Hi,

Your web site, [Strikingly Original Blog Title], was rejected for inclusion on Humor-Blogs.com because we were unable to find a link to Humor-Blogs.com on your website. If you have added a link to Humor-Blogs.com and we missed it, we apologize. Please make sure that the link is on the main page of your blog (not a separate 'links' page), and that our site's name and url are spelled and formatted correctly, and then RESUBMIT your site to http://humor-blogs.com/JoinLanding.aspx. You can respond to this email if you want, but there's a pretty good chance that will irritate us.

Cheers!
Diesel

Yes well, sorry if this irritates you but when I went over there and saw that the first thing a viewer would see when linking to Humor Blogs' homepage was stuff like "Cock Blocking Since 2004" and "Found Shit" and "Wiping Butts Since 1998" I reconsidered my desire for inclusion in your "community" because I want my blog to be family-friendly.

Plus which, none of that is funny, in my opinion.

Thanks anyway!

Suzy Blogger

Hi Suzy,

I can't control who signs up for the site. I only reject sites that don't link to H-B, or that have grossly inappropriate content. Sorry the site doesn't meet your needs.

Cheers,
Diesel

Clearly we have differing views on what constitutes grossly inappropriate.

Suzy Blogger

All I know is that if wiping butts is inappropriate at your house, I don't want to come over. :)

Diesel

Well, at least YOU attempt to be a comedian.

Suzy Blogger

Always attempting, yes. That's me.

Seriously, this whole Humor-Blogs site has blown way out of my control. I never had any policies in place to say "No, you can't have 'shit' in your blog title," so I just had to kind of let things slide. I'm sure some people are offended, but whatever. Nobody's going to die from seeing the word 'shit' in print.

Are they? (He asked ominously)

Diesel

Well, you know, you said a few minutes ago that you can't control who signs up on the site ... but obviously you can because you denied me that dubious privilege.

And that is perfectly fine. I have no problem with that but don't tell me you can't control it because you are controlling it.

And no, maybe people won't die from reading that word, but it is my firm belief that something does die when people cease to care about the kind of language they use in public [Yes, but maybe it’s something bad that dies, like a ridiculously uptight harpy, or that trend where women wear their pants tucked into brown leather boots? - Diesel]. When I started blogging I decided I wouldn't be part of that.

Suzy Blogger

What I said was:

"I can't control who signs up for the site. I only reject sites that don't link to H-B, or that have grossly inappropriate content."

In other words, I have some very minimal rules that I enforce. I used to go through the sites very carefully and try to determine whether they qualified as "humor blogs." But after a while I realized that I couldn't even tell half the time when somebody is trying to be funny. It's all so subjective. The same thing goes for offensiveness. A site not having a link, however, is very clear cut.

Diesel

You know what? I'd appreciate it if you would leave me alone.

Suzy Blogger