"Quilljar" wrote in message
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Has it become a silly rule now in this NG to make a crack and then ruin
it by saying 'Just joking'? if that is so ,then I refuse to play.

IMHO, the more broadly you cross-post your jokes, the more likely you'll
find some stick-in-the-mud who doesn't get it.

You had me clued in with "I am on another planet".