Discussion
Eric Mc said:
Danger - Sense of humour failure alert.
It was a joke - maybe no one can understand a "funny" anymore without the requisite "smiley" - the computer equivalent of canned laughter.
A 'smiley' is actually an 'emoticon' (from emotion and icon I presume) and is a way of trying to make up for the lack of body language and tone which are necessary to indicate whether or not a person is joking or not. This is important because we are all from fairly diverse backgrounds here and don't all have the keenly developed sense of humour that accountants are well known for.
R988 said:
Eric Mc said:
Danger - Sense of humour failure alert.
It was a joke - maybe no one can understand a "funny" anymore without the requisite "smiley" - the computer equivalent of canned laughter.
A 'smiley' is actually an 'emoticon' (from emotion and icon I presume) and is a way of trying to make up for the lack of body language and tone which are necessary to indicate whether or not a person is joking or not. This is important because we are all from fairly diverse backgrounds here and don't all have the keenly developed sense of humour that accountants are well known for.![]()

R988 said:
Eric Mc said:
Danger - Sense of humour failure alert.
It was a joke - maybe no one can understand a "funny" anymore without the requisite "smiley" - the computer equivalent of canned laughter.
A 'smiley' is actually an 'emoticon' (from emotion and icon I presume) and is a way of trying to make up for the lack of body language and tone which are necessary to indicate whether or not a person is joking or not. This is important because we are all from fairly diverse backgrounds here and don't all have the keenly developed sense of humour that accountants are well known for.![]()

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