?-)
> Summary: I agree that the joke would be complete including the sig, I > disagreed on Ian Davis' "Makes the joke a bit difficult to get without > that small piece of information". That's all.
Ah, okay. I think there's a default "bottom level of posting has the joke the submitter wanted to share" mindset.
-- Robert Hutchinson | The Twenty is just so evil. The very name gloats | over our suffering and powerlessness. It's a | boot stomping on a human face for twenty minutes. | -- Shaenon K. Garrity
