Re: armstrong 310/steve

In a message dated 7/22/99 7:57:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
hughes.banderob@sympatico.ca writes:

> uh, steve, wasn't Scott Armstrong the one who called his own seed
>  cursed?
  
Yeah....now I fee a bit embarassed. (Just a BIT). I didn't notice that he was 
the one who posted the original message. O.K., my slip. I did apoligize to 
Scott if I offended him. It certainly wasn't my intention. Also I still 
wanted to point out that I actually ended that post on a POSITIVE comment 
about the seed. But no one seemed to see that part. Interesting.

>  
>  "I find it interesting that everyone always finds the negative, and
>  misses the positive, and takes everything (especially from ME!) SO
>  seriously."
>  
>  If "everyone always finds the negative...and takes everything
>  (especially from [you]) SO seriously," there must be a reason.  I've
>  only been in this group for a few months and I've found many of your
>  contributions to be very helpful -- in fact you are especially helpful
>  to newbies like myself; you don't seem to mind to take the time to
>  answer the questions that must get posed month after month.
>  
>  However, because of the impersonal nature of email, your humour is not
>  always perceived as such.  A certain subtlety is required.  I'm sure
>  there is no malice behind your emails but your delivery certainly puts
>  people off.
>  

I usually use other lighthearted/humorous posts on the list as a "litmus 
test" to see the type of humor that people will "get" on the list (as well as 
anywhere else). I see similar posts of humor from others, and even some 
downright "raw" humor. I see people joking with each other, witty little jabs 
that are all in fun. Now I have been on the list for over a year, and I would 
think I could make a few little comments that I think someone might think is 
a little funy without offending anyone, yet for some reason people start 
yelling at me. It is really odd. I am really pretty good at judging the 
"appropriateness" of humor in different situations. That's why it is so 
confusing.
I probably wouldn't have made the reply about the 301 seed if I knew that 
Scott posted the original message, if not for any other reason than it just 
isn't as funny. The joke was supposed to be that someone was warning us about 
a cursed seed, and I replied with "hysterical laughter", saying basically 
"duh!" that we all already knew about it. Then to make sure I didn't get 
hounded for that coment, I added a positive remark about the seed, implying 
that maybe it was growing the next world record. It was just all in fun. But 
I guess everyone makes THEIR jokes early in the day, and reads mine after 
they have been out in the heat for hours in the patch, tired and grumpy. Who 
knows! Oh well.

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