[WikiEN-l] Re: Friday's featured article

Wed Mar 30 16:57:19 UTC 2005

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:48:23 +0100 (BST), Tony Sidaway
<minorityreport at bluebottle.com> wrote:
> 
> I've been watching this conversation with mounting disbelief.  Somebody
> please tell me that the seeming loss of sense of humor on the part of a
> number of Wikipedians is all part of a prolonged jape, to be brought to a
> hilarous conclusion this Friday.  No?
> April fools jokes are traditional.  People reading a joke article on April
> 1 will not feel unduly put out.  Most of them.  We can just laugh at those
> who are. That's the whole point of the exercise--to puncture pretensions,
> confound expectations and--dare I say it--have a laugh!

Mine was also a nice way of saying that the article is just not that
funny and not even close to being hilarious.

-Andrew