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Subject:Re: Humor as a communication technique From:Tracy Boyington <tracy_boyington -at- OKVOTECH -dot- ORG> Date:Tue, 16 Jun 1998 15:29:03 -0500
> It sounds like most of "our jobs" are not quite the place for it.
Actually, Laurel, you just proved my point. :-) Technical communication
is not limited to hardware and software documentation, and there are
places where a little humor is appropriate (just as there are places
where it is clearly not).