Apparently, Asimov died.

[stePH]

And not even recently... more like eighteen years ago! Did anybody else know about this?

[eytanz]

Hey, quick moderator note - I recognize that this is meant as playful ribbing of a fellow forumite and is not malicious, but in the future, I would appreciate it if people do not create new threads for this purpose, but rather keep it to the original thread.

[stePH]

Hey, quick moderator note - I recognize that this is meant as playful ribbing of a fellow forumite and is not malicious, but in the future, I would appreciate it if people do not create new threads for this purpose, but rather keep it to the original thread.

Sorry, I'll try to refrain in future. But since this is a playful riffing on the title of another thread, putting it in the original thread would defeat its whole purpose.

[Heradel]

I'm sure this prohibition on thread creation for the sole purpose of punnery will eviscerate your online comedic abilities.

[Gamercow]

And not even recently... more like eighteen years ago! Did anybody else know about this?

Don't be that guy.  Not everyone can know everything about every subject.  More than one person in that thread said "That's news to me." 

[stePH]

And not even recently... more like eighteen years ago! Did anybody else know about this?

Don't be that guy.  Not everyone can know everything about every subject.  More than one person in that thread said "That's news to me." 

Like eytanz, you appear to be thinking that I'm making a dig at the author of the other thread. I'm not.

[eytanz]

If you were genuinely expressing surprise at Asimov's death, my apologies for the misinterpretation.

[stePH]

If you were genuinely expressing surprise at Asimov's death, my apologies for the misinterpretation.

Not that either. Just punning on a thread title. It's something I do sometimes (remember "Phoney Yumminess" ?) But I'll stop if it bothers you.

[eytanz]

If you were genuinely expressing surprise at Asimov's death, my apologies for the misinterpretation.

Not that either. Just punning on a thread title. It's something I do sometimes (remember "Phoney Yumminess" ?) But I'll stop if it bothers you.

I'm not bothered by the idea of a joke thread - it's just that in this case, it did kind of read like you were making fun of Talia's ignorance of the facts of Asimov's death (though, as I said in my original post, I didn't think you were doing so maliciously). It's nowhere near as obvious a pun as Phoney Yumminess was (I found that one quite clever).

[stePH]

I'm not bothered by the idea of a joke thread - it's just that in this case, it did kind of read like you were making fun of Talia's ignorance of the facts of Asimov's death (though, as I said in my original post, I didn't think you were doing so maliciously). It's nowhere near as obvious a pun as Phoney Yumminess was (I found that one quite clever).

That one had a more amusing and instructive discussion, too. This one seems to have fallen flat.

But as Mr. Marx once said: "Well, the jokes can't all be good, you've got to expect that."

[knigget]

I'm not bothered by the idea of a joke thread - it's just that in this case, it did kind of read like you were making fun of Talia's ignorance of the facts of Asimov's death (though, as I said in my original post, I didn't think you were doing so maliciously). It's nowhere near as obvious a pun as Phoney Yumminess was (I found that one quite clever).

That one had a more amusing and instructive discussion, too. This one seems to have fallen flat.

But as Mr. Marx once said: "Well, the jokes can't all be good, you've got to expect that."

That was when LOCUS reviewed DAS KAPITAL, wasn't it?