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What is ECULAUGH: Good Clean Religious Humor?

An intentionally narrow, special and reserved place for Good and Clean and Religious and Humor (all 4)

• Good hearted enough not to cause offense
• Clean enough to be told during church
• Religious enough to be incomprehensible without the religious part
• Humorous enough to bring a smile to the good humored, even joyful moderator

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What is Religious Humor? Anything that funny that happens in a church?

Only humor which requires the religious part to make sense or be funny is welcome here. If one has to explain why the note is religious (i.e. "This could be used to illustrate...") OR if one merely changes the characters or setting to "make" it religious (i.e. Why did the priest cross the road?) the humor is still outside the religious boundaries of ECULAUGH and should not be posted. Submissions outside the boundaries, determined by the honest, even sincere moderator, are removed without acknowledgment or return.
 

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O ur pastor said, "Good Morning" at the evening service. Don't you just love bloopers?

No, they are usually removed. Bloopers quickly overwhelm all other humor and devolve into commentary and reports about humor instead of humor itself. If you find yourself introducing a submission with, "This really happened." or "You have to know my pastor to appreciate this one," or other explanation, consider if it is really humor or something that is funny only to the people that were there and experienced it in original context. Spoonerism are quickly removed.

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I have a list of scrambled hymn titles. Should I send puzzles like that?

No. Quizzes, riddles, etc. must be good, clean, religious, and humorous not just trivia, brain teasers, or puzzles. Such must include the answers to stay posted. Else the meeting fills with guesses and pleadings for answers.
 

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How much of the Joyful Noiseletter (or other copyrighted material) should I send?

None. Posting copyrighted material without permission is a no-no anywhere on EcuNet including ECULAUGH. For example, we will respect Joyful Noiseletter's clearly expressed desire not to have their material posted.
 

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How can I subscribe to ECULAUGH without joining EcuNet?

ECULAUGH is not a mailing list. No one can subscribe. It is a small part of EcuNet, a decade old teleconferencing cooperative of 15 faith groups. ECULAUGH is presented here as a sample. It is not sent as a mailing list on the Internet ocean since we would prefer people join the kinder and gentler waters of EcuNet.

Please do not re-send these pages on a mailing list or by other means. If you want to send a couple jokes to a friend or three now and then, go right ahead. How much is too much? I don't know. So far I've found that including ECULAUGH regularly in mailing lists and posting this material on other web pages is annoying. The patient, even saintly moderator hasn't sent the Laugh Police out to put such cyberstealers in EcuJail yet, but why risk it?
 

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How can I send to ECULAUGH without joining EcuNet?

Internet guests viewing the web pages can submit good, clean, religious, humor to ECULAUGH using this form. We had to remove the Email address due to spammers who merrily submitted business offers and get rich quick schemes to our list ignoring all requests, warnings, and explanations.

Good, clean, religious, humor will appear on the web page after a three day delay for the patient yet determined moderator to review and remove any notes that are not good, clean, religious, humor.
 

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Can I request humor about a certain subject, like St. Peter meeting people at the pearly gates?

Yes. Brief requests for NEW good, clean, religious humor on a certain subject are allowed. Do not ask for repeats. We get enough of those already. Please specify in the request you want good, clean, religious, humor. Only ask once. Remember there is a 3 day delay before anything posted in ECULAUGH is echoed to the web pages. Even if EcuNet members immediately post a response, it will be three days before your request and their response(s) can be seen on the web pages. Thank the note poster directly (see next question) or with a comment using our form.
 

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Where do I send my corrections, comments and appreciation?

Our web form (or the letter icon on the ECULAUGH page) has a comment choice for ROTFL, thanks, "that's not funny/clean/religious/good" notes, background material, "I heard it this way" notes, on-the-other-hands, requests for joke beginning or endings,  bashing/praising/questioning of ECULAUGH's careful, even protective moderator, spelling and other corrections (political or otherwise), general comments on the direction/lack of direction of the meeting, "I told that one today" notes, requests to quote, requests for further information or sources, and copyright/wrong discussions. Comments appear on the ECULAUGH COMMENTS meeting in EcuNet and sometimes on the web comment page. There are NO private notes. If you can't say it publicly, don't. Pleadings/demands for secret or private communications are politely ignored and posted publicly.

Please do not quote the entire note or web page. Some mail programs (like ones that come with browsers) do this automatically. Do everyone a favor and either turn the automatic quote option off or remove all but a few lines of the original for context. Thanks!

You can also write directly to the author of a note by email to the name (or words) that appear in ALL CAPS at the top of the note following the note number, converting any space to an "_" (underline without the quotes) and adding ".parti@ecunet.org" (that's dot parti at ecunet dot org without the quotes) on the end. For example, if the top note has ABE LINCOLN following the note number, mail your thanks to ABE_LINCOLN.parti@ecunet.org

Turn OFF the quoted printable option in your mail program. Do not send anything as a file attachment. Both are rendered as gibberish in our conferencing system.

Do send only plain text messages with just enough of a quote of the humor to set the context, please do not send the whole web page.

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Transfer interrupted!

Rats. No one submitted any notes that were considered good, clean, religious, humor that day. (There is a three day delay between submission and publication on the web page.) Enjoy the pages from previous days: yesterday, the the day before, or the day before that and try us again another day.

(If the problem persists, something else might be wrong with the web pages, you can alert our watchful, even caring moderator using the web form.)

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How can I send a file?

You can't.

ECULAUGH (and the comments meeting) are part of a text based conferencing system. Only human readable plain text messages can be read. Do not send formatted messages, do not send file attachments. They appear as pages of gibberish in ECULAUGH and cause havoc. The form doesn't accept files.

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How can I get previously posted humor?

Outside of the 4 days posted, you can't.

Archives have not been made. ECULAUGH is run by a volunteer who declines to manage a library of files. Old notes are available to members of EcuNet (click link for more info). You can try a politely worded plain text request (or beg!) using the request choice on our web form Someone on EcuNet might dig one up for you and send it to your supplied email address.

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What does "Note deleted." mean?

Sometimes EcuNet members get confused and send off topic or personal notes to ECULAUGH. The "Note deleted." messages is what replaces those off topic notes when our alert, even watchful moderator removes and returns them to the author. Usually these messages are also removed before they get published on the web causing skipped note numbers.

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How about a summary?

The Top Ten Unwelcome ECULAUGH submissions:
 

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