I can handle the first situation; given that my own sense of humor came up with an item in my own LiveJournal along with a proposed new TV series called "Survivor: Vatican" (where 24 cardinals compete in St. Peter's Basilica until one is crowned Pope), people handle stress and dramatic events in odd ways.
The second instance, however, requires rapid and repeated applications of a baseball bat to the transgressor's head to knock the stupidity out.
For the last two years, my fellow moderators and I have had an "April Fools" prank where we change the banner heading our message board to something silly. Someone complained this year that "it wasn't a very good prank", to which I replied, "There are two types of April Fools jokes: the first is obviously, blindingly silly and just there for a chuckle; the other is a deliberate attempt to mislead and can result in hurt feelings, flame wars, and the repeated application of a baseball bat to the transgressor's head to knock the stupidity out."
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The second instance, however, requires rapid and repeated applications of a baseball bat to the transgressor's head to knock the stupidity out.
For the last two years, my fellow moderators and I have had an "April Fools" prank where we change the banner heading our message board to something silly. Someone complained this year that "it wasn't a very good prank", to which I replied, "There are two types of April Fools jokes: the first is obviously, blindingly silly and just there for a chuckle; the other is a deliberate attempt to mislead and can result in hurt feelings, flame wars, and the repeated application of a baseball bat to the transgressor's head to knock the stupidity out."
JSM