Think you're funny?

Well, you may very well be. I'm laughing. It is, however, a fine line between laughing with you, and laughing at you.

Thanks to e-mail, people can share and pass on information, at an alarming speed. This is both good and bad. This has created people who indiscriminately pass on jokes, stupid pictures, and those little luvy-duvy poems that look like a they came from a hallmark staff member on crack. Now, if you come across something, and think, "I think Al would like to see that." Great, pass it on. But if you are sending some Joke-of-the-day, because some co-worker passed it on to you, and my name just happened to come up on your address book, don't do it. You're just pissing me off, and I'm liable to mention you by name in front of a group of people. Or worse, I'll pass your name on to a few friends that will fill your mail-box so full of stuff that would make whore blush, you'll wish your forward button broke. Look who's laughing now.

Oh look, it's that joke about the Qantas "squawk" list again. It's old. The first time I saw it, it was on paper. (you know, mail with out the e) How old is this joke? There is a line about "#3 engine missing." Turbine engines don't miss. Piston engines miss. I don't know when Qantas stopped flying anything with a piston engine, but in the late 70's they boasted the world's only all-747 fleet. Yup, it was funny.

But you want to add icing to the cake? Have somebody reply to your Joke d'jour by hitting the "reply-all" button. Great, now I have Two addresses to block.

The only thing to top it off is an E-card. I'd like to meet the cat-loving, "everybody-is-special", Yanni-Listening, shut-in that came up with that waste of bandwidth. They should be kicked outside without their security blanket and told to get on with their lives. E-cards are like e-mail, but worse. They play stupid music, they are loaded with pop-ups/spy-ware/spam. And they usually have some poorly written poem or verse that wouldn't cut it at an elementary school valentines day poetry reading. There is software available to stop spam, they should add e-cards to the list.

Sure, sombody will pipe-up and say that passing on these little 1's and 0's is a way of saying "I'm thinking about you." So then use your keyboard, and say "I'm thinking about you" It will go alot further. Tell me what you are thinking.

Recycle your cans, not your thoughts.