Rules, Regulations, & Guidelines for Fidonet's FUNNY Jokes and Stories echo

This file and the rules as per the Fido official echo description constitute our rules & regulations, binding on every user in this echo, by their participation (whether passive(reading) or active(posting); if this displeases you, you know the way you came in -- you may & should exit the same way & never return.

Echo purpose: to hear something repeated you've just said.

Note all are labeled #1 as they're all important --

#1: You must (re)read these every time you see them posted by myself or another moderator, addressed to "All"

#1: even if a rule, below, seems phrased humorously (even your mods try to stay on topic) it is a hard & fast rule, requiring your adherence

#1: Have fun or GTFO

#1: No autoposts (no bot posts)

#1: don't be a jackass; you're a guest in other people's home.

#1: every post must contain funny content (text)

#1: English(UK+CAN) is the natural language of the fully evolved human being, thus English is the echo's official language. American is American & English users may feel free to humorously(key) poke fun at Americanisms &/or Canadianisms &/or Britishisms &/or Down Underisms

#1: grammar & punctuation is probably important -- mis-use opens yourself up to funny or punny ridicule.

#1: leave the moderating to the moderator(s); you may not see it being done, but we work behind the scenes often. If you have a complaint, echomail or email your mods; do NOT post into the echo (unless you're following rule#1 of course,
& being funny)

#1: This echo is rated PG-16; i.e. content should not be overly shocking to the average 16 year old (boy or girl); no porn -- that's elsewhere in cyberspace

#1: NO ads for products, services, echos, pages, or ANYTHING, except as you've sent to the mod, with agreed upon payment, & the mod posts it for you, following all rules.

#1: NO auto-posting (bots); this echo is for humans; if you can fully understand these rules, you are likely human.

#1: the mods are not responsible for any damage to your connection devices (including modems & computer & monitor) perpetrated by a moderator's use of the Freister Device (detects your personal(not BBS, not your fido upline) source system & sends proprietary signals to cause your disks, CPU, mainboard, & modem to die ("fry" from Freister, the inventor, & my friend)

#1: You have been warned

#1 Swearing should be kept to a minimum -- & only as befits the joke/thread -- we're adults here & should act & talk like it. If you're mixing them in randomly like salt & pepper, you're too young to be in here.

#1: These rules should appear once a month, but regardless if you've seen or read them, you MUST follow all, or delist the echo &/or visit others (&/or make your own, even!)

#1: We only roast the ones we love

#1: The End (or is it?)

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George,

Rules, Regulations, & Guidelines for Fidonet's FUNNY Jokes and Stories echo

I knew there was a catch to it...but now, you've got us hook, line, and sinker, fishing for content. <G>

Note all are labeled #1 as they're all important --

Better than classed as #2. :P

#1: don't be a jackass; you're a guest in other people's home.

Oh, Pooh, Eeyore are so stubborn. Maybe Christopher has been Robin the content in Sherwood Forest.

#1: grammar & punctuation is probably important -- mis-use opens
yourself up to funny or punny ridicule.

PMS jokes aren't funny...period.

#1: This echo is rated PG-16; i.e. content should not be overly
shocking to the average 16 year old (boy or girl); no porn -- that's elsewhere in cyberspace

They're hearing the stuff all the way down into kindergarten. And, as
we talked in another post awhile back, even the toddlers are getting
overly nasty to their parents (one said "[screw] you, Mommy"). If I had
talked like that to my parents, I wouldn't be here.

#1: NO auto-posting (bots); this echo is for humans; if you can fully understand these rules, you are likely human.

But, what if you're human and don't understand them?? It's as bad as
the warning on a coffee cup noting "Contents Are Hot".

#1: the mods are not responsible for any damage to your connection
devices (including modems & computer & monitor) perpetrated by a moderator's use of the Freister Device (detects your personal(not BBS,
not your fido upline) source system & sends proprietary signals to
cause your disks, CPU, mainboard, & modem to die ("fry" from Freister,
the inventor, & my friend)

Is it patented??

