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From: Lew on 10 Jul 2010 23:02 Roedy Green wrote: >>>> Oracle has been pulling documentation off the Sun website and giving >>>> it strange new URLs to make it hard to find the new docs. Lew said: >> Do you have *any* shred of evidence that that's the purpose? > > Ok, "Oracle has been pulling documentation off the Sun website and > giving it strange new URLs THAT make it hard to find the new docs." Roedy Green wrote: > I was just teasing Oracle, giving them benefit of the doubt their > incompetence had some purpose to it. Each nation has its own humour > templates. This is a pretty common idiom in Canada. Use of the smiley > is not. The whole point is to slip the humour in slyly so that only a > few catch it. Then those that get it feel pleasure at their > cleverness. It is supposed to be almost undetectable to everyone > else. I guess I'm not clever. It doesn't help the joke that the premise is false that the Java documentation on Oracle's site is hard to find. -- Lew
From: Screamin Lord Byron on 11 Jul 2010 10:19 On 07/11/2010 05:02 AM, Lew wrote: > Roedy Green wrote: >> I was just teasing Oracle, giving them benefit of the doubt their >> incompetence had some purpose to it. Each nation has its own humour >> templates. This is a pretty common idiom in Canada. Use of the smiley >> is not. The whole point is to slip the humour in slyly so that only a >> few catch it. Then those that get it feel pleasure at their >> cleverness. It is supposed to be almost undetectable to everyone >> else. > > I guess I'm not clever. It doesn't help the joke that the premise is > false that the Java documentation on Oracle's site is hard to find. Oh, come on. Loosen up. It has nothing to do with cleverness. Either you get the joke (or humorous remark for that matter), or you don't. And that's about it. Roedy's cleverness remark was yet another example of such remark. At least to me it was, and I'm not even Canadian. I know quite a few very clever and intelligent people with the sense of humor comparable to that of your average Henny Youngman (which is to say none).
From: Mike Schilling on 11 Jul 2010 11:07 "Screamin Lord Byron" <scre(a)min.dot> wrote in message news:i1cju3$1hb$1(a)news.metronet.hr... > On 07/11/2010 05:02 AM, Lew wrote: > >> Roedy Green wrote: >>> I was just teasing Oracle, giving them benefit of the doubt their >>> incompetence had some purpose to it. Each nation has its own humour >>> templates. This is a pretty common idiom in Canada. Use of the smiley >>> is not. The whole point is to slip the humour in slyly so that only a >>> few catch it. Then those that get it feel pleasure at their >>> cleverness. It is supposed to be almost undetectable to everyone >>> else. >> >> I guess I'm not clever. It doesn't help the joke that the premise is >> false that the Java documentation on Oracle's site is hard to find. > > Oh, come on. Loosen up. It has nothing to do with cleverness. Either you > get the joke (or humorous remark for that matter), or you don't. And > that's about it. Roedy's cleverness remark was yet another example of > such remark. At least to me it was, and I'm not even Canadian. > > I know quite a few very clever and intelligent people with the sense of > humor comparable to that of your average Henny Youngman (which is to say > none). Take Java. Please. >
From: Lew on 11 Jul 2010 12:37 On 07/11/2010 10:19 AM, > On 07/11/2010 05:02 AM, Roedy Green wrote: >>> I was just teasing Oracle, giving them benefit of the doubt their >>> incompetence had some purpose to it. Each nation has its own humour >>> templates. This is a pretty common idiom in Canada. Use of the smiley >>> is not. The whole point is to slip the humour in slyly so that only a >>> few catch it. Then those that get it feel pleasure at their >>> cleverness. It is supposed to be almost undetectable to everyone >>> else. Lew wrote: >> I guess I'm not clever. It doesn't help the joke that the premise is >> false that the Java documentation on Oracle's site is hard to find. Screamin Lord Byron wrote: > Oh, come on. Loosen up. It has nothing to do with cleverness. Either you > get the joke (or humorous remark for that matter), or you don't. And > that's about it. Roedy's cleverness remark was yet another example of > such remark. At least to me it was, and I'm not even Canadian. > > I know quite a few very clever and intelligent people with the sense of > humor comparable to that of your average Henny Youngman (which is to say > none). Apparently you missed the dry humor (or humour) in my remark, wherein I playfully picked up on the dry insult from Roedy, humorously (or humourously) intended of course (and didn't that make me feel clever for catching it!), and reflected it back just a drily humorously (or humourously), then drove to the point he was really making about inaccessibility of information on the former java.sun.com, and refuted it. Methinks 'tis thou who needs must lighten up, o Screamin Lord Byron. -- Lew
From: David Lamb on 11 Jul 2010 13:53
On 10/07/2010 4:48 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: > On 10-07-2010 13:13, Lew wrote: >> Roedy Green wrote... >>>> Oracle has been pulling documentation off the Sun website and giving >>>> it strange new URLs to make it hard to find the new docs. >> >> Do you have *any* shred of evidence that that's the purpose? > > I think that is what is generally known as a conspiracy theory. Sometime's it's just a cynical way of speaking, as in "X did Y with the result Z" becoming "X did Y (in order) to Z. |