[HPforGrownups] Re: ADMIN: New Posting Rules

[Laura Ingalls Huntley]

No: HPFGUIDX 94878

Mel said:
> You know, considering this list has dubious distinction of having an
> inordinately high concentration of people who posess absolutely NO
> sense of humor, they're really asking for whatever they get in their
> emails.
> This is going to last for weeks.

"IAmLordCassandra" said:
> Certainly had me going for a sec.  I even went as far as to figure out 
> my
> 'posting day'. lol.  I didn't figure out 'Oh! It's April Fools Day!'  
> until the
> very end.  ^^;

I got about as far as the second sentence and thought, "Is this a 
JOKE?! . . . . . . . . . Ohhh." So it didn't really fool me, but that's 
only because I *hate* April Fool's Day with every Fiber of My Being.  
Between the hours of 12:00 AM and 12:00 PM on April 1st it is my 
working assumption that everyone and every*thing* in the world is Out 
to Get Me.  Therefore, I am zealously suspicious of everything that 
crosses my path and spend most of the day either a) holed up in my room 
or b) tremendously jumpy.  It's stupid and neurotic, yes, but I just 
can't help it.  I fear practical jokes the way I fear bees -- having 
never really been "stung" by either, I have an irrational aversion to 
both. *shakes head at self*

That said, I love it when the fandom gets in a celebratory mood, and I 
really appreciate the lengths that the major sites (HPfGU, TLC, FA, 
etc.) go to to make April Fool's Day actually *fun*.  I can understand 
where Mel's coming from, but there have been much, much worse ADMINs on 
the April 1st's of the past and . . . well, we survived (a few chuckles 
richer, to boot).

Laura (who thinks that the ADMIN team *ought* to have a sense of humor 
and who would turn into Mad Eye Moody if forced to endure Gred and 
Forge for too long.)