#1 Swearing should be kept to a minimum -- & only as befits the joke/thread -- we're adults here & should act & talk like it. If
you're mixing them in randomly like salt & pepper, you're too young to
be in here.

I'm sure the kids are hearing the stuff in elementary school and earlier... never mind "playing doctor", doing their own "exploratory surgery"...and
that's the naked truth.

#1: We only roast the ones we love

Some of those celebrity roasts from years ago (you can find them on
YouTube) were a scream. But, if you are what you eat, what if your
favorite food is rump roast??

#1: The End (or is it?)

The bottom line is the vertical crack in your butt.

Daryl

... Retrofit: When you try to get into clothes you wore years ago.
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Rules, Regulations, & Guidelines for Fidonet's FUNNY Jokes and Stories
echo

I knew there was a catch to it...but now, you've got us hook, line, and sinker, fishing for content. <G>

How so?

Note all are labeled #1 as they're all important --

Better than classed as #2. :P

Not sure, at least #2 will help the corn grow! (like begets like?)

#1: don't be a jackass; you're a guest in other people's home.

Oh, Pooh, Eeyore are so stubborn. Maybe Christopher has been Robin the content in Sherwood Forest.

Don't even talk to me about Christopher & his fellow drug addicts in the Hundred Acre Wood.

#1: grammar & punctuation is probably important -- mis-use opens
yourself up to funny or punny ridicule.

PMS jokes aren't funny...period.

Of course they are-- but only if there's a harshly PMSing female in reading distance!& only to usm, bot to her, I'm sure. . .

#1: This echo is rated PG-16; i.e. content should not be overly
shocking to the average 16 year old (boy or girl); no porn -- that's
elsewhere in cyberspace

They're hearing the stuff all the way down into kindergarten. And, as
we talked in another post awhile back, even the toddlers are getting
overly nasty to their parents (one said "[screw] you, Mommy"). If I had talked like that to my parents, I wouldn't be here.

True enough, but I had to draw the line somewhere &this was fair, I thought -- not infringing on too much creativity & variance in type of humour preferred. ..

#1: NO auto-posting (bots); this echo is for humans; if you can fully
understand these rules, you are likely human.

But, what if you're human and don't understand them?? It's as bad as
the warning on a coffee cup noting "Contents Are Hot".

Up here the cups say, "You're in Canada now;we know that coffee is hot, so we don't need any warning."

#1: the mods are not responsible for any damage to your connection
devices (including modems & computer & monitor) perpetrated by a
moderator's use of the Freister Device (detects your personal(not BBS,
not your fido upline) source system & sends proprietary signals to
cause your disks, CPU, mainboard, & modem to die ("fry" from Freister,
the inventor, & my friend)

Is it patented??

Of course not-- patenting requires one to submit the specs & a prototype, which anyone can then look up & copy or analyze to find a way to block its effects -- this is not the plan.

#1 Swearing should be kept to a minimum -- & only as befits the
joke/thread -- we're adults here & should act & talk like it. If
you're mixing them in randomly like salt & pepper, you're too young to
be in here.

I'm sure the kids are hearing the stuff in elementary school and earlier... never mind "playing doctor", doing their own "exploratory surgery"...and that's the naked truth.

Yup, I don't have any say on what they say or do elsewhere, but in here, I expect people to act semi-maturely, so as to not detract from any actual funny content going in. . .

#1: We only roast the ones we love

Some of those celebrity roasts from years ago (you can find them on
YouTube) were a scream. But, if you are what you eat, what if your
favorite food is rump roast??

I have the full set of Comedy Central Roasts, I think. . . funny stuff!

I miss Greg Giraldo on those -- he was good!

Can't put those in here - they're pretty brutal at times, in their cruel assaults on celebrities (even Trump took the Hot Seat for one!)

My fave, I think, was for Pamela Anderson (not Palmela Handerson, whom most teen boys are acquainted with)

#1: The End (or is it?)

The bottom line is the vertical crack in your butt.

Who told you about my butt?

Mine is output only, a No Nose Zone,. if you will. . .

--- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-6
* Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757)