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by skybrian 3291 days ago
It's a good joke, but a somewhat dangerous one.

The general principle is that humor does not scale. With enough users, the probability that a joke will be misinterpreted approaches 1.

I'm reminded of Al Franken's latest book where he talks about having to run what he says through the DeHumorizer now that he's a politician.