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Title:True North Strong & Free
Notice:Introduction in Note 535, For Sale/Wanted in 524
Moderator:POLAR::RICHARDSON
Created:Fri Jun 19 1987
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1040
Total number of notes:13668

638.0. "Moderatorial Notice" by KAOFS::S_BROOK () Fri Dec 04 1992 19:54

    
    
    I have received a number of complaints about "The Grand Canal"
    and other inane and totally irrelevant trivialities that have
    polluted otherwise serious notes in this conference.
    
    From this time forth new notes referring to the Grand Canal and other
    topics of similar ilk will be summarily deleted whether the note
    contains a serious side or not.  I do not have time to sift the
    grain from the chaff.
    
    This is not meant that I do not appreciate humour in the Canada notes
    conference, but "in" jokes (to a select few people) and jokes that
    go on and on and on are out of place here.
    
    Stuart
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638.1This is not a Grand Canal note.ISOISA::HAKKARAINENMeanwhile, in the very same sceneMon Dec 07 1992 15:319
    I've never written a Grand Canal note. I've never even been there. What
    I have been is delighted by the running jokes. I've found the writers
    of GC/Sarnia/etc. notes to be clever writers who bring a laugh to these
    very grim times. 
    
    Fill not, therfore, the Grand Canal with the concrete of
    humo(u)rlessness.
    
    /Karl
638.2People would rather argue than laugh...POLAR::RICHARDSONSick in a balanced sort of wayMon Dec 07 1992 15:408
    re -.1
    
    Nice to see someone who has a sense of humour and can laugh at
    at an "inside joke" he doesn't understand.
    
    It would seem to me that these grim times have produced grim noters.
    
    Sigh.
638.3KAOFS::S_BROOKMon Dec 07 1992 17:1530
    Let me put a little balance into this ... there is a Grand Canal
    note ... feel free to use it ...  There is a Sarnia note ... and
    it has become a not so serious note ... feel free to use it ...
    
    I did not intend that these notes should not carry on in the same
    spirit ...
    
    BUT
    
    I do not believe that virtually every serious discussion should become
    polluted with the inanities of the Grand Canal.
    
    A lot of people do become perturbed when asking for serious information
    and get off the wall responses ... especially when they may not realize
    that they ARE meant as off the wall.
    
    Also, it is not intended that notes other than those examples should
    not contain humour ... heaven forbid ... but please NO on-going and
    in-jokes.
    
    It's not that grim times produce grim noters ...  It's that sometimes
    a joke gets worn a little too thin when interjected as often as the
    Grand Canal.  I enjoy humour and have been known to interject a GC
    jibe myself ... but there comes a limit.
    
    If you want to add GC jibes, then put them in the GC note ... those
    who read notes by Next Unseen will find it anyway.  Those who don't
    like GC notes then are at liberty to skip over it.
    
    Stuart