What are some examples of the humour found in rec.puzzles threads?

THE YOT

Karen L Lingel wrote:
> In article <64nkhj$6v5@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>, soss@cs.mcgill.caNada
> (Michael Alan SOSS) writes:
> >ingvar (ingvar@halcyon.com) wrote:
> >: Heeeeelllpp!!!!  I've been working on the yot for days! It's driving
> >: me INSANE!!!!!
> >
> >Maybe you guys could help me too.  I've been working on a math problem
> >for a month now, and it's eating away at me inside.  Does anyone know
> >the solution?  Thanks in advance!
>
> And I've got a terrible discrepancy in my data that's keeping me
> awake nights.  Anyone know what's up with that?

One person's noise is another person's data.  O, and I'm having
some trouble with yardwork.  Anybody here help with that?

-- RM Mentock <mentock@mindspring.com>

BASEBALL RULES

meripr@pipeline.com wrote:
: Can you list 12 ways a catcher can be credited with a putout without
: touching the ball.

Since I don't know much about baseball, I'm gratified to discover a
baseball question that I can answer.

My answer is, "No."

-- David R. Conrad <conrad@detroit.freenet.org>

NUGRY

In article <3484f478.504324468@newsserver.rdcs.kodak.com>,
mwdaly@pobox.com (Matthew Daly) writes:
>>ObNitpick: in the 11/30 puzzle, "Saturday Night Live" is listed as a
>>prime-time TV show.  Actually, it starts at 11:30, after prime time.
>>(Hence why the original troupe, and perhaps subsequent ones as well,
>>are known as "The Not Ready For Prime Time Players".)

Karen L Lingel replied:
>Oh, Matthew!  We so enjoyed having you in this group, but now you have
>failed our standards of trivial-ness and we have to say good bye to you
>now.  You've been demoted to "nugry".  I'm really sorry about that,
>because usually you are so good and wise.
>
>The original "Saturday Night Live" show was a prime-time news
>program.  Here is a blurb from the SNL FAQ:
>      The show was originally called NBC's Saturday
>      Night because there was a show on ABC starring Howard
>      Cosell at the same time called Saturday Night Live.
>      The producers later gained permission to rename the
>      show.

Um, if it was on at the same time, wouldn't Howard Cosell's show have
also been after prime-time?

>Again, I'm really sorry to have to demote you to nugry, but we
>really can't tolerate such mistakes from a regular.  I'm sure
>you understand.

No problem.  Say, that reminds me of about 500 puzzles!  I'll post them
in a few minutes.

-Matthew, your worst nightmare -- a nugry who has memorized the
archives...

-- Matthew Daly <mwdaly@pobox.com>

THE NEAL RIDDLE

Naeem N. Sheikh wrote:
> Jim Ward (jfw@radix.net) wrote:
> : In the movie, "An Unremarkable Life", Patricia Neal poses the
> : riddle:
> :
> : "What do you get when you cross a nun with a watermelon?"
> :
> : She never answers it, and I can't think of a damn thing.
>
> How about using "cross" in the sense of making angry. Then, if you
> cross a nun with a watermelon, you might get a mild reprimand.

Or perhaps in the sense of "What do you get if you cross the Atlantic
with the Titanic?  Halfway."

Hewitt Molding Company <hewittxx@iquest.net> wrote:
>If you asked what they had in common I suppose you could say they both
>contain seeds that nobody uses.

<shrug>  I've always heard it as the man who had the seed.

-- Matthew Daly <mwdaly@pobox.com>

